Should I harvest

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #1

Hey guys I think I mistimed when I should harvest one of my plants. I'm growing in soil and I stopped giving her nutes one week ago. She looks like she is ready to harvest now!!! The buds look GREAT but all of the leaves are completely dead and have turned yellow. I don't want the buds to taste horrible due to the nutes. What should I do????? Please help, it's a good yeild and I don't want it to go to waste.

 

madnugs

Active Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #2

post pics, man. oh and have you started flushing yet?

 

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #3

I have been giving them plain water for a week now.

 

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #4

I have not flushed them. The are in 5 gallon bags, how much water should I give them?

 

moash

New Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #5

if ur ready,chop it
but still post pics,i would like to see
giving straight water is flushing

 

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #6

Here are a few pics. i have also included a couple pics of my other plant. The first pics are the plants in question.

 

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Brick Top

New Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #7

You haven’t mentioned trichome color yet and you have not described the pistil color/condition yet but you did post some pictures so that helps some.
　
　
With only the pictures to go by I would say that the plants in the pictures that I think were 6, 7 & 8 (the greener full plants) have a while to go yet but the others look about as ready to be chopped as they could. With only pictures to go by it is hard to say but a few of them look like had they been mine I likely may have taken them before now. How much sooner I cannot say … but sooner.

 

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #8

I would say about 50% are white and 50% amber. This is my first grow so I'm a total rookie

 

moash

New Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #9

grab ur axe

 

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #10

Sounds good to me, feels like I hve been waiting forever, lol Do you think it's going to taste bad? I heard you should stop giving nutes 2 weeks before harvest and I have been giving plain water for only 8 days now.

 

Green Cross

Well-Known Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #11

Mine lost their leaves about a month ago, have looked that way for 3 weeks, but are just now ripening up. There were no amber trichs a week ago, and today they're ready 1/3 amber, /1/3 clear, /1/3 cloudy. You need a scope

 

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Green Cross

Well-Known Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #12

jstone420 said:

I would say about 50% are white and 50% amber. This is my first grow so I'm a total rookie

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So you have a scope? 50% amber trichomes is done, 50% brown hairs isn't

 

moash

New Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #13

jstone420 said:

Sounds good to me, feels like I hve been waiting forever, lol Do you think it's going to taste bad? I heard you should stop giving nutes 2 weeks before harvest and I have been giving plain water for only 8 days now.

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shouldnt taste bad if dried and cured properly

 

Brick Top

New Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #14

jstone420 said:

I would say about 50% are white and 50% amber. This is my first grow so I'm a total rookie

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For me 50% amber would be ‘overripe’ but for many they would say perfect or close to it so I don’t think you would want to wait much if any longer.

 

Brick Top

New Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #15

jstone420 said:

Sounds good to me, feels like I hve been waiting forever, lol Do you think it's going to taste bad? I heard you should stop giving nutes 2 weeks before harvest and I have been giving plain water for only 8 days now.

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At this point all you can do is to try to do your best drying and curing and hope that is enough for a good flavor because it is to late to now do what should have already been done so take ‘em and make the most of it.

 

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #16

Thats what I figured. Keeping my fingers crossed for some good smoke

 

jstone420

Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #17

I just finished the 7th week of flowering. Isn't that a little early for it to be done?

 

moash

New Member

• Sep 27, 2009

• #18

jstone420 said:

I just finished the 7th week of flowering. Isn't that a little early for it to be done?

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depends on the strain