Ready for harvest? **(pics included)

cues said:

Yup, don't take her down too early. If you're desperate, take a little bit down then some more a few days later and compare. When trying new strains, it's the only way to learn when to harvest.
Where you take that bud from depends on your situation. If you are running out of space below the light, you may want to take it from the top, particularly if it's shading lower buds that are maturing. If you have popcorn at the bottom that won't come to much, trim it off there,
When it does come down, the fastest way to get a hit is to fast-dry some trim leaves overnight and make some BHO. If you're lucky it will keep you going for a few days until the first lot is dried. Then you smoke some of that while the rest is curing.
Mind you, making honey oil is also the quickest way to blow your own face off unless you are VERY careful.

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Yhh I'm not gonna take her down early, I'm holding out for that peak window which i'm hoping will be here by monday , realistic? (photos attached next post) And I wouldn't say i'm desperate, i've got some smoke but I wont deny being very eager to see what the crop is like . I was thinking of taking off a tester bud , but i'm also hearing this may stunt the plant during these late stages? but if i do take any i wont be disturbing my top colas. Any advice on making some BHO with some trim leaves? i was under the impression you'd need a full crop of leaves to get any real amount ... lol blow my face off? is it dangerous?

In terms of my plant, i've checked the trichomes on some sugar leaf with a 60x microscope and i've got very few clear, some milky, and a few amber...but i'm being told I need to check the actual buds as the leaves apaprently mature abit faster. However, i'm waiting on a 30x loupe so i can view on the plant without cuttin any off. Viewing with a microscope on the plant don't work for me..

These are photos taken around a week later, the pistols are browning more, trichomes are ambering on sugar leaf but I will be checking the bud soon as my loupe comes in the next two days . The calyxes also seem to be swelling up abit too ... lemme know what you think.

2 more weeks . When most of those hairs have curled into the bud. She should swell more too

PaulN'Chuck said:

2 more weeks . When most of those hairs have curled into the bud. She should swell more too

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that would be taking a primarily indica strain to 10 and a half weeks flowering? is that even normal/safe considering my blue cheese plant somehow produced ONE seed which i discovered 2 days ago... And in all honesty my trichomes are not telling me two more weeks, but swelling wise I can see where 2 weeks could take me...hmmm

This is why I am a proponent for proper mother selection,and running a perpetual harvest.You get to know what is best for your setup.

I find that the strains/phenotypes that I harvested so far.The best balanced effect I get is when the Resin Glands (Thrichomes) are mostly milky.Some strains just get cloudy.Some strains get a peppering of clear/coudy/milky/amber,and will stay that way for 2 wks or even more.One time I let a mostly previously harvested plant keep going till there was a naked eye cream and coffe sheen to the bud.The high was sickly,and short lived.

I am still experimenting/researching but if one has a mother,and flower out clones?Then harvest/label at different stages so you can determine the high/yield/time frame you like.Keep in mind that Strains,and Phenotype exppressions are different to begin with not to mention ones unique setup.

Remember you are working a window that will eventualy close on you.

Look into the Honeybee extractor.
Yes, it is dangerous. Very. Unless you are careful.
An oz of good trim may produce 5g of oil but it will be good oil and stuff that would have gone in the bin.

Dalek Supreme said:

This is why I am a proponent for proper mother selection,and running a perpetual harvest.You get to know what is best for your setup.

I find that the strains/phenotypes that I harvested so far.The best balanced effect I get is when the Resin Glands (Thrichomes) are mostly milky.Some strains just get cloudy.Some strains get a peppering of clear/coudy/milky/amber,and will stay that way for 2 wks or even more.One time I let a mostly previously harvested plant keep going till there was a naked eye cream and coffe sheen to the bud.The high was sickly,and short lived.

I am still experimenting/researching but if one has a mother,and flower out clones?Then harvest/label at different stages so you can determine the high/yield/time frame you like.Keep in mind that Strains,and Phenotype exppressions are different to begin with not to mention ones unique setup.

Remember you are working a window that will eventualy close on you.

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Yes I agree that labelling and taking at different stages is probably the best best for comparisons, only issue I have found with perpetual is the pain of highering / lowering plants instead of lights, and having different feeds for different plants. For this particular grow I'll be aiming for 20% amber with majority milky. But may leave part of a plant in there to mature further just to see the difference.

cues said:

Look into the Honeybee extractor.
Yes, it is dangerous. Very. Unless you are careful.
An oz of good trim may produce 5g of oil but it will be good oil and stuff that would have gone in the bin.

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I'll look it up. thanks bro

Here are some pics of the plants, I mean to be honest the one in the soil is swelling up quite well, but I must assume that the early flush with the autopot plants has stunted their flowering, they aint really swelling too tough, but pistols are browning. i could be wrong... Considering I started flushing from like week 6 anticipating a week 8 finish, they have now been flowering for 10 weeks and of majority the fan leaves are very dead and the sugar leaves CLOSE to the bud are very dead . I'm worried that this dying could spread to the actual bud, but the cheese plant just doesn't seem to be swelling appropriately and has many remaining white pistols...could this be its genes? hmmm would appreciate any guidance in terms of letting go any futher considering i've found 2-3 seeds on one of my plants, do you think they look done? Got some trichome pics with a digi cam and a loupe, not great , but you guys may be able to make something of it. MANY thanks in advance

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EDIT: BTW from what I can make of the trichomes there are very very few amber trichomes, and what seems to be a majority of milky and some clear.

Nice work, I'd be proud of that! I'm a great veggie gardener but only into my first grow so don't rely on my opinion. That one browned up plant I'd personally consider cutting. Other experienced posters have said trich color is the true benchmark. I intend to follow their advice when the time comes. Peace.

ArcticGranite said:

Nice work, I'd be proud of that! I'm a great veggie gardener but only into my first grow so don't rely on my opinion. That one browned up plant I'd personally consider cutting. Other experienced posters have said trich color is the true benchmark. I intend to follow their advice when the time comes. Peace.

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Thanks alot! I'll probs be much prouder when I get to reap its goodness ! I too wish to follow the trich color in terms of harvesting, it's just that bit more difficult when you've predicted flowering times slightly wrong and flushed like 3 weeks premature...Thanks for the feedback bro.

ticktocksmoker said:

thanks bro, i've done alot of reading about trichs and what not, but out of curiousity I would like to know say IF there was still alot of white pistils forming, and it didn't look f's saying I still got more flowering to do.ully swollen, but trichomes were say 60/40 milky amber, would I still be correct in harvesting at that point? JUST out of curiosity.

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still fkowering, it