Ever see anything like this? (Foxtailing)

In week 7 of flower on my first grow and realized how “off” my structure looks - lot of single leaves coming out of buds like it’s revegging, but I’ve still gotten consistent bud/flower growth?

Not ideal growth but if it were a reveg wouldn’t bud growth full on stop?

Just trying to understand and learn as most I can at this point for my next go around. If this is in fact reveg I’m not sure what would’ve caused it - other than a small mishap a month+ ago where I left the supplemental lights on for five hours past shutoff, I haven’t had any lighting issues.

If you check my post history, I did have an issue for a bit there with PH drops/feeding too hot but thought I had gotten that sorted. Saw some mild PH drops/EC rising again this week and brought the EC down a little to see if she stabilizes again

But just trying to understand how I contributed to making the plant look like this - as I understand, revegging is more often than not a light issue but I know my lights have been shutting off when they’re supposed to (sans that one time obviously). On top of that, it seems weird I’m seeing revegging symptoms (like the single leaves sprouting from bud) but still also seeing bud growth, which also seems really odd

-Too much nitrogen?
-Stress? (I was pretty liberal with pruning/pinching off shaded bud sites. Also two colas were cut because they were going straight into the light.)

Asked a buddy who worked for cultivation for a while and he also thought it was weird it couldn’t really make sense of it. He said it could also just be genetics but seed is from a very reputable breeder and this being my first grow and all, I’m 100% confident it’s something I did, not the seed. (Humbolt CSI Lemon Party S1)

At this point I don’t really care about harvesting, just want to understand better. One person on discords hypothesis is that it’s not revegging but that pruning and nutrient stress may have caused the plant to grow more leaves



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This looks like foxtailing. Sometimes it’s genetic, sometimes it’s from heat stress. How are the temps?

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Looks like reveg to me. When I revegged this last plant it looked like the buds were developing further earlier on. Then they started splitting apart and ended stretched out across the limbs that sprouted from them.

I’d make sure you don’t have light getting in somewhere.

Editing because I just noticed the trichomes are on top and bottom of those leaves! That’s some frosty flower! I hope you figure out your issue though. Good luck!

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Thanks man, appreciate it

From what I can tell no light leaks are occurring. I began recording a video on my phone and threw it in my grow box to see if I could see any light getting in and from what I can tell, Nada

Temps are usually

73-77F during day
68-70F at night

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100%
My guess is your timer isn’t working properly or your light isn’t fully shutting off somehow.
The single leaves and stretching is dead nuts a sign of reveg.

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Is it possible to trigger reveg with stressors other than light? Everything I’ve looked at indicate my lights are turning on/off when they’re supposed to and I’m just racking my brain trying to think what else could cause it

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Light stress can cause that structure along with genetics…prob high ppfd/potentially heat at the top of the flowers

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I agree…and OP, dont dismiss genetics…reputable breeder sure…s1? Unstable many times

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It’s reveging due to this … Plants take a month to fully revert back to flowering mode once revegg has been triggered :slightly_smiling_face:

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I understand genetics can definitely be in play, but if you look at other peoples grows of Lemon Party S1 they all look great.

A S1 is a S1 and genetics can still be in play for sure but I just don’t want to possibly smudge CSIs reputation at all (or make it seem like I’m trying to)

Between them having such a long and documented track record + this being my first grow, I feel like it’s most likely something I did - I’m just trying to figure out what that is since it seems like my lights are fine.

I was dealing with some high RH issues during flower (RH OF 55-61 during bad days) but got it to consistently low 50s, but I don’t think that’d cause what I’m seeing here

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At least a month or so depending on pheno.

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Even with the best genetics you have a chance of bad seeds.

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That incident was 29 days ago - think I’d still be seeing the results of it now? Wouldn’t have I seen no bud growth if that were the case? Cause I still have seen a lot of bud growth + pistil growth since it happened.

Is it possible to incur some level of reveg while continuing bud growth?

(Not trying to argue or anything, I know you know way more about this than a new grower such as myself. Just trying to understand. The fact that I still was seeing flowering growth is what’s throwing me off)

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That’s only a month ago, it will probably be at least a couple more weeks for it to situate.

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I’m also a relatively new grower but this happened to me and the plant never really recovered … the best I could do was take off the single leaves and finish her.

It takes a bit of time to trigger reveg and even more time to revert back to flowering… at this point better let the maturity of the thrichomes decide when to chop.

I finally cobbed that plant which I think was a good decision now looking back.
:slightly_smiling_face:

The thing that is throwing me for a loop - wouldn’t I have seen no new flowering/bud growth since this lighting event if that were the case? Or is it possible for both to occur?

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Yeah honestly this whole thing has me just wanting to move on to the next one but I’m trying to see this all the way through and learn as much as I can from it

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It’s reveg so the plant is like “wtf do i do?” It
Looks like normal reveg to me, single leaves/stretching. It will be abit for the plant to go into proper flowering. A lot of people will ride it out then take the loss and harvest. Personally i always kept it and reflowered. Revegged plants turn into monsters growing 2/3x in size.

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Here’s my reveg plant… notice the leaves.

The cob from this turned out quite nice though :slightly_smiling_face:

Thanks guys. Gonna ride it out and hope for the best.

Next plant will be a cross, not an S1 lol

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