Issue #643 - Sunday, August 18, 2024 Greetings Fellow Grower, Today's issue is all about getting your plants looking happy! - Enjoy A Problem-Free Flowering Stage! The flowering stage is super exciting because you get to watch your buds form. But that excitement can all go out the window when
something unexpected happens. Let's make it so that problems aren't invited and the excitement lasts past the time you're smoking your homegrown.
- Less time growing = Fewer problems? It sounds like dumb math, but it works out to be true. If you spend less time growing a plant, there is less time for mistakes to happen. So if getting to harvest faster leaves less time for problems, I know a type of plant that's waiting for its time to
shine!
- Purple produces pretty plants There's something about a purple-colored cannabis plant that gets everyone's attention. Maybe it's just that they look a bit different than the green plants we're all used to, but whatever the case, they sure are pretty. This week's trophy pic just produced some purple and it's a beaut!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside
Co-Founders,
GrowWeedEasy.com
"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done." ~Bruce Lee
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7 Common Flowering Stage Goofs (and how to prevent them) by Nebula Haze
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Click here to view the full article on GrowWeedEasy.com During the flowering stage, your marijuana plants are focused on making
buds. They put no effort into staying healthy. That means you are much more likely to see yellow leaves, burnt tips, and other problems even though you’re giving the same level of care. This is especially common during the last 3-4 weeks before harvest time. Unfortunately, this is also when many beginning indoor growers get comfortable and aren’t paying as
much attention to their plants. Cannabis plants need extra TLC (tender loving care) when they’re making buds.
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Cannabis plants can also throw you a few curve balls in the flowering stage that you need to watch out for. Don’t worry, I made all the mistakes for you in the last decade of growing at home, so I can show you what to look for and how to prevent common problems before they become real problems. I put together this list to prevent 7 common cannabis flowering issues or other goofs with simple
and effective solutions. This guidebook will walk you through the flowering stage from beginning to end so your plants produce great yields and excellent buds even if it’s your first grow. 1.) Know how to get cannabis plants to make buds A cannabis plant only grows leaves and stems for the first part of its life. This is known as the vegetative stage because you only see vegetative growth. At first, cannabis
plants grow only leaves and stems without any buds. This is the vegetative stage. Your plant won’t actually start making buds until the flowering stage Note: buds are the flowers of a female cannabis plant. But how do you initiate the flowering stage? With “auto-flowering” strains, cannabis
plants start flowering automatically about 4-6 weeks from germination. The exact timing depends on the strain and care. For traditional “photoperiod” strains (most common and what you probably have), plants need 12-hour dark periods every day to start flowering. This simulates the long nights of late summer and “tells” the plant that winter is coming and it’s time to make buds. Indoors, dark periods are easy to change by plugging grow lights into a wall timer that turns off
the lights for 12 hours each night. Just make sure to light-proof the area so outside light doesn’t mess up your plant’s beauty sleep. After you start giving plants a 12/12 light schedule, white hairs should appear at the joints within 1-3 weeks. These are the first signs of buds 🙂 White fuzzy “budlets” start growing at the tops of every main branch. These little puffs will fatten and turn into buds over the next several weeks. Now that you know how to get buds to form and what they look like at first, what should you watch out for? 2.) Watch out for male plants pollinating your female plantsUnlike most plants, cannabis plants have a sex, and only female cannabis plants produce buds. With “regular” seeds, only half of plants are female. Luckily for home growers, if you start with feminized seeds (highly recommended!), you should get 100% female plants, which means every plant grows buds. However, if you start with non-feminized seeds, about half of all plants will start growing male flowers (pollen sacs) instead of buds and need to be immediately removed from the grow room. Male cannabis plants grow pollen sacs instead of buds, which open and spill pollen. Pollen will pollinate your buds and cause them to grow seeds. Even if you’ve started with feminized seeds, it’s still a good idea to keep an eye out for unexpected male plants or hermaphrodite plants (lovingly called hermies by growers), which grow both male and female flowers. Hermies come in a few forms. They may look like male pollen sacs growing among your flowers, or you may see the signature hermie “yellow banana”. Hermies may appear in response to light stress (or
other stress), or sometimes they appear for no reason at all as a result of genetics. Cannabis plants are natural things and don’t always do what growers want. Always remove a plant that is growing pollen sacs or they will release pollen and make your buds seedy. Male plants and hermies are pollen factories. The sooner you catch and remove them, the less likely you’ll have seeds in your buds. In this picture,
