OK... First time poster here.. Used to grow eons ago.. Just got back into it after a 25 year hiatus, but "the times they are a changin.."
The situation: Growing my first auto fem plant (Fast Eddie) strain out of Canada..
In the past and in virtually all the on-line info I can find.,. there are two ways to determine when a bud is ready.. 1. The white hairs turn brown.. (which is the ONLY method I've ever known.. old school easy-peasy) and B.. Some sort of globes turn dark after being clear... Still not sure how to determine that. I've looked the buds over and I can't discern these globules or what color they are with my aging eyes.. which leads me to my questions...
This auto/fem Fast Eddie plant budded weeks ago... It had virtually no hairs at all. The smell was super intense...heaven... I kept waiting for any sign of hairs to appear.. NONE... after a couple of weeks the smell was less powerful... another week even less.. Even though there are ZERO brown hairs, I'm thinking I should take it now and hopefully learn something from this (my first) auto fem...
I'll assume these man-bred plants show anomalies now and then and no hairs must be common? I ask because I also have a Bubble Kush plant exhibiting similar characteristics.. almost no hairs..a few. Buds are full.. aroma seems to be on the decline...
Can someone enlighten an old timer getting back into the groove?
The situation: Growing my first auto fem plant (Fast Eddie) strain out of Canada..
In the past and in virtually all the on-line info I can find.,. there are two ways to determine when a bud is ready.. 1. The white hairs turn brown.. (which is the ONLY method I've ever known.. old school easy-peasy) and B.. Some sort of globes turn dark after being clear... Still not sure how to determine that. I've looked the buds over and I can't discern these globules or what color they are with my aging eyes.. which leads me to my questions...
This auto/fem Fast Eddie plant budded weeks ago... It had virtually no hairs at all. The smell was super intense...heaven... I kept waiting for any sign of hairs to appear.. NONE... after a couple of weeks the smell was less powerful... another week even less.. Even though there are ZERO brown hairs, I'm thinking I should take it now and hopefully learn something from this (my first) auto fem...
I'll assume these man-bred plants show anomalies now and then and no hairs must be common? I ask because I also have a Bubble Kush plant exhibiting similar characteristics.. almost no hairs..a few. Buds are full.. aroma seems to be on the decline...
Can someone enlighten an old timer getting back into the groove?