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    first time grower
    3 female plant
    70,110 and 100 cm height
    hps light 400w.
    1.the plant are only 4 weeks into flowering.
    buds are quit small,never the less,
    the hairs on the buds are already turning brown!!!
    do i have to harvest when 50 percent of the hairs
    are brown? or can i wait a little bit longer,
    with out losing the chance to harvest any thing.

    2.if i decide not to harvest(buds are so small
    so there is no point really)can i reverse
    the cycle back to vegetative state(18 hours of
    light)and use this plant as a mother?(for clones)
    or is it to late once the plant go into flowering
    to use it for clones.

    thanks in advance
    clear243

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    Your buds are small because it's only in the middle of flower mate. Still got a minimum 4 weeks left (if it's an indica that is) and up to another 8 weeks or more if it's a sativa.
    Also, are you counting flower from when they showed flower or when you changed to 12/12?
    The only true way to tell if they're ready for harvest is get a scope/loupe.
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    so what your saying is to keep
    flowering even if all the hairs turn brown????

    i start seeing flowers about 4 weeks ago!

    turn to 12/12 about 2 month ago.

    the plants started flowering by them self on 18 hours of light hps full spectrum

    the strain?i don't know its impossible to
    send agriculture stuff to my country
    its unbelievable every thing get checked by tax authority!!

    so i am growing from seeds that i got form smoking!

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    If they started flowering on 18/6 then it sounds like they're autos' mate.
    I know feck all about them but i'm sure someone else will be along.
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    some plants pre sex at 18 hrs of light. dont base harvest by pistil color. go by thric color. go at least 7 weeks.some plants can ripen early depending on feed. but as lost soul said 8 to 9 week for indica

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    If they started properly flowering during 18/6 cycle then they must be autoflowers as said before, and if you put them on 12/12 cycle after this and they've been on 12/12 for 2 months now, I'd suggest they may be done?

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    the thing is that they haven't been in
    flowering for tow month!!!!
    they have been in flowering
    one month and the hairs already turning brown
    i wanted to give them at least another
    month more,but i am afraid that like any other fruit
    if you leave it to long on a tree
    it will get rotten.

    so the question is very simple
    cannabis less then a month into flowering
    white hair already turning brown
    in rapid rate.in one week its going to be
    50 percent brown hair?
    to harvest,or not to harvest????????????

    if i will wait longer will it rot or is it o.k??
    to make the harvest a little bit latter
    with no harm done?

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    Now I'm confused...

    Quote Originally Posted by clear243 View Post
    the plants started flowering by them self on 18 hours of light hps full spectrum

    turn to 12/12 about 2 month ago.

    i start seeing flowers about 4 weeks ago!
    So the plants have been flowering for 2 months! How can they have started flowering during 18/6 cycle, been on 12/12 for 2 months, but you only started seeing flowers 4 weeks ago?? Sorry, you've fried my brain, and I havent even had a smoke yet!!

    Maybe the flowering during 18/6 was only the PRE-flowers showing, in which case they're NOT autoflowers, just a standard strain (which I guess would make more sense as they're from bag seed), but I dont know what would account for the small bud size and early maturing. Possibly if they have been pollenated? Have you had any males in there with them? Are the calyxes huge and split? Maybe they've hermied really young? (check for balls!!)

    If they are a standard strain, you should be OK to take what bud is smokeable but leave some on, then re-veg on 18/6. Will take a few weeks to kick start vegging mode. If they are autoflowers then going back on 18/6 will not re-veg (you will not be able to re-veg an autoflower), but will probably be a good thing, autoflowers should not be put on 12/12, they flower regardless of light cycle so should be given as much light as possible.

    Do yourself a favour, post some pics so someone who knows a lot more than me can try and help you out, and get a 30x magnification jewellers loupe (fleabay) to check the colour of the trichromes.

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    o.k honest mistake(MY BAD)
    let me be more accurate.
    i started growing 1.8.2010
    with poor result,week steam,yellow leaves,no growth.
    bought professional gear on the 10Th 5.10.2010.
    took couple of days to get organize(don't remember how many)
    activated hps,new pot,new soil,new fertilizer.
    plants were small 30 cm or so.
    wanted to give them one month to recover on growth
    and then move to flowering.
    in a week or two don't know didn't count it
    the plants recover.and grew from 30 cm to 70-100 cm.
    at the same time that this remarkable recovery happened
    i started seeing little balls on some of the plants.
    because i am a first time grower i was not shore if this is flowering(still on 16/8)
    if this is male or female,so i gave them couple of days more(again don't know how many
    didn't count).
    after couple of days more i become convince that this are males
    and terminate them.
    in this point there were no signs on the rest of the plants for sex.
    couple of days later i started seeing white hairs.
    from 10 plant 3 are females one hermaphrodite the rest were males.
    all this happened with in the last month and a half,from 5.10.2010 to today 12.11.2010.
    that should give you the time frame,most of that time the plants were on 16/8
    only when it becomes clear to me that they are flowering although on 16/8 cycle
    i cut down to 12/12,couldn't be more then 2-3 weeks on 12/12.

    pic will be post today
    right now the plants are sleeping
    Last edited by clear243; 12-11-10 at 05:11 PM.

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