First Time Grower. Is it harvest time? Thank you.

[Neverwhere]

Hello all,

I am a first time grower, and my Diesel autoflower is on day 81 from the day she rose above the soil. I have researched trichome color and pistils and everything I can find to help guide me, but I am still unsure. This autoflower came from an order of photoperiod seeds, so I treated her as one until she revealed her true nature. Before this, I had also manifolded and lollipopped the auto expecting a huge growth spurt in flower. The flowering stretch had apparently already occurred, and she never got any taller, so she basically became a crown of nugs. She has been in the flower tent on a 12/12 schedule since the start of week 7 since I did not have a separate setup to keep her on a different light schedule.

I've been having some issues with heat and/or humidity at night in the flower room recently, which I believe I may have resolved, but my plants have definitely been stressed out by it, and the auto is showing what I believe is fox tailing and also has a few seeds on some of the buds. I discovered a banana on the photo she shares the tent with the other night and removed it, and have been keeping a close eye on it since (no new bananas in the past week). I'm not sure if the auto got hit with some pollen or if the seeds are from stress or what.

I'm including some photos of the auto and some closeups of the trichomes. If anyone has any input, I would greatly appreciate it, as I am kind of freaking out right now. I feel like she is ready and I don't want to jump the gun but I'm worried I may be forced to by this seeding situation.

Thank you.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

You can harvest anytime now just depending how you like your buzz? Go here:

Tutorial - Is it time to Harvest

www.autoflower.org

 

[Neverwhere]

Thank you for the reply. I have checked out that tutorial, along with others, but I don't trust my judgement when it comes to the trichomes since this is my first time making this kind of call. If I'm going for the highest levels of thc and most intense high, aka around 10% amber and mostly cloudy, am I around the right time? That's what I am seeing. From what I've gathered, autos don't play by the same rules when it comes to trichomes turning amber though. What do you think? Thanks again.