Not exactly a noob, I'm just looking for opinions... how much til harvest?

I'd be chopping that right now but I tend to jump the gun on harvesting. Long as you don't have to worry about mold, I'd say you can let it go another week or two. Looks like it's going to be dank as hell, bro!
 
There's two things you should be looking for, one the hairs will all curl in and two the glands should all be milky white. Wait until the hairs have all curled in then take a loop and check out the glands. If there's still some clear leave it go, if you see any amber in there chop it right away.
 
Dan Drews said:
You still have white hairs in those pics. I'd check the trichomes out of curiosity, then let grow for 2 more weeks minimum, then check the trichomes again.
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New Age United said:
There's two things you should be looking for, one the hairs will all curl in and two the glands should all be milky white. Wait until the hairs have all curled in then take a loop and check out the glands. If there's still some clear leave it go, if you see any amber in there chop it right away.
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Very good advice there, the only other thing I would add is to watch for the calyxes to swell, they should look like they are about to burst. I would say 1-2 weeks as well. As for flushing, without starting an argument I feel that flushing is only necessary if you have a lot of salt/nutrient build up that you need to correct. Depriving your plants of nutrients during the final push is counter productive, I believe most of the myths people attribute to not flushing are from drying and curing too fast/improperly. I have not flushed my plants pre-harvest for many years now and the only difference I have noticed is higher yield... You can search and find this subject beat to death from both sides haha.
 
rocpilefsj said:
Very good advice there, the only other thing I would add is to watch for the calyxes to swell, they should look like they are about to burst. I would say 1-2 weeks as well. As for flushing, without starting an argument I feel that flushing is only necessary if you have a lot of salt/nutrient build up that you need to correct. Depriving your plants of nutrients during the final push is counter productive, I believe most of the myths people attribute to not flushing are from drying and curing too fast/improperly. I have not flushed my plants pre-harvest for many years now and the only difference I have noticed is higher yield... You can search and find this subject beat to death from both sides haha.
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I won't be flushing my current crop
 
Thank you all for your input.
I chopped it a few days after I started the thread. I let it go a couple of days then I put it outside (sunlight makes all my flowering plants go into turbo mode: 9 week strains will finish in 7 weeks and so forth...it's amazing). This particular plant has had amber trichomes on leaves for a little less than a week but not a single one on the buds... I guess it's one of those strains... and I agree about the white pistils but she was literally collapsing under her own weight... so I had to cut it. Anyway, to those whom it may concern, the strain is Purple Bud (hah!) from Sensi grown under Bridgelux LEDs 4000K 80 CRI driven hard (1400mA)
 
With chopping you would have missed the final push and hurt your yield, patience pays off lol. Any pics of the harvest or bud shots? FYI the sugar leaves tric's will mature much quicker than the buds, I have seen amber tric's on my sugar leaves as early as week 4 or 5 of flowering, always go by the tric's on your buds.
 
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