I want to pick individual buds early

Hey I know everyone says wait till harvest, but my growing efforts are all about saving money and not wasting it on crappy hash. Basically, Im wondering if I can snip off some buds until harvest, where i should snip them from, and how can I do it to not hurt my yield too much? I just need enough to smoke for a week or two before harvest. I have 6 feet mean motherfuckers (Masterkush) 3 1/2 weeks into 12/12 and there are pistils everywhere (by the way as a novice quesiton, when do the pistils at the growing sights start looking like the weed I smoke from a bag I bought? Do their callyxes suddenly get a shitload bigger?).


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"Let him speak!"
"Him who?"
"Him me."

Well, wait 'til harvest, then.

Actually, pulling immature buds after only 6 weeks provides only a light buzz that disappears just as fast as it comes on. But at least it does leave a lingering headache.

Why? Its just that i've seen a lot of grow journals where the grower mentions getting an early taste definately by 6 weeks. Why would grow journals have that recurring theme if it were just to give them a headache? Is there something I don't know about these growers? Do they have biologically-enhanced super-pot or something? Because if people didn't pick buds, why would there be so many posts about picking buds with answers totally different than yours?
I'm not doubting your years of experience, it's simply that virtually every grow journal on this site mentions getting some form of smokeable bud before harvest, and then loving the "buzz that gives a headache and comes on and leaves as fast as it came"
I am NOT a crackhead. I can be patient, but I want FACTS.

it will taste like crap and smell like cut grass, and more then likley still be damp even after trying to dry it,

I done it on my first grow, and FACT and im never doing it again

Just go graB a beer and have a ciggy and sit back and chill for 3weeks

Bigbud said:

it will taste like crap and smell like cut grass, and more then likley still be damp even after trying to dry it,

I done it on my first grow, and FACT and im never doing it again

Just go graB a beer and have a ciggy and sit back and chill for 3weeks

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Thanks for the first-hand information. This is my first grow and its an indoor hydro grow - people say hydro is one of the hardest ways to grow first time, and also obviously your a newbie by definition when growing for the first time, but SOMEHOW, my 2 plants have gotten over 6 feet tall, they are not stretched either. These plants naturally arent tall (Master Kush), I'm not trying to be cocky, but I believe this is one of those cases where in say, 2 weeks, the buds will look the way you would imagine when you say 3 weeks. Please take me for real, I think I just got really lucky, and I'm gonna get some nice-ass buds.
I know that to any first-time grower, it must be impressive to anyone to have a bud at all, but that is not the case with me, I compare my own grows to the grow journals done by relatively experienced smokers on these forums at rollitup, and we seem to be above par in this grow. Please don't shun for me being really excited, but I think i have a real reason to. I know it's a tease not to show pics, but I'll show you my end-crop
Having said that, would you agree that what the Moderator said is infact incorrect, especially for people who don't mind bad taste and just want to get high? My buds look alot more developed and crystally than any Master Kush grow journal on this site. I'm being honest.
I appreciate what you said, but as to what the Moderator said, it sounds academically prejudiced (based on the basic laws of growing).

No harsh feelings to anyone,
sincerely,
purplecstasy

agrees with big bud. its like eating a cake out the oven only halfed baked, i have tried smokeing a few budds on my first grow,ended up with just a few decent buds from three months work wish i had waited myself,but ive learned a valuable lesson,

Sounds nice - I'm growing my first time as well, outdoor, and I'd love to have a plant like that - I water mine properly (having grown tomatoes a couple years now) and give it nutes but it still looks semi-weak. I'd love to see some pics of this plant, especially since I'm thinking about growing Master Kush next year!

Id say potroast was Spot on.

You do get a headache, not the hungover type but one that can last hours and every time you take a toke you can feel it inside you head throbbing

And thats with organic nutes, what about your hydro BUD packed with all them chems that havent been flushed out


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your right you may aswell smoke a marigold head lol

Hmm, to the replies that agree with Potroast, are you saying that its impossible to get any smoke that doesn't hurt your head until 8-10 weeks into flowering? Cause alot of people on this site in grow journals have contradicting results to what you're saying. And I'm not saying that they are wrong or you are wrong, I want to know who's right and thats why I made this thread

P.S. BigBud, you didnt mention whether it got you high, you only said that it tastes bad and stuff. Well ... did you at least get stoned?

