The buds will not finish on a photo plants when the available light increases past 13-14 hours/day.
They’ll slowly die off and be replaced by new leaf and plant growth.
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Thanks for the info. Can the immature bus be use though? Should I wait until the are about to die and dry them for use? There after tons of buds!
I’ve never tried. They’re pretty immature, I can’t imagine there’d be much thc/cbd in them. After drying there’d be hardly anything anyway. I’d also be careful not to destroy parts of the plant clipping them off.
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I am having the same “problem” on all 20 of my clones from Bergman Gold. I hope that as written in a previous post these premature buds stop and normal budding will happen. They were cloned inside 18/6hrs and after 6 weeks moved outside 14hrs light in April. These buds started about a week ago. I am hoping.
I can read Thai and had done some searching for how to use the leaves and/or other parts of plants besides buds. Thai people used the plants in their cooking for hundreds of years but I’d never known how being from a big city. Farmers, villagers cook with them. I once was served some soup with the leaves in it and got really thirsty. A guy in the group thought he was getting heart attack. However, i didn’t ask how they cook it. From what I saw some clips people showed online, they add tips of branch, probably had some tarpenes on, but not flower buds, to the chili paste and pounded it together to blend it in the broth. You don’t see the leaves in the soup. It makes the soups tastes so good you’d want to lick the bowl. They stopped using it after WWII when the Japanese made MSG which is a lot cheaper and easier to use. I’ll have to try that. Some Thai woman also use green leaves for stir fries. I wonder, after you harvest the buds, does the plant live on? How many years can they live?
Well it’s been 10 weeks and the pistils are not whithering away…In fact trichomes are appearing. Maybe it is an auto after all…
My outdoor photos are still flowering too. Even though the sunrise/set times show about 14 1/2 hour days.
I plan on waiting til the end of this month to cut the top, fattest part of the buds off for use, then hopefully she’ll reveg after that.
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The plants will live as long as their environment allows them to. Usually the first few frosts will kill them. Cannabis is an annual.
I cut a couple of lowest branches yesterday with a few budding flowers like one above. I chopped it up and added it to stir-fried ramen with just a minute more of heat. After eating, it wasn’t strong buzz but I slept well and went to bed earlier than usual. I’d been having trouble with my sleeping schedule messed up from overseas travels and stuck at 2am-10am cycle for weeks. Last night I’m able to go to 10pm-6am cycle. So I will eat some again tonight. When it stops raining, I’ll trim lower branches off and dry them to cook with to see if it’s stronger.
Well here are some of the buds I got off my (ahem) Gold Leaf Fem. They were picked June 14th… Should not be doing this at this time of year. The other is re-vegging. Me thinks I got an auto.
BTW- The flavor of these buds is awesome!!
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Do the trichomes have any color?
Yep. Through the scope all cloudy and amber.
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Looks like you’ve got huge load! Mine flowered for a couple of months then revenging. Some buds aren’t revenging but no pistil left but one or two. So I wonder if I should harvest the buds that don’t reveg and wait the rest to go into flower later.
She’s Gold Leaf fem.
The middle picture is the one that hasn’t revel but all trichomes are clear and not much pistols left. It’s my first time growing so I don’t know anything. Thanks for suggestion.
@Ning I’d hardly say huge but decent for an auto (even tho it’s supposed to be fem). If you’re mostly clear, i’d leave it alone.
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Thanks! Happy growing!