Does it look done or near-done?

chado101 · Nov 10, 2012

Some of those do indeed look amber...But from the pictures of the actual plants a few post earlier, id say you still have a few more weeks. You still also have some clear trics in those pictures it looks like... Maybe some clearer pictures to confirm those are some true ambers... But your buds look like they could still use time.. Maybe up the k and watch those girls swell!

chado101 · Nov 10, 2012

My pineapple express (mostly sativa)

little girl i decided to just bud with my bigs girls. I have 2 other pineapple's in week 5 of flowering if you would like to see those as well.

keebod.dobeek · Nov 10, 2012

chado101 said:
Some of those do indeed look amber...But from the pictures of the actual plants a few post earlier, id say you still have a few more weeks. You still also have some clear trics in those pictures it looks like... Maybe some clearer pictures to confirm those are some true ambers... But your buds look like they could still use time.. Maybe up the k and watch those girls swell!

The next bud I cut, I will be more careful to move the camera real slow so that more clear video could be made.
This amber colored trichomes were found while I was playing the video I took mainly focusing on clear and cloudy trichomes. I did not think that amber would have started. So, mind was thinking only "is that clear or is that cloudy" while I was moving the bud, or camera around here and there till it focuses most of the area. I am holding the bud with my right hand, and the camera on the left. It is really difficult to get the hand steady

The K has been already increased since two-three weeks into flower. For the past 3 months+ it has been on npk 10:15:25 and micronutrients.

Your buds look like buds! That is what I have been missing, and it never happened. My buds are like a stem with branches on the left and right that grows calyxes. In yours each of those branches touch and stack together to create a fuller tighter feel while mine has gaps through which I can see sky

keebod.dobeek · Nov 19, 2012

Well, these sure look amber. Don't they?

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imchucky666 · Nov 19, 2012

Looks ready, and NICE PICS!

nick88 · Nov 19, 2012

I think you're mainly seeing some reflection thru the triches.. I can mainly see cloudy and clear.. The only amber looking 1s are real small and close to plant so hard to rule out reflection...

keebod.dobeek · Nov 20, 2012

imchucky666 said:
Looks ready, and NICE PICS!

Thank You

Though these ambers were spotted, the bud doesn't look ripe

The calyxes are not swollen, and I can se space between two adjacent calyxes.
When swelling happens at maturity, this space between calyxes won't be there as that ball like shape at the bottom of calyxes makes two calyxes touch each other, wouldn't they?

keebod.dobeek · Nov 20, 2012

nick88 said:
I think you're mainly seeing some reflection thru the triches.. I can mainly see cloudy and clear.. The only amber looking 1s are real small and close to plant so hard to rule out reflection...

I grow outdoors. And I took a piece of a single finger sugar leaf and brought inside the house to photograph/magnify.
And this set of pictures were taken inside the house on my table top where the sources of lights are normal white tube-light and two white CFLs. So, no yellow to reflect through it like it would have been when photos are taken of trichomes that are under yellow HPS light.

I saw all the three types

Clear, cloudy and amber!

Pirax · Nov 20, 2012

I was in the same boat as you with my first plant. I just finally decided that once all the calyxes are red and turned into the buds, and the actual buds look like something ive bought before, then id cut. Now, im pretty sure I cut my buds at the perfect time, cus 1 bowl has me fucking blazed. I never really for sure saw amber trichomes, I went by the look of the bud, it looked like some shit ive bought before. also your buds look pretty lanky, your plant is probably more of a sativa dominant strain, meaning you have quite a wait ahead of ya! The most fattening up of buds happens in the last couple weeks, youre probably due to hit that growth spurt pretty soon. One day youre gonna look at your plant and say "yep its time to chop this fucker and testdry some buds!", until then your plant isnt ready to be chopped, so i wouldnt even bother checking trichomes till you think the buds look done but youre not sure if they're completely ripe. sorry if im not making sense im stoned af

keebod.dobeek · Nov 25, 2012

My buds look different now, compared to the initial photo. It looks bulkier. But, still I can see a millimeter long or so kind of stem in between each calyx of the bud!

Please have a look at the attachment of a really primitive drawing! The bud isn't sparse of calyx like the drawing. It is just to explain what gap I'm talking about.