Pistols

You don't look at pistols to accurately gauge harvest. You look at trichromes for the amberness. I would say keep going, I suppose. Are the buds getting bigger?

Yes. The buds and the cola are very very swollen, they had been swollen about a week days before the fresh/ new white pistols emerged everywhere!! (top to bottom) With my naked eye_ one day I was seeing about 80-90% and then about 5 or 6 days later it was only about 60-70%. amber due to the new "growth"?
I have been looking through my microscope 60x-100x, I can tell you that I've seen, clear, cloudy, and amber every time that I have looked through the microscope recently, but.. I guess my vision isn't all that great because I am unable to tell Confidently if is it ready by looking through the scope

Even if I could accurately tell via the microscope, having these fresh white pistols emerge everywhere so late into flowering/near harvest is so confusing.. Have you ever seen/experienced that before???????????? I want to keep it going as you said I'm just really confused by the new white pistols....
I don't wanna over do it, don't wanna under do it...
Any more ideas, advice or any suggestions are a great help to me!

Ps. Posting pics tomorrow afternoon( lights are off right now..) any feed back is greatly appreciated from you until then..
THANK YOU!!!!

1) They are "pistils"

2) It's perfectly normal for new flowers to appear late in bloom. When observing pistils as you are, simply ignore the newer flowers. However, the above poster is correct in that you should be looking at more important characteristics such as trichome color, calyx size, and pistil recession to determine your harvest time, not pistil color.

Alright, sugaweed. I'm about 2 weeks from harvest myself and my buds are looking pretty mature. I watered them tonight and noticed that they have exploded with white hairs where there were a lot of nice red and brown one's already; I'm guessing just like yours is doing. I guess they just keep doing this until they're ready to harvest. wmd, do you have any experience on this? dude, the first thing I would do is not freak out. The plants feel the nervousness of newbie growers and I think it reflects. I'm not really worried about when they're supposed to be ready. At this point, if it takes another month, so be it. I'm tired of smoking shitty herb man. It's an epidemic around here.

And isn't 70% amber a shit-ton? As in, way past due?

R theygoin back nto calyx

Originally Posted by scrottiemcboogerballs

Alright, sugaweed. I'm about 2 weeks from harvest myself and my buds are looking pretty mature. I watered them tonight and noticed that they have exploded with white hairs where there were a lot of nice red and brown one's already; I'm guessing just like yours is doing. I guess they just keep doing this until they're ready to harvest. wmd, do you have any experience on this? dude, the first thing I would do is not freak out. The plants feel the nervousness of newbie growers and I think it reflects. I'm not really worried about when they're supposed to be ready. At this point, if it takes another month, so be it. I'm tired of smoking shitty herb man. It's an epidemic around here.

And isn't 70% amber a shit-ton? As in, way past due?

Yes, 70% amber is WAY overdone. Means up to 70% of your THC has degraded.

boogerballs i am so glad to hear a similar story (i looked every where and could find anything on "new white pistols! @ Boogerballs and Wbd and everyone else thank you for your input and suggestions! @ Price purple the have receded, and I have decided that I am going to wait just a few more days seeing as though i noticed more "snow" on the leaves after the new pistols had emerged. I just flushed it, and now I'm simply waiting on it to dry before harvest. Please note: that when i made reference to 70-80% of the pistols being amber i was only referring to the outer pistols with my naked eye.

( not looking through the microscope.) 70% amber on the outer pistols wont give you a shit ton right????? lol. from what i"ve heard if you look underneath the microscope and see 70% amber, then THAT would be considered a shit ton/overdue right? (Please correct me if I am wrong) Im pretty much still a new but i have been having excellent results THANK YOU guys again your comments are VERY appreciated!!!!!.

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