Ready to Harvest?

herby696

Active Member
This is my second indoor grow. I'm growing 5 plants under one 600w HPS, two different strains, growing at totally different speeds. One strain (two plants) are from bag seed, and have been in the late stages of flowering for a couple of weeks. One of them started producing red hairs early. Some flowers have about 50% red hairs (smaller flowers lower on the plant) while others are at about 30%, while others are less than 20% and 10%. I took this plant of the nutes and started using a ripening solution yesterday in hopes to leave her on it for the next week to ten days, but now I'm wondering if If it's too late and I should start harvesting now? Or maybe I should harvest some of the flowers now and wait for the others? Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks
 

herby696

Active Member
Put some pics in my gallery, still can't figure out how to post them in this thread. Please check em out and tell me what you think
 

sfsurfer

Well-Known Member
Contrary to popular belief, the rate at which your hairs will start turning orange is definitely NOT an indicator of your plants maturity. The only real way of knowing is by looking at your trichromes under a magnifying glass to see if they have turned cloudy or amber. Once 90% or so of the trichromes turn cloudy youre ready to harvest (which will give youre buds a cerebral high) however you can wait until a certain percentage of the cloudy trichromes turn amber (giving your bud more of a body high). The percentage of cloudy to amber is up to you. I prefer 80/20 cloudy/amber but im a huge fan of cerebral highs. I realize this is an old post but hopefully this can help on future grows
 
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