Help!! A forced early harvest

So I just harvested 4 plants, most of them were ready, one was not but I harvested it anyway because if I didn't a mold problem could have occurred.

This was a necessary early harvest, is there anyway to get the trichomes to develop more or any techniques I can do to help my bud turn out well during curing?

I have a microscope, they trichomes are present but clear.. not milky or amber..

What were the chances of a mold problem? Seems as if it would have maybe been better to take the chance with the mold then just harvest a clear trich cola, but it seems like there's a way to do almost anything these days, maybe even reveg and clone that fem if you didn't hack it too bad? Dunno if you still have it or some shit... hope there's a way for you to get some good bud!

na bro.. i would just rec mixing all the buds together that way u dont know whats too early and what was right..

dgk4life said:

na bro.. i would just rec mixing all the buds together that way u dont know whats too early and what was right..

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I would have just dealt with the mold issue but since you have already harvested the best you can do is what I quoted along with a good cure.

curing might help but jeez man, why not deal with the problem and not throw away all the time and energy u put into getting this far? how do you plan on dealing with it next grow?

Yipes, they'll develop a little better during the curing process, but not a whole lot.

I'd set them aside and mix them in with the final harvest.

That sux about the harvest, I just moved and was in the exact position as you, except I didn't cut and I'm happy that I didn't. I started with 10 females, and harvested 1 at 6wks(needed smoke), 1 at 8wks(needed some more smoke), 4 at 10 weeks (curing), and the 4(almost 10 weeks now) biatches I got left are fat as shit and leaning all over the place! So I guess what I'm trying to say Kernz is that if you can wait until the plant matures its completely worth it, both in terms of harvest weight, potency and over all tastiness!

This was my first harvest where I waited until my plants were "mature" before harvesting and it really makes all the difference.

So far as ur bud potency is concerned, you could do the water cure and reduce the amout of extraneous material in ur smoke and increase potency that way. Water curing doesn't increase the potency of the material but concentrates the psycoactive goodies in the material left after the curing process.

How much did you harvest?

Not saying this would work, but would it be possible to put the stem in water like you would flowers, to let it develop for a day or so.

Vr6T said:

Not saying this would work, but would it be possible to put the stem in water like you would flowers, to let it develop for a day or so.

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no, it wouldnt work at this point, his plants hav been drying for 2 days now. if he really wanted he could of done what you were saying earlier but its no longer an available option