quick flowering question

I am going to flower my bagseed plant for 8 weeks. Is that 8 weeks from when 12/12 started, or 8 weeks from when the first pistils showed up? Thanks.

you need to worry about visual indications that are given off by the plant and not go by some number you heard or read about.

there are many factors that go into when to harvest, mostly trichome color. if you wait too long the THC will begin to degrade fast.

so you might want to go do some more research if you plan on having a successful harvest.


-shake

Better to go by Trichrome development than by the calender. Depending on any number of factors even quick finishing plants can take longer than expected. Eight weeks is on the short side to begin with, especially since you don't know what you're dealing with. A lot of people wait for the Trichs to be 50/50 (Cloudy/Rusty).

But to answer your question, generally 8 weeks of flowering would mean from the onset of 12/12 (or whatever flowering cycle you happen to be using).

(Shake beat me to the punch)

Thanks for the info. Its been flowering for 30 days now and some of the pistils are just starting to turn brown. I will do it by eye but I justwanted to keep track of how long it had been flowering for that's why I had that question.

you should have been keeping track of how long it has been flowering for. no one else knows that but you.

the flowering time given on seed boutiques etc is strain dependent. and this is still just an average. there are always exceptions to the rule. the times you read are more of guidlines.

is your bad seed indica, indica dom, sativa or sativa dom? which way does the percentage lean if it's a hybrid? you don't and cannot know. nor can we.

that's why it is more important to look for the physical indicators.

get a cheap ($13, at radio shack) handheld microscope. you can then cut the small leaves that are getting surrounded with the buds, the ones covered in trichomes. cut a little piece off and look at it under the scope. they go from clear to milky to amber. the more milky they are the more the cerebral, or mental high. the more amber they are the more you'll have a couchlock type of stoned. to some certain effect, as each strain has it's own characteristics.


-shake

I know from recollection of my first successful grow I woulda gone nuts waitin on benchmarks as foggy and yet academic as those.

Geez man.

Ain't as if that avatar alone's gonna give ya bettr n Cervantes creds outta the shute.

S'plain more for us, Ricky.

Headshake,

Not meanin to be insubordinate hear but I siimply don't know at this point how best to get my questoins asked.

Whether to start my own next supa dupa entitled seed strain log or whether to help certain existing threads to become more pointed.

Unless you say otherwise I'm just gonna bomb the general comments category with about 5 different nute questions if, you'd prefer.

Stinky oughta get a big kick outta the bandwidth abuse, doncha figger?

Sorry guys. I am pissed from TMI bein suspended and not so many live bodies being around here to hold the confusions at bay. Properly. If I may submit that point.

:wtf:

Bud,

Headshake can't accurately answer that because it depends on whether you do a horizontal scrog grow or a straight up conventional grow of a single plant.

Unless I missed some earlier post you made, even still, youz guys posts if multiplied by every confused newb on the planet, sound like the whirlwind vortex whoosh you hear watchin a dog chase it's tail.

When ya could actcha allie be makin it less timmidatin ta understand an all, y'all.

Not a bad Jessica Simpson impersonation, eh boys n goils?

Ross,

I only know enough to be dangerous here but I basically don't always like how callously some of these gurus dismiss myserties that are way more urgent if you are on a time schedule, which they have some how already liberated themselves from.

Ross, Not gonna make a big deal outta this my interpretation of the veg cycle, okay?

Too few gurus emphasize what it takes to get in and beyond the sexing part of the veg stage. Shrug. Possibly because. Fuck this shit.

You zeros kinda sorta wickedly piss me off when I am also

wait

seem to have stumbled over into a drunken stupor and broken my leg just now trying to lift pallets of hydro grow equipment purchase orders

back in a second

you bet

:asskick:

In all sincerity here.

As I recall I got my almost 5oz of bud off one straight old bagseed female in just under the hyped up 90 day benchmark.

One plant. 6 regular coil HD CFLs.

Hear me here.

Your guess of 8 weeks is no better than some drunken sailor's estimation.

You need to get your weed cured by the second phase of the triangular Aquarium pump corporation moon by the fifth of September. my recollection but if the females are happy you could conceivably do better than you ever even planned to, - in other words - erm - conceivably that is - I am still allowed to get high without being fully fledged fresh, right?

My good jeepers.

Wheeft have hermed out alst the menz manz oft this site.

Nary a stand up coward in this stall nowadays darezm tooz stand up to this oft thought of aloof and mysterious David Hasselhof look I have goin on justa kinda lure the you know nubiles into my David Hasselhof look.

The trouble with good people these days is they've just been too worn down by crap, guys.

Gimme a break. One damned hour and a half and not one of schmucks had the stones to call me down or answer a question or send a handshake.

God dammed snobs even if there isn't a god your low level resonance will attract bad energy. I swear.

Nice incoherent rambling... was there a point to that?

Your question was answered both coherently and correctly by headshake on the first response. Somehow I don't see how insulting the membership as a whole is going to coax any improvement out of us... you catch more flies with honey...

thanks stinky. i didn't know what was actually supposed to be coming across in those posts. all they did was make my head hurt. if they were supposed insults then so be it. i prefer my statements to be concise and to the point.


-shake

don't sweat it shake, you were spot on with your answer. plus you showed how mature you were by not responding to pointless insults. good job!:thumbsup: