vegasdave

Ok, this might be a dumb question, buit when should I be seeing them on the ladies. I have 4 white widiws that have been in 12-12 for 5 weeks and while they look beautiful with buds forming everywhere, what I am not seening that was on [revious gtows is very little to no trichomes forming on them. Am i being parnoid or do I have an issue? Please comment

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id say wait till the hairs start getting more full and changing colors b4 the powdery snow appears

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alteredego

White widow can take up to 10 weeks to flower, but I think they may be lagging a bit if there are no trichs whatsoever.
I have never grown this strain but from what I've seen, they start showing trichs at 3-5 weeks.
Here's a few widow threads to give ya a general idea.
Here
here
And here

Have your plants been stressed in any way?

• Light leaks?
• Inconsistant dark cycles?
• High temps?
• Nutrient deprived/over fertilized?

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vegasdave

Yes, there have been a couple of light leaks that are now fixed and I had to go out of town the first of this week and I came back to find out that my timer for my lights had quit working sometime between Monday morning and Thursday morning

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alteredego

After your timer quit working, were the lights on or off the entire time?
If they were on 24/0 for a few days, the plants might have gotten confused with the change in the photoperiod and in turn, could result in shocking/stunting them.

I had one plant go 12 weeks with showing only minimal trichs because I caused some major stress to her after I nearly uprooted her in a flushing accident. There might have been some lighting issues too.

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vegasdave

Thanks everyone, as usual, everyone gives intelligent info, but it was just nervous parenting on my part . The girls are putting out like crazy! Since I posted, they have gone from nothing visible to seeing the trich's with a maginfying glass to now visible with the naked eye.
Again, thanks to all!

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