Complete Newbie. Ready for Harvest?

I'm a complete newbie and grew this Cookies+Berries Autoflower outside using a lot of information I read and gathered from this forum. Thanks to all of you! Questions are, how does my plant look and is it ready for harvest? I'm slightly color blind so any advice is appreciated! Sorry for so many photos I just want to make sure I'm right. These are the best photos I could get through my magnifier.
 

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Very nice looking buds, but, nope, you're weeks away from harvest. All the pistils should be red/brown and crinkled, and the caylxes should be swollen.
Thanks! I understand about the pistols. I was trying to go by the trichomes but I guess I’m off. It seemed like my pistols actually disappeared for a week or so then came back. Is that normal? Also, if you don’t mind can you elaborate on the calyxes?
 

Hook Daddy

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Don’t worry about the trichomes until all the other indicators have been met. Mainly you want your pistols to change orange brown, then the calyxes will swell and the hairs will appear to recede. There will be no more white hairs unless you have a long running sativa that foxtails ime. Once all that has happened you can look at the trichomes, and when you do look at bud trichs not sugar leaves.
 

Phytoplankton

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Thanks! I understand about the pistols. I was trying to go by the trichomes but I guess I’m off. It seemed like my pistols actually disappeared for a week or so then came back. Is that normal? Also, if you don’t mind can you elaborate on the calyxes?
The caylx is the structure the pistil sticks out of.
 

obijohn

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Nice job for a newbie! If it was a photo and not auto I'd say 6 weeks-ish. I have no experience in autoflowers so I dunno if they mature the same as photos
 

Phytoplankton

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Nice job for a newbie! If it was a photo and not auto I'd say 6 weeks-ish. I have no experience in autoflowers so I dunno if they mature the same as photos
About the same as photos, maybe a week or so sooner. When it comes to maturation it's a crapshoot, some go quickly once the pistils die back, some just putter along slowly till the finish, pretty true of both photos and autos.
 
Thanks for the replies. I couldn't have made it this far without reading through this community. She was supposed to be a "10-12 week" autoflower and germinated on April 7 so 12 weeks will be around July 1. I know that's not a good indicator of when she will be ready just FYI
 

MichiganGrows44

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UPDATE What do you guys think now? Is it about time? I don't want to mess it up lol
Hey my man.....this a few months old but, your first grow???? Man you did fantastic!!! It's fun isn't it? Once you get to about 90 days on an auto you're like WHY AREN'T YOU DONE!!! Checking trichomes 4-5 times a day ..... I haven't been growing long I found out my biggest problem was....I couldn't keep my hands off em lol. I overloved em lol. Great job I'm curious how your harvest went???
 

Biased

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outdoor grows you gonna get dirty flowers. a day before you harvest you'd use a a softer setting and spray that junk off. there's gonna be foreign pollens, bugs, pollutants.
 

Paul-n-Chukka

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Hey man....this is an old post and I'm by nooo means a pro. Only a few grows done. What do you mean wash those buds??
There's an old video of Jorge Cervantes doing this to wash off diatomaceous dust. He actually dunks colas into a bucket of water. After a few times the water is looking muddy.

Haha its a desperate measure man. And more chances of growing mold mildew if you don't dry em out fast enough.
 

Budzbuddha

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It is a way to remove foreign material - bugs / foliar products , cat hair , splooge or whatever from plants.
A simple dip and swirl would suffice. Shake off excessive moisture and hang dry. I have done this before when i dealt with the Borg ( spider mites ) years ago. After i kicked their ass with a ISO spray , had to remove the corpses. No lemon juice or other nonsense needed - just warm water.

It does remove the bulk of things sticking to buds but better than nothing.

There are tons of variations to this but a simple dunk or two will work . One bucket.

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