Accelerate ripening

[Bigpapa]

I’m doing a photoperiod OG Kush in DWC under LED. Because of out of town family business I’ve had to shorten it’s veg growth to 5 weeks and now I’m rushing to try to get it to ripen as quickly as possible.

Does anyone have any tips on possibly accelerating the process? The picture below shows where I am at 4 weeks of flowering. I only have 18 days before commitments require me to be out of town. And no. I have no one trustworthy enough to help.

 

[Pyrokill]

I have no proven idea but I wonder if letting them dry up would do it. That one looks pretty young though. I'm in ohio and can foster haha.

 

[Beeman]

I did some reading a while back on Dutch passions I think that’s where and read that decrease lite hours to 10 hours and increase darkness to14 hour then decrease nitrogen and increase P and K to speed up ripening. Also if decrease night temperature to mimic nature in the fall also to speed up ripening….never tried it tho… but all in all you can’t rush a lady (wink,wink)
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[Bigpapa]

Alright Beeman. I’m gonna go with that. I’ll let you know how it turns out. Thanks brother. 😎

 

[Smallgrow]

Sucks when life gets in the way of gardening , I have that problem often
With 18 days how will you handle drying after harvest ?
not sure how long you’ll be gone for but if it was me I might just try letting them go as normal or with the above suggestion then just shut the lights when you leave and adjust your environment to your dry setting and leave them in the pots till your back 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

[Beeman]

Good luck big papa will be curious to see if it helps

 

[Bigpapa]

Hey Beeman, here are my 14 hour lights off conditions.

 

[Beeman]

This will be interesting to see how well it works.. I’m along for the ride!

 

[Bigpapa]

Here’s a couple of pictures of the progress.

 

[Beeman]

Good looking plant there big papa hope this works…

 

[Bigpapa]

Hey Beeman. I’m getting down to the wire. I’m into the flush and will have to harvest on Tuesday. I sure wish I could have gone about 3 more weeks 😤

 

[Beeman]

Looks good but I think your right could use some more time to ripen. Hope still get some decent smoke.🤔

 

[Smallgrow]

They Look good
Drag about your schedule 🤞