First time grower need help please

greenlad25 · Jul 14, 2025

Hi there this was my first ever grow and I have made many mistakes but decided to see it out and use it as a practice run.

However this is what my first attempts currently look like I am pretty sure they are around week 9 and I have just started flushing in the past 72 hours .

Can anyone give me some pointers on wether or not these are ready to be harvested , dried , cured .

don't want to risk losing potency with overgrowing
They are on a 20/4 L cycle

Dr Trichome Deimos

TannedViking · Jul 14, 2025

Get a magnifying loop of at least x30 and check the trichomes. They should be mostly cloudy with a touch of amber. Hairs should be darkened and curled.
Someone will most likely post a link to a page explaining everything ;p

JIMKSI64 · Jul 14, 2025

IMO you will have trouble dialing in a good harvest time with different plants looking way different in readyness. In addition it appears that you have chosen your harvest time by reducing or eliminating nutrition with a " flush "
It is great you made it this far with the problems that you had/ still have. If you have a separate drying area other than your tent you can staggar the harvest but of you cut the whole lot it looks like you will have multiple stages of done ness from your harvest.
a lot of the stressed flowers showing shiney green nitrogen glow will have damaged trics that will not cloud.
Some of the plants look confused as to what they want to do, flower or veg.
Sorry I have no real good answer for you. Runs like this are still important for learning and I think its great you kept going and growing.
for your next grow review the problems and adjust to fix the issues. Do not do anything you did last time that you believe or others have told you caused problems
Make a plan. Review the plan. Then post the plan before you pop beans and let the folks here help you with the next grow.

greenlad25 · Jul 14, 2025

JIMKSI64 said:
IMO you will have trouble dialing in a good harvest time with different plants looking way different in readyness. In addition it appears that you have chosen your harvest time by reducing or eliminating nutrition with a " flush "
It is great you made it this far with the problems that you had/ still have. If you have a separate drying area other than your tent you can staggar the harvest but of you cut the whole lot it looks like you will have multiple stages of done ness from your harvest.
a lot of the stressed flowers showing shiney green nitrogen glow will have damaged trics that will not cloud.
Some of the plants look confused as to what they want to do, flower or veg.
Sorry I have no real good answer for you. Runs like this are still important for learning and I think its great you kept going and growing.
for your next grow review the problems and adjust to fix the issues. Do not do anything you did last time that you believe or others have told you caused problems
Make a plan. Review the plan. Then post the plan before you pop beans and let the folks here help you with the next grow.

I'm with you ..agreed the buds at the bottom look way more under developed. I did not train the plants at all and I think I topped them way later than I should have

And yes I do have another 2x2 tent ready to go as a drying area

I guess what advice I was asking was would chopping these 2 and hanging em to dry produce something usable

The yield size isn't really important was just my first time be nice to have something I could use lol

JIMKSI64 · Jul 14, 2025

Dude I see trics on your pics without a zoomer. some are amber but not due to age more from damage. Trics are why we are here. You got Trics on your first runs. Dude more than 1/2 of all first grows fail. Mine did LOL. You did great.
you are going to have a lot of trim. and prolly not much flower. But not much is better than none and I got a killer brownie recipe for the trim.

carlosescobar · Jul 14, 2025

greenlad25 said:
I'm with you ..agreed the buds at the bottom look way more under developed. I did not train the plants at all and I think I topped them way later than I should have

And yes I do have another 2x2 tent ready to go as a drying area

I guess what advice I was asking was would chopping these 2 and hanging em to dry produce something usable

The yield size isn't really important was just my first time be nice to have something I could use lol

I had to chop a plant down early due to fkin it up with too much nutes , it had 50/50 clear trics and cloudy and its still smokable although its a bit 'buzzy' , a bit 'active' if you know what i mean. you still get stoned but it takes a bit longer
its worth leaving them because they bulk up quite a bit in the last 2 weeks,

JIMKSI64 · Jul 14, 2025

carlosescobar said:
I had to chop a plant down early due to fkin it up with too much nutes , it had 50/50 clear trics and cloudy and its still smokable although its a bit 'buzzy' , a bit 'active' if you know what i mean. you still get stoned but it takes a bit longer

Hey Carlos did you ever use that buzzy pot in edibles? I know what you mean by buzzy head pot just wondered if edibles calmed that feeling.

Robgrows · Jul 14, 2025

20/4 light cycle ? Are these autos ?

We need all the details like seed type, growing medium and nutrients etc to help.

greenlad25 · Jul 14, 2025

Ok these where the free femanised autos I got with my order of pineapple chunk autos.

Seeds = Dr Trichome Deimos that's all it says on the pack.

Nutes = BioBizz :-

BioGrow
BioBloom
Bio Top max
Bio Fish Mix

Have been feeding them every 3 days about 2 litres of spring water with nutrients added

I sowed the seeds straight Into those small pots that are ofc to small I realise that now .

greenlad25 · Jul 14, 2025

Sorry yes they started out on 24 hour light cycle then I changed to 20/4 around week 3 @Robgrows

Grownsince95 · Jul 14, 2025

I think they look really good despite whatever mistakes you may have made. A week more at least, maybe two. In my experience most go at least 70 to 77 days so that's week 10 or 11.

Robgrows · Jul 14, 2025

Sounds like a lot of water for those small pots. Are they dry and the pots feel light when you water ?

Soil/Coco or something else ?

Grownsince95 · Jul 14, 2025

No need to flush and run extra water through the medium. Just plain water as needed until they're done should be fine.

greenlad25 · Jul 14, 2025

Robgrows said:
20/4 light cycle ? Are these autos ?

We need all the details like seed type, growing medium and nutrients etc to

Robgrows said:
Sounds like a lot of water for those small pots. Are they dry and the pots feel light when you water ?

Soil/Coco or something else ?

I just used regular tomatoes soil / I feed them over a bucket with a grill on top until water has stopped dripping so yes lot of water but majority of that runs off so I thought and thanks for help and advice all .

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