time period for white hairs?????

[fishens]

Hi All
I posted a couple of days ago about white hairs on male plants. Thanks to Orangeman for the photo and answer. I really don't have anything that looks like balls but it is taking forever for the hairs. First hair seen on 7/5 and today I am still searching with a magnifying glass to find some. The ones I do find are small and sparce. I just remembered (or hoped?) that it had be faster on previous plants. Sorry about the rambling..the question..is the time period of almost a month normal for the very few hairs I am seeing?
I am all natural with Fox Farm's Big Bloom. Any replies are greatly appreciated. Thanks in Advance..

[BLaQLiGhT]

If you saw the first white hair on july 5th and now you can't really find any/many white hairs, you are doing something wrong. That is more then 3 weeeks of flowering and you should see white hairs everywhere. You should keep the plant in 12 hours of light and 12 hours of darkness for it to flower. It takes about 7 to 8 weeks for an Indica to finish flowering and 9 to 11 weeks for a sativa to finish...

[fishens]

I put her in 12/12 on 6/25..She looks very healthy. I let her get dry and then water with fox farm. Any ideas on what it might be?? I knew this was taking way too long. Thats why I asked previously about white hairs on male plants. I have only seen one male plant so I wasn't sure. I am truly baffeled.

[slowthestone]

Whats the height of the plant?
What type of light are they under?
Is your water pH'd?

[jamstigator]

Also, are you sure no light is getting to them during their dark period? Some strains are more sensitive to light than others. If they've been flowering more than a month (June 25 you started flowering?) then there should be hairs and budlets all over. If you meant JULY 25th you started flowering, then I'd say be patient, see what happens in the next week or so.

[fishens]

No light can get in & yes almost a month into flowering. I checked the roots & they are hardly there. Could that be it? Is it too late to put some root juice on her? any help is appreciated.

[jamstigator]

Lack of roots will stunt development, yes. Like trees, the size of the plant above ground is roughly equivalent to the size of the root mass below ground. So a tiny root system will mean a small plant. (This is the premise of bonsai, restricting the growth of actual trees by keeping their root mass small.)

The question is, why such a small root mass? Soil or hydro? I'm a soil guy personally. If soil, what kind? Pot size? (Going from 2-gallon pots to 4-gallon pots produced MUCH larger plants for me, but transplanting during flowering isn't a great idea.) This far into flowering, I doubt there's a whole lot you can do, but whatever the problem is, obviously it'd be good to figure it out before the next crop.

[fishens]

Yep that makes perfect since..the roots.. she is in soil. could i change her feeding for a week or 2..back to root formation stuff..like in the beginnings?

[jamstigator]

Heh, to make it go back into the vegetative stage at this point would probably take longer than just growing another plant. If you don't think you're going to get enough bud on that plant to be worth flowering it to completion (it's probably not going to get much bigger than it is now, after a month of flowering), and you have more seeds, kill it and start over. Sorry to say that; I know it sucks.

Pot size is crucial (because of the root mass issue). What I usually do is start a seed in those little marshmallow-shaped sponge things, let it sprout and get a few roots going, then transplant to a 1/2-gallon pot. I let it grow a couple of weeks and then transplant to a 4-gallon pot. Then I let it go a couple more weeks or so to let the roots spread around inside the bigger pot (and the plant above ground to get bigger too, of course). And then into flowering it goes.

If it's not a pot size issue, then I dunno, could be a genetically inferior specimen you have there. Just like there are flimsy, sickly people, there are also flimsy, sickly plants. Maybe that's what you have.