Banana Kush - First Grow

@kansasscott725, That's what I keep hearing, the trichs will let you know. Of course I'm sure that's a bit of a judgement call as well. The podcasts I've been pouring through (Dude Grows Cast, GrowCast, and Rasta Jeff) have all mentioned at one point or another that they consider flower starting at the day you make the 12/12 flip. I've also heard them say to let the flower go an extra week or two longer than the seed co says or that you even want to. But like you said, I would have a hard time going against what the trichs are telling me. They are piling up though, I love how the trainwreck looks too. I've also heard on the podcasts that Girl Scout Cookies are known for being a difficult plant to grow. Hopefully your timeline will afford letting you go a little longer than anticipated. So many factors at play, and like you say, so much that can fuck you up after you already put in the work.

@Paulbearer1891, You are in a pickle. You're ready to switch to flower now, they'll keep growing for 3 more weeks and nearly double in height. You can continue to LST and you'll be able to prune during week 3 of Flower if they get too bushy which they will. That would give you an end of May/ Early June harvest time allowing you to be away during the first week of drying which I hope you have someone coming to check on the humidity and temperature of your dry room while you're Way because you can do everything right, yet if you fuck that up, all the hard work prior is pointless IMO. I'm stuck right now. Supposed to be harvesting the week of April 20 which will be week 8, but they're just not looking as swollen as other grows I see on here. Could be because I started my week 1 of flower the moment I flipped and not the moment the pistila starting showing up so maybe I'm actually a week or 2 behind and if that's the case I started feeding it Big XL too early and stopped the veg and Big Bud nutes too early. My pistils were puffy large and white to start, now they're starting to downsize and curl in, but these fuckers don't start growing up and down the stalk and making gigantic too colas, I'm going to be pissed lol. Currently trying to get my EC down as the G13 strain isn't handling it well. If they start getting bigger and fuller this week then I'm going to assume I'm a week early from my original target and will most likely harvest in the 9-11 flower weeks, not 8. If they don't fill out, we'll, whenever the trichomes tell me they're ready, I'll be chopping

@Nugs_are_us, Thanks Growmie!

@@@Waylate, Loving them! The best part is going to be end of harvest and/or if I had started in a smaller airpot for transplant. I say this because what they fail to mention to you is that these airpots come delivered in flat sheets. You then apply the circular base and wrap the sheet around it creating your cylinder. The two blue tabs you see are just plastic screws that anchor the pot, keeping it cylindrical and sturdy. Therefore, when it comes time to transplant or harvest, you just unscrew, and unravel the sheet. No shaking or filthy mess; throw the pot in the dishwasher, bada bing. The other cool part is you won't need risers as the base actually sits up about 3 inches from the bottom. You just can't see iflt because it's inside, but if you zoom in close enough, you'll notice the bottom two rows of holes have no medium coming out merely because it's all air underneath. I moved the back left plant up on a riser just to match the height of the plants. Breathe well, drain well, and they look bad ass

@@Waylate, Thanks Growmie! Best of luck with your outdoor grow!