Thoughts? Throw the scope away. When the pistils have all (or almost all) turned orange/brown and receed towards swollen calyx then the plant is ready.
Thicko newbie here do you mean when they don't stand to attention anymore (the pistils)
The pistils will look like this. They shrink back towards swollen calyx. They don't stick out.
For sure my man. She has at least 10 days left. Shes on her last nutes. Next week she gets only water until done. Honestly I was wondering how the hell checking trichomes was supposed to give you any kind of useful information. Luckily you have all educated me that trichomes, while fun to look at, are not a good source of any harvest timing mechanism. Here's a pic of the plant and buds, etc. She still has white pistols so I know she's not ready yet. Again, this was my first grow. DWC and she started in a 2x2 tent with a 300w blurple light.
It's not that the trichomes can't be useful. They just shouldn't be used as the sole source of determining when to harvest. Trichomes can change color for other reasons than the plant being done and on some strains the trichomes will not change color. The whole plant photos you just posted show at least 2 weeks until done but the photos of your trichomes show some amber here and there. Some growers get so caught up in the trichomes and are worried about the effect of the final product that they would harvest now because they are going for some "Head" high instead of the couchlock they believe allowing the trichomes to amber will bring. That is a flawed harvest method and leads to harvesting immature buds and the "Why does my weed smell like hay?" question.
Awesome. Good info brother. Sure makes harvesting a lot easier than. Thinking you have to figure out how to steady a microscope. But I thought the hay smell and taste was more from the drying/curing process. Which I am about to attempt for the first time.
Immature weed has not yet developed the terpenes that affect the taste and smell. I'm in the minority but I don't cure my weed. I dry it slowly and jar it to be smoked immediately. I like it fresh. Properly dried matured weed that hasn't been cured will have a better taste and smell than immature weed that has been cured.
Oh lord, I have a jewelers loupe, but holding it the right distance from my face and from the bud to focus is harder than using the scope. At least with the scope my face isn't smashed into it and I can take stoll shots lol.Immature weed has not yet developed the terpenes that affect the taste and smell. I'm in the minority but I don't cure my weed. I dry it slowly and jar it to be smoked immediately. I like it fresh. Properly dried matured weed that hasn't been cured will have a better taste and smell than immature weed that has been cured.
As for the microscope. It's completely unnecessary. Cannabis growers tend to overcomplicate things. Always wanting some new high tech gadget to play with. If you want to check the trichomes you don't need some USB scope you plug into your phone and fiddle around with some app taking stills and short movies.
All you need is one of these.
Immature weed has not yet developed the terpenes that affect the taste and smell. I'm in the minority but I don't cure my weed. I dry it slowly and jar it to be smoked immediately. I like it fresh. Properly dried matured weed that hasn't been cured will have a better taste and smell than immature weed that has been cured.
As for the microscope. It's completely unnecessary. Cannabis growers tend to overcomplicate things. Always wanting some new high tech gadget to play with. If you want to check the trichomes you don't need some USB scope you plug into your phone and fiddle around with some app taking stills and short movies.
All you need is one of these.
It's a jewelers loupe. For looking at gemstones.
Feeling dumb because I knew that but forgot. Thanks for opening the d file cabinet