Just cant get amber!

[Badfinger]

I don't know if my lights are setup wrong, I suck at reading tric's, or I just throw in the towel to soon.
I'm in my third grow, week 13 1/2 of a 9-10 week strain, and still only amber on sugar leaves.
Two previous grows I threw in the towel at 15 weeks, got tired of waiting. The smoke did kick butt.
Plants are fading out fast but the tric's to me, tell a different story.
This grow is soil with dry amendments, I am still feeding since I'm planning on reusing my medium. I just wanted to let them fade out naturally on their own.
Am I right in thinking these got a long way to go yet?

 

[Rasterman]

I don't know if my lights are setup wrong, I suck at reading tric's, or I just throw in the towel to soon.
I'm in my third grow, week 13 1/2 of a 9-10 week strain, and still only amber on sugar leaves.
Two previous grows I threw in the towel at 15 weeks, got tired of waiting. The smoke did kick butt.
Plants are fading out fast but the tric's to me, tell a different story.
This grow is soil with dry amendments, I am still feeding since I'm planning on reusing my medium. I just wanted to let them fade out naturally on their own.
Am I right in thinking these got a long way to go yet?

@Badfinger I have the same problem, every run. My grows seem to take forever to ripen, and almost always much longer than advertised. I'm currently running a Chick Magnet that should have been done two weeks ago and I'm worried it might not be done by the end of the month.

It looks like there's still some clear in there.I'd give it a few more weeks, and I think it will be more potent and balanced. I represent just one opinion though, so keep polling and see what the general consensus is.

 

[Son of Hobbes]

Some cultivars just never amber out in the trichomes (seems more common in autoflowers for some reason, but it happens with some photoperiod cultivars as well.) That's why harvesting strictly based on trichome appearance isn't necessarily the best method (because of this very reason, you can find yourself chasing after something that may just NEVER happen.) That doesn't make trichome appearance worthless though; because there's some correlation between their appearance and the maturity of the plant.

Personally I'd recommend looking at the overall health of the plant. There's a noticeable bud swell towards the end of the flower (not the beginning, not the middle, but that plumping fat-bottom-girl action happens towards the end.) Towards the end of flower, bracts tend to swell up almost like grape nuts, and they'll start to stack (can almost look like a foxtail.)

Your buds look amazing. Chop chop, mo trucka.

 

[kfigerm]

Hi,
I'd say with all of the usual disclaimers,
it depends on what high you are looking for. To me they look nicely milky, with some amber nuggets. What strain is it? some simply are like that.
milky is fine, just avoid clear ones. The ratio of the ambers comes from the timespan you have between too many still clear (not good) and too many already amber. Anything inbetween is a choice of yours - the hit will be there, as you already experienced.

Cheers

 

[Badfinger]

Some cultivars just never amber out in the trichomes (seems more common in autoflowers for some reason, but it happens with some photoperiod cultivars as well.) That's why harvesting strictly based on trichome appearance isn't necessarily the best method (because of this very reason, you can find yourself chasing after something that may just NEVER happen.) That doesn't make trichome appearance worthless though; because there's some correlation between their appearance and the maturity of the plant.

Personally I'd recommend looking at the overall health of the plant. There's a noticeable bud swell towards the end of the flower (not the beginning, not the middle, but that plumping fat-bottom-girl action happens towards the end.) Towards the end of flower, bracts tend to swell up almost like grape nuts, and they'll start to stack (can almost look like a foxtail.)

Your buds look amazing. Chop chop, mo trucka.

Buds have been swelling for close to 3 weeks, and I kept calling it foxtailing too, lol

 

[Badfinger]

Hi,
I'd say with all of the usual disclaimers,
it depends on what high you are looking for. To me they look nicely milky, with some amber nuggets. What strain is it? some simply are like that.
milky is fine, just avoid clear ones. The ratio of the ambers comes from the timespan you have between too many still clear (not good) and too many already amber. Anything inbetween is a choice of yours - the hit will be there, as you already experienced.

Cheers

This strain is Orange Sherbet. Last two grows were Critical Purple and Zkittelz

 

[GreenBean]

I don't remember if my Sherb was hard to tell by the ambers. But Hobbes is spot on. I usually look at the fan fade, and droop, to tell me when it's close. Then go from there. For instance the plant on the back left looks real close to me. Back right should follow, then the one front and center I would imagine would be ready third.

But. I don't ever go by the breeder's stated seed to harvest time. My Sherb went 110 days.

 

[Badfinger]

I don't remember if my Sherb was hard to tell by the ambers. But Hobbes is spot on. I usually look at the fan fade, and droop, to tell me when it's close. Then go from there. For instance the plant on the back left looks real close to me. Back right should follow, then the one front and center I would imagine would be ready third.

But. I don't ever go by the breeder's stated seed to harvest time. My Sherb went 110 days.

The tric pic's I posted are from the back left, since it looks furthest along. But all 3 seem to be the same on milky tric's.
Unfortunately my tent is also my drying room, so all have to come down together, I just have to find a happy medium
This is why I always grow all the same strain each grow.