Is she READY?.... would you harvest no

HARVEST NOW OR LATER

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FATBOYFRESH

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Hey folks..... this ia ny first grow.... i think i have a lil bit more time to go but i want input
 

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CannaBruh

CannaBruh

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Lookin' good, so long as it's healthy I'd keep going. People will tell you to check trichs, which you can and should, but try to correlate that (state of trichomes) vs overall appearance of the plant.
 
OldMedUser

OldMedUser

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Nice plants. Guys are right without a good look at the trichs it's hard to say. I didn't see any nice white pistils so it must be close if not there.

The calyxes should look fat like they have seeds in them and covered with resin glands. I've never seen many dead pistils fall off on their own.

Jorge Cervantes says in his grow bible that the peak is when almost all the pistils are dead and the trichs are 50/50 clear/cloudy so that's when I start harvesting mine. I take the upper third of the plant then let the lower buds fatten up for a week or more and also let the trichs start getting cloudy as most will still be clear from lack of strong light.

These are clear trichs at 43 days flower. Calyxes not yet fully swollen.

Needed a third vote choice like Maybe. :)

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CannaBruh

CannaBruh

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Sire Killem All said:
what day flower are u on? you are as done as ur gonna get, imo too much longer and and u risk bud rot.

p.s. good luck
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This is largely the only reason I'd say cut them now vs later.
Finished plants look finished, a petrified mature version of their lively growth days. You don't necessarily need to look at trichs under magnification to witness this. That's why I suggested to get to know what your plant looks like, as a plant, vs what the trichs look like. Then you will get to a point where (within some reason) you can look at the plant without the trich magnification for indicators if they're done. Yours are probably at that point, so get the magnifier.

Mold and bud rot are mostly the keys to forcing me to pull them down. If you get burnt tips or any dead or brown spots, those are usually subject to the fuzzy microorganisms that will start to break down the plant matter. Too many of those, or one or two sour calyxs and you can start getting rot.

IMO, those don't look "done" but I like to pull thins down nearly dead, but I don't have any financial incentives other than saving money smoking my own.
Others have incentives to move plants in and out faster, so often times, their "done" is weeks before I'd bring 'em down.
 
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FATBOYFRESH

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OldMedUser said:
Nice plants. Guys are right without a good look at the trichs it's hard to say. I didn't see any nice white pistils so it must be close if not there.

The calyxes should look fat like they have seeds in them and covered with resin glands. I've never seen many dead pistils fall off on their own.

Jorge Cervantes says in his grow bible that the peak is when almost all the pistils are dead and the trichs are 50/50 clear/cloudy so that's when I start harvesting mine. I take the upper third of the plant then let the lower buds fatten up for a week or more and also let the trichs start getting cloudy as most will still be clear from lack of strong light.

These are clear trichs at 43 days flower. Calyxes not yet fully swollen.

Needed a third vote choice like Maybe. :)

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Thanks. .. and im going to wait till at least half the pistils fall off before i harvest... i had lst the plant. so the canopy is pretty even... the lower branches are getting virtually the same amount of light

still feels like it can fatten up a litle
 
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FATBOYFRESH

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CannaBruh said:
This is largely the only reason I'd say cut them now vs later.
Finished plants look finished, a petrified mature version of their lively growth days. You don't necessarily need to look at trichs under magnification to witness this. That's why I suggested to get to know what your plant looks like, as a plant, vs what the trichs look like. Then you will get to a point where (within some reason) you can look at the plant without the trich magnification for indicators if they're done. Yours are probably at that point, so get the magnifier.

Mold and bud rot are mostly the keys to forcing me to pull them down. If you get burnt tips or any dead or brown spots, those are usually subject to the fuzzy microorganisms that will start to break down the plant matter. Too many of those, or one or two sour calyxs and you can start getting rot.

IMO, those don't look "done" but I like to pull thins down nearly dead, but I don't have any financial incentives other than saving money smoking my own.
Others have incentives to move plants in and out faster, so often times, their "done" is weeks before I'd bring 'em down.
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i dont think they are done we either so i let them go longer.

i purchased a loupe znd have been examining the bud sites and i dont see or smell anything weird yet
 
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FATBOYFRESH

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budulyk said:
i thought pistils receded ?? do they fall off wtf where do they go ive not seen em on my tent floor
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remembering that IM A FIRST TIME GROWER.... i imagine that the pistils fall off.....or receed to such a degree that it appears to have fallen off......

looking at calyx development pictures... the most biggest swell of the calyx happens when the pistil has either fallen off or has receeded so much that visibily the pistils look almost non exsistant
 
budulyk

budulyk

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FATBOYFRESH said:
remembering that IM A FIRST TIME GROWER.... i imagine that the pistils fall off.....or receed to such a degree that it appears to have fallen off......

looking at calyx development pictures... the most biggest swell of the calyx happens when the pistil has either fallen off or has receeded so much that visibily the pistils look almost non exsistant
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im not far off a newbie myself bro i think its more they recede and as u say swollen calyx means u see less of it u learn as u go thats what these forums are here for we all learning all the time im sure didnt mean no offence we were all new once :D
 
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