Ghrimm
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Day 53 of flower. Think it will be ready in 3 days or should i wait for 9 weeks?
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candylime12
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These buds seem to be the least mature of the rest .. most of my lower buds are I'd say 60 percent red hair... The tric.s look cloudy/ amber... let me know.. could ya tag me in the response pls so I know ur talking to me thanks
Thecouchlock
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Not even close to ready! wait 9 weeks!
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igothydrotoneverywhere
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if your plants fan leaves are green and they dont look like the fall colors that you see in october and november they need more time, if 80-90 of your pisitils are not brown and receded into the bud they need more time, if you look at the trichomes with a WHITE light and they are clear you need more time.
Gmz
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if your plants fan leaves are green and they dont look like the fall colors that you see in october and novemberNot very I'd imagine.... At least for indoor plants, I've had plants be healthy green all the way to harvest. As far as I know there's 2 ways of knowing if your plant is ready. The overall look of the buds, and trichs. I just go by the look of the buds because it's easier for me, I hate trying to look at the trichs gives me a fucking head ache.
But yeah, Once the calyxes in the buds swell up and majority of the hairs have gone brown and receded into the bud is when you might want to consider harvesting
Here's Blue Cheese on day 63, chopping her on 70
redeyedfrog
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Ok this has me a bit perplexed, I have big beautiful buds, most of my pistils are orange and curled, my leaves around my buds are curled, and the calyxes are all swollen. My trichs well I would expect a much better dusting and I'm about 80-90% opaque and a few clear and virtually no amber. My past experience by lookin at it says pick but I'm waiting for trichs lol and my fan leaves are good (not dying)so I'm thinking wait.what do you guys think? It's my first outdoor grow, am I just antsy or what?
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igothydrotoneverywhere
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Let me see the pictures of a mature plant with emerald leaves. I call BS. You quite inexperienced about plant physiology, potency and aroma, obviously. Plants suck nutrients out of their fan leaves mainly NITROGEN which gives the dark green color, in a last ditch effort to reproduce. You will never see an emerald green plant that is as POTENT and TASTY as it can be, EVER. If your plant is fully mature and has amber trichomes with "green leaves"(Im not talking about those withered lime green leaves in your picture) then you are forcing too much nitrogen in at the end of the life cycle and i guarantee your buds will taste like NITROGEN shit. That bud in that picture has AT LEAST another week, more like 3 if you look at how CLEAR the trichs are. The flash in your camera gives the illusion that your trichs are white, but in fact they are clear not even milky yet. Not to mention that is obviously YOUR TOP COLA, the top cola always "looks" ripe the first, but if your top cola is 2 or 3 weeks out like it looks, the undergrowth has another month. You still have white hairs sticking striaght out of TERMINAL COLA?! LMFAO! Get out of here man. I have taken a few thousand pictures of bud for reference, and I have personally harvested over a ton of legal pot in Colorado.if your plants fan leaves are green and they dont look like the fall colors that you see in october and november
Not very I'd imagine.... At least for indoor plants
But yeah, Once the calyxes in the buds swell up and majority of the hairs have gone brown and receded into the bud is when you might want to consider harvesting
Here's Blue Cheese on day 63, chopping her on 70
Nice looking bud though. blue cheese is an all time favorite of mine.
igothydrotoneverywhere
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OTE=redeyedfrog;10306039]View attachment 3020593Ok this has me a bit perplexed, I have big beautiful buds, most of my pistils are orange and curled, my leaves around my buds are curled, and the calyxes are all swollen. My trichs well I would expect a much better dusting and I'm about 80-90% opaque and a few clear and virtually no amber. My past experience by lookin at it says pick but I'm waiting for trichs lol and my fan leaves are good (not dying)so I'm thinking wait.
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antsy, I would say cut your nitrogen and start a heavy organic sugar/phospho flush, at this point of the life cycle the plant no longer needs nitrogen, cutting it and giving it the phospho blend will trigger the "fall" response, forcing trichmomes to mature more quickly and buds to change to purty colors. one of the key problems with using synthetic nutrients and cannabis is forcing the plant to grow TOO LONG and then you get hermaphrodites and buds that never mature, because they never get the correct triggers because nitrogen is always in ample supply. this leads into incredibly poor taste as the synthetic nitrogen carries the most terrible flouride smell to the buds. 2 more weeks dude, your dome, nose and your wallet will thank you.
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antsy, I would say cut your nitrogen and start a heavy organic sugar/phospho flush, at this point of the life cycle the plant no longer needs nitrogen, cutting it and giving it the phospho blend will trigger the "fall" response, forcing trichmomes to mature more quickly and buds to change to purty colors. one of the key problems with using synthetic nutrients and cannabis is forcing the plant to grow TOO LONG and then you get hermaphrodites and buds that never mature, because they never get the correct triggers because nitrogen is always in ample supply. this leads into incredibly poor taste as the synthetic nitrogen carries the most terrible flouride smell to the buds. 2 more weeks dude, your dome, nose and your wallet will thank you.
MuckyDucky
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Yep, that's the trouble with the internet.. too much BS from pea pole trying to inflate their deflated egos. Thanks for the enlightenment!
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Gmz
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My Northern Lights and Huckleberries were pretty much green till the end of harvest, they tasted and smelt fine. I don't know near enough about plants to be arguing about it but alls I'm saying is that it doesn't seem like the plant NEEDS to look like the leaves are dying off to determine if the plant is ready to harvest or not.... Plus it's for my personal use, I'm not distributing it in any way so I will harvest when I damn well feel like it 
but alls I'm saying is that it doesn't seem like the plant NEEDS to look like the leaves are dying off to determine if the plant is ready to harvest or not.... Plus it's for my personal use, I'm not distributing it in any way so I will harvest when I damn well feel like it
MuckyDucky
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I believe you are right Gmz. On my first soil grows....just learning..... the fan leaves would start dying off early in veg and by the time the buds were ready all of the fan leaves would be yellow or dying.... Not so when I switched to hydro!!.... The bottom leaves don't die now and most of the large leaves on the bud are still green when I harvest. I don't flush before I harvest either.My Northern Lights and Huckleberries were pretty much green till the end of harvest, they tasted and smelt fine. I don't know near enough about plants to be arguing about it
Stoned Drifter
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day 41. seems pretty early doesn't it? 
MuckyDucky
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Any time Bud IMHO!
