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Advice why she's not fattening up? Changing color? Still learning..thanks

Mdubs218
Mdubs218started grow question 11 hours ago
Still not understanding why the buds aren't fatten up and why hairs so white with little trichomes!?!? She has 10 days left it's a 75 day autoflower.. thought she would be more along? Any advice or see concerns with the plant . I know leaves have some deficiency..
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00110001001001111Oanswered grow question 3 hours ago
Time and patience... The calyxes haven't even ripened around the pistils... Once it fattens, you still ahve 7-14 days beyond that. You have several weeks left. Ignore what breeders say - esepcially about autoflower flower time. They use inconsistent starting points to make it sound faster than it is. If you count flower phase from the point at which you can see flower development, that's shaving about 2 weeks off the actual flower phase duration, for example. Use that stuff when you buy seeds, because it's all that you have. But once those seeds are in the ground, throw that inconsistent, unreliable information out the window. Simply observe the plant and react appropriately. What the breeder said, erroneously, does not matter anymore.... unelss you can bend reality and time-space continuum? What you see is what you get. Even with photoperiods they'll advertise the fastest time possible even if 80% of phenos are 2+ weeks longer on average. Some breeders are less sketchy than others. Some breeders have less integrity than others.... and sometimes it's just rare genetic variation. Maybe you got an auto with an extra long vege phase - which just means you get a bigger plant than normal and that takes a little extra time. If you have old pictures as it progressed.. go back to when you first see preflowers at the growth nodes (not pistils at terminals, but the lone calyx that show up at growth nodes). This is about 7 days AFTER flower started. You can only know in hindsight with an autoflower and it is always a guess as to when it flipped unless you have a biology lab in your home?
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sanibelisl
sanibelislanswered grow question 4 hours ago
Nice look plant. Pistils are still white because she has a few weeks left. Don’t stop your flower nutrients she is still growing. If you haven’t given her any calmag give her a half dose and see how she responds. As far as the buds fattening up they really tend to bulk up the last two weeks. Hang in there, it is tempting to get to the finish too soon. You are almost there.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 9 hours ago
You do not have any information in your diary about what fertilizers you are using, but she looks hungry for both phosphorous and potassium and could also be wanting some extra cal/mag.
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Organoman
Organomananswered grow question 9 hours ago
Because she still has 3-4 weeks to go! Plants do not read the instructions on the packet.............most instructions are based on perfect everything/best examples and do not relate to the average home cultivator using average equipment.
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DaddyPrime2
DaddyPrime2answered grow question 10 hours ago
breeders give general time frames and with seeds its hard to predict exactly. each seed will vary quite a bit sometimes. its important to check the trichomes for the most accurate way to tell when your plants are ready. but with these pistils still like this, i would say shes about halfway done. you have atleast 2 more weeks. a good general rule is that buds will fill the space that the pistils reach too and if you chopped now, youd lose potency and overall yield. she looks good and like shes gonna fill out to give you some nice chonkers but she still needs quite a bit of time. with the breeders recommendations, alot of the time they fib a bit on how long it will take and in some environments, what they say could be true. for instance, a plant in hydroponics is know to grow faster and bigger and if the breeders only test or grow that way, then it may end up different for you. environment and cultivator can also dictate the length. if you did everything exactly right, you may finish in the 70 days. but its very unrealistic to predict that everysingle seed will finish in the same exact amount of time especially autoflowers. the genetics are constantly changing because they cant keep parent or mother plants around for long term stabilization. but that and environment has caused you to have a longer flowering phenotype. phenotype is genotype+environment. even if we both had the same exact clone, we would get different results because of our different environments, medium(soils, coco etc) and our different feeding regiments and lighting. so many variables ontop of the unpredictability of using seeds. each seed is really its own thing and no seed will ever be the same. theyll have similiaritys but thats why people keep special clones around for 20+years. they know theyll never find that specific plant again, even in 1000 seeds.
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oldskoolkool
oldskoolkoolanswered grow question 11 hours ago
I'd say at least 2wks could even be 3.I can't see anything but hairs so I'd not be surprised if it took 3wks.You could give it some bat guano which is phosphorus and that would help no end. Ash is good for potassium, pot ash.P and K will fatten those buds up.
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oldskoolkool
oldskoolkoolanswered grow question 11 hours ago
The times the breeders give on their autos can be all over the place.
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