harvest now or not, that is the question.

Well not the biggest but im a proud dad anyways,lol. got this as a clone 20th dec 2011 itwas a foot high, gave it blood and bone(cheap warehouse stuff,)then forced flower 12/12 for about 1 month then keept her outside all the time, I know i didnt do the normal thing as it is my first, having said that shes done well, no bud rot or illness, i trimed the bigger leaves and have inspected the trichomes with a 20x magnifaying glass(I need a 40x or 60x i reacon)and they arent totaly clear but not totaly creamy, the point to all this is should i chuck it in the dark for 48 hours then dry ?or wait a bit?
thanks
happy toking.

why not let the plant use its stored energy?

What a shame this would have been an great plant if you didn't cut off all the fan leaves.

ive got 3 others that i havnt done anything with, that are going well, I had some bad advice from a old school fiend but... yea not the best advice, the other 3 im just leaving to do there thing (bit of food), but back to this wee plant what you reacon? harvest or wait? thanks guys and yup i feel bit stupid for messing with it.

how do you mean stored energy?

the fan leaves would have released stored energy into the buds, helping them finish up

you can always wait a little longer! but i guess now that youve chopped them off youd probably wanna harvest soon. Id do the 48 hours dark trick just for the hell of it, cant hurt!

Still looks awesome though

now that i look closer that thing could used a few more weeks id say. those buds might have really fattened

yea im kinda kicking myself but it was a experiment , and it will do me ,lol. still the other 3 are gonna be better,you think wait a bit longer? may as well then,
thanks mate, ill post more pics up as things do change week to week, cheers

so no water from now till harvest then ? was gonna start the 48 hr dark in a week, cheers

bramwell73 said:

so no water from now till harvest then ? was gonna start the 48 hr dark in a week, cheers

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no, you can still water it up till when you chop it imo.. some people will say cut back on the nutes the last week or so and others like myself think it's fine to feed up till the chop, but you always want to keep watering it regardless of your opinion on flushing..

ok thanks man, will do.

heard banana skins are good for flowering , any ideas?

well , here are pics a week later of the plant i buggerd up, and two other plants that im worried about, not sure if i need more nitrogen or less or what the hell i need please help me out so im not fishing around my own mad mind , no really thanks guys for any help,

sorry,the last 3 , what you recon? nitrogen or over fert ? arrgghh.

Can't remember if tip-yellowing is nute burn or a deficiency sorry D:!
But don't feel bad about chopping one plant. It's better you learned on one than a crop

yea mate , thanks man ,what th hell is nut burn? i grow outside .

10days to go in my opinion. Hard to tell though without a scope on the trichs.

yea i got a 30x from what i can see nearly there, bout 30% clear trichomes, 40%creamy, and the rest amberish.

i wouldn't fret too much about those leaves honestly.. it's natural for the leaves to yellow at the end of the grow like that, same as trees in the fall time...
some plants will go super yellow early in flower, that tends to be from lack of nitrogen, and i would worry more about that .....

but yah, they look ok to me, just take them til you're happy they're done...

there's a rule of thumb that i really like when it comes to harvesting.. it goes... when you think that they're done, give them another week.. never let me down yet..

mean thanks mate, so the bigger girls add a bit of nitrogen eh?