So confused...Need anyone and everyones' opinion about this please!

This lady is currently ONLY in her 5th week of flower...Basically all the hairs have turned amber and are receding, though the lowest most nuglets are still a bit white.. I am not sure what kind of seed this is, is it possible that it is an Auto and is nearing completion? Or is this normal? Either way...What would be your choice? She is in Canna Coco, and I've been feeding her Canna A & B, little bit of Rhizotonic through out her first stages off life. She is still currently being fed, which I am not sure if I should be doing, 8ml of A and B per 2L of water. THANK YOU ANYONE AND EVERYONE THAT REPLIES IN ADVANCE!!!!

I don't know if it is an auto or not, did she start throwing pistils on her own or did it happen after you changed the photoperiod? Also in my experience the lower sites will mature a little slower.Best way to see your harvest window is to check the trichs. Me personally,I don't flush, so I feed up until the end just slowly stepping down my ppm.

No, I changed the photoperiod on my own, but that's only because I had no suspicion it could have been an auto... I mean, if it's finishing at week 5 of flower, wouldn't that hint at Auto? Or am I just nuts and its not actually finishing, just ambering up?

It very well could be an auto,and IMO at week 5 looks mature enough I would agree. But keep in mind looks can be deceiving and the only real way to know
is by scoping your trichs. But yeah without being there and grown it with you my money is that it's an Auto.

I grabbed a tiny popcorn from the base of the stalk, hairs were about 75%white, 25% amber, and the trichs seems to reflect about the same percentage...although not all were cloudy, was about an even mix of cloudy and clear, but very few amber.

if you really don't wan't a body high you shouldn't wait
but you could keep waiting and that bud will swell a little more and put you down

I suppose depending on the effect you want, is going to determine your chop.Keep checking your trichs until
you find the right mix for you. More Amber=more couch lock, but definitely want the least amount of clear
for maximum potency of your gear.

scoping your trichs is not the most reliable way to tell if your plant is ready, its already been shown that some strains/phenotypes never show amber trichs even when they've reached full maturity. Scoping trichs is one of MANY factors you have to consider, its not just one or the other, its looking at ALL the signs. And another sign would be looking at how your buds actually look. All white hairs should be gone, have mostly receded back into the bud, the buds will look bigger and fuller than you've seen them to be during the rest of the grow. You really can tell when your buds are ready just by looking at them. Factoring that in WITH looking at the trichs to get a much better idea of when your buds are ready to harvest

Going back through my pictures I've taken (not posted); A week ago all main colas (it's LST'd I don't even know how many tops there are now -_-) were 25%Amber hair, rest were white. I am so darn confused as to why/how basically the entire plant went from white to amber in a matter of a WEEK. WHAT DOES THAT EVEN MEAN?? And no..I've been toking far too long to even enjoy a body high...I am that hard core couch lock or nothing type ganj kinda guy..

And I am not one to judge whether or not it is finished...Seeing as my first grow I never got to see completed because someone broke into my house and literally stole my plant...I can't judge how close it is to being done because I have not seen one finish right before my eyes. I've seen thousands finished on here...But pictures are hard to base my grow off of because no one here is growing whatever the hell im growing lol.

Just my personal opinion,trichs are the way to go,this is where the actual THC of the plant is maturing.If it's couch lock your after
wait till your about 50% amber.

Mr.Macksimoose said:

This lady is currently ONLY in her 5th week of flower...Basically all the hairs have turned amber and are receding, though the lowest most nuglets are still a bit white.. I am not sure what kind of seed this is, is it possible that it is an Auto and is nearing completion? Or is this normal? Either way...What would be your choice? She is in Canna Coco, and I've been feeding her Canna A & B, little bit of Rhizotonic through out her first stages off life. She is still currently being fed, which I am not sure if I should be doing, 8ml of A and B per 2L of water. THANK YOU ANYONE AND EVERYONE THAT REPLIES IN ADVANCE!!!! View attachment 2751859View attachment 2751858View attachment 2751857

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It looks great, trichs are a good indicator in combination with other factors. Some strains will amber before others, make sure you are not going by the % of amber pistils though. Also make sure you check the trichs on the calyx and not on the sugar leaves, since the sugar leave trichs tend to turn early.

My guess would be a week or so, I don't pull at 50% amber, I like 5-10% with a good cure on sativa dominant plants.

That beauty looks just about ready.

hbbum said:

It looks great, trichs are a good indicator in combination with other factors. Some strains will amber before others, make sure you are not going by the % of amber pistils though. Also make sure you check the trichs on the calyx and not on the sugar leaves, since the sugar leave trichs tend to turn early.

My guess would be a week or so, I don't pull at 50% amber, I like 5-10% with a good cure on sativa dominant plants.

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Good advice hb, that's when I pull mine as well,but he said he was after a couch lock.IMO a good Indica will do this on it's own a maturity but I don't know what his strain is.

here is a shot of the whole thing...not sure why it wont flip over to normal view...I tried rotating it..

The hairs turn amber, that has nothing to do with Tric's... Tric's can only be seen with a magnifier... When ALL of your white hairs recede into the bud you will be close…

Go get yourself a mag loop to check…your tric’s!


Tric’s Notes that most do not know:


Plant will make ‘clear’ tric’s until the day you harvest…


Plants Tric’s [after harvest] will change color as plant ripens, I check for frosty buds, when I smoke the first of a plant, after it is dried and cured…


Degraded Tric’s will appear Amber/Tea colored = Less THC… Not a couch lock high…

[That’s an old stoners tale]


Harvest Plant when you see no White hairs [they will recede into calyxes]


Harvest plant when you have 5-10% clear Tric’s…your plant will never have all milky/cloudy tric’s [5-10% clear--80-90% cloudy/milky--and yes, 5-10% Amber/Tea colored


Good Luck, especially with all the advice you will get here at RIU !

I believe this is a Indica Dominant strain..Early on the leaves were FAT and I mean FAT. And the plant that got robbed was a sativa dominant, and looked much different..The nugs are hard to the touch, I distinctly remember airy loose nugs on my sativa dominant. If any of that info helps anyone lol.

I have a 60x-100x jewlers loupe, I've begun pulling small popcorns and checking as stated earlier ^^^^up there.

Thanks Sand4 I had no idea that the couch lock was a myth. On a side besides what I believed to be truth about amber trichs what bad advice did this thread receive?

Any feedback is good feedback for me as at this point im terribly confused