BIG BUD harvesting help needed (with pics)

[Lacy]

Hi everyone,
I have been flowering some of these plants since the 2nd week of August and most of my buds are not ready yet. Some of them have 70 to 80% reddish hairs either on the top of the buds and not below OR one side is ready while the other side has just started to ripen.

My question is:

Am I supposed to wait until the entire bud turns 80% ready or just the tops of the bud 'cause most of these buds are really thick and heavy with layers and layers of buddy stuff?

I hope someone out there understands what I am saying because I am really unsure as to when to pick these BUT I do understand the tutorial.

I'll add some pictures so you know what I am talking about. These were taken about 4 days ago or so.

 

[Lacy]

Oh come on. Nobody????? You've gotta be kidding me????

 

[Lacy]

Surely someone knows!!!

 

[JBird816]

Dont Harvest yet give it a another weeek and then harvest btw they look nice

 

[LoganSmith]

Hey, whats going on? I guess not to many ppl are up at this time.
They look really good, from what I have read you might need 1-2 weeks. Do you know the stran. and how long have you had these in flower?
Can you get a closer pic so we can see the trics.
They look so so SEXY.
GLG.
Logan-

 

[Lacy]

Awee thanks guys. Unfortunately this new camera sucks and doesn't take great close ups but I will try and take some closer pictures. Unfortunately I do not know the strain of any of these plants and have never had the opportunity of growing a strain that I knew BUT I ordered some seeds yesterday. All my plants are unknowns!!!
They seem to be taking a lot longer than most other people's but I do live is a zone 5a in Canada.

I guess it is still very early,...I forgot about the time.

 

[LoganSmith]

I have read some threads stating that it took over 3 months for his/her plants to get out of flower. I don't rem. if they where out door grown, mabe they were blowing smoke. 90 days. shit I don't even want to wait 55 days.
must be nice to wake up looking at that everyday
GLG

 

[Early]

If you are so impatient and worried about when to harvest outdoors and need someone to tell you what to do then wait till after the FIRST FROST to harvest.

 

[Lacy]

I'm not at all impatient. If I was impatient I would just be picking the buds now and forget about waiting. I've grown for 15 years now but haven't picked them in the prime and I just want some opinions.
I'm not worried either, I just want the best bud to smoke just like everyone else.

If you are so impatient and worried about when to harvest outdoors and need someone to tell you what to do then wait till after the FIRST FROST to harvest.

 

[Lacy]

My main question is:
Do I wait until I see red hairs throughout the 'entire' bud or just the tops of them?

 

[morp]

you can always chop the tops off, allowing the bottom buds more light, and more time to finish. however, id wait another week or so. you got a magnifying glass?

 

[Gygax1974]

I go by trichomes Lacy, I use a cheap microscope that you can get at Radio Shack for 10.00 US. What I do is wait until about 75% of the trichomes are cloudy/and or turning amber. Different people like different feelings so harvesting sooner or later is sometimes up to personal preference. Let them go another week if you can and then see where you are at. Good luck

Nice plants by the way...yay!!!

 

[Early]

Question #1 If you have growing for 15 years why (for the love of all things holy) are you growing big bud? 20 year old seeds? Question #2 If you have been growing for 15 years, why are you asking us about reddish hairs? Are you growing outside or inside? I'm just curious. Anyway big ups to you for growing your own. Cute dog too.

 

[Ralphie]

i have the same issue.. my bottom buds are much more mature then my tops, now that i do some reading it may be because were hanging our lights too close, but i'd like to know more about what i should do as well..

 

[Lacy]

Good questions. I didn't mean by big bud the strain inself. I have never yet grown a known strain. These are all unknown seeds. What I meant is that these buds themselves are really big so they seem to be taking a long time.

I have been growing off and on for 15 years but most of my grow has been indoor grow and they seem to flower much earlier and since I had consistent lighting all around the plants, they also seemed to ripen evenly.

The plants that I grew outdoors all the other years were grown on other people's land (farmland etc) so I had to harvest them when I could. (Only about 4 years of out-door experience and it's different). This is the first out-door grow that I have had grown where I have been about to stress the plants, water them, feed them etc...and now hopefully harvest them right.

My friend told me years ago to harvest when the inner leaves get all sticky and you start seeing redish hairs, so I have always harvested my plants prematurely. Yes you would think I would know better but I didn't. Yeah I know! I have just recently learned all this new info from this site, from people like yourself. So thanks for the interest and your comments.

I have a beautiful shepherd too.

Question #1 If you have growing for 15 years why (for the love of all things holy) are you growing big bud? 20 year old seeds? Question #2 If you have been growing for 15 years, why are you asking us about reddish hairs? Are you growing outside or inside? I'm just curious. Anyway big ups to you for growing your own. Cute dog too.

 

[dangchowser]

Depends on what kind of high your looking for , are you looking for that energetic , giggly high ? Or are you looking for the ( I will only move for food) high? If you want THC and not so much CBD (the stoned feeling) then you wanna harvest now, if you like that (I dont want to move) feeling than harvest in 2-3 weeks, or untill almost all the hairs are redish top and bottom.

 

[Lacy]

That's interesting. Then perhaps I have been harvesting at the right time because I don't like that "I can't move" kind of high.
I like to do things when I am high and still want to be somewhat energetic. I'm a real giggler too.

Perhaps I will harvest some now and harvest some more later.

Oh the tough decisions of growing one's weed. j/k

Waaa hoooooo....I love it!!!!

BTW what is CBD?

Depends on what kind of high your looking for , are you looking for that energetic , giggly high ? Or are you looking for the ( I will only move for food) high? If you want THC and not so much CBD (the stoned feeling) then you wanna harvest now, if you like that (I dont want to move) feeling than harvest in 2-3 weeks, or untill almost all the hairs are redish top and bottom.

 

[Lacy]

That's what i started doing BUT then I don't have a nice big bud any more plus then it is harder to dry cause it doesn't have the length.

I will wait another week or so, harvest some, then pick up a microscope and harvest the rest so i can have some 'couch potato type pot.'

I'm even rotating them for even sunlight.

you can always chop the tops off, allowing the bottom buds more light, and more time to finish. however, id wait another week or so. you got a magnifying glass?

 

[Lacy]

Yes I need to get one of those at radio shack but I keep forgetting.
I'd really like to see what that looks like up close and personal.

Nice plants? Coming from you, I'll take that as a real compliment. [quote=Gygax1974;303250]I go by trichomes Lacy, I use a cheap microscope that you can get at Radio Shack for 10.00 US. What I do is wait until about 75% of the trichomes are cloudy/and or turning amber. Different people like different feelings so harvesting sooner or later is sometimes up to personal preference. Let them go another week if you can and then see where you are at. Good luck

Nice plants by the way...yay!!![/quote]

 

[cali-high]

i like the energetic high to so i would harvest now