Should I Chop Heat stress or cold ?

ChasinTrichomez · Jan 6, 2026

First video is a day before the picture on right…. here we are about 30 hours or so later…. I left for about an hour a few hours before lights came back on for a Town trip came back opened up the tent and the leaves looked like that. It’s an auto flower frosted Zin’s or something like that I think is the strain? And it’s been flowering for about five weeks today. Haven’t done anything different than following the same watering schedule. I’m using soil as you can tell Fox Farms Ocean Forest and happy frog mix with Pete Moss, and Perlite added really haven’t been running nutrients, kinda throughout the whole grow. I got two in there right now one to the right that I haven’t shown and it’s in perfect condition. And the pH is always been no lower than 6.2 and no higher than about like 6.9. They were getting almost 1000 PPFD but I’ve actually lowered it because I had to put my light higher and turn it down because of heat issues in my little closet. Space. So I don’t think it’s a light problem and like I’ve said they’ve been good other than sometimes the leafs would get the look of how they would now except for the main appearance they would just get the color and stuff and then I would remove them. They basically just be dead and fall off now it’s affecting every leaf.

amneziaHaze · Jan 7, 2026

Something eat all her fan leaves :(

ChasinTrichomez · Jan 7, 2026

amneziaHaze said:
Something eat all her fan leaves :

amneziaHaze said:

Something eat all her fan leaves :(

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it sure looks like it I don’t doubt it but at the same time I’ve removed A lot of fan leaves do to them starting to do this but they are all there they’re really just shriveled up it’s weird

cpurola · Jan 7, 2026

Are the trics still clear? Do you have a loupe?

Hossgrows · Jan 7, 2026

The white Buffalo I grew last year did the same thing, after a cold snap we had in September ( Outdoor). I just let it run it's course. Too late in the game to do anything.

Smoke is great. Though it didn't produce at its best, I still ended up with just over a pound. (Dry )

End of August

Sept 3. After first cold snap

Mid September, most fans are gone

Just before harvest, first week of October. No fans, just sugar leaves, and buds.

Made for easy trimming once dried, though. But buds could've been much better if this never happened.

ChasinTrichomez · Jan 7, 2026

cpurola said:
Are the trics still clear? Do you have a loupe?

I did but I don’t anymore and if they’re clear, is that good and if they’re not clear anymore, is that bad?

Ninjadogma · Jan 7, 2026

ChasinTrichomez said:
I did but I don’t anymore and if they’re clear, is that good and if they’re not clear anymore, is that bad?

Clear are immature. Supposedly very little cannabinoid load yet. They don't ripen uniformly across the plant so there's some personal judgment involved. When fully ripened they turn amber and start to degrade. The waiting game is often keeping an eye on the rate you are gaining clear trichomes going cloudy vs amber trichomes degrading, so an approach I take is if I'm getting amber at a faster rate than clear going cloudy, it's about as good as it's gonna get and I risk degradation if I wait any longer.

cpurola · Jan 7, 2026

Ninjadogma said:
Clear are immature. Supposedly very little cannabinoid load yet. They don't ripen uniformly across the plant so there's some personal judgment involved. When fully ripened they turn amber and start to degrade. The waiting game is often keeping an eye on the rate you are gaining clear trichomes going cloudy vs amber trichomes degrading, so an approach I take is if I'm getting amber at a faster rate than clear going cloudy, it's about as good as it's gonna get and I risk degradation if I wait any longer.

I had to make that call last Fall for my outdoor grow. The trics were 20 percent clear, 75 percent cloudy and 5 percent amber. Disease forced my hand. Such a crap shoot growing outdoors in Southeast Michigan, or anywhere north east of the Mississippi.
: /

ChasinTrichomez · Jan 7, 2026

Ninjadogma said:
Clear are immature. Supposedly very little cannabinoid load yet. They don't ripen uniformly across the plant so there's some personal judgment involved. When fully ripened they turn amber and start to degrade. The waiting game is often keeping an eye on the rate you are gaining clear trichomes going cloudy vs amber trichomes degrading, so an approach I take is if I'm getting amber at a faster rate than clear going cloudy, it's about as good as it's gonna get and I risk degradation if I wait any longer.

Okay I’m about to get my buddy’s but at this point I’d say I chop

cpurola · Jan 7, 2026

ChasinTrichomez said:
Okay I’m about to get my buddy’s but at this point I’d say I chop

Did you chop yet? If you stack up magnifying glasses you could see the color of the trics.

ChasinTrichomez · Jan 7, 2026

cpurola said:
Did you chop yet? If you stack up magnifying glasses you could see the color of the trics.

I know phone cameras don’t do it the best justice but my girlfriend has the newest iPhone and I can see really well. It just basically seems mainly cloudy so should I chop? I don’t feel like they’re gonna bulk up anymore changed too much because the fan leaves are all destroyed.

cpurola · Jan 8, 2026

ChasinTrichomez said:
I know phone cameras don’t do it the best justice but my girlfriend has the newest iPhone and I can see really well. It just basically seems mainly cloudy so should I chop? I don’t feel like they’re gonna bulk up anymore changed too much because the fan leaves are all destroyed.

Mostly cloud is good, with a few amber sprinkled around tells you it will probably be a good head high.
More amber, more body stone, couch lock effect. Look at the flower, not sugar leaves.

This is your plant and you can decide. Also, you don't have to chop the whole plant at once. If the tallest flower is done cut it and leave the rest for another week. It won't kill the plant to take one branch. Lots of options.

stet · Jan 8, 2026

cpurola said:
I had to make that call last Fall for my outdoor grow. The trics were 20 percent clear, 75 percent cloudy and 5 percent amber. Disease forced my hand. Such a crap shoot growing outdoors in Southeast Michigan, or anywhere north east of the Mississippi.
: /

I'm in Minnesota and had two strip down one of my girls because of powder mildew this year. I feel your pain.

Fyra · Jan 29, 2026

Hossgrows said:
The white Buffalo I grew last year did the same thing, after a cold snap we had in September ( Outdoor). I just let it run it's course. Too late in the game to do anything.

Smoke is great. Though it didn't produce at its best, I still ended up with just over a pound. (Dry )

End of August
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Sept 3. After first cold snap
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Mid September, most fans are gone
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Just before harvest, first week of October. No fans, just sugar leaves, and buds.
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Made for easy trimming once dried, though. But buds could've been much better if this never happened.
I was a little upset, so to cheer myself up, I went to https://lunchatthelibrary.org/ Fast Payout Casinos. I usually like to play slots, but I also play other gambling games sometimes.
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At least it went out on a small win - easy trim, good smoke, and a solid harvest despite the rough ending.

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