How do you get your buds to foxtail?

[Fuzz420]

Kali Most Red Stem Foxtail Pheno

 

[gingerale]

on the side that the light hits the plants ... they seem to have fox tailed look on the left of the colas you'll see what i mean ..

this is exactly right. in my vertical grow, the side facing the light is where foxtails appear. the other side does not. it is triggered by light for sure. my guess is high heat + light = foxtail. i keep my flowering room at 85* and just about all the plants are doing it.

oh and my previous statement that the sativas arent doing it was wrong. my two big sativas have within the past few days began foxtailing like crazy. i love it.

one more thing, the foxtailing seems to have been hardcore triggered when i started supplementing with nutes. normally i just use 5-5-5 mixed in with the soil + molasses with waterings, but i started adding fox farm nutes to all the plants (regardless of time in flowering) and it seems to have caused massive increase in foxtail growth. my guess is the heat and light are what brings it on and the nutes just make it possible.

 

[luckiiidawg]

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[softyellowlight]

When i think of the term foxtailing I see the flower/fruit fully maturing to ripeness. It occurs after a few conditions are met. First, adequate lumens andlight penetration. Second, during the bloom phase any stress induced on a plant in bloom will stunt the growth and cause it to not be able to fully form correctly. People who like a lot of hairs on their weed have no clue. When a plant is grown stress free and healthy during the whole bloom phase, the term foxtailing is a sign of a plant grown correctly and to maturity. If it doesn't foxtail or pop at the end, probably the heat, insufficient lumens, pm, thrips, ventilation, over-nuting, etc. was the reason foxtailing didnt occur in some form. Lumens are a plants best friend!

Keep going, you almost have me convinced the common knowledge is precisely backward. My Vanilluna usually foxtail and they are always exceptional herb.

 

[jd4083]

Genetics + [High Heat/N Toxicity] is what I've always found causes foxtails... a lot of times Afghan-based genetics do it after 60-65 days, more sativa-leaning varieties seem to push them out more regularly though...(layman's perspective here...)

Lots of people don't like them. I don't take issue with them except that with certain strains they can make trimming a real pain in the ass. I like to just chop the majority of them off and roll some foxtail joints...

 

[guest121295]

This plant is a foxtailer on its own, no matter its in the blood.The plant was grown in between 2 big fat colas and no foxtails in the whole room.Heat and plants very close to the lamps will foxtail.With a good sativa, foxtails are great but with another non-foxtailer they are not.

 

[Ultra Current]

I think some people here are confused. Foxtails and runs are 2 different things. Foxtails are genetic and runny buds are due to conditions. Ive noticed that buds that run in a room seem to be closer to the intense light. My chemDD can run but only the ones directly under the middle of the lights. Its not hot there either. The buds that are more away from the light didnt run at all with my chemDD. My Thai plants foxtail and people love it. So foxtails and runs are different. A lot of the pics that ive seen in this thread arent foxtails but runny buds.

 

[ojd]

chaco that is 1 beatiful lady

now thats purple haze
whats the lineage again i know the purple bastard haze was in there and what was it crossed to sk1 x haze?
whatever it is amazing man
peace

 

[softyellowlight]

DJ Short Vanilluna "tall mom" F2

DJ Short Vanilluna "tall mom" F2

Okay guys, look. I have these guys, at the tops, within a foot from a 1000W MH (formerly 1000W dual-arc HPS/MH). My environment is pretty damn dialed in, not hot, and I've got Blumats auto-watering so they are not going to wilt (they do, however, have a few fungus gnats.) Note also that I hand-fed, fed QUITE a bit up through the first half of flowering (saw no real burning, though), and I generally fed everything the same amount.

Anyway, first picture is the top of the biggest producer of this batch. This lady is NOT a foxtailer. There is a clear foxtail (not "run") pheno, and a pheno where crowns of calyxes form. The second picture is the bottom of that plant and shows that, simply put, being extremely close to the HID is causing growth to thrive, period.

Next picture shows one of the big foxtailers. Take a look at how green that new foxtail growth is, closest to the light -- there's no light bleaching, this is simply the Sativa-dominant genes LOVING LIGHT and growing their asses off. This is a sign of lots of continuous growth rather than simply senescence of old growth. Then look at the last picture, the bottom of that plant, clearly showing the foxtail style of calyx growth but not extensively long foxtails because it's not close enough to intense light to grow that strongly.

I can't comprehend why anyone would not want this kind of bud for bag appeal. Maybe we're talking about trimming buds that have a cola stem structure that is itself fully a foxtail, rather than an Indica-style bud megastructure that foxtails. In Vanilluna, there is continuous growth in flowering, generally. Some phenos grow foxtail buds, some grow pineconey buds. The foxtails grow long with continuous growth, whereas the kush-style buds simply have new crowns of calyxes appear in between or, less often, inside of existing crowns.

I spend a LOT of time flower-gazing....

 

[Pinball Wizard]

Foxes on the run...

I think lack of rotation under the lights, might be a factor?

 

[LAION]

mm foxtails

 

[titoon29]

I agree Genetics plays the biggest role.

I have seen clones foxtailing with some growers a lot and not with others, but still a foxtailer plant will foxtail all over the place, everywhere.



CHACO, this is just an incredible plant, such a distinguished bag appeal !!!!! I have very rarely had the chance to see pictures of such foxtail specimen so I greatly thank you for sharing !

 

[luckiiidawg]

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[luckiiidawg]

I would think genetics plays a big part in that particular strain.

 

[luckiiidawg]

hmm

 

[luckiiidawg]

Keep going, you almost have me convinced the common knowledge is precisely backward. My Vanilluna usually foxtail and they are always exceptional herb.

There are so many different strains of marijuana that genetics will definitely play a role in the characteristics that are present in each individual seed. It's like dna. Long ass foxtails I've never seen before like in a picture on this blog, I say is definitely in its genetics to grow like that.