New Grower 24K, Sour Livers and Strawberry Nuggets

[Deleted Grower A]

Also had to tie the Nuggets down further cause she grew into the light a bit, got her way pulled back further than I could get yesterday. The tops that were covered are already growing quickly after lst.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

happy tent
ripe = maximum yield,ripe =personal preference ? ya cant have a personal preference till ya tried a combo of the 3.harvest window is just that,a harvest window of maybe 2 weeks start to finish,or anytime inbetween,so its hard to get it to wrong
for me indicas and amber trichs does nothing for me,may as well be smoking on a mcdonalds straw dont get too stressed out over when to harvest,if ya need a smoke lob off the top cola its that street weed or nowt
a pretty good in general closer look at trichs

GH is from the other side of the pond from me,i know the name but not much more.did a quick search and got 3 names,that i most likely got wrong @Damien50 @puggle6 @Mañ'O'Green
good luck n keep er lit

 

[Deleted Grower A]

@archie gemmill Thanks! Why does the amber trichs with indicas do nothing for you? You just like the upper sativa high?

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

well the first few times i was scratching my head why is it not working,i grew it has plenty of sparkles.but its a dud
then i was talking to a med user,they said if its not a heavy indica and amberd up,i may aswell be sucking on a straw.
2+2= so i must be the opposite of that

 

[Time]

Hey @Time I remember you said you didn't know much about the hairs and stuff with flower I was just doing some research on when to harvest and thought you would find this useful.

Looks like my most mature is swelling around the white hairs nicely some only have a tiny bit till swallowed up buds looking a lot more amber won't be long.

Notice in the pic of the other plant how the lower colas are getting taller they grew about a few inchs from that side light I place it above the lower buds a tiny bit few inchs to get them to stretch.

Anyway here's the article best one I have found.

From CannabisGuru on Rollitup forums:


ARTICLE: Is it ready yet?: This is by no means meant to be the definitive guide to knowing when to chop your plant, only my views on the subject.

Its my personal opinoin that 90% of the noobie growers on this site (And probably in general) harvest too early. By letting the plants go a little longer you're ensuring that the've plumped as much as they're going to.

Despite popular opinion to the contrary(and don't fool yourself, the jury is still out on this one) Recent studies have shown ;contrary to what was previously believed, that THC itself (And its predecessor THC-A) are quite guilty of causing the confusion and drowsiness associated with burnout and other cannabinoids (our friend CBN, and a handful of others) to be the catalyst (along with THC) to being 'high' rather than 'baked'

Regardless, whether or not theres any substance to the aforementioned study, its easy to get the high you want.

If you want a soaring 'cerebral' high: Get yourself a tropical sativa that contains a high level of THC-V and grow it until it is ripe.

If you want the narcotic couchlock stone, grow a rugged indica until its ripe.
Notice a pattern of growing it until its ripe? Its a really good rule to live by.

OF course we have to remember that there is more to a good high than just THC. At last count there are at least 66 cannabinoids, and we don't know what most of them do.


Now alot of people will tell you that you should harvest based on the colour of your trichomes. But (again, in my opinion) that is far too simplistic and there are too many variables to make that an effective strategy. I've made that point a million times before and i'm not going to re-hash it here,(maybe just a bit) but rest assured there is more to the picture than just trich colour.


A ripe marijuana plant will be filled in, will have an amber tinge to the buds. The pistils should have browned (or orange-d) off and receded into the buds. The seed bracts should be swollen and the trichomes should be sticking straight out with bulbous ends. Also, because you're coming close to the end of plant's life cycle, the leaves should have yellowed off and started to die.



Another very important (imho) reason to let your plants mature is Terpenoid production. Terpenes are responsible for alot of the complex (And enjoyable) flavours that cannabis produces. Some of the most intense flavours are produced on the "downslope" of cannabis's life cycle. My personal experience with this first came when i was growing GH cheese. One of the plants i harvested at 8 weeks and it tasted pretty nice and had pretty dense buds. The other i grew until about 9 1/2 weeks and it had most amazing, sour, skunky, delicious taste with rock hard buds.


If I could offer one piece of advice on picking the right time to harvest, it's all about watching the pistils. Not so much the colour, but the movement. They should have receded into the bud and the seed bracts should be swollen.