No ones right or wrong, at the end of the day the plant is yours, if you choose to sample go ahead, the rest of us have been there done that








GOT THE HEADACHE

I would cut one, two buds in half. Thats what I do when I can't wait.

guess you only like oppinions that agree with you, however if you have read the posts in favour you must of read the ones against so to speak, just smoke it lol

As long as it gets you high, it's all good.

what is the time on that strain ???? since you know the strain ???
some strains finish as soon as 6 or 7 weeks
I just grew some bag seed that finished right at 7
as long the trichomes are at least all milky,, and maybe a few amber
you're good to go
clear = not ready = headache
a slightly early harvest will give you more of a "uppity" head high

smoker13, 7-9 weeks, my pistils appeared 4 days after 12/12, so is everyone saying that even if there are a bunch of trichromes present on day 24 of flowering and i plan on just picking tiny bits off in 2 weeks i wont get high, 6 weeks minimum potroast? Excuse my "wishful thinking" to pick a small sample at 6 weeks but so many people say differently on this site from what you say. Then on the seedbank sites they say Masterkush sometimes can be ready in 7 weeks . Someone just clear this up please?! Instead of patronizing posts from smart-alecs like like the passive aggressive skyb.
Unlike a minority of people who have friends who grow and are in a position of not being too persecuted by the law, Im assuming all you other folks would understand why I wanna know whats the earliest time I can pick some chronic to get high!

I'm really not trying to be a smartass here, but if I had a 6 foot plant of master kush that was six weeks into flowering, I'd be curious as well as to how it smoked at that stage - with all that plant, do you really lose a lot by just trying one bud? I've always preferred personal experimentation over forum advice, especially in something somewhat subjective.

Hell, I have a a single 2 foot bagseed 2 weeks into flowering, barely any buds (I suck), and I may taste my very first trichome just to see what it's like.

Well, I gave you my opinion, and you can use it or not. By all means, harvest some bud each week, and mark it well, and compare the finished bud for yourself. That way you'll know what's best for you. That's how I learned, by trying it for myself.

And you may have noticed that I am always preaching to let the buds ripen. That's because very few growers do. Last year I heard Ed say that most of the bud sold in the California MMJ Dispensaries is immature, and for the growers to please let it ripen properly, and the dispensary owners to stop buying immature bud.

And BTW, I'm a Moderator only because I agreed to help Rollitup with some admin duties on this site. When it comes to these posts, I'm a user of this site the same as you, and just another grower the same as you.

HTH

potroast said:

Well, I gave you my opinion, and you can use it or not. By all means, harvest some bud each week, and mark it well, and compare the finished bud for yourself. That way you'll know what's best for you. That's how I learned, by trying it for myself.

And you may have noticed that I am always preaching to let the buds ripen. That's because very few growers do. Last year I heard Ed say that most of the bud sold in the California MMJ Dispensaries is immature, and for the growers to please let it ripen properly, and the dispensary owners to stop buying immature bud.

And BTW, I'm a Moderator only because I agreed to help Rollitup with some admin duties on this site. When it comes to these posts, I'm a user of this site the same as you, and just another grower the same as you.

HTH

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Thanks for understanding that I'm not a mean guy, I just want to smoke me sensimillia! Not argue! You are totally right Potrast, you are always consistent with what you say about waiting till harvest. I just wanted to hear all sorts of opinions instead of listening to one opinion and "staying at bay" with the idea of picking no buds before harvest. Only because one person told me to. I guess I will end up doing what I do, and I don't know what that is yet, and this thread is not closed

BTW Wutang - If you only have 2 foot tall plants and need yield, I, personally, would not pick any buds to get max yield, but either way your not wrong. Just don't pick anything until under a microscope, all your trichromes are milky and some red hairs start showing, anything before then is a headache according to Potroast, Smoke-your-weed-Early, and anyone on this forum That's my conclusion after having read all these responses

I hear ya purple - I kinda need yield, but this is my first time growing, and I'll probably sample a small amount probably around 6 weeks or so - just to see. I'm a patient cat, but still, curiousity may get the best of me...good luck growing dude!