Brown thumb grow

[Bluey]

You could water a bit more often. So increase the frequency. No run off

[Brwnthmb]

this plant gets this wilted look no more than 2 days after watering. (It looked this way yesterday and was watered 12-4. Today is 12-7.) I gave it 750ml on 12-4.
The time before, 11-30, I gave it 1500ml (then waited 4 days until 12-4, before the 750 ml watering). And it was wilted no more than 2 days after watering.
The problem is that the pot still feels heavy when the plant is wilted. I’ve been trying to ignore the wilting and give the plant time to absorb the water, assuming that the (heavy) water is void of oxygen. (The plant always perks up when I water it, but then is wilted again in 2 days or less.) And my other plants don’t wilt nearly as fast.
Any ideas as to what is causing this paradox? Remedies?

[Brwnthmb]

I pulled the plant up this morning. This is the top bloom. I cut off the previously shown bud individually.
is that a “banana” in the middle of the photo?
I remember reading about a banana but can’t find it now.
What is the significance of a banana (on a bud, not on cereal)?
edit: nevermind. I found it. It says heat or light stress, but I think it must be that I let the soil dry out during flowering phase. It was in a clay pot.

[Brwnthmb]

Bluey, Gingerbeard, @Rwise
Thanks

[Bluey]

Always hang them upside down, whole plant or just buds.

The dry & cure is just as important as the grow. Too fast and it'll be terrible. Over dried same.

Aim for starting the dry around 60⁰F and 60% RH. If you can get your dry room to there youd be wet trimming and hanging whole branches individually for 6 to 9 days depending on size and moisture content.
They appear to be ideal numbers. If you can't get close alter your harvest and trim to aim for a 7 day dry so if it's too hot or humidity too low perhaps dry trim instead or hang more of the plant to slow the dry down, ie. Whole plant with roots.

You're aiming for no lower than about 58% to no higher than 63% in the jars after 24hrs of being in a sealed mason jar.

Keep air movement to a minimum. The less the better but not none.

Good luck.

[Rwise]

I still pull and hang mine roots and all, if I dont they dry way to fast. I dont think it makes them any stronger, just take longer to dry.

[Brwnthmb]

😂 haha! I’ll guard my eye!
I used to pull up my plants and hang them upside down thinking that the resin from the roots and rest of the plant made the buds stronger. However everything I’ve read on here talks of cutting the plants down. So I’ll cut them down until I hear different.

[Gingerbeard]

Don't look to us for the go-ahead. 10 people will give you 11 opinions. Any opinion is as good as another.
A staged harvest is when you harvest buds/stems you think are ready and leave buds you think have some time, yet. Cutting and hanging the whole plant at once is also fine. Remember what you can about this harvest and what colors you see.
Now comes a whole other kind of waiting. Your next question will be about how long it takes to dry. Consider a week before checking. Completely opposite to growing, do not aim fans at drying buds. You just want to circulate and keep the air changing. If you want to speed up the process, don't unless you want to ruin your weed or buy a big-ol' bud drying machine. Y'aint yet got enough dope for a big-ol' bud drying machine.
If you post a picture asking if your dope looks dry enough, I'll poke you in the eye.

[Brwnthmb]

Thank you!!!
Since I wasn’t sure, I cut off one branch with a couple of buds that were the furthest along and hung it up. I planned to compare these with those still on the plant, in case I didn’t get an ok.
Buds that are lower down are a little less mature (of course). Do you normally just call it close enough and hang up the whole plant? (I always did before but I hadn’t heard of a trichome either.)

[Gingerbeard]

And don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise! Congratulations!! You made it!!!
Bag it, tag it. Sell it to the butcher in the store... as it were...
We can talk about the errant non-cannabis hairs later.

[Brwnthmb]

I’m calling this ready.
?
another bud same plant
edit; this is my first try at identifying a white trichome. These can look clear to cloudy under a jeweler’s loupe, but white in a picture. I don’t know how “white” trichomes get. I see some trichomes on plants that are less mature with some amber trichomes, and these pistils are mostly all brown and curled. My only hesitation is not knowing how white trichomes get.
When trichomes have changed from clear to white, are they completely opaque? Or are they still a little clear, and you can see through one if you look at it up close?

[Brwnthmb]

@Bluey
It is very easy to transplant out of fabric pot. You roll the top to the outside and peel it down. I set it on a clay pot turned upside down and the fabric pot just turns inside out. (It leaves all the soil intact. There’s no stress.)
Edit (added): I water the plant the day before and have so far always run a tool around the outside before trying to peel the fabric pot down.

[Bluey]

How on earth do you transplant out of a fabric pot without stressing the plant?

Reason I ask is I don't use fabric

Keep your roots covered

[Brwnthmb]

when the soil level has dropped like in the photo, is it necessarily time for repotting?
Should you add soil to the top as the level drops, or do you use the level as an indicator for time to replace the soil?
thanks

[Brwnthmb]

The plant on the left was last watered 4 days ago, the one on the right 18 days ago. The bags are equal weight. What are the things which make a plant more thirsty than another?

The plant on the left shows other ways it is healthier, such as rapid growth and consuming the soil faster. In fact I topped the plant twice so that it would not get too tall for its living space. The plant on the left is kush cake, the right is OG kush.
The plant on the right is just a representative of the others. The abnormality is the rapid growth of the plant on the left. I’ve been aerating the soil (of the slower growing plants) as best I can thinking that was it but my results are inconclusive. Are there any ideas? Have any of you had a real fast grower and did you find out why it was so?
Thanks in advance.