Trichomes & Harvesting

024deeweed420

024deeweed420

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I'm not really qualified to give an opinion here because I'm about to harvest too and need advise from the experts here but your picture isn't magnified enough for me to even make out the trichomes let alone their colour. I can see them but they're just dots. Does the camera your using have a digital zoom ? Might help to get a bit closer in if possible.
 
Huckster79

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Which side of snippet is more accurate? Top or underside? Top side appears further along than the underside... Which one is more accurate?
 
024deeweed420

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image.png image.jpeg image.jpeg image.jpeg image.png image.jpeg image.jpeg So I've harvested, can see Amber trikes but to be honest some other pics they are all cloudy only. But was time, going to have a really cold snap here next week other reasons it had to go . Very happy though for my first grow attempt. Thanks for all the advise! I sampled her last night with the portable vape, very nice alert sativa high. But harsh cause I over microwaved the poor bastard. Got em drying then gonna cure with the bodeva humidor packs in jar. I recon I got coupe ounces. Got the bug now. Might try a cheap cfl indoor this winter. Thanks everyone for all the advise!
 
bro54209

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024deeweed420 said:
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Alert high for sure with more clearish trichs, id have honestly waited a few more days for a trippier cannabinoid profile, like all milky and 5-10% amber rather than 5% clear 5% amber 90% milky. Hopefully a couple weeks cure will help the harshness, did you flush for 1-2 weeks? a couple flushes works but I noticed a good 4 flushes or so over 2 weeks gave a nice white ash smooth burn. no nutes near the end help it to mature
 
IronLunG710

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very interesting, I may do a test myself by doing a same strain side by side, one harvest at a specific time with trichs being cloudy, no amber, and one with a large amount of amber trichs and then send them out to VerdeLab for testing. Will also send both fresh and cured samples.
 
024deeweed420

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That image is amazing! Well I'm gonna make sure I really get some decent Amber trikes next grow. I'm guessing most weed is harvested early because it's been illegal and a business and people wanna get the crop in before it's Discovered and busted or stolen.
 
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nyceone

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Roger A. Shrubber said:
quite a while, most of those are still clear, just a few milky, didn't see any ambers. probably another 2 to 3 weeks.
when about 75% to 80% are cloudy, 10 to 15% are clear, and 5 to 10% are amber. definitely no more than 10% amber, thats actually a little past peak
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Thanks bro
 
nyceone

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UOTE="WestDenverPioneer, post: 12603222, member: 769037"]NOT YET! :)
Soon.
At least a week. Maybe two. Post pics in a week and we'll see.

Keep feeding. Don't starve or flush your plants.
Looking good. Keep on keeping on.[/QUOTE]
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Roger A. Shrubber

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trichomes don't all mature at the same time. clear ones are premature, milky ones are ripe, and amber ones are past ripe. they'll never all be at the same stage at the same time. so what you want is the majority to be cloudy, and just a few scattered around to be amber. thats pretty much peak. if you let it go much past 5% amber before you harvest you're just letting it get overripe, like a banana turning black.
if you have to go looking for ambers to find any, its not ready yet. there should be a few here and there over most of the plant.
i know it sucks, i'm at about the same point you are at the moment, waiting for a plant thats 90% cloudy to start producing a few ambers to let me know its actually there. just keep checking daily
 
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pookat

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Ambers have a higher C.B.D content, after the T.H.c has degraded, more of a medicinal use than the desired stone...kinda like the 70's 80's stone if you catch at the right %
 
nyceone

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[QUOTRoger A. Shrubber, post: 12634526, member: 925384"]trichomes don't all mature at the same time. clear ones are premature, milky ones are ripe, and amber ones are past ripe. they'll never all be at the same stage at the same time. so what you want is the majority to be cloudy, and just a few scattered around to be amber. thats pretty much peak. if you let it go much past 5% amber before you harvest you're just letting it get overripe, like a banana turning black.
if you have to go looking for ambers to find any, its not ready yet. there should be a few here and there over most of the plant.
i know it sucks, i'm at about the same point you are at the moment, waiting for a plant thats 90% cloudy to start producing a few ambers to let me know its actually there. just keep checking daily[/QUOTE]
Then again over ripe banana is sweeter too
 
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