Thanks gents. Any ideas on when I should start cutting out nitrogen?
New Grower Any idea how much time left on these auto's?
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Get a scope. I took this picture with a cheep $20 electric scope I got off of new egg a few years back it zooms in 200X . It was harvested early, you should harvest you plant at different times over about a week to maybe 10 days and see how amber you like your trichomes. I usually harvest when there in the 10 amber range but a lot of people like them more and some like them less. If you don't get a scope of any kind I would say let about 75% of your pistols turn brown if I am going to give you a generic answer and your not going to get a scope soon. I have had strains though were almost all were brown at harvest so this is not a great indicator unless you have grown the same strain a few times. My red dwarf by day 60 has almost all brown pistols from top to bottom but I let it go to day 65-70 from surfacing. As far as nutrients I would switch to full bloom nutrients by now. Your plants are a lot older than mine usually get so giving you a time line is hard. My plants look like this at day 40. I am not a hydro person but it looks like you have reached your max PPM on your nutrients and should just back off a little. That's what caused your tip burn. Its totally normal. I would say your doing a pretty good job for some one asking advice. Your plants look great.
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O ya don't get use to harvesting all your pants at the same trichome color too if your growing different strains all the time. Sativa's typically don't like to go as amber as an indica dose as a rule of thumb this is not set in stone though.
Thanks for the tips joe and the word of encouragement. It's my first time and it's been stressful, but also a lot of fun learning (and confusing with various opinions out there).
I've been giving bloom nutrients since I switched to flower on 7/12 and I will back off a little given the tip burn.
I did buy a jewelers loop but man, those things are not easy to use for me. I'm going to get a pocket microscope which will hopefully be easier. I will post pictures of trichomes when I can.
I've been giving bloom nutrients since I switched to flower on 7/12 and I will back off a little given the tip burn.
I did buy a jewelers loop but man, those things are not easy to use for me. I'm going to get a pocket microscope which will hopefully be easier. I will post pictures of trichomes when I can.
No, all three are auto flower.
Chemdog Auto on left, Bubba Kush Auto on top right basically overpowering a Girl Scout Cookies Auto on the bottom right (due to first timer mistakes).
Which microscope did you use to take that picture?
Chemdog Auto on left, Bubba Kush Auto on top right basically overpowering a Girl Scout Cookies Auto on the bottom right (due to first timer mistakes).
Which microscope did you use to take that picture?
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I'm also on my first grow and I'd agree, it's very stressful. There's no other reference point for us to follow.
There's a lot of great information out there if you take the time to research Cat, but you have to be careful because a lot of it just "opinions". After all of the research and what not I've done, I would do everything different next time. Keep it much simpler, focus on plant and not the 8-million and 1 nutrients. They will ALL work (that's what they're meant to do). The thing that's important are the core nutrients for the plant and then a booster or two here and there (study up on the plant physiology, not just people's opinion).
Common sense (well, with a bit of an analytical mind) works. For example, many people recommend "molasses" in the flower period (i.e. sugar which comes in examples such as Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy, etc). If you think about what humans need for energy, carbohydrates or in other words sugars (more importantly , complex sugars), you'll know that any living thing will need that. So, that tells you the advice to use "molasses" is probably good - picking the right one is a headache, but lets be serious, any one will work.
The nutrient companies are not the hippies of the 60's trying to "share the love" and trying to help the various growers out there (some may be, I don't want to talk crap about all of them) They are small (or large) corporate entities interested in money.
Look at the ingredients in various "different" nutrients and you will find that they are simply composed of similar substances. It's overwhelming to someone new, but as Occam's razor theory pointed out (paraphrasing) - among many options, the simplest path is usually the best one.
Anyway, enough rambling, my bad and feel free to post questions if you need any helps. I've gotten a lot of help here and learned a lot and also love to help in general.
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Common sense (well, with a bit of an analytical mind) works. For example, many people recommend "molasses" in the flower period (i.e. sugar which comes in examples such as Advanced Nutrients Bud Candy, etc). If you think about what humans need for energy, carbohydrates or in other words sugars (more importantly , complex sugars), you'll know that any living thing will need that. So, that tells you the advice to use "molasses" is probably good - picking the right one is a headache, but lets be serious, any one will work.
The nutrient companies are not the hippies of the 60's trying to "share the love" and trying to help the various growers out there (some may be, I don't want to talk crap about all of them) They are small (or large) corporate entities interested in money.
Look at the ingredients in various "different" nutrients and you will find that they are simply composed of similar substances. It's overwhelming to someone new, but as Occam's razor theory pointed out (paraphrasing) - among many options, the simplest path is usually the best one.
Anyway, enough rambling, my bad and feel free to post questions if you need any helps. I've gotten a lot of help here and learned a lot and also love to help in general.
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I lost it a while back so and don't remember the brand. After a quick search on new egg it looks like a AGPTEK USB Microscope with 200X zoom. It has a USB cable that plugs in to my lap top. There is a dial for the zoom and a red button to take the pictures. I need to order a new one LOL. It is very nice to have for harvest because I can study my pictures. I used it early in my growing to identify things like pest infestations as I was learning to grow. I have a cool close up of a spider mite some were from about 4 years back or longer. You don't have to do close ups either it takes good regular bud shots too.
Thanks joe. I went on Newegg to see what they had and saw a few good ones. I'll look into the one above.
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