Red Leaves / Purple Leaves

well depends on strain brown red same thing

Thanks,

Thought as much...

I always assumed that all the buds would go brown/red together rather than at different stages though.

The top colas seems ready, but not the other ones.

give it to 9 weeks then crop alls good ,good luck

I agree ,they yellow leaves if they appear to be limp and dying from pictures, i would remove them.


my opinion is you can go either way with removing the big leaves as a general practice.

My thinking is the big leaves have a specific use for the natural growth and survival of the plant, in general. But we are technically "tweaking" nature's process for the -purpose of increasing the yield of bud.
In nature the bud(thc) is used as a defense mechanism to prevent the plant from being eaten.
In nature the plants leaves fall off, buds are eaten or fall off for the reproduction of new plants, plants get injured and need to recover,etc. The big leaves also provide shade and help produce food. So I think the big leaves need to stay on ,in nature, to support survival of plant. Now IN our little secret (What we do is secret,The Germs) rooms we are looking for maxuim, quality buds. And we can eliminate many of risks that a plant faces in nature. SO I think we can remove the leaves. In general practice, do not remove more than 20% of leaves at one time. You want to minimize possibility of shock

Cheers mate...

Can you not over do them though?

The very tops of the colas are pretty orange but are starting to dry out on two of the plants.

It states 8 weeks flowering on www.greenhousesedds.nl, but 9 weeks on their youtube video for the church.

Here pics of two of my main colas, they look pretty red to me?

defo ready the small buds if lower on plant will take alittle longerdue to less light but go with the majority depends on prefrence of buzz longer you leave, the cbds rise giving heavy stone rather than a high or chop colas and leave rest on for few days

Thanks...

Will have to try to flush them as still on nutes at present.

They will be 8 weeks on sat so will most probably chop the center colas off
and wait for the rest to mature a bit...

Looks to me like they are ready to chop thats all.
Old leaves are being drained and dying,its natural.
I always trim the leaves,but i would say never pull them off always use bonsai scissors or similar and make a clean single cut as near to the stem as possible.
Always get more light to the buds when you can,imo
Looks like some nice shit by the way i wouldnt mind a toke on that myself

muffin said:

Thanks,

Thought as much...

I always assumed that all the buds would go brown/red together rather than at different stages though.

The top colas seems ready, but not the other ones.

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Hi all,

9 weeks flowering today & the buds still don't look done, the leaves are all now turning orange at an alarming rate.

Never seen anything like it...

After the leaf has turned orange it starts to droop then slowly dies & shrivels up.

The stems which hold the buds are not so much drooping but have almost lost there strength and are starting to sag as if there are huge heavy buds on the end.

Will leave another week & hope that they survive.

I have been using plain ph'd water for just over 2 weeks and fear that I may have stopped feeding a bit too soon?

Those plants are ready! You can give them one more day if you want, but those are definitely ready to go now.

Thanks rolla8,

Thanks what I thought, there are still quite a few clear trics though which is why I thought I would give it another week.

There's nothing wrong with clear trichs. You want a blend of clear, cloudy, and amber trichs. Different strains are going to be considered "finished" with varying combinations of the three. They say the clear trichs are responsible for the head high whereas the amber trichs are responsible for the body high. I determine when my plants are finished by the color of the hairs and not the trichs. When about 75% of the white hairs have turned amber/brown, that's when I harvest. I know other people who go strictly by the color and condition of the trichs in determining when their crop is ready, but I've always gone by the hairs and that method has suited me quite well over the years.

Thanks guys,

There are a couple of white hairs on the lower buds but the majority on top are amber.

I may leave it a few days I think, the buds do not seem to have condensed together and are still quite fluffy, I may just chop the top colas off for now.

Here's some pics of the buds up close.

Be careful about letting it go too long. You can, quite easily, pass the peak potency window at which point your buds will being degrading day by day exponentially.

Dude, harvest that thing. It's SCREAMING, "I"M READY!!!" Looking at those newest pics you just posted, I'm 110% sure it's done.

Good shout, but I thought when that happened all the trics went amber from the base up?

But what do I know, it's my first attempt so gratefull for all advice.

No, you never want to wait until all the trichs have gone amber. That would mean that the THC has begun to oxidize and break-down into the less-psychoactive compound, CBN (cannabinol). The effects of elevated CBN are a dopey, drugged feeling rather than the "high" of being stoned. Good weed has both THC as well as CBN, but at a ratio that favors the THC by about 3:1.