So as it stands, I am going away for a month on 20th and decided the risk is too high to leave the plants growing under the care of a friend dropping in once in a while as I'm worried they will grow into the bulb and start a fire or similar. Conclusion: the big chop and start all over again when Im back and have got all the time in the world to watch over the new girls.

So my question is....

At their current state, what is the best way to get maximum return on the plants considering I can do anything I want in the next few days, stressing em is not an issue?

I hear scraping the leaves will produce some resin which can be collected, any other ideas?experiments? etc

Edit: Up to date pictures on diary linked below!

why dont you put em outside m8?

I dont think 2.5 weeks would yield anything really , although Im no great expert.


Outside even as a experiment would surely be worth it .
Otherwise youre not really gonna get anything (imho)

Im suprised at 2.5weeks you have anything at all

At 2.5 weeks I very much doubt you gonna get anything that will get you high buddy....

they will have near as damn it stopped the stretch @2 n arf weeks so have another thinky about letting your mate crack on with em

Megacrop!

just stick em in a garden somewhere and regenerate (when you get back to flower) later. or chuck em away now. no useable resin at this stage....

Even if there are flowers, even if they have resin on them - the high will be so light and temperate it will probably frustrate you more than it actually relaxes you.

I've done it before, dried it, sparkly little nugs 'oooh i'm gonna get high' and then you roll it up, light it and certainly taste it, but there's no high whatsoever.

And if it were that easy to produce a low quality buzz, don't you think that all the villains would be doing it? They don't care about contamination or buzz, so if it could be done that quickly, even with a shit buzz (e.g. Top44 done in 40 days, half dried quickly) - I have no doubt they would have done.

Forget it mate. Do it properly or don't do it at all imho.....

I'm assuming that your using a 600 watt HPS bulb for your flowering phase and i also assume your grow room is in a loft?
Why not change it to a 400 watt and set your lights up as high as possible in the grow room?
It should slow down the rate of growth slighly (according to what i've been reading) and it should let you enjoy your holiday while your friend drops in to check on them every now and again.
Another option would be to put them in a spare room, with some Mylar around the walls and blackout sheeting over the windows and allow them to grow while your away. They'll be ready for harvesting by the time you get back so you can enjoy some toke time.

Supercrop it! Be a waste to chop now. At least experiment.

Make butter,

From what I read there was very mixed opinions on it, but gave it ago.

I used a plastic bag full of plant matter, 2 males with 2 month veg about 8 days flower, made 4 big cookies with all the butter.

Decided it wasn't going to be strong so eat 2 cookies....

How wrong I was, that night I was sick 4 times, tripping balls.

It took 3 days for it to completely be removed from my system!

You must be a lightweight then as there's no viable THC in males.......

mate either put'em outside so they do their own thing or give em 2 your mate he should b happi

Probably very impractical but if you could fridge them, or even fridge one of them you could reveg it for clones or bag the one in under a smaller light straight away and it should in theory pick up from where it was.

I've known people fridge live plants for 2 months with little negative effect, never in flower though and never cannabis but got to be worth a try.

Yeah there is mate. I read about it. Think it was one of OTs threads where he talked about harvesting the trichomes off the males so you could smoke test for potency when breeding for it. Apparently there isn't much on em, but whats there is as potent as females. Think he also said it's hard work harvesting them off the plant. A fussy job. Not viable as a source of smoke But a way to test males for potency. I think this is correct but it may be wrong I'm sure I read it though. hehehe Life of a stoned idiot for ya, can't remember shit.

Ignore my other posts. More stoned idiocy. Somehow I read that your chopping due to plant being to big

Put them outside somewhere, with good light. South facing wall would do.

hi,

if you cant do any of the above suggestions to save your plants i would make butter too, i would think this would be your best bet at geting any half decent return from your plants.
I have made some alright butter with a bag full of fan leaves i was given in the past, made some delish brownies. I also made the same mistake as DrN and ate 2 thinking i wouldnt feel any effects and was wrecked in about an hour, i seem to remember taking the dog for a walk and bounding around aload of fields like a loon . Do it in a slow cooker on high for an hour to get it going and then turn it to low for another 2-3 hours. works well for me anyway.

*Hazy*

Thanks for all the help and ideas guys…

I would put them outside but unfortunately I live in a 2nd floor flat so not so much of an option.

You guys saying that they wont grow in height what so ever from now on? I have just less than a ft between the bulb and the top of the plants (see diary)

I’m currently using a 400w HPS but using a standard digital clock timer, yeh you heard it, no contractor hence the fire worries, it seems to be working ok for now but I don’t trust it at all but the grow shops in Holland don’t seem to know what a contractor is so having trouble getting one!

I was thinking I could drop down to 12/12 on 125w of CFLs for the month im away with my buddy watering them every 7 days (he says he cant hack watering any more often than that) Would lowering the lighting from 400w hps to 125w CFLs lower the plants use of water enough for them to survive a week at a time? They are currently being watered every 3-4 days.

I have no idea about this fridge idea but I think it would be too hard for me as they are as tall as I can manage already so cant go back to veg as im already out of space!

In regards to not getting any kind of buzz at this stage, me and a friend dried and smoked a ton of new growth leaf material from when I trimmed and topped and got pretty hazy on it, was nice! I dunno if we are super lightweight or something but it was as good as smoking white widow from coffeshops in Rotterdam and Amsterdam!

What you guys think I should do?

Thanks again,

Hashead

You must be a lightweight then as there's no viable THC in males....... rofl.gif

Not true, you can get stoned of male plants !

I didnt say anything about males...

I don't think so, not how your thinking. There's very little trichomes on males. You need to harvest them, or at least smoke the right part of the plant. If you were randomly smoking whole sections of plant I doubt that would get you stoned.

If you water every 3 days they'd be a mess in 7 and dead or dying when you returned. Due to all the stress they probably wouldn't smoke well at all too.

....and if you seriously got a buzz of veg material when you topped, your certainly a lightweight. I think that is what's called a placebo effect.

...even with a change from 400w HPS to 125 CFLs and upping the water from 1.5l a time to 2/2.5??

Not if you get 1L of runoff no.... and if you can double the amount you water, your not watering properly.

well, long story short, I'm not watering properly because I am not getting any runoff at the moment as I didn't want to move the plants as they are kinda tied together with a scrog type setup so couldn't take them to a wet safe area but I'm sure I could up the water by 50-70%.

Try it and see.

ok, thanks for the help!

I guess you are right... the only way to find out is try it!

Is there any way to water the plants with the lights out? The problem I have is that lights are out evening/afternoon which is when my mate is available hence the once a week but if he could water once a week with lights on and once with lights out then that would average 3.5 days ie no change from now!

Get a maxijet water pump, some 17mm pipe (I think) and run pipes from outside. Then turn on the pump and watering will commence. Don't blame me if it all goes wrong though. This idea is a work in progress and untested by myself

Have you ever smoked a male ? I guess not because you can get stoned of a male plant

and if you seriously got a buzz of veg material when you topped, your certainly a lightweight. I think that is what's called a placebo effect. .gif

Try smoking leaves from veg matter you will be surprised!

Why not change the light schedule so your mate can water @ lights on ?
just give 'em a long night.

I've smoke just the fan leaves of a male white rhino and widow plant and i can say i did get toasted...,but i only use the leaves that have serious trichs on them. Throw them in the microwave for the quick steam dry and I'm buzzing like a cheap speaker...haven't done it in yrs, was during a dry spell for 2 weeks..