Sativa help needed

[Bud Spence]

Hello people of ICMAG!

SWIM has some girls growing at a friends garden.
The strain growing is "G-Bomb" from BB.
He received clones from a friend who later told him the needed 14+ weeks, and still then they werent really finished.
now he would like to know if someone has any tips on how he should approach the flowering time?
friend said plant first matured, then started pushing new flowers midway on flush.

cheers

PS: its in a 150x150x200mm environment with enough exhaust and airflow, under 400 hps + some lower wattage cfls at about 24-26 degrees celsius.

SWIM has had some experience with hybrids, but thinks this may be a very sativa dominant pheno..

any help woud be appreciated!

 

[stihgnobevoli]

drop the lights to 10 on 14 off.

they will never really stop pushing out white pistils you just have to look at the plant overall and judge whether or not you think it's ready.

also you don't have to go SWIM and all that no one cares if you are the one growing and the cops aren't gonna care that you are pretending someone else is growing if they are onto you.

 

[Bud Spence]

aah, that makes sense from what i have read earlier.
so technically would one do 12-12 until late flower and then switch to 10-14 about when one does flush?

ok dude. SWIMs just a bit paranoid thats all

 

[Bud Spence]

so he could theoretically have his hybrids that take 8-10 weeks in flower and flower them out, then switch to 10-14?! if this is the case that would be lovely!

 

[stihgnobevoli]

i had a pure sativa, took 6 weeks of 12/12 just to sex. and 21 weeks later it still looked like this.

i finally decided i was done waiting and chopped it. 23 weeks from seed. 19 weeks of flowering.

yeah paranoia is part of this game. if you ain't being paranoid you might be in jail soon. but if you're just talking on forums you can say you grow and not be worried. unless you post pictures in which case if you're not worried you're doing it wrong. paranoia helps make sure you don't accidentally self incriminate in photo's. i see people post the dumbest shit like their arms holding a bud and a unique tattoo is clearly visible. no bueno.

 

[Sativa Dragon]

Sativas can be hard to love till you smoke one ....

Peace

 

[Bud Spence]

i dont plan to post any pictures as of now so ill be fine i think. still waiting for medical marijuana to get its way over here.. :/

that looks a lot like the plant my friend harvested the other day.

smelled lovely, but way too many white hairs..

 

[Bud Spence]

Sativas can be hard to love till you smoke one ....

Peace

i agree.
the sativas i have smoked have been very nice.
but the flowering time does kinda turn me of as a novice.

but i couldnt say no to these cuts!
branching like crazy

 

[stihgnobevoli]

in a situation like that you wanna go by the trichomes, when they are all cloudy for the most part. it's good enough for me.

not very pretty to look at but the effect was pure adrenaline. you can smoke this shit and be awake for days on nothing but.

 

[Bud Spence]

any input on when one should start flushing?
should one maybe wait til the first "batch" of buds has orange hairs, and then start the flush?
or wait for second batch to start turning up and then flush?

 

[Bud Spence]

hey, i have a couple other questions i have thought of. now i know there is no definitive answer, but id like to know if people agree that i should lollypop thme.
as they are sativas, and i want to conserve space, im thinking of just cutting off the lowest branches up to about 15 cm (6 inches). they are between 35 and 40 cm(13 to 15 inches) tall, so it would make them go more upward then out to the sides in my theory.

yes? no?

 

[Sativa Dragon]

You have to train them to go sideways, and I am on the fence about defoliating, tiny obvious stuff yes.

Peace

 

[Bud Spence]

You have to train them to go sideways, and I am on the fence about defoliating, tiny obvious stuff yes.

Peace

could you expand on that? train them to go sideways as in having them at an angle so the buds get light from the sides?

as to defoliating i dont do it a lot, other than small pinches here and ther to get a feel for how the plant reacts.
they are extremely branchy, like a thai a friend had a while ago, so the space is a bit of a problem with me being used to mostly indica dominant situations.

 

[Sativa Dragon]

Read up on LST just google LST icmag

Peace

 

[Bud Spence]

aah, i have read about LST. im afraid the stems are way too old for that. the girls are about 13 or 14 weeks old as of now. i actually spent the 4 last weeks fixing them cause they had been neglected ad had insects in the roots and a bad nute def. now they are normal and healthy again.
i have two sprouts that probably are gonna be sativa dominant, i will try the LST on them.

 

[stihgnobevoli]

also you want to go real low on the nitrogen. like very very low. that would also contribute to a never ending flower cycle. if they get too tall just crush the stem a little between your fingers then bend over 90 degrees till they are under the light again or whatever. might wanna consider tying down the branch you had to supercrop/aka break in half. it's just gonna heal up and straighten itself back out in a few days.

 

[grassott's dad]

Yeah I dig SWIM's style. One of my mates grows in a similar enviro as SWIM does and he used to use a 400w bulb when he grew.

I'd tell SWIM that he seems to have experience with growing and he/she can't rush a hybrid (or any plant) to flower, especially with satties.

GROW SAFE!

 

[messn'n'gommin']

This link may be a bit late for what you've got going right now, but it's a good reference for later grows!

"Revival of the Ultimate Sativa GROW Thread," by Motaco
https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=66603

 

[Bud Spence]

thanks for the helpful replies, guys! swim havent had any internet for a while but he or she or it or they will get it back soon!

problems are diagnosed and in treatment, and they have reacted pretty good.
the sativa pheno seems particularly tough to manage, whereas the hybrids seem more easygoing atm.

the problem was/is ph problems, bugs and lockout due to the ph and heat.
swim is broke so he cant afford ph test for a while. eating cheap pasta.

he will gradually change from 24/0 to 12/12 in two weeks time when clones settle.

maybe swim should change thread title?!

 

[Bud Spence]

also they were rootbound lol