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Help!! This isn’t going by what I’ve read.

As the title says…. The strain is skywalker og and I flipped into 12/12 on May the 5th. Plants are showing any signs of yellowing off yet and the damn trichs aren’t even milky yet. Tomorrow will be 70 days from flip. How much longer can these go? Pistils aren’t even turning orange. I attached a pic of an ice cream cake bud from the same room I accidentally broke a branch and trimmed it up last night. The trichs on it are just now getting milky at about 20 percent milky and 80 percent clear. How much longer is this gonna take? I do not want to chop early by any means but the calendar said I should have chopped on July 1st.
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HempKat

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Keep in mind that times for when a plant is supposed to be ready, that you find in the description of seeds are just an approximation. The final changes with trichome and pistil colors can often happen almost overnight. In your pictures I see a fair amount of milky trichomes and some pistils are changing so it's probably not going to be too much longer. I'm not a big believer in this making a lot of difference but I've seen many growers over the years switch to a 13 off/ 11 on schedule to try to push plants into finishing off when they seem to take too long, so you could try that if you wanted but I don't think it's going to be much longer.
 

f-e

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The bit that (ahem) fell off, looks nice. I would smoke that.

If you experiment with how early you can chop things, it can be surprising. Even a bud at 5 weeks (if treated right, and not just microwaved in desperation) can be quite nice. Some say, growing tips in veg can even give a mild buzz. Lightweights lol

What I'm saying is, at some point, you may wish to just chop it down to get another crop in there. One that will actually finish.

Timer fails are not unheard off. Broken segments giving 15 mins a couple of hours after lights out, can reduce the sleep enough to prolong flowering for many weeks. It would be nice to see an actual bud shot, as it shows in the formation. Perhaps indicas looking like long sats. A lack of short dense buds, while long stretched out ones indicate an affinity with grow, not 100% bloom. Sometimes it's not a segment, but an old program still in memory from some other use. Like a 3 minute drip cycle, that's now a lights on event. A light leak could also be blamed, like somebody peaking, and setting you back days each time.
 

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That strain is a Indica-dominant hybrid cross of Mazar, Blueberry, and OG Kush. The Mazar is a 11 week flowering strain and the other are 9 weeks flowers. Looks like the Mazar is slowing your harvest a little. Two weeks can make a big difference at this point, so I would wait if it were me. It looks like you have something worth waiting for in the photos above. Good luck. 😎
 

f-e

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They look terrible. I'm not surprised the schedules shot. I would get them out and move on to something better. Another 2 weeks is 20% longer and even if it saw 20% more yield, it's no gain. Two weeks growing healthy plants.. now that's a thing.

Are you using growth hormones?
 
They look terrible. I'm not surprised the schedules shot. I would get them out and move on to something better. Another 2 weeks is 20% longer and even if it saw 20% more yield, it's no gain. Two weeks growing healthy plants.. now that's a thing.

Are you using growth hormones?

I’m using gh nudes
 

f-e

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I'm about done with GH after just a few weeks. I tried talking to them, but it's a stone wall of ignorance. I have a bottle with 4% N, guaranteed, it says. At 1ml per liter, there chart says it gives 80ppm. How does a 4 become an 8 by moving the decimal place about. Their reply was to say it's 4% minimum, claiming it's wrote on the bottle. Like I'm stupid enough to of not looked for such foul play already. The issue here, is that a 100% inaccuracy isn't workable. It's said to be Lucas in a bottle, but if you miss by 100% it's just a bottle of fail. My request to see a report wasn't even acknowledged.
My thoughts are that they can't mix the same bottle twice, so have chosen to hide behind minimum numbers, without admitting it. The bottle could say 1-1-1 for what it's worth. I have zero confidence in them.
 

Switcher56

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I'm about done with GH after just a few weeks. I tried talking to them, but it's a stone wall of ignorance. I have a bottle with 4% N, guaranteed, it says. At 1ml per liter, there chart says it gives 80ppm. How does a 4 become an 8 by moving the decimal place about. Their reply was to say it's 4% minimum, claiming it's wrote on the bottle. Like I'm stupid enough to of not looked for such foul play already. The issue here, is that a 100% inaccuracy isn't workable. It's said to be Lucas in a bottle, but if you miss by 100% it's just a bottle of fail. My request to see a report wasn't even acknowledged.
My thoughts are that they can't mix the same bottle twice, so have chosen to hide behind minimum numbers, without admitting it. The bottle could say 1-1-1 for what it's worth. I have zero confidence in them.

I didn't like the organic line on their nutes either, always issues during 5-6 of flower. Switched, and all that is in the rear view mirror :)
 

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Most of the problems with GH in soil-less potting mixes, are due to excess nutrient amounts building up in the root zone in the end. That is why I use a low dose nutrient feed with every watering, and try to maintain an 1200 ppm or 2.0 EC in the container. The good thing about light feeding with every watering is a steady pH for max nutrient exchange. 😎
 

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Every indoor grow needs yellow stickies everywhere and should always be used for a early detection of pests. The yellow stickie cards, fools the pests into thinking the yellow is a dead leaf, looking for food and gets stuck. If you check the stickies everyday, you can detect pests early in the very beginning stages, before they are a problem . 😎
 

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