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420marley

420marley

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I am new to plants, and I have a few that are starting to bud.
The buds are small and look like they have red and white hairs on them.
They are about the size of a small marble. I have been picking the small buds off to smoke already, but they are wet. I sometimes pick them off and let them dry overnight. Then I smoke them the next day. Am I ruining my plants by doing this? When is it okay to start smoking from newly budding plants?
Will the buds that I picked off damage the plants and their progress?
Need intelligent advice! Also, is there THC in the buds yet when they are so new and small and wet? How can I get high off my plants this soon without killing them? Thanks in advance for ANY info whatsoever! :\
 
Your not gonna kill the plant but you really should wait. Doing this will greatly diminish your harvest. When growing marijuana you need to be patient. Give them some more time like another month or so. You won't regret it :)

When your plants are totally finished budding you need to cut them down and let them hang upside down for a week or so and then trim them up. Then cure the buds in glass jars for a month at least.

And to answer your other question Yes there is THC in those Little Buds your smoking =D
 
Thanxxx Cosmic! How will i know when they are "ripe"?
Oh and will the little buds that I have been picking grow back in the same spot that i picked them from? Is it safer to cut them off with a scissors OR pick them off gently? <3 OH? Will they still be good if I do not Cure them in the glass jar for a month? What does "curing" mean/do?
 
Thanks again Charlie! After you pick the whole plant, will it grow back?
You seem so experienced. Mine are outdoor plants and the little buds are starting to have brown-reddish hairs already! If I pick 1 stem (branch/leafy thing) with a bud on it, will another one grow back in the same spot? You have been extremely helpful already!
 
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OP: Don't be fiendish. Premature buds are lacking in potency, and will get much larger and more potent by the time they are finished. To answer your question, no, your plant will not die if you clip buds early, but it will stunt the plant.

Rule of thumb: keep a stash on hand during the growing season, or you will slowly rape your plants of their potential.
 
Wow! I am being a fiend, aren't i? I have no stash on hand and i can't resist picking those little buds and smoking them wet. Is what i am doing worth it, since i have no back-up stash?
 
420marley said:
Wow! I am being a fiend, aren't i? I have no stash on hand and i can't resist picking those little buds and smoking them wet. Is what i am doing worth it, since i have no back-up stash?
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no. you will regret it. save some money and smoke resin while you wait..
 
Caskt said:
no. you will regret it. save some money and smoke resin while you wait..
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What will be the biggest regret? Can't I just pick a few little buds to get me thru till I can get a stash? I already scraped and smoked all my resinated pipes!
 
I'm no expect WHATSOEVER, I'm growing my first sproutling right now. But it's probably likely that you will get less yield because it will take time for those buds to grow back or whatever. And if you wait for those buds to grow fully you will experience its greater potency and after curing its greater taste.
 
OP dont be a noob face & waste your effort. Dont pick the tops til they're totally mature and if you dont have any knects & really cant control your impose wanting to experience the nastiness of smoking uncured bud go for it. Make sure you take the bottom smaller branches, buds first & leave your grubby hands off the fine top cola's til its harvest time (your thinking something like 54 but for best results you really should go liike 70days).
 
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actually it can be a good thing, as with any plant topping them will encourage a growth spurt giving more nutrients to the mid section of the plant. but you only want to do this once, or twice, during the veg state or when the plant is flowering, and more leafy crystaly clusters and pistols rather then bud.

do this in the morning , and on a day you are going to water so she has time to adjust through out the day. they love to be rustled around, fluffed if you will, pinching and rolling the stems between your fingers up and down the stems when they are young will tuffin them up. they are adapted to having a branch or leafs broken off now and then as if in the wild.

i have two that are hoarse shoe shaped girls, two colas coming off the main stock of each, but that takes a lot of leaf trimming to let light get to the lower/inner sides of the plant, of course the leafs can be utilized, good fun.

trimming correctly can have excellent results, again i have a yard, solarium, and closet full of plants and its necessary at times. i prune my fuschias, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, rosemary, and roses etc. regularly. but you need to be strategic about it, or as everyone else said, youll fuck them all up, dont try and smoke it wet, or even after drying over night, put a nug a couple inches under a 100watt light for like 15 minutes on some foil, turning the bud every couple of minutes, you have to be paying attention though or it will shrivel up and turn to dust if pinched if left even 5 minutes too long.

nothing will beat hang drying except maybe using dry ice, which some serious growers swear by, saying it seems to retain more goodness compared to hanging, and the curing process is over when the dry ice is gone. hanging takes some practice or a few tries as it can be a quick way get mold on your buds if youre not careful. thats a sad sad situation ive run into with all sorts of herbs, flowers, and poppies.
 
