How Much Longer Before Harvest?

The pics below are from a Blackberry micro grow I am doing from seed. I'm growing the plant using bubbleponics in a disposable butter container covered in foil tape. The plant has been in 12/12 for 11 weeks now as of this coming Saturday. I stopped giving nutrients about two weeks ago and the damn thing wont seem to mature or at least to my understanding of maturity. This is only my 3rd grow and the first time I am growing this strain. The trichs are probably 90-100% cloudy with maybe 5-10% having turned amber. The hairs not fully withering or changing color is making me second guess myself. Any insight into how much longer I should go would really hit the spot right now. Thanks in advance. And btw I cannot figure out how to get pictures taken on my phone to upload on here anyway other than sideways so I apologize for that.

Whole Plant:


Top of plant:


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Bottom of plant:


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Middle of plant:

What is your lighting? Might be just shy of swelling, and harvest at 12-13 weeks? They look good!

The lighting is a floro 2' 4(T5)-bulb fixture. I figured I would use weaker lighting to maintain a smaller plant. I have a beast of the same strain currently under a 400w HPS. Thanks for the advice. I will wait a bit longer.

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Not ready.

I would say feed the girl and keep her going another 4-6 weeks at least youve got time, the lower yellowing is probably being caused by lack of light penetration due to the t5

The lower leaves began yellowing when I took away nutes a week+ ago. I took them away to start the flush but I didn't expect the plant to go this much longer. If I reintroduce nutrients, at what strenght would you suggest bf? The nutrients and strenghts at last feed are as follows:

1/4 Gallon Reservoir
GH Micro = 2ml
GH Bloom = 4ml
CalMag+ = 1.25ml
AquaShield = 1.25ml

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Considering your lighting, 12-13 weeks is probably where you'll find a lot of strains finishing although heavily indica strains like blackberry should end up on the shorter (10.5 to 11.5 weeks) Being that you already cut the nutrients, I would just give water until most of the leaves turn and pull it. I would definitely not recommended feeding at this point, our looking fine for floros, don't expect it to lay the bulk on like HPS. If I had to guess, giving just water, your probably 7-10 days out. Looking good!

***UPDATE***

2.5 weeks have past. Below are a few updated pics. I am considering harvesting this weekend. Any objections?













Here she is in front of her much larger sister.

Get a loupe microscope and check the trics...I think you still have at least a week

I checked the trichs a few days ago and they were all milky with only a few amber peppered throughout.

Today is the start of week 14. I am going to start the flush and see if she's ready for harvest next Saturday. I'll post picks a day or 2 before chopping, for opinions.

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bf80255 said:

another 4-6 weeks at least

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Exactly what she said.

Haha YUP!!! I am stunned at how rediculously early I may have harvested my first 2 grows.

This little plant is looking lovely. The buds feel like little rocks now and the smell seems to come through more vividly.

Here's a question. If harvested too early, will the plant not smell as strong as it should? Please bare with me, I am still getting my feet wet at growing.

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IHateBuyingWeed said:

Haha YUP!!! I am stunned at how rediculously early I may have harvested my first 2 grows.

This little plant is looking lovely. The buds feel like little rocks now and the smell seems to come through more vividly.

Here's a question. If harvested too early, will the plant not smell as strong as it should? Please bare with me, I am still getting my feet wet at growing.

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Smell could become stronger if it wasn't harvested early.big part is just getting the drying right.
Also harvesting early cuts into your yield big time! Patience is well worth it.

I haven't been able to get much more than 3-4 days drying before the outside of the buds get crumbly and need to go into jars. After a day in the jars with a hygrometer, the RH in the jar is around 58-60%. Then i toss in a HumidiPack to get the RH to 62%.

My 2nd grow was Northern Lights. The 2 plants smelled extremely piney during flowering but not so much after drying. What should I do differently to get that potent, strong odor in the dry bud that the live plant had?

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do you mean in original post she has been growing 12/12 for eleven weeks or just in flower for that time with 'X' of veg time? to me, your first pictures look like maybe week four or five of flower...with about five weeks to go.

Yes. The lights had been on 12/12 flowering cycle for 11 weeks at the time of original post. Flowers began showing about 2 weeks into the cycle. Yesterday she started week 14 of 12/12.

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