there are pollen sacs growing where buds should be forming (bottom middle of the picture). Here are yellow hermie “bananas” growing among the beautiful buds as a result of long-term heat stress 🙁 In botanical terms, a banana is a “stamen”. These produce pollen and are normally found inside a pollen sac. With hermies, you can get anything from fully formed pollen sacks down to a single stamen like the one below. Even a single pollen sac or banana can affect your crop by spreading pollen and “seeding” the female plants, especially if the source of pollen goes unnoticed for a long time. Pollinated buds stop fattening up and focus on making seeds, resulting in seedy buds and low yields with reduced potency. So try to identify and remove all sources of pollen as soon as possible. But there’s nothing
terrible about seedy buds. It happens; it just isn’t ideal. Most of us have enjoyed some in the past! In fact, many of you may be growing from seeds you’ve found in your buds. Learn more about male plants and hermies (with lots more pictures):
https://www.growweedeasy.com/male-plants-bananas-hermies Autoflowers:
Less time growing = Less time for problemsThe less time you spend growing a plant, the less time you have for problems to show up. It might sound...dumb, but that math checks out. Autoflower genetics are absolutely bonkers in 2024, like this guy below... Blueberry x Cream Cheese Auto by SeedSupreme.com - These autos are hitting the low
20%s when it comes to THC and that's a great range for weed to be in. That being said, this strain comes with a warning on the page, so expect a heavy hitter in terms of potency. Underestimate this strain at your own risk 😂
LSD-25 Auto by 420 Fast Buds - Fantastic
color, high THC, and ready to harvest in less than 3 months from gemination. How is this even a real thing? I'm telling you, I love photoperiod strains, but I feel like these autos are absolutely insane. It's shocking to see how far autoflower genetics have come in such a relatively short amount of time.
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📸 Weekly Plant Spotlight: Purposeful purple or accidental...they're both pretty!
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Shout out my man Sirius, our dearest Nebula!
It was heaps of fun when I "got leaked" as a trophy pic back then, but now I'm taking it for real. lol
Does your bwoy NUMA managed to draw some purple or is this some disease or f*-up of mine?!
Climate round here is so hostile, it's so dry and hot think desert like, since we're at winter, while
it's day (night in the tent) i managed to get temp to drop to 23ºc while at night (day in the tent) it's up to 28ºc... It's Gelato i think, week 8, 600wHPS.
~NUMA
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It looks like the purple on the buds is meant to be! The color on the leaves might be pH/deficiency, but that makes sense for how far along they are. Well done! 🏆🍾 ~Sirius Recommended Cannabis Seed Sources
These sources have gotten great reviews from our readers:
- Seed Supreme – California, United States
- ILGM (I Love Growing Marijuana) – California, United States
- North Atlantic Seed Co. – Maine, United States
- MSNL – Netherlands bank with shipping centers in the US, Canada, and UK.
GrowWeedEasy.com has hundreds and hundreds of pages! Check out more resources related to today's main theme of solving common plant issues. - Growing Marijuana: The
Flowering Stage - There's no shame in making goofs in the flowering stage. It happens to every grower eventually. The best we can hope to do is reduce the amount of goofs we make until they seem rare. Knowing what to expect helps to reduce goofs, and this page is like a playbook for avoiding goofs in the flowering stage.
- Best
Marijuana Strains for Beginner Growers - You know what's great about growing strains meant for beginners? It's easy! Who doesn't like some weed that is just plain easier to deal with? Whoever that person is...keep an eye on 'em.
- 3 Steps from Beginner to Legendary Grower - One of the best things about this hobby is that
anyone can become really good at it. Unlike painting, sculpting or archery, you can become an absolute pro at growing with just a bit of reading and a few to several grows. Also, there's lots of weed. I don't want to assume, but I think that's the part that gets everyone excited.
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Nebula Haze: When I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easy for new growers to get started while helping advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! Learn which seed sources are recommended by Nebula Haze Sirius Fourside: Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics). "Growing
cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!" Copyright (c) 2024 GrowWeedEasy.com NOTE: If links aren't working or if pictures are not showing up properly, please view the full newsletter here: http://archive.aweber.com/gwe-updates Disclaimer: Grow Weed Easy only recommends products that we've either personally checked out ourselves, or that come from people we know and trust. For doing so, we may receive a commission. Nothing in this e-mail should be considered personalized Financial, Legal, or Medical Advice. The contributors to this magazine grow legally under their local laws but are not lawyers or medical professionals. Any decision to grow
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