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When do buds fatten the most?

Chowder

Chowder

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Hi, I'm approaching week 6 of flower, Friday. I'm just wondering when the biggest push will be for buds fattening up. They are filling in nicely, white hairs are starting to curl but still all white. Also, do they need more fan leaves removed? I've been trimming a lot over the the last week to expose bud sites, but want to leave enough leaves to see them thru till th end. I've read about defoiliating in flower on the site and as this is my first grow, just want to error on the side of safety. Thanks
also, I have too many plants in one place, but gotta ride it out now!
 

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Chowder said:
Hi, I'm approaching week 6 of flower, Friday. I'm just wondering when the biggest push will be for buds fattening up. They are filling in nicely, white hairs are starting to curl but still all white. Also, do they need more fan leaves removed? I've been trimming a lot over the the last week to expose bud sites, but want to leave enough leaves to see them thru till th end. I've read about defoiliating in flower on the site and as this is my first grow, just want to error on the side of safety. Thanks
also, I have too many plants in one place, but gotta ride it out now!
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" When do buds fatten the most?" Answer (when Green grows them)
 
I bought a cheap one from Amazon, but man I can't see anything thru it! Mabel the jewellers loupe will do the trick? Magnifying glass strong enough?
 
Real nice grow if ur scared to defole. Then I would sugest to defole 1 plant out of the bunch and do the test ur self. I defol my girls right up to the last week and all the way through the grow. When u defol in bud it takes the energy that leave was getting and put it on the bud instead, equals stronger bigger buds. Basicly just cut the leaves that do not get light as there just useing energy and not replaceing it/makeing any. U will notice ur buds will fatten up if u do this
 
I have a 60X100 handheld microscope and it does take a little practice to get used to it. Must keep steady...somehow!
 
Thanks man, I try to mimic nature a bit when making decisions about what to do. WRT cutting leaves below that don't get light, what is their purpose in nature? Also, side note, I want to try the milk on my soil plants, what's the recipe, I have four plants each in a 5 gallon bucket. The reason for the curiosity is we get our milk fresh from the farm, straight from the cow.
 
I`ve found the old saying of wait another week when you believe they`re ready to be really true....often we really want to start harvesting but that extra week above what we feel just hammers out the last potential in my experience but man, you have to be disciplined :D Good question :)
 
Hi Chowder,

I like that you try to mimic nature, and it's usually the right way to follow. But, in nature what is weed for??? I don't know? If it's for some critter to feed on, well is it leaves or buds or seeds? For my purpose it's for smoking Buds, and if using milk and defoliating and other techniques give me big and multiple buds, I'm all for it. :>)
 
What I find easiest to do is to cut a small piece of the plants and look at it under microscope that attaches to my computer. At 60x magnification, nobody's hand is steady enough.
 
I found a cheap child's telescope when cleaning out my basement and used the eye piece (upside down) and it actually works great. Enough magnification to see trichomes with a wider field of view. Can't wait to try it out with this grow. BTW, had access to a much better telescope but that eyepiece didn't work. Don't know why. Too much magnification or focal point was different???
 
I found that worked best as well, I had bought a 60x microscope off Amazon but I've had much better luck with binoculars turned backwards.
 
I've defoiliated again, not a lot of fan leaves left but lots of sugar leaves, do they act like fan leaves? Also, I added some milk to the ones soil. But, we also also had some whey, which also came from previous milk. It's good for other plants so I put about 250ml in each.
 
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