Very small buds. Please help

She got good energy production. I think she is prepared for longer flowering. I would use higher amounts of blooming stage fertilizers.

Hello my friend, you do everything right and your other diaries are looking great! The only reason that I can imagen are weak genetics. I would not expect this from Barneys and I would also inform them about this!

"Unlike the common beleif, removing a shit tone of leaves indiscriminately is not going to have a positive effect on production." i flipped polarities half way though... it should say removing a shit ton of leaves will not have a positive effect on production. started writing one sentence then altered it in my mind and 2nd half didn't align, lol.

Genetics is the primary factor. Some plants "can" grow donks, some cannot. Take a plant that "can" and give it too many mouths to feed (colas) per sq ft relative to light and other environmental facotrs and you won't get donks. Donks are not necessarily the goal, but using this as a point of reference. relative to any 1 plant you are working with, more colas per sq foot will results in smaller buds. There probably is an "optimal" bud size to maximize production for each particular plant, but anyone who things they can dictate that through pure trial and error of a handful of plants is absolutely insane. too many variables... From what i've read in "dr photons corner" on cocoforcannabis website, 2.x per sq ft is ideal. No idea how they came to that conclusion and it certainly doesn't take into considerations all possible variances of relevant traits. I'm sure they makenote of that somewhere, too. That is one of the best sources for information i've found on the internet regarding marijuana. Reading their post on defoliation/pruning should be required reading for all growers. Not just for teh topic at hand but the explanation of how a lack of evidence and a hypothesis is fucking useless on its own. LOL. Good deductive reasoning, understands why comparing to a control group is necessary etc etc.. just good stuff going on in terms of how they think and come to conclusions... rational, logical conclusions.. not bat-shit crazy nonsense of uninformed dopes that is simply repeated ad nauseum without any thought, let alone effort, of testing or verifying it. and, if they do try to test it, they often perform horrible experiements destined to give them the answers they prefer, lol, or just utterly useless methods - either way.. same thing results.. .nonsense. Your plants look healthy but a heavy on sugar leaves. did you remove a lot of leaves at some point? This could definitely hinder flower growth. Unlike the common beleif, removing a shit tone of leaves indiscriminately is not going to have a positive effect on production. leaf removal powers growth and not jsut in the local area where it connects to plant. avoiding risks of fungi an dother issues is a good reason to remove a leaf or two, but not a whole shit load. if timed poorly, you'll end up with a shit ton of sugal leaves because the plant is trying to compensate -- this could just be a genetic trait too... can't be certain but mentioning it just in case. maybe, too many "suckers" underneath canopy. reducing axillary growth below will improve bud formation up top, to some extent. but overall yield should be similar. it's a matter of propotion of larf that you can impact by pruning lower axillary buds off before flowers start developing in earnest. This isn't somethign you should do at this stage, though. 4 weeks in.. your vege growth is nearly abated if it hasn't already. the flower sites were being build over the last 4 weeks and this is probably too late to maipulate the resulting growth without costing yield significantly. but, in the end, this plant probably doesn't produce donkey dick buds even if you do everything perfectly. it's relatively healthy, has a fairly full canopy... should be doing mostly fine relative to its potential. We don't impact the results nearly as much as people perceive. We have great sucess when we don't step on our own dicks or flaps (I'm trying to be gender inclusive, lol) Keep it healthy. Keep it happy.. all you can do. Don't remove so many leaves next time. Even shileded leaves provide numerous benefits to the plant. They are never "suckers". they are value-added anatomy once they mature. Leaevs are only an energy-deficit bits the first few days as they develop and after that they only contribute energy for grwoth or perform other necessary functions like storage and transpiration/respiration -- transpiration is how it gets carbon, the most important buiklding block of all. So when you remove leaves you remove its ability to suck up carbon, too.. it's not just about receiving light. less carbon = less growth.

After looking your diary, the manifolding was too much in my opinion. Look at my diary G13 Haze, there’s no problem with this cultivar. It grew big dense frosty buds.

I mean the top buds are pea sized. It's under a tsw2000 (300w) It's less than 24" now but 20-24 has given me the best. Going from 18" and gradually having it further away.. each grow has got better as it raised slightly each time. My suspicion is the tent may be leaking light slightly but it's just this one strain. The zip shows a little light. No tears. Thanks so far guys

There are a couple of factors that go into the over-production of popcorn buds. Genetic factors certainly play a role, especially when it comes to plant structure, shape, and canopy density. However, plants of the same strain can produce more or fewer popcorn buds based on environmental variables that can increase the odds of their manifestation. Stress is the number one enemy of any cannabis grow, and can be caused by a number of factors including Poor environmental control, Too many plants sharing the growing area, Excessive or too little feed water, Disease, Pest issues, and Overtraining. Popcorn buds may be small and airy but they’re still good. Being a flower from the same plant as the more dense buds, they have the same potency, smell, flavor, and high, just aren’t dense like the others. This means you can still smoke or vaporize them normally like you would with denser buds. More experienced growers usually perform training to avoid them but when buds underdevelop anyway you usually make concentrates with them, like hashish or rosin.

Hmmm, you are in week 7 of flower and your plants look like that? I've never had that happen. I did some looking and found a resource that might help you figure out the problem. Copy this link into your browser and have a read. I don't know how or what you are doing with your grow, you know better than any of us will. Have a look at what the article says about the issue and see if their reasons are similar to anything you've been doing. https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-how-to-prevent-popcorn-buds-from-forming-on-your-cannabis-plants-n569#what-causes-popcorn-buds I think 24" light distance is too far away if it's a LED. If HID then it's ok, but i didn't happen to notice your type of illumination