New Grower Opinion on how close to harvest

[4d-Rock]

hey guys. My grow has been a bit of a roller coaster but I think I've learned quite a bit. Thanks to everyone on the forums, it's a great place. I'm Hoping the next goes a bit better, but could you please take a look and estimate where abouts my plant is in terms of harvest?

I'm trying to determine when to stop nutes and when to start a bit of molasses with water.

FYI, it's at day 60 from sprout.

Thanks

 

[iampepe]

imho she has a couple weeks to go yet This your first plant? Whatcha growing?

 

[Be4u]

My first impression/if that was mine...
My opinion is that you got another month, hard to tell really but that's what I get from the photos provided. I zoomed in too

 

[4d-Rock]

Ya, is My first. It's a white widow auto-fem from Crop King Seeds. I'm growing in a 2 gal smart pot, within a 5 gallon space bucket with LED bulbs up top and strip side lights.

I had various issues like hot initial soil, too high N veg nutes, coupled with pH issues. But I am happy it's still fighting through my inexperience.

I had posted those pics thinking those were the right ones but that was about day 58. I got home and looked at my notes and Today is day 61 and I snapped a few pics. Hopefully better quality than last. Plus I tried out a scope that I recently picked up so I'll post those too.

 

[Be4u]

Yeah, imho, you got another month.
If you notice (and you should be carefully checking) any mold or rot or spider webs cut out that part of the bud. Using a embroydery scissors will help separating the buds. You don't have to check every node....just poke around a little. Rot can be sneaky.

Your next step is learning how to crop.

 

[bushdktr]

I agree, maybe not a month, I would guess a couple of weeks, wait until the inner, small leaves start to turn yellow too. Then, it’s a matter of personal preferences...you’ve got 80-90% milky trics aprox, I like it with 10-20% amber. What I personally do is a vape test with a small sample I dry for a few days. Keep it up bro!


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[4d-Rock]

Yeah, imho, you got another month.
If you notice (and you should be carefully checking) any mold or rot or spider webs cut out that part of the bud. Using a embroydery scissors will help separating the buds. You don't have to check every node....just poke around a little. Rot can be sneaky.

Your next step is learning how to crop.

Thanks, I've been trying to stay observant to spot any weird mold or rot, I haven't yet, which is good, but I will keep looking. I had to add a dehumidifier in the room and it's at about 45RH and 27 deg C. If I try to lower the RH any more the temp starts creeping up too high.

And topping would be interesting, though I dunno if my bucket could handle it lol. I'll post a pic with a top view.

So you'd recommend doing nutes every other feeding for another week or so then switch over to molasses and pH water?

 

[4d-Rock]

I agree, maybe not a month, I would guess a couple of weeks, wait until the inner, small leaves start to turn yellow too. Then, it’s a matter of personal preferences...you’ve got 80-90% milky trics aprox, I like it with 10-20% amber. What I personally do is a vape test with a small sample I dry for a few days. Keep it up bro!


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Thanks for the tips! I don't have a personal preference at this point so it's goin to be a learning experience. I'll go by yours and others' words and see how it goes.

I'll keep my eyes on those leaves and trichs. I also better start doing more research on harvesting, drying and curing so I'm ready when i need to!

 

[Be4u]

Autoflowering plants are a little different. You gotta CROP early so the plant isn't repairing itself while trying to flower.

Same with TOPPING the plant. Actually, I'd just top forget about cropping right now, Top it early.

As far as prep for harvest, start with plain water now. Molasses? Why? Just give it plain PH water. A couple days before you plan to harvest think about parching your plant. Its an old trick that helps with the curing process. Doesn't make anything better but naturally depletes some water from the plant and helps combat mold/rot early in the drying process.

This is all my opinion. Please share your opinions and not attack mine. That stuff gets me banned.

 

[4d-Rock]

Thanks @Be4u, I started just water and have done it twice in the last 5 days. I'm now on day 67 and the fan leaves are turning quite rapidly, the top ones really turned in the last day. I'll continue doing my watering for the next week or so before parching and then give my first harvest a go.

One thing I noticed though too is that the sugar leaves have turned quite purple. Is this a deficiency? I didn't think it was a trait of a white widow. I did read somewhere saying that tiger bloom nutes can do this as well.
Regardless, I'm probably too far in to do anything about it anyways.