PadawanWarrior
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I can keep mine growing well past their harvest window. They only die when I chop them. Have you ever revegged a plant?
What's your late flower nutrient regimen?
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Hiddenjems
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Many. I’ve also grown sativa hybrids that never die.
I grow mostly indica hybrids at are totally finished by 8 weeks. Most of them will go 11-12 weeks before dying.
My 25+ year old local rks cut is the one that finishes faster than anything I’ve seen. At 6 weeks all the pistils are gone and the calyx’s swollen.
I grow 25+ year old genetics too. All the new shit grows very similar.
That’s what i’m seeing too. When the harvest window is 10-11 weeks the plant should still be alive and standing another 6-8 weeks before stuff starts drying on the plant and it really starts to die
And that's drying out and dying like you would have chopped it in 11-12 weeks?
PadawanWarrior
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Any pics of the RKS?
Hiddenjems
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This is at 40 days.
Hiddenjems
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7 week chop here.
PadawanWarrior
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Looks like you have some nutrient issues going on.
Hiddenjems
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That particular cut needs a weird feed to produce. Keeping it healthy and green produces loose buds. It needs stressed or it’s no good.
There were 5 of us growing this cut for almost a decade. We tried everything because the flowers sold for $350 a zip.
I’ve never seen anything finish as fast in my life. It was worth the time to figure out how to stop it from being loose fluffy buds.
Both pictures I posted are of the same plant, same cycle. The flowers are killer.
You ever see a plant that finished at 40 days?
Hiddenjems
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What isn’t done?
Brother Nature
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Done and sellable can be different things… have ran many plants the can pass as done around week 8, but they’re always better if taken longer..
Hiddenjems
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What do you see that indicates it’s not finished? Or are you going by how all modern poly hybrids finish?
Todays strains all take about the same time to finish. There are true 6 week finishers out there.
Brother Nature
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For the photo you posted I think it looks done enough. It’s hard for me to tell from a photo really so I wasn’t commenting on that, I was more commenting that when I have seen plants look done around week 8 they tend to be able to go another week or two and be more enjoyable.
I find a lot of the modern cookie based strains pretty boring in terms of highs but they always look really nice, but I do agree almost all I’ve run can be pulled at week 8-9 and be considered finished.
Ca++
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Top 44 (days) is older than the fast flowering category. Today there are lots of 7 weeks plants, and a few 6. Genuinely.
I spent over 2 years on a 7 week rotation, including days to trim and clean up, and got ahead of schedule. Posting bud pics that were getting the nod, because frankly, there is no need to wait 10 weeks anymore. Today we have good 7 week strains, and can put 6 weeks one's at the front, to start trimming them first. If you want to go an 8th week, it needs to produce 15% more. For a 6 week plant, that week is just maturation, that could be called over maturation. The 7 week plant may benefit from an 8th, but not a 9th. It's going over the hill. Past peak production, and into decay. It's still getting bigger, and has hairs left to die, but the cannabiniod ratio's are shifting. More isn't always better. Especially if your risking mold and bacteria buildup's, which you only really know about from past experience. Which is still visual information for most of us. Those that must submit some for testing, can find good looking bud, still over reasonable limits.
We can't ignore that stretching plants out to the end, gives unwanted products longer to form, and we are going into weeks where the plants defenses are weaker.
It's common to see a pic where the leaves out the buds have changed colour and crunched up. What do people imagine that means. It looks like burn, after the feeds been reduced. Leaves not going limp and sagging, but distorting, drying and crunching. It's not the plant that's eating them.
A productive crop can be measured in a few ways, and a crop can be ruined a few ways. Sometimes the grower doesn't even know. It's fairly easy to ruin a grow room, by breeding high levels of mold you can't actually see. It becomes a predator. Plants fight it off, but output is reduced. Then it seems to mold out buds, that really should of been alright. Completing it's cycle. It's control is why we see traces of eagle failing commercial crops. Systemic molds that can survive outside the plant. One name we all hear is 'bud rot' and it's not cannabis specific. It comes in on the wind, our clothes, our supplies. Suppressing it's spread is a worthy goal. But in the spare bedroom, a greenhouse wash product isn't viable. Good plant health and rubbish handling are good practice though.
The more is better attitude, isn't always right.
I spent over 2 years on a 7 week rotation, including days to trim and clean up, and got ahead of schedule. Posting bud pics that were getting the nod, because frankly, there is no need to wait 10 weeks anymore. Today we have good 7 week strains, and can put 6 weeks one's at the front, to start trimming them first. If you want to go an 8th week, it needs to produce 15% more. For a 6 week plant, that week is just maturation, that could be called over maturation. The 7 week plant may benefit from an 8th, but not a 9th. It's going over the hill. Past peak production, and into decay. It's still getting bigger, and has hairs left to die, but the cannabiniod ratio's are shifting. More isn't always better. Especially if your risking mold and bacteria buildup's, which you only really know about from past experience. Which is still visual information for most of us. Those that must submit some for testing, can find good looking bud, still over reasonable limits.
We can't ignore that stretching plants out to the end, gives unwanted products longer to form, and we are going into weeks where the plants defenses are weaker.
It's common to see a pic where the leaves out the buds have changed colour and crunched up. What do people imagine that means. It looks like burn, after the feeds been reduced. Leaves not going limp and sagging, but distorting, drying and crunching. It's not the plant that's eating them.
A productive crop can be measured in a few ways, and a crop can be ruined a few ways. Sometimes the grower doesn't even know. It's fairly easy to ruin a grow room, by breeding high levels of mold you can't actually see. It becomes a predator. Plants fight it off, but output is reduced. Then it seems to mold out buds, that really should of been alright. Completing it's cycle. It's control is why we see traces of eagle failing commercial crops. Systemic molds that can survive outside the plant. One name we all hear is 'bud rot' and it's not cannabis specific. It comes in on the wind, our clothes, our supplies. Suppressing it's spread is a worthy goal. But in the spare bedroom, a greenhouse wash product isn't viable. Good plant health and rubbish handling are good practice though.
The more is better attitude, isn't always right.
Ca++
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