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

kagenical

Well-Known Member
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!
 

Melangwanja

Active Member
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.
 

kagenical

Well-Known Member
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?
 

olishell

Active Member
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
 

kagenical

Well-Known Member
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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