First chop down

So I chopped one of my first girls today. Its the 42nd day of flowering. Northern Lights is supposed to take around 56 days, but I'm assuming that for max maturity. After studying the trichomes on the plants, it appeared that there was a very good mix of clear and cloudy colored ones. I chose to go for more of head high affect.
The total wet weight was roughly 175 g ( I didn't really weight the flowers from low down on the plant because they were mostly stem).

My question to you all, is should I wait on the other two plants that I have or cut them down now as well? My thought was I might cut down the smaller one of the two and let the big moma go all the way to day 56. What do you think?

Here are some pics of the cut.

i think you should let it go all the way. see how it turns out. you have bud now so there is no hurry.

I've always let my Northern Lights flower for at least 60 days. You need to let a plant go longer just so you will learn how they ripen, and what cloudy resins really look like.

that looks delicious. well done man

splifman said:

My question to you all, is should I wait on the other two plants that I have or cut them down now as well? My thought was I might cut down the smaller one of the two and let the big moma go all the way to day 56. What do you think?

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Why not just sample them, and see which high you like the most?

Thanks everybody. I will probably chop the next one down around day 52 and let the last one go till day 60 or maybe a little longer. I sampled some of yesterdays cuttings last night after drying a small amount in the microwave. It was definitely a clearer high than I'm used to and in the morning I didn't feel bed locked or groggy.