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Originally Posted by potroast
Just because all of you are doing that doesn't make it correct. You all are harvesting too early, before the resins are ripe.
Blue Dream is a sativa-dominant hybrid, and the plant looks like it and the high is certainly sativa like. The Haze that she is crossed with is a 12-14 week ripening time, so no hybrid of that will be finished in 8 weeks.
You said so yourself, you're in it solely for the money, so you are harvesting early.
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my point is we have all tried longer and shorter flower times and agree that they are done in 8 weeks!! I'm not in it soley for the money but waiting ten weeks is definatly a waste of money and time unless you are growing outside or on a very small scale.
I HAVE AMBER TRICHS AT 8 WEEKS... PERIOD, THATS ALL IM SAYING! If I went ten weeks all my trichs would turn amber and the weed looks tired and spent.
i like to harvest before a lot of trichs turn amber, and a lot of people feel the same way!
Here's a quote from Jorge Cervantes growers bible :
"Harvest when the majority of trichomes have turned amber FOR A BODY STONE. Pure indica, afgani, and indica dominant strains harvested at this "LATE" point will possess a heavy body, or couchlock stone. HERE'S THE IMPORTANT PART SO PAY ATTENTION)... Waiting to harvest pure sativa and SATIVA-DOMINANT VARIETIES ( like blue dream ) will NOT take advantage of these strains. Such strains are BEST harvested when resin glands are CLEAR to MILKY colored. !!!!!!
So, according to Jorge Cervantes book... im actually waiting too long since I do wait to start seeing amber trichs on my sativa dominant strain!!!
After 8 weeks by my standard it is done and the benafits of letting it go longer are not justified cost wise nor quality wise. maybe by other peoples standard its not done cuz they want 50/50 amber thrichs?
let me ask all of you:
how do you determine when it's ready to harvest?
if i have amber thrichs when i harvest... am i harvesting too early?
you said the haze she is crossed with is 12-14 weeks (WHATS THE NAME OF THE HAZE?) and as far as i knew the haze it was crossed with was of unknown genitics... maybe it was not 100 % haze and didnt have a 12-14 week time? maybe the blue berry was a pheno/genitics with a really short flower time? besides, genitics dont always work excactly how you would expect and regardless everyone seems to agree that that the true exact genitics of blue dream arent known.
I DIDNT COME HERE TO ARGUE JUST SHARING MY EXPERIENCE AS ARE YOU... OUR EXPERIENCES AND GROWING SITUATIONS OBVIOUSLY ARE DIFFERENT. I never told anyone here that they were "not correct" but everyone feels pretty confident telling me that I am "not correct".
maybe its bcuz i dont have 3 million posts? oh well, i still hope everyone does well, i was just trying to help not change your grow methods.
grow it for 15 weeks maybe that will be the bomb!!??hehe