you can always chop the tops off, allowing the bottom buds more light, and more time to finish. however, id wait another week or so. you got a magnifying glass?

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I go by trichomes Lacy, I use a cheap microscope that you can get at Radio Shack for 10.00 US. What I do is wait until about 75% of the trichomes are cloudy/and or turning amber. Different people like different feelings so harvesting sooner or later is sometimes up to personal preference. Let them go another week if you can and then see where you are at. Good luck

Nice plants by the way...yay!!!

Question #1 If you have growing for 15 years why (for the love of all things holy) are you growing big bud? 20 year old seeds? Question #2 If you have been growing for 15 years, why are you asking us about reddish hairs? Are you growing outside or inside? I'm just curious. Anyway big ups to you for growing your own. Cute dog too.

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i have the same issue.. my bottom buds are much more mature then my tops, now that i do some reading it may be because were hanging our lights too close, but i'd like to know more about what i should do as well..

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Good questions. I didn't mean by big bud the strain inself. I have never yet grown a known strain. These are all unknown seeds. What I meant is that these buds themselves are really big so they seem to be taking a long time.

I have been growing off and on for 15 years but most of my grow has been indoor grow and they seem to flower much earlier and since I had consistent lighting all around the plants, they also seemed to ripen evenly.

The plants that I grew outdoors all the other years were grown on other people's land (farmland etc) so I had to harvest them when I could. (Only about 4 years of out-door experience and it's different). This is the first out-door grow that I have had grown where I have been about to stress the plants, water them, feed them etc...and now hopefully harvest them right.

My friend told me years ago to harvest when the inner leaves get all sticky and you start seeing redish hairs, so I have always harvested my plants prematurely. Yes you would think I would know better but I didn't. Yeah I know! I have just recently learned all this new info from this site, from people like yourself. So thanks for the interest and your comments.

I have a beautiful shepherd too.

Depends on what kind of high your looking for , are you looking for that energetic , giggly high ? Or are you looking for the ( I will only move for food) high? If you want THC and not so much CBD (the stoned feeling) then you wanna harvest now, if you like that (I dont want to move) feeling than harvest in 2-3 weeks, or untill almost all the hairs are redish top and bottom.

That's interesting. Then perhaps I have been harvesting at the right time because I don't like that "I can't move" kind of high.
I like to do things when I am high and still want to be somewhat energetic. I'm a real giggler too.

Perhaps I will harvest some now and harvest some more later.

Oh the tough decisions of growing one's weed. j/k

Waaa hoooooo....I love it!!!!

BTW what is CBD?

That's what i started doing BUT then I don't have a nice big bud any more plus then it is harder to dry cause it doesn't have the length.

I will wait another week or so, harvest some, then pick up a microscope and harvest the rest so i can have some 'couch potato type pot.'

I'm even rotating them for even sunlight.

Yes I need to get one of those at radio shack but I keep forgetting.
I'd really like to see what that looks like up close and personal.

Nice plants? Coming from you, I'll take that as a real compliment. [quote=Gygax1974;303250]I go by trichomes Lacy, I use a cheap microscope that you can get at Radio Shack for 10.00 US. What I do is wait until about 75% of the trichomes are cloudy/and or turning amber. Different people like different feelings so harvesting sooner or later is sometimes up to personal preference. Let them go another week if you can and then see where you are at. Good luck

Nice plants by the way...yay!!![/quote]

i like the energetic high to so i would harvest now

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