How long?

Patricf1

Patricf1

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I fear that I have been letting my plants go a bit too long before harvesting so I am asking for advise.

Here are 2 pictures from my 2 plants.
Is it time? Do I need to wait?
One looks more done than the other....
I cant cant get a good trich pic but will try...

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SheeshM

SheeshM

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I see white pistils standing tall still. The pistils will go brown/red and shrivel into the buds. Calyxes will swell some more too. They look great but you're 2+ weeks from done, IMO.
 
Merlin1147

Merlin1147

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Do you have a jeweler loupe? Hard to say from the pics but the plant itself looks like it have a ways to go. Why do you think you’ve been harvesting too late. That’s really hard to do.
 
Patricf1

Patricf1

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Merlin1147 said:
Do you have a jeweler loupe? Hard to say from the pics but the plant itself looks like it have a ways to go. Why do you think you’ve been harvesting too late. That’s really hard to do.
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The reasons I think that are, my prior batches went 3 weeks more than they were advertised. At one point, they were quite frosty but as I kept waiting they seemed to get much less frosty. Even though the leaves on the kolas were turning amber and drying out, the buds just kept growing more and more hairs. The trichs were cloudy but never went to amber.
The weed I grew was good...but I feel that if I had harvested earlier they would have been better since they had lost their frost.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Patricf1 said:
The reasons I think that are, my prior batches went 3 weeks more than they were advertised. At one point, they were quite frosty but as I kept waiting they seemed to get much less frosty. Even though the leaves on the kolas were turning amber and drying out, the buds just kept growing more and more hairs. The trichs were cloudy but never went to amber.
The weed I grew was good...but I feel that if I had harvested earlier they would have been better since they had lost their frost.
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That sounds like foxtailing. Do you have any pics of the last plants? Here's a link I found on it.

https://www.royalqueenseeds.com/blog-how-to-spot-and-handle-cannabis-foxtails-n638
 
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nmibud

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Have you been flushing these plants?If so all it does is kill a plant that isn't finished yet.
 
Merlin1147

Merlin1147

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Patricf1 said:
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There certainly was foxtailing...but it didnt happen until after where harvest time SHOULD have happened.
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Usually that’s from high temps and light intensity. Try dimming the light or moving it up, dropping your temps a few degrees and shortening the daylight hours a bit. A couple of growers here that I really respect suggested gradually reducing light intensity, temp and daylight hours as a standard practice the last couple week during maturation.
 
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