How Much Longer??!

KushMaster85

KushMaster85

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Here is my girl she is at 49days flowering.:weed: I do not know the exact strain but she did come from a bag of WW. The hairs have turned about 60% orange. The trichomes on one bud are almost all clear with a few cloudy and on another one it is mostly cloudy with a few amber. I am not sure on how to judge the trich stage. I am looking for an up high not the couch lock. I did notice a big explosion of growth from yesterday to today. I am thinking 55 days wich will be next friday for harvest. What do you Experts think:?:

KM:peace::bigjoint:
 
hi kushmaster if u want the "up high"then go ahead and harvest thats when it has high CBD levels. when trichs start to turn amber means that the thc is breaking down and the plant is producing more CBN which gives u the couchlock buzz. hope this helps. p.s. pretty girl by the way :)
 
Thanks duncan. I am looking for an up high but I also dont want to loose potency by harvesting too early. Do you think that the THC content is high at this stage?
 
I like an up high too, so you could go any time now or wait until at least 50% cloudy. :peace:
 
Chiech That is my question. How do you really determine trichome stage. You can possibly look at every trich. Are there certain areas to check in order to make the best estimate? This will help me a lot with the harvest timming.
 
KushMaster85 said:
Chiech That is my question. How do you really determine trichome stage. You can possibly look at every trich. Are there certain areas to check in order to make the best estimate? This will help me a lot with the harvest timming.
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That's a good question and I hope someone has an answer. Which buds do you look at- top branches, bottom branches, tip of branch, middle of branch- and how many of them do you need to look at.
 
Hi all,the way i do it is check all the calyx that u can see and that are swollen (hopefully all)on all the buds,that seems to be where most of the trich development is,also u can look over the bud leaves but the calyx has the most.This method is time consuming but i do get a more accurate estimation. Friday seems perfect for you to harvest .hope this helps keep us posted. PEACE :):):):);)
 
duncan idaho said:
Hi all,the way i do it is check all the calyx that u can see and that are swollen (hopefully all)on all the buds,that seems to be where most of the trich development is,also u can look over the bud leaves but the calyx has the most.
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Can you describe from his pictures what the calyxes are? Looking at his second pic, the one up close, which part of that is the calyx? I would think it's the tiny green leaves that the hairs lay on and form the mass of the buds. Is that right?

As far as harvesting goes, my observations from reading is that you want a strain's trichs to at least be cloudy, if not some amber. It seems like cloudy with some amber would be the point you get the truest characteristics of what the breeder would have described about the high. If I used your method and didn't want a couch lock and found one plant to be mostly or all cloudy with a few amber top to bottom, I'd harvest the entire thing. Knowing bottom branches tend to mature faster, if the bottom branches were ready but the top branches still had a lot of clear trichs I'd only harvest the branches that were ready and wait a little while on the others. I would also wait on the plant that still had a lot of clear trichs. I'd at least want them to be mostly cloudy. The thing is, they look so ready to me(my inexperienced eye). It would be hard to leave them out there to mature much longer just because they look so ripe. From watching the Greenhouse videos I remember their white widow or white rhino looking ready about ready but their saying you could wait a little longer before 8-9 weeks and it will really get snow covered with trichs. These plants are at 7 weeks and both nirvana and greenhouse say their WW is 8-9 weeks. Still, I guess you have to go by your plant and what it's showing you under the microscope and how much of the CBD couchlocky high you're willing to tolerate. It doesn't seem like you would want to harvest any branches that have clear trichs and in order to produce the THC have to wait til they are at least cloudy. If I get my plants to a point where I have a choice I will probably harvest some branches at all cloudy and some at cloudy with some amber if I can discern that under the microscope just to see if there's that much difference. But I seriously doubt I'll wait til most are amber(not that anyone suggested that).

I wonder what a sativa with mostly amber trichs would feel like? All these discussions about trich color determining the high makes me wonder if you can harvest an indica with mostly cloudy that seems just like sativa or sativa with mostly amber that seems like indica.
 
I agree virginharvester selective harvesting is the way to go.Also the calyx is what the pistil grows out of .When ripe and swollen it looks like a seed pod.
 
Great I think with this info I can determine the best time for me to harvest my plant. Thank you all for the help.

KM
 
I will be posting it in a few weeks or it maybe a while but I will post the report. Yes you guys helped alot with this grow. Thanks again

KM
 
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