my bro ther in law cooks all his green i those chocolate chip ready made cookies because he is afraid of getting lung cancer from smokin too much...he gave me some after i ate a few cookies i got a pretty good buz but i'd rather smoke myself....he had to really work the shit out of the weed, he has ;one of those big ass food processers, and grinds the hell out of the weed then when ready smashes it in the choc. chip cookies....the freezes what he doesn't eat...by the time he is finished ;you can't even taste the weed hardly like some brownies i'e had...other wise get an ice bong and cool the smoke off i always cough especially if the weed is really good!!good luck and happy harvest i would not harvest too early either (i did and lived to regret it) at least i have 5 more to go. LOL RUBY

Awweeee! That's too bad.
Tell hubby not to laugh. ...for hubby...not you..j/k

start a 2 week flush at cloudy, and use plain water with a little carbo load or sweetleaf to give your plants enough energy to survive the long flush... also id recomend a dose of "gravity" from humboldt county prior to flushing... that would be what id do... but i grow in coco... and have no exp. in soil.. goodluck

Ok, so if you flush for 2 wks. How many waterings would you need to do in that time frame for an appropriate flush?
I grow in soiled beds not pots. Say for instance I do my first flush and the soil is quite wet for a up to a week or longer and I only get one or two full applications of water/molasses within the 2 wk flush time, that's not a good enough flush, correct? What would be acceptable??

Since I am in soiled beds, do I water heavily until the water seeps out of the beds?

I, too, would like to know if there is a general timeline from when the Trichs are clear to cloudy, to amber. Say for instance you have an unknown strain and notice the hairs start turning. You pull out your scope and the trichs are still clear. A few days or week go by and the trichs are still clear, then you start seeing trichs getting cloudy. What is the timeframe from cloudy to amber???????

From the time you see it go from clear to cloudy, is there ample time for a 2wk flush????

Why is it that the FEW plant I have grown in rather small crowded pots are doing soooo well they have beautiful flowers going all the way down the stems..... I cannot figure ii out..... now I am flushing them....I am growing these in my greenhouse without anything but sunlight. What's up> the ones I planted in the garden for fun... we just awful no real flowers to be proud of, besides my hubby was paronoid about the whole garden thing.

couchlock not coughlock. couchlock means being so blazed you cant get up off the couch.

I am in the same boat, brother, the waiting game! I say pull your crop when it reaches the stage that creates the high you desire. I prefer waiting till the tri's are 50-60% amber, but that is me, i want a balanced high. Growing is always a learning experience, so learn from this grow, whatever you decide to do. I agree that maybe you pull some of the more developed buds, and let some turn amber, that way you can see what you like. Also, if you don't have the cash for one of those special pocket microscopes to see the trichomes, take a pair of binoculars and look through them upside down, right on the bud. It works great, and if you already have binocs, its cheaper!