Brown Pistils, few amber trichs... What would you do?

kagenical

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Let's say you're in week 8 or 9 of flowering a fairly evenly mixed indica/sativa...

Now... About 80% of the pistils have turned dark orange or brown - yet the majority of the trichomes are still clear or milky.

On the buds I've got:
5% amber trichs.
25% clear trichs.
70% milky to white trichs.

All the sweetleaves have amber and milky trichs.

What would you do? You recently flushed (about 2 days ago) ago and haven't been feeding them anything except molasses for the last 3 weeks.

Cheers!
 
Maybe wait a few more days, a weekish max. Wait until a minority of the clear trichs have turned milky/amber ish. (I'd aim for a 15%)

Then, go ahead and harvest.
 
Personally, were I in the situation I described above I'd probably wait 3-4 days, then chop and cure as slowly as possible.

Anyone agree with this hypothetical course of action?
 
You want all of your trichs to be cloudy at least.Having some amber is a plus in my opinion. I like about 75% amber for the body buzz.Want a head buzz?Go mostly cloudy.gl
 
Right...

So, even though the (now) majority of your pistils are orange or shriveled and brown, you'd continue to grow - using only the trichomes as your judge?
 
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