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- Thread starter JuanHondo
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alltatup
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Bee yoo tiful!! Hang in there with the nanner hunt on a daily basis, and you're going to have to clean your grow room carefully to make sure there's no pollen.
When I got nanners, most of the seeds I found after I harvested were immature, so I know that most of the energy had gone into making flowers instead of seeds. At the stage you're at, that's what will happen I betchya.
When I got nanners, most of the seeds I found after I harvested were immature, so I know that most of the energy had gone into making flowers instead of seeds. At the stage you're at, that's what will happen I betchya.
JuanHondo
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Photos from today. 7 weeks and 2 days since switching to 12/12. Plucked off about a dozen nanners today after being out of town for 4 days. I'm a lot less concerned about them now after the initial banana panic. Pistils are maybe 40-50% dark and curled in on the top half...still mostly white lower down on the plant. I've been staring at trichomes through my 30X loupe and i think they are partly cloudy, but it's really hard to tell. I tried to take some iPhone + loupe photos, but i think they are still too blurry to tell. maybe some of you can see something. I think i've got about two weeks left...sound about right?
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alltatup
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Juan, get a good jeweler's loupe. Some people have no problem with the cheap made in China loupes, but I did. I have a BelOMO triplet loupe 15x and it works great to really see trichomes. https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/176441-tips-on-how-to-view-trichomes-clearly
SoOrbudgal
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Your plants look great to me really healthy.
JuanHondo
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starting to feel like a regular banana farmer...getting ~10-15 every day and seems like the more i look, the more I find. i've got at least 50% dark pistils now and i think i have partly cloudy trichomes. i ended up ordering the 15X BelOMO...passed on the 20X after i read about the very small depth of field. my loupe sucks so my trichome observations might not be 100% accurate. debating chopping now or waiting another week or two..is there any real risk of making seeds this close to the end?
JuanHondo
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that 15X BelOMO is nice...showed up in the mail today...more magnification than the 30X plastic one with LED and it's really clear. Still not exactly sure how to judge clear or cloudy trichomes but I would say they are partially cloudy..do they gradually individually get cloudy or do they get cloudy one at a time?
alltatup
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It does take some practice to make sure you're not seeing light bouncing off triches, and to see that they are clouding up. At the same time, you will notice that the heads get much fatter and bulging. The more you look at them, the more you learn about how to see them. I still have to go back again and again sometimes, like my eyes need time to adjust to what they're seeing in the tiny loupe.
And the process is gradual, you will always see some clear, but I look for mostly cloudy and I look to see if the triche heads are bulging. I also make sure that almost all the pistils have turned brown.
Glad you like it!! These triple loupes are the real deal, unlike all that cheap crap from China.
And the process is gradual, you will always see some clear, but I look for mostly cloudy and I look to see if the triche heads are bulging. I also make sure that almost all the pistils have turned brown.
Glad you like it!! These triple loupes are the real deal, unlike all that cheap crap from China.
JuanHondo
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photos from today. today is exactly 8 weeks from switching to 12/12. i think they are getting close. mostly dark pistils up top and i think mostly cloudy trichomes. I see a few amber trichomes on #1 so that's good i guess. the belOMO is a big help, but i'm still not exactly sure what i'm looking at. pistils on the "middle" buds are about half dark and the "low" buds are still mostly white. i had one small low branch on #1 that was hanging almost horizontal so i chopped, trimmed, and hung it up to see what i'm working with here. the little guy weighed a whopping 10g wet and 5g after hanging for a day and a half. watered yesterday with cal/mag and bloom at 50% recommended dose for week 8. I think i'll on give pH adjusted water from now on for 1 or 2 more weeks.
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JuanHondo
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Can't decide what to do...still see about the same amount of ambers on #1 and found a couple on #2 tonight...i like the idea of a staged harvest, but ideally that would start next monday as i'll be out of town this weekend and i'd like to be around while they are drying. my plan had been to start a flush before the weekend with pH adjusted water and see how they looked monday...maybe flush more...maybe chop them down...maybe wait till next weekend. this amber alert is throwing a monkey wrench in my plans as i'm not interested in couch lock. I think i should be OK to go w/o flush as i've been only feed 1/2 strength nutes and following the recommended schedule (reducing for the past 2 weeks). but, then again, i only see amber on the very top...and i'm probably overthinking this as i have a habit of doing...anyway, thanks for listening...
alltatup
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No problem Juan. I don't wait for amber because my understanding is that amber signals the degradation of THC or the beginning of over-ripeness. I don't go for couch-lock at all--not my preference. And I usually don't do much of a flush, either, because my nutes are so low at the end of flowering.
You do want to be around for drying!
You do want to be around for drying!