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#236 - Sunday, October 23, 2016
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's
issue... - Have you ever had a plant where the top buds kept making more and more pistils? Learn why this happens and what to do about it!
- Discover a grow setup that doesn't make a lot of
heat!
- This week's trophy pics feature and auto-flowering plant as both a seedling and an adult close to harvest!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of
GrowWeedEasy.com) "Nothing is so simple that it cannot be misunderstood."
~Freeman Teague Jr.
Why Do Some Buds Keep Making Pistils? by Nebula Haze |
If you're lucky, your cannabis plants buds will all be ready for harvest around the same time as their neighboring buds. However, some cannabis strains naturally finish their buds at the top of the plant first, while other cannabis strains do the opposite. When buds are at different stages of maturity depending on their location on the plant, it can be hard to know when to harvest!
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It's okay to harvest your cannabis plant in different parts!
Most growers choose to harvest the entire plant at once, but some cannabis strains make that difficult. For example these buds are at very different stages of development even though they're on the same plant at the same time! When parts of the plant mature faster than others, it's completely okay to harvest in parts starting with the most mature buds. Then you can harvest the rest of the buds as they appear
ready.
Many growers accept that some buds are going to be at different stages of development and just try to harvest the plant when most buds look the most ready. That might even be a good thing since you get to try out the slightly different effects from harvesting buds at
different stages!
But sometimes you'll have a case where a marijuana plant keeps making more and more new pistils right when the plant seems just about ready to harvest. Often you can tell something is not quite right...
When is it not normal to keep getting new pistils?
It's not normal when your plant is making new pistils only on the parts of the buds that are closest to the light. This can stress the buds by heat or because the light levels are too high.
It's especially likely to be heat or light stress if the buds seem to be losing their round, pointy shape from the new growth.
Buds growing in strange shapes can be a sign of heat or light stress. This plant got new buds growing with white pistils right as the rest of the buds started looking done. Each new bud or "foxtail" is covered in lots of new sugar leaves because the plant is actually growing brand new buds like towers or mini colas emerging from
the old ones. Another very common sign of heat or light damage is when buds are becoming fist-shaped because of new growth, especially if it's happening mostly on the parts
of the buds closest to the light In the following example, the cannabis bud has been damaged by both too much light and too much heat. Although the rest of the buds on the plant appear almost ready to harvest, this bud closest to the light keeps putting out more and more white pistils as new buds grow on top of the old one. Sometimes you see long and thin foxtails on the sides closest to the light. Luckily, buds formed as part of foxtails or heat stress are just as good to smoke as any other buds,
despite their unusual shape :)
See
several more pictures and learn how to prevent this from happening to your plants!
How to Grow Without Worrying About Heat or Light Stress! |
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CFL bulbs provide a great light spectrum for growing cannabis, but since they generally run cool it's difficult to give your plants heat stress unless your plant actually grows up into a bulb!
That means that, unlike the buds in
this article, it's unlikely you'll ever have to worry about light stress or foxtails with CFLs!
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