What am I looking for at 8 weeks?

[runxtc]

I just saw the frost today. I am curious as to what I should look for as she goes from 8 weeks to 10-11? I'm looking at the pistils and seeing a few turning amber or drying out. I imagine this is way early amber. This is Gorilla Glue Grower's Choice a 70 -75 day plant. Am I looking for the right thing to turn amber? The pistils or the trichomes themselves? I see two or 3 ambers.

Thanks for the guidance. I am getting kind of giddy watching now. LOL

The whole plant 8.5 weeks alongside a 4.5 week old. Taken today.

 

[LabRat]

Personally I go by the pistils primarily and there should be just a few fresh looking white ones with most or all of the trichs cloudy with just a few gone amber. Amber indicates that the THC is breaking down to CBN which helps give it that stony 'couch lock' feel which many desire but not me so much. Seems to take a good month to get any significant amount of amber and power is expensive here so laying buds out in the sun for a couple days can amber them up for free if that's what's wanted.

Your buds look like they haven't fattened up yet so I wouldn't be too eager to chop.

 

[runxtc]

Personally I go by the pistils primarily and there should be just a few fresh looking white ones with most or all of the trichs cloudy with just a few gone amber. Amber indicates that the THC is breaking down to CBN which helps give it that stony 'couch lock' feel which many desire but not me so much. Seems to take a good month to get any significant amount of amber and power is expensive here so laying buds out in the sun for a couple days can amber them up for free if that's what's wanted.

Your buds look like they haven't fattened up yet so I wouldn't be too eager to chop.

Thanks. You are right. I was disappointed in their size until today I actually noticed a bit of change. Same with the frost. I started this one on Ripen a GH product this week. So I am looking for change. I'll add I fed today as well. RO Bloom dry. Watered in.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

You have 4 or 5 weeks to go.

 

[runxtc]

You have 4 or 5 weeks to go.

Thank you for saying that. I was feeling like I was behind for a couple of weeks. The seed source called it 70-75 days at 10 weeks for harvest and I will learn reality here shortly. Taking longer would get another feed-in as well.

 

[LabRat]

I would go easy with the Ripen at this stage. It's ratio of P to K is better for tomatoes than pot in the later stages of flowering where pot wants more K than P. Too much P is what gives bud that 'chemical' taste folks are always complaining about.

I've never liked GH as they have never been supportive of pot growers. Even now that they are owned by the Scotts/Monsanto/Bayer/ Hawthorne group of corporations they still never mention pot but wait until the US Fed finally moves pot off Schedule 1 and they will be going after the pot grow market with a vengeance.

Haters can hate but I've been mainly using AN for the last 20 years. Just the 3-part for the base with Big Bud for my booster and Rhino Skin in DWC to supply some silica. The last couple of years I've been wandering into organics territory and that seems to be working out not bad tho it's hard to get a lot of stuff needed to go full organic. Big Bud is 0-15-35, 10% S, 20 amino acids with ascorbic (Vit. C) and citric acids so a week before flipping photo plants I add a half dose of straight P/K along with my base nutes leaning toward more Bloom then after the stretch in goes the BB instead until the end of week 6 then I just use a bit of straight K with Epsom. Still working on what's best for autos but really just want autos for growing outside this far north where photos don't have time to finish before the snow flies.

Higher P is great for the early stages of flowering but later on they want more K and also Mg and S. S is the 'secret' ingredient in a lot of bloom boosters and needed for production of resin and aromatic compounds that give pot it's lovely stank. No need to spend a lot of money on that tho as Epsom Salts from the drug store can fill that bill. A tsp/gal is plenty.

Most strains of pot fatten up a lot the last couple weeks of flower so it's worth the wait.

 

[runxtc]

I would go easy with the Ripen at this stage. It's ratio of P to K is better for tomatoes than pot in the later stages of flowering where pot wants more K than P. Too much P is what gives bud that 'chemical' taste folks are always complaining about.

You are doing what I will do after catching up on my initial diving in errors. I intended to start a first grow with rDWC. So I was all in GH. Then I decided to wait on buying a chiller and just grow in soil. That is where the RO products came from. I will use things up while learning then launch whatever phase 2 is.