Synchronicity
Well-Known Member
If this is your 1st grow with "Tropicana cookies" then you are doing great! I had the same issue with a Super Lemon Haze strain that is supposedly similar to Tropicana cookies in that it is about 80% sativa dominant compared to 70% in Tropicana cookies?
At the 8 week stage I think it is about time to look at trichomes since they are a critical thing. Whether you choose to chop at the beginning, middle or end of your harvest window is a judgement call. The ratio of clear to amber heads on the stalks is important as a reference to your next grow (of the same strain).
It seemed to take forever (10 weeks) to get to this stage and I chopped them with less than 5 percent amber heads. About 15 percent were clear before the harvest - and about 25 percent were clear after, with about 5 percent ambers on the large top buds after the chop. they seemed to generate additional trichomes during the dark before harvest. It was 36 hours.
When ambers get up to about 20%, I think you are looking at degraded heads and you are losing THCa. so too many ambers or dark heads gives you a more physical high and can couch lock you sooner with a headache the next day.
How to judge clears from cloudy is also a nebulous call...........it may depend on your strain.
So I was early by most judgements here on this forum. It comes down to how does it smoke, no?
It is speedy since most trichomes are cloudy with both clear and ambers present. I love it and it gives me a clear, heady high and does not couch lock me unless I smoke it heavy all day.
So I think I did fine in hindsight. If anything for the next grow (which may be tropicana cookies!)-
I will look for the same amount of ambers and clears before I chop. this forum is a great source of info but you will get a variety of ideas on most any given subject here...........
but for me on my 1st lemon haze grow, trichomes were my best guide after about 8 weeks..............
and I may have been better off waiting another week (or so)...... maybe
I am coming off of grows of an unknown sativa strain that I would harvest time and time again at 6 weeks from chop- so strains vary a lot............
thats what I think
At the 8 week stage I think it is about time to look at trichomes since they are a critical thing. Whether you choose to chop at the beginning, middle or end of your harvest window is a judgement call. The ratio of clear to amber heads on the stalks is important as a reference to your next grow (of the same strain).
It seemed to take forever (10 weeks) to get to this stage and I chopped them with less than 5 percent amber heads. About 15 percent were clear before the harvest - and about 25 percent were clear after, with about 5 percent ambers on the large top buds after the chop. they seemed to generate additional trichomes during the dark before harvest. It was 36 hours.
When ambers get up to about 20%, I think you are looking at degraded heads and you are losing THCa. so too many ambers or dark heads gives you a more physical high and can couch lock you sooner with a headache the next day.
How to judge clears from cloudy is also a nebulous call...........it may depend on your strain.
So I was early by most judgements here on this forum. It comes down to how does it smoke, no?
It is speedy since most trichomes are cloudy with both clear and ambers present. I love it and it gives me a clear, heady high and does not couch lock me unless I smoke it heavy all day.
So I think I did fine in hindsight. If anything for the next grow (which may be tropicana cookies!)-
I will look for the same amount of ambers and clears before I chop. this forum is a great source of info but you will get a variety of ideas on most any given subject here...........
but for me on my 1st lemon haze grow, trichomes were my best guide after about 8 weeks..............
and I may have been better off waiting another week (or so)...... maybe
I am coming off of grows of an unknown sativa strain that I would harvest time and time again at 6 weeks from chop- so strains vary a lot............
thats what I think
