What is this?

[UseHerName]

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.

UseHerName Reviewed by UseHerName on 01-20-2012. What is this? 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. Rating: 5

[Minnesnowta]

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.

[UseHerName]

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.

[UseHerName]

Also the strain is Fuel if that helps at all with the flowering time.

[pushit]

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.

[Minnesnowta]

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.

[how2growsensi]

no no no seee now thoos are when your plants are really happy and strong they like to flex and show you ther muscles

[UseHerName]

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). what if it's a hermaphrodite? ay yay yay I should just wait lol. Attachment 282176

[pushit]

Congrats! Got yourself a fine little lady

[Minnesnowta]

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.