So I've been reading up, and Subcool suggested that for indica heavy hybrids, and most hybrids grown today that harvesting when the trichs are mostly cloudy and even a few CLEAR ones left is ideal, to avoid the couchlock effect. That Sativas are typically where the 50% cloudy 50% amber rule is best. Ideas?

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I got to mainly sativas and i had to harvest early and most of mine were cloudy with some still clear and very few ambers and,my smoke is pretty great energetic head high,im happy with that and i was worried cause they say all that amber but in my case not holding up with the 50% amber shit,maybe 70 cloudy 10 clear and 20 maybe amber!!!!

Yeah, my concern was potency. Harvesting too early and sacrificing THC. But at this point I think the work is done and it's time to chop! Reading more about what trichome color indicates for THC production helps a lot. If your plant is 90% cloudy you can really harvest anytime.

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i do 3 harvests from a single plant, clear to cloudy=nice mellow head high.all cloudy to amber=all around high.cloudy going to mostly amber=couchlock stoned effect. 3 different highs 1 plant no real ill effects in harvesting like this.

Otwa, you mentioned doing staggered harvest. I want to try this since my growspace is crouded and my lower buds are much less developed (small and white haired) likely because they could not get light to them. Wondering if I could cut the top colas and then leave the rest of the plant in there for a couple of extra weeks. With the big top colas gone, light should be able to penetrate to the lower buds. Anyway, to do this I would guess I would have to flush the whole plant, (then cut the top colas for drying) and then re-nute the res. to continue feeding the remaining buds on the plants. Then I guess I would need to flush again to harvest the remainder. Correct?

Another quick question for anyone out there. My trich count seems pretty low for this strain. Using 3-part AN and was using some Big Bud for weeks 3 to 6 for Bubba OG, which is generally an 8-wk flower. Anything (like Ca Ching?) I could add in wks 7-8 to help the trich situation?

Im confused i thought 50%amber50%milky was for indicas and 90% milky was best for sativas

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its whatever you prefer!! grow it how YOU like it... everyone will tell you something different....

Definately an experience thing, you can read all the posts and look at all the pics u want, but until you gain personal experience by growing you're going to always be left wondering....

Thinking that reading some posts and growing killer bud overnight just is not going to happen. Just like anything the more you do it the better you're going to get at it. I've been growing for several years and still feel like a noob. With my last harvest I think that I finally figured out that yes I definately harvested too early in almost every one of my past grows.

grow, experiment and njoi

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Just remember how long youve waited already and all the other shit that was involved with it, All im sayin is once you cut it down after all the however many months youve been growin it you cant put it back up for that extra week or so for it to totally finish. Just my opinion, if you know the kind of high you like then go for it. Good luck, worst case scenario; you gain a learning experience out of it and you got some trees to smoke, BTW thats a dam good lookin plant man you did it up right

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A question for you or anyone else while we're on the subject, lets say you have to flower a plant for nine weeks as suggested- is it nine weeks after you switch to 12/12 or nine weeks after the plant shows sex? And is it true that the trichromes will continue to mature during the drying and or curing phase? Been seein alot of people that know their shit on this thread wondering your opinion/ knowledge on these subjects

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