Nope_49595933949
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Trichomes & Harvesting
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ClaytonNewbilFontaine
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Hi I'm a new grower but on my first grow this is what my buds were looking like towards the end. I'm sure someone more experienced will chime in, but it looks like you've got some foxtailing. I had the same. Mine came from a heat wave we were going through raising my tent temps to 93°+. Where they had always been in the mid 70's. Also bc of that heat I believe some of my trichs ambered up and I think I chopped to early. When I started going over more pics, after I chopped, I was seeing a lot of clear trichs. Vs the ones on the top being at least 10% amber and cloudy. Someone told me my trichs look like they had heat damage and that the amber wasn't from it maturing. That's when I looked at more pics and he was right. I'm just relaying my exp. Yours look like they might be done. But I'm not saying that you should chop. I'm not exp enough to give you that info. But they do look like they're foxtailing a bit. Maybe they're too close to the light? They look really freaking awesome though, you've done an awesome job.
xtsho
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You can't go by the stated flowering time. Outfits use numbers lower than what it really takes because people want fast flowering plants and they want to sell seeds. Had they stated that it would take 10-11 weeks would you have still bought the seeds or would you have bought something else that had a faster stated flower time? Basically many seed suppliers lie.
SamRD
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You're right, there's foxtailing because it's too close to the light, it's a closet grow and I don't have more vertical space. That's why I'm confused, are they ready and look like this because they are too close to the light and hence foxtailing or do they simply need more time?
I understand that suppliers lie. I just wanted to try a fast plant but it ended up having the same flowering time as a normal fem. I've been growing a while with canuk seeds and I'm done, thinking I'm being smart buying always on those 50% discount days. I bet this is just some random seed, I feel like they just sort seeds to indica and sativa and sell it like that to small customers like myself and then quality to bulk and big spenders. Yesterday I ordered a batch from Tiki Madman, paid 4x the price but I bet it's quality genetics.
ClaytonNewbilFontaine
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I've def wondered about that myself. With my exp level I would never even know. My first order came from ilgm. They made me feel like that. It was their genetics not any popular breeder, they could've thrown anything in there. Now I order from nasc and multiverse. I would like to order directly from the breeders themselves but the seed banks have those sales and I end up taking advantage of them.
As far as the foxtailing, when it was happening to mine someone on reddit said they'd just chop now bc it was just going to keep happening. But I didn't feel very good about that advise, so I didn't take it. I got another ac and got my temps down. I did chop about a week after though. I think yours need a bit more time, but hopefully someone else will help with that. Do you have any close ups of the trichomes from different areas of the plant?
SamRD
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It's hard to take proper pics through the magnifier but here are some
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ClaytonNewbilFontaine
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There's a couple pics that still look pretty clear. But you've def got some cloudy going on. I think you've got a couple weeks yet, maybe more, but those are decent pics for what you've got to work with.
Cesar_Gonzalez_510ab
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I have a 8-9 week strain on day 72 and still have a lot of clear trichomes some cloudy and no amber is this normal ?
Roger A. Shrubber
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It just depends on the strain, and the pheno within the strain. The times the seed companies tell you is bullshit. I let most of mine run 12, only one strain that i run is done in 9 or 10 weeks.
Go buy a 30x hand held microscope on Amazon. Just google hand held microscopes, about $15. Then you can see it for yourself.
Hugo Phurst
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A resurrected thread, cool 
I'm figuring about a week.
Still some clear, not much amber & the red hairs need to shrivel a bit more.
What's your thoughts.
I'm figuring about a week.
Still some clear, not much amber & the red hairs need to shrivel a bit more.
What's your thoughts.
chumo
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did you chop yet?A resurrected thread, cool
I'm figuring about a week.
Still some clear, not much amber & the red hairs need to shrivel a bit more.
What's your thoughts.
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Hugo Phurst
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Dboybudz
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You would be surprised at the detail of a very good close up pic with a good phone camera aimed at trichromes. Then zoom in to look closer you can see the mushroom shapes and cloudiness and starting to turn amber.
The Money Team
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Awesome post!!
Squatchsmoke
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Yep.... this explains all those whack buds and weak grows I had not knowing when to cut! Once I got a scope, that's when I figured out I was letting those trees ripe up too long! It's been a curve for 6 seasons now!