Harvest time?

It's only been 8 weeks but it looks like my northern lights auto is ready for harvest...it it?

No. Not yet. Needs more time. Give it two more weeks at least.
It is an auto flower but....northern lights is known for longer flowering time.

Definitely needs 3ish weeks still before I’d even consider cutting.

Listen to T Cat .... weeks to go .... swelling and pistil changes. Don’t get too much in a hurry.

Budzbuddha said:

Listen to T Cat .... weeks to go .... swelling and pistil changes. Don’t get too much in a hurry.

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Yeah weeks...when it needs support cause its leaning or falling over your getting close.

What do you guys think? IMO I think 7-10days and it should be ready?

Indica27 said:

What do you guys think? IMO I think 7-10days and it should be ready?

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Gonna be closer to 16-18 I bet. Those buds look like they stil have some swelling to do, and then you wanna check the trichomes to be ripe.

Thanks dude appreciated

@Thundercat can you help me out please, how long would you say this has left? I can’t distinguish the orange hairs from the bud, too much purple! Tia

Can you see the pale green new hairs? Shes still going, all be it slowing down.

I might be seeing things but thought I saw a nanner in bottom 1/3 of pic?

Get a scope or magnifying glass.

@Snoopy808 whats a nanner dude??

Indica27 said:

@Snoopy808 whats a nanner dude??

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"nanner" is short for "banana" which is what a lot of growers call the stamen that can show up on female plants that have herm'd from stress. More info HERE

A modified female calyx. Looks like a banana when emerging. Its a type of hermaphroditism. Not a true hermie. Common late in flower with certain strain.
Could make seed. If its just one nanner pull it with tweezers. If its more than a few get some more advice an what to do.

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Snoopy808 said:

A modified female calyx. Looks like a banana when emerging. Its a type of hermaphroditism. Not a true hermie. Common late in flower with certain strain.
Could make seed. If its just one nanner pull it with tweezers. If its more than a few get some more advice an what to do.

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I'm sure you know this, so this is more for new growers who may be reading this, but the "nanner" is actually a stamen, and the stamen is the male reproductive part that is usually enclosed within a pollen sac. One thing that sucks about them is they can start making pollen as soon as they emerge, but the good thing is they don't realease pollen as heavily as a male pollen sac that cracks open to release a bunch at once.

Stamen yes thats the word i couldn't remember! Tomato potato fritatta lol
But yeah less likely to get full seedy bud. And dont cry too much cause if it pollenates a different strain you got outcrossed F1 feminized seed.
Years ago I got inspired by SOMAs feminized seeds and started making my own after solving a greenhouse mystery of "where are these seeds coming from, I only run clones". Not a big fan of clone to clone "selfed" feminized seed. Seen some weird stuff in that and much greater tendencies to herm mid to late in flower with lots of bananas instead of one or two. But the outcrossed feminized seed was fine, uniform phenotype not more prone to bananas.
I dont run fem seed or make it any more. I think it just amplifies the tendency to self pollenate and not a good trait to breed or pass on IMO.

I don't even let a regular herm accidental pollination ruin my day. I had that happen 2 grow cycles ago and just let them seed up. I plucked all the seeds that were ready (close to 800 seeds IIRC) and I'm just using those for lower effort outdoor grows. If they all herm on me then I'll just cull them and toss them. I have 20 of them sprouting now so it won't be long until I force some into flower to see if the female to herm rate is low enough to keep the rest. All of the bud from that grow just went into edibles.

Indica27 said:

@Thundercat can you help me out please, how long would you say this has left? I can’t distinguish the orange hairs from the bud, too much purple! Tia

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Not the greatest pictures, but looks like maybe 3ish weeks. There is still some fresh new growth, so could even a a bit longer to be fully ripe.