9 week old plant drying out?

This is my ssdd, 9 weeks into flower. All of her leaves are drying up an falling off, she’s getting a kinda hay smell. From the looks of the trichomes she isn’t ready?
I didn’t know what to do so I pulled her out of the tent and put something dark over it till I can figure it out

Please excuse the awful pics I’ve got a new phone, still getting used to the camera 🤦

The bent bud is from the bag I had over it, it was standing correctly this morning

Two others are looking like they are beginning to dry out as well. No change in the watering or light schedule. I’ve had the lights turned down to 75% in case it was heat or light related. Temps have been in the mid to high 70s, average about 75. My feeding schedule ended at 8 weeks, watering with rain water as needed now

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Well they are doing what they’re supposed to do

If I remember there flower time is 8.5 to 9 weeks
So keep checking the trichomes daily

Mind are at 57 days and fading

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Took the words out of my mouth.

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What am I looking for with the trichomes? Currently they are mostly milky an with some brown

Is the smell a concern? Will it come back?She used to smell so good

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That’s what you’re looking for.

Not sure but it kinda sounds like it’s dead and drying out already does the stem snap if bent? The hay smell is from not curing it correctly and if its already too dry no that smell probably won’t go away.

That is what the trichs are supposed to look like though. Milky with slight amber depending on your taste(high)

Stems don’t snap, bends normally.

So it is advised I prepare to chop her? Give her a flush an pull in a couple days?

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That’s what I look for in the trichomes I’d pick it if it’s ther

I had this happen last run I just picked it I thought it was a bit finicky myself

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They are done!
Trichs are usually ‘done’ at milky, degrading when turning gold/brown…
And the stems ‘snapping’ not bending is NOT while growing-- that’s while drying/curing after they are cut!!
Ifya wait till they are dry enough to break, she’ll be dead-dead…and you won’t recover much smell/flavor…
She should cure well once chopped, dried and jarred a while…
She’s letting you know-- she can’t really do much more… :wink:

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Update to avoid anymore degrading of the THC. I threw together little dry box an hung her

I could be wrong but I didn’t think a fan was necessary because it’s already so dry here in the desert

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Dont use a fan. You will dry out the bud to quickly and it will leave it with a hay taste that you will never get rid of.

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That was my figuring especially since she’s already so dry. Keeping the handles open on the boxes should give enough airflow yea?

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Keep the lid open the box somewhere dark and if you use central A/C that will give enough air flow in your place to keep it from getting moldy.

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You’re coming in am little hot. This is my first grow I don’t know what I’m doing. If you think the fert is wrong I would like to know ways to fix it instead of talking crap on others trying to help

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That guy is just a troll, don’t worry about him, he keeps making sock puppet accounts to harass people here, is that him again? @toastyjakes

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@Geoffrey most likely was first known here as the west coast cry guy. He is a terminally fragile raging child that is so destroyed by his original ban from Overgrow that he continues to make accounts here in these pathetic attempts to troll.

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I think he was the ghost of Subcool last week. Oh look, someone got banned… that’s how we deal with trolls around here :sunglasses::+1: thank you whoever that was! @moderators

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Ahhh gotta love those kinds people lol

I checked over the plants more and I noticed that the blueberry trichomes looked the same as the ssdd so I chopped her too. Swirled them all in a bucket of baking soda, lemon juice finished with plain water and have them hanging. Rinsing seem to have helped the ssdd, it’s much less crispy feeling :crossed_fingers:

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After you rinse, I typically hang in front of a fan, but only for a few hours (to remove any and all rinse water), then they would go in my curing tent (or your cardboard box). I wouldn’t dry with a fan, but after a rinse it will help to actually get any excess water off the buds.

Of course your RH there is like -10% so might not be an issue for you…

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