Smoking premature buds will be a let down. They usually aren't even potent enough to get you high.

I had a friend who ruined two grows because he was impatient.

I kept telling him, that "Yes those are flowering buds, but you want to wait at least 8 weeks after they start to flower before even considering"

He neglected and began to harvest a few weeks after he saw buds. It took probably about three 1 gram blunts and multiple full bong pack rips to even get you slightly buzzed. Even swag was stronger than this.

He didn't dry them properly, and of course didn't cure them.

It really made me aggravated because he waited all this time and just couldn't ride it out properly; completely dismissing my advice. It was such a beautiful plant too.

Surprisingly, one of his plants survived (even though he didn't change the soil). It kept growing and he ended up doing the same thing again. Couldn't be patient and prematurely harvested it resulting in the same aesthetically pleasing Cannabis that didn't get you high...

It was pretty frustrating, because he did it both times because he ran out of his stash and just couldn't wait to pick-up again. :\
 
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ugh, i dont know where to begin..

From your post it seems like your an experienced grower yet your trying to tell us(most importantly.. me :-D) that topping a plant during flower is good for it?

Whoaahhh dude, did you feel that? Our hemp farming forefathers are rolling over in there graves!
For every Noob reading this that statement is utter bullshit, DO NOT TOP A PLANT IN FLOWERING.

After the first 2weeks of 12/12 your plant is in flowering & should not be fucked with, at all.. Even those 2weeks prior to the official "flowering" is detrimental in preventing hermaphrodites & several of the most popular strains atm are hermi prone due to parents.

Even during veg a good % of plants shouldnt be "topped" or FIMed. topping/FIM will result in less yield on many a strains. Testing is necessary but just because you topped your first grow with okie results doesnt justify topping any plant (especially equatorial) forever.


actually it can be a good thing, as with any plant topping them will encourage a growth spurt giving more nutrients to the mid section of the plant. but you only want to do this once, or twice, during the veg state or when the plant is flowering, and more leafy crystaly clusters and pistols rather then bud.
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do this in the morning , and on a day you are going to water so she has time to adjust through out the day. they love to be rustled around, fluffed if you will, pinching and rolling the stems between your fingers up and down the stems when they are young will tuffin them up. they are adapted to having a branch or leafs broken off now and then as if in the wild.
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if your doing this during flowering have fun smokin a closet full of herm faced villeins .

i have two that are hoarse shoe shaped girls, two colas coming off the main stock of each, but that takes a lot of leaf trimming to let light get to the lower/inner sides of the plant, of course the leafs can be utilized, good fun.
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Interesting approach, what i read is under no circumstances are you to trim off fan leaves or other leaves to "expose the bud to light". Basically they use those leaves to make food(preform Photosynthesis) & if you keep ripping that shit off your gonna stunt your growth & hinder the highest THC concentration genetically possible. I suppose thats fine for the old timers who love smoking swagg but to each their own!


Smoking premature buds will be a let down. They usually aren't even potent enough to get you high.

I had a friend who ruined two grows because he was impatient.

I kept telling him, that "Yes those are flowering buds, but you want to wait at least 8 weeks after they start to flower before even considering"

He neglected and began to harvest a few weeks after he saw buds. It took probably about three 1 gram blunts and multiple full bong pack rips to even get you slightly buzzed. Even swag was stronger than this.

He didn't dry them properly, and of course didn't cure them.

It really made me aggravated because he waited all this time and just couldn't ride it out properly; completely dismissing my advice. It was such a beautiful plant too.

Surprisingly, one of his plants survived (even though he didn't change the soil). It kept growing and he ended up doing the same thing again. Couldn't be patient and prematurely harvested it resulting in the same aesthetically pleasing Cannabis that didn't get you high...
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Words DONT DESCRIBE IT. Do me a favorite & tell "your friend" King. sir fagget that he's a pathetic excuse of a grower 4 me. Much love
 
Taking buds off of your plant(as well as trimming) has shown to increase the time it takes to make a complete harvest. Be patient. Stick with it and cure it well. The end prize will be all worth the wait! It is always fun to sample your stuff. Just go get a sack and let the plant do it's own work.
 
HighonLife said:
no in fact it will make more energy flow to the other buds
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this is a point to consider. lots of growers trim off all the scrawny bottom branches. this allows all the nutrient support to be used by the main colas on the top of the plant.
 
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