Follow this information correctly.. and you won't be disappointed. I know there are alot of incorrect articles going around. Hell, IMO, there is WAY TOO MUCH incorrect information floating around out there on the interweb.. and its hard to find correct information. However, this article.. is from my personal experience.. 5 years worth of growing.. and I just shared with the people that read this, how I personally check my plants to see if they are ready for harvesting. Again, keep this article somewhere safe where you can come back for future references. Lastly, once again.. follow this information, and you WILL NOT harvest your plant early.. but you have to MAKE sure you remember these important things in order to have a full ripe harvest.

Thanks for your time and thanks for reading.


Remember the following and you'll do great each and every harvest.. never worrying about an premature harvest again:

Maturation - Eventually the pistils start to turn color from pale white to red or brown At the same time the flowers close up, forming false seed pods. The small glands on the flowers now start to grow. These are called stalked capitate glands and are composed of a tiny stalk supporting a thin clear membrane. As THC is produced near the site, the membrane swells with the potent liquid. The membrane stretches and the gland takes on the appearance of a mushroom. When the glands have swelled and the pistil has receded into the false pod, the bud is ready to pick.

-cannabisguru

I think I've read that before. It makes sense.

My personal thought is that we have a pretty good window to harvest in and as long as we don't harvest way to soon or way to late we will get some decent bud with the attributes of the strain we grew.

To be honest, I haven't smoked enough to be very familiar with anything but basic strain traits and I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference of when a certain strain was harvested so I haven't put much thought into it because I don't know what I "prefer". I need to experiment with what I grow and that's going to take awhile at one or two plants per grow.

 

[Deleted Grower A]

@archie gemmill I see what you mean, I can see how diff people like diff types so many uses for the plant, I use it more as a downer as I run too energized as it is and get insomnia and have a lot of stress to deal with but I can see how people would like the other too it's just when I smoke Sativas I get too much energy and feel weird I never realized why it happened with some Indicas till I knew about the trich colors.

With the article I took it as him saying a ripe Sativa would be better than an unripe indica with cloudy trichs if you want that sativa effect as the plant would develop the effect more and have that type of tropical thc and same thing vice versa with indica for a heavier effect. Am still new so I could be wrong but definately is a preference as to if you want an upper or downer or just for pain etc no point really even trying to make one better there all good in there own way for different peoples needs.

I want to get some cbd strains my girl gets pain bad both have pain probs and I want a strain that is super medicinal to view as more of our medicine like a once per day smoke.

 

[Deleted Grower A]

I think I've read that before. It makes sense.

My personal thought is that we have a pretty good window to harvest in and as long as we don't harvest way to soon or way to late we will get some decent bud with the attributes of the strain we grew.

To be honest, I haven't smoked enough to be very familiar with anything but basic strain traits and I don't think I'd be able to tell the difference of when a certain strain was harvested so I haven't put much thought into it because I don't know what I "prefer". I need to experiment with what I grow and that's going to take awhile at one or two plants per grow.

Right on, I mainly posted to show you when the window begins and the parts of the plant to look at, white hairs turning brown or orange and pulling into the bracts and the other signs in article. For me it was hard to tell even with trichs as i've had some ambers for a few weeks even so had to check other things personally.

I will probably even be experimenting with trich ripeness it's hard to say what anyone likes cause so many growers lie and make up strain names, you don't know there method of growing if they know fully what there doing, cured and dryed wrong etc so glad to move away from that.

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

aim for somewhere in the middle and you wont be far off :smoking:as the top of the plant ripens up quicker than middle/bottom.some folks 3 part harvest

 

[Deleted Grower A]

aim for somewhere in the middle and you wont be far off :smoking:as the top of the plant ripens up quicker than middle/bottom.some folks 3 part harvest

So half amber and half cloudy?

 

[bad dragon bzzz]

im a very early chopper at the sacrafice of some yield.i havnt ran out in 5 years so what does yield matter to me a lot of folks would wait for a good 20% amber before they chop.medical folks tend to let it go untill the plant more or less dies
some folks chop a bud off,quick dry sample,and have a think about chopping