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Are these what I'm hoping they will be?
how much time should I give for flowering and drying/curing? I gave 8 weeks for flowering and 2 for drying/curing is this a good enough time? I have a deadline to meet.
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Attachment 281856
Are these what I'm hoping they will be?
how much time should I give for flowering and drying/curing? I gave 8 weeks for flowering and 2 for drying/curing is this a good enough time? I have a deadline to meet.
I am not sure what you're referring to when you say "are these what I hope they are", I may be completely blind but I'm not seeing a whole lot in that picture.
As far as your deadline goes.. it realies heavily on your strain, as well as your personal preferrences. Flowering time could be anywhere from 8 weeks all the way up to 14 weeks without giving me anymore info. Drying typically takes about 5 days to a week and beyond that, curing is all up to you. Two weeks is a solid timeframe for curing, again thats personal preferrence, some people cure their bud or two months. The longer you cure it the better smell/flavor/smoke you're going to get, as long as you're curing it properly. However when needing to meet a deadline for something, its potentially ready for consumption right after the drying period.
Good luck, and maybe post some other pictures to give us a better indication of what you have going on. Or perhaps someone else can see something that I can't in your pic.
Sorry for not clarifying what I was asking about.. got in a hurry. Where the top branch connects there is the gooey green thing. I think it is the calyx before the pistols come out cause they weren't there about 2 days ago but I wasn't sure.
Also the strain is Fuel if that helps at all with the flowering time.
Looks like what i call a swelling knuckle. I dont know whats its called just made up something. I see it alot when lsting. What i think it is is the plant is strengthening the joint to support the weight of the branch. Kinda like if you are gonna be lifting heavy shit all day you want to be in shape otherwise you couldnt do the job. I think its just the plant bulking up. Like i said i see it all the time. Maybe someone will pipe in that can give you a real name haha Are you sure its gooey? If its what im talking about it should be hard.
Ahh I see now what you're talking about, and I agree with pushit. Maybe you bent the stem there a little bit or something to cause that? Mine are all hardened up now but I have the same thing on one of my plants that was grown outdoors last summer and I am currently doing a reveg experiment with. Rabbits decided they wanted to revoke the peace treaty between them and myself by eating all of the leaves off my girl as far up as they could reach, bending the branches badly as they pulled them down. So since then, I have collected several rabbit skins and I am using them to make a Viking costume to wear to football games... next time they'll stick to eating clover and shit.
Anyways back to the subject... that definitely isn't a calyx, strangely enough though there isn't any signs indicating that it would be male or female... maybe IT has no genitals at all? There have been lots of threads lately about identifying males/females early on, and since I have one of each showing their sex early right now, I will go take some pics now as best I can to show the clear differences in male vs female preflowers. Check back in a bit, I'll just start a new thread so everyone gets a chance to check it out.
no no no seee now thoos are when your plants are really happy and strong they like to flex and show you ther muscles
Thank everyone for their answers! That makes COMPLETE sense. Plus NOW mine is showing *hopefully* her sex. At first I thought it was a girl, then I thought it was a boy, and now I think it's a girl again. SO I guess I'm just going to have to give it a few days. But what do you think? To me it just looks like a seed with some pistols on it :( Then I see a male and I realize mine doesn't look like that(yet). :eek: what if it's a hermaphrodite? ay yay yay I should just wait lol. Attachment 282176
Congrats! Got yourself a fine little lady
Yeah those are some nekkid lady pics there. woo woo. Sometimes people get female calyx's confused with male parts early on because they both kinda look similar, except for the fact that those two hairs are stickin out of it. Male would likely have a matching set of balls... definite female though. congratz.
WOOT WOOT AWESSOOOMMME So glad to hear it! I was so scared that my beautiful little lady was going to be a dick... hehe BUT YYYAAAYY again. Now all this work did go to something :D thank you so much for the help! (and confirmation) I think it's time to celebrate ;)
Small celebration.. but prepare for the important part of the grow. Veg only takes you so far, flowering gives you what you really want. Keep at it and always ask questions on things you don't know about before you decide to test anything that is potentially dangerous to her. PMS happens to all types of females, human or plant, problem with plants is... they can't talk to tell you whats wrong, so don't piss her off haha. Enjoy the ride! Flowering is the fun part. I am assuming this is your first grow?
Well it's my "second" grow but the first time we harvested way to soon. But this time already looks WAY better (think cause this time I used Fox Farm last time... I don't even remember the name) I NEED to mess with my pH meter cause *sigh* I hate to admit it but I haven't been checking EC or pH. I will probably try to do that today I've just never used one before and I got a high tech one so I'm overwhelmed. Any tips for calibration and taking the readings?
Hmm not sure exactly what to tell you other than.. you should probably get some PH testing strips to compare with. That may help you out, they're cheap and you can get them at various hardware stores and stuff. What sort of ph testing meter did you get?
I would either go to your hydro store or ebay and pick up some calibration solution. I get the 7. Also you will want to either use that or some storage solution and pour a little into the cap of the ph pen. You dont want the probe to dry out. If the probe gets messed up your readings will be way off. I usually calibrate mine weekly if needed. Better to be overcautious then to be wrong hahaQuote:
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I meant electrode not probe. My bad.Quote:
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I can't remember the specifics but it's a hannah. I got the storage solution and the 4 and 7 calibration... it's just all about actually using it. :eek: I'm nervous but hopefully I can't hurt it to much cause it LOOKS happy.