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Day 22 - Starting week 4 with a little more LST. Will continue doing so until I’ve got the chutes I want and she stops stretching. Waiting for her to dry out a little before starting her next feeding. All in all, she’s looking pretty good and no real issues so far.
Day 23 - Did a little more LST and removed 2 giant fan leaves blocking a lot of light. Gave her the first of week 4’s feeding today and everything’s looking good with this girl.
Day 24 - Tied down a few branches to let some more light in. Removed a couple more large fan leaves that was blocking light and she’s more open now. So far she’s looking pretty good and can’t wait for her to start flowering.
Day 25 - Tied down a few more branches today and gave her the second feeding of the week. Everything is coming together and I think, looking pretty good with this girl. Really looking forward to her starting to flower.
Day 26 - Looks like she’s starting to flower a bit now. More and more pistils are showing and she’s got plenty of chutes that are getting good light now. Pot is still a bit heavy so not ready for any water quite yet.
Day 28 - End of week 4 and she’s starting to stretch pretty good now. More and more pistils so I’m thinking she’s officially starting to flower. Finally the pot dried out and gave her a good drink of water today.
A couple of buds look like the tops aren’t really “compacting” and are stretching. Would lowering lights help, are the buds foxtailing? Is this bad? Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
Hi @Luv2Grow yes this is classic foxtailing caused from high temps. as far as bag appeal goes it's not pretty but no big deal Don't lower your lights it would only make things worse. I think your probably only 10 days or so from harvest by the looks so I wouldn't worry too much
if there is any way you can lower temps this would stop the fox tailing I wish you a bountiful harvest 👌
@Fast_Buds,thank you for the kind words. I’m TRYING to be detailed but get side tracked between wife, kids and pets but I can’t say enough about y’all genetics. It’s pretty much all I’m growing now, other than freebies I receive. I really want to try y’alls Smoothies so I’m gonna try and get my hands on some soon.
@Fast_Buds, she most definitely is thick! I wish I could speed up time to where she was dried and cured, haha! Thank YOU all again for the amazing genetics!!
@DILLIGAF, thank you, after doing some research and saw lowering lights wasn’t a good idea, I actual went back and raised them higher. I had about a week or so where my temps were around 85 and couldn’t get it lower but just recently got them to sit around 78 or so. I read that there was good and bad foxtailing but this stuff is just for me and family so don’t really care about bag appeal. I do appreciate your input, helped confirm what I was thinking! Much appreciated!!
Nice grow. Your foxtailing could just be genetics. Yes heat can contribute to the issue. Since she has more sativa genetics than indica genetics exposing her to too much red spectrum lights jump starts her defense response which is to grow foxtails. Backing off on the light intensity and adding more blue and white spectrum near the end of the grow will help keep foxtailing under control. It also helps with terpene production and preservation.
@Paul7227, Preciate it bud!
If you’re stateside, I just went to Home Depot and got organic compost, peat moss, perlite and vermiculite. 3 parts compost, 3 parts peat moss, 2 parts perlite and 1 part vermiculite. Nice and airy and worked like a charm.