Shackzilla 15th week of flowering pics

[Rocketman64]

I've never grown a plant in my life that's taken more than 12 weeks to finish flowering. This thing is on week 15 and still spitting pistils like it has another 3 weeks to finish. This plant has been used, abused and damn near put to death with experimentation yet it still continues to thrive. I've recently pulled a couple pieces of bud from this for a smoke test. It was obviously still not ripe, the smoke was racy and had a very strange mind-altering effect. I actually gave away the bud I picked because the buzz was just a bit too strange and confusing for my liking. Check out a couple pics from this crazy plant, keep in mind this has been in full flower since January 17:

 

[Texan]

If it is some crazy freak sativa pheno, why don't you just cut out all N for the remainder or the grow? I would presume that it would help finish and ripen those flowers out in no time. Just a though.

 

[Rocketman64]

I'm ready to try something, this is freakin crazy. I took the plant out of the grow room and stuck in the bright sun this week. It's only getting six hours of light at the moment. You would think that would pretty much do it but who knows. Funny thing is, every single leaf turned yellow and fell off 3 weeks ago. I thought that was the beginning of the end but no. I don't use any additional ferts on her, she's only getting whatever is available in the soil. I can't believe it's still blooming the way it is. We're not talking just a few flowers here and there. The entire thing has fresh blooms every day, strangest damn thing I've seen. It's actually a very weird looking plant without any leaves, looks like buds on sticks.

 

[JamieShoes]

I recommend a product called Ripen from GHE (0.6.5), it gives a pretty good end product (I used it on my 2nd place cup entry in 2010)..


good luck...and be prepared for some serious head bending haze bro

 

[Rocketman64]

Nice, JamieShoes. I'll give it a look. Since I took the plant outside for a couple days, the trichs are rapidly turning. I suspect my indoor lighting is lacking in parts of the spectrum causing the extended flowering. I need to do some tweaking with the light source for my next grow. I had this happen before on a different strain, not nearly as extended but it was well past it's finishing time by a couple weeks. I added a little cooler spectrum to the mix and that seemed to do it. Shackzilla seems to be responding the same way and very quickly.