I'm wrapping up week 8 of flower and I pushed watering an extra day due to being out of town. When I came back all the fan leaves on 2 of my plants were completely dried up. The breeder said these strains have a 9-11 week flower time. Looking at the trichomes I still don't have any amber. My question is will the trichomes still continue to develop with the fan leaves all dried up and probably dead? The buds are still dense and plants are drinking still but not as quickly as normal. Usually water every other day and was supposed to today but soil still a little damp.
strains: blueberry headbang, tangle dos (sativas)
medium: black gold soil
nutrients: fox farm trio
run off ph: ~6.2 for both
run off ppm: ~1000k
light: mars hydro TSW 2000w
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Harvest update:
So the plants were looking worse and worse so I ended up harvesting after 9 weeks of flower. While wet trimming I started to notice some signs of white dust on sugar leaves close to the bud. Cut a few buds open and mold galore. Ended up trashing my entire harvest.
Thinking back on what I did wrong it's starting to make sense. During week 1 of flower I had to make an emergency trip to Michigan for my grandfathers funeral. My grow buddy (also new to growing) was gonna come by every couple days to water/feed/check on plants. When I returned home I noticed a few spots of Powdery Mildew in some fan leaves. I plucked those off and sprayed plants with green cleaner. I also noticed what looked like dried up water stains on tent floor. My guess is the plants were over watered and overfilled the saucer causing the humidity in my tent to surge and then day/night, light/darkness temps were prime conditions for mold. And mold that early into flower (week 1-2) is disastrous.
Being this my second grow ever, I suppose you have to fail to succeed. Anybody got any spare flower in the meantime lol.
Yes, the trichomes will still develop. Shouldn't be much of an impact since you're so close to harvest