57 days of flowering and trichs are still 85% clear and 15% milky.. its a 9 week strain Mataro blue

So i am at day 57 of flowering and the trichs are 85% clear.. does tht mean i have bout 2-3 weeks left?

Patience my friend.

hey bob, glad to hear the grow is still going well. don't forget that there is a measure of personal taste involved in harvesting. You might want to try harvesting one plant in stages so you can check the various stages of "ripeness" and choose which one is right for you. Or you might wait until the meristem bud, the bud on your main cola, is a little more amber while your lowest, smallest buds are still more clear and get a variety of ripeness levels that way. You might find out that you like to have the same strain harvested at different stages for different purposes. Don't get too hung up on rules of thumb and recommendations--use them as your guide. Besides, these percentage estimates are super iffy. Since you don't want to handle the buds too much at this stage, you're not going to be scoping 50 different spots and then actually counting trich heads and then dividing the number of amber, milky, and clear out of the total. You're going to look at 3-5 different spots (preferably at different heights on the plant) and give a ballpark guess based on those 5 samples.

I'd go ahead and give the full 9 weeks before planning to harvest, and then start checking your trichs every two days or so. When things look, smell, and feel (sticky!) the way you want, start your chop. if you want to harvest in stages, start with the tops and work down over the course of another week-10 days. Personally, i like to chop the whole plant at once.
be easy,

Dr.J20 said:

hey bob, glad to hear the grow is still going well. don't forget that there is a measure of personal taste involved in harvesting. You might want to try harvesting one plant in stages so you can check the various stages of "ripeness" and choose which one is right for you. Or you might wait until the meristem bud, the bud on your main cola, is a little more amber while your lowest, smallest buds are still more clear and get a variety of ripeness levels that way. You might find out that you like to have the same strain harvested at different stages for different purposes. Don't get too hung up on rules of thumb and recommendations--use them as your guide. Besides, these percentage estimates are super iffy. Since you don't want to handle the buds too much at this stage, you're not going to be scoping 50 different spots and then actually counting trich heads and then dividing the number of amber, milky, and clear out of the total. You're going to look at 3-5 different spots (preferably at different heights on the plant) and give a ballpark guess based on those 5 samples.

I'd go ahead and give the full 9 weeks before planning to harvest, and then start checking your trichs every two days or so. When things look, smell, and feel (sticky!) the way you want, start your chop. if you want to harvest in stages, start with the tops and work down over the course of another week-10 days. Personally, i like to chop the whole plant at once.
be easy,

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thanks for the advice... I checked diferent spots on the buds and checked like 3..4... buds on each plant.. 3 plants still have all clear trichomes... 2 plants "have" something near this percentage i wrote before...

bobigno said:

thanks for the advice... I checked diferent spots on the buds and checked like 3..4... buds on each plant.. 3 plants still have all clear trichomes... 2 plants "have" something near this percentage i wrote before...

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yeah i'd definitely say you've got another 2 weeks to go then for the majority of your plants. breeder time-estimates are for flowering mature plants in ideal conditions; any deviations from an ideal grow will add a proportional amount of time to the grow. be easy

Dr.J20 said:

yeah i'd definitely say you've got another 2 weeks to go then for the majority of your plants. breeder time-estimates are for flowering mature plants in ideal conditions; any deviations from an ideal grow will add a proportional amount of time to the grow. be easy

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Thanks. And thank you for the nice words bout the grow

I hope you cloned this plant.

Grandmah said:

I hope you cloned this plant.

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No i didnt why?

From my experience it's such an awesome strain. I grew it a few years back and wish I kept it, at the time I wasn't keeping strains. Now I'm growing it again hoping to get what I got the first time. I know it's really late in flower but it can still be cloned.