Thank you folks. It is a 12-13week strain and I am half way through week 12. So I will leave it a while. Thank you.
EP3
When in doubt, seed buyers will buy seeds that are claimed to have shorter seed to harvest times.
Breeders know this, so they usually give times that are a week or two too short.
If the breeder says it's a 12-13 week strain, then that probably means 13-15 weeks.
Judging when to harvest from trichome appearance is nearly impossible for some of us.
Mine are always a mixture of clear, cloudy, and yellow.
Or is that yellow a figment of my imagination caused by trichomes dispersing light into its colors?
Sometimes stalks are yellow, and heads are clear.
Harvesting based on the look of the plant, with a possible trichome double-check, is what I do.
Yours look like they need a couple weeks longer to me.
A higher fraction of those white hairs need to darken, and colas need to become more compact.
But a partial harvest is always possible, and some people like early harvests.
As a test, you could harvest a small amount, and see how you like it compared to later harvests.
I do that frequently.
Harvest 5 times as much as you'd like to have dry.
It will be completely dry after losing about 75-80% of its wet weight.
I cannot tell in these pictures, hell I can't tell looking at my plant through a loupe half of the time.
