Trich shots @ 6 weeks flowering - what do you think?

They look pretty clear to me, this is 6 weeks into flowering, I don't know the strain and I would like to know how much more do you think they need to be ready?

damn dawg loven the shots..whats the strain??

Whats the camera and lens...nice clearty

camera is 12mpix canon powershot

strain... is unknown, bad seed and there are at least 3 different type of plants growing in the box right now

they are sativa dominant - thats for sure, pretty tall and not very bushy like most indicas

ddriver said:

camera is 12mpix canon powershot

strain... is unknown, bad seed and there are at least 3 different type of plants growing in the box right now

they are sativa dominant - thats for sure, pretty tall and not very bushy like most indicas

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Whats the model No. of the cam?

cannon powershot G9

ddriver said:

They look pretty clear to me, this is 6 weeks into flowering, I don't know the strain and I would like to know how much more do you think they need to be ready?

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Looking good,i would give it 1 1/2 till 2 weeks,start flushing around this upcoming friday until the following friday then chop

I will be water curing the buds, so I can afford to feed them till the end, cuz the buds gain the most mass during the final stages of their live, and water curing will deal with the nute leftovers. SO I'll be skipping final flush in order to maximize yield


Here are some more shots:

BEAUTIFUL, simply BEAUTIFUL!!!

ddriver said:

I will be water curing the buds, so I can afford to feed them till the end, cuz the buds gain the most mass during the final stages of their live, and water curing will deal with the nute leftovers. SO I'll be skipping final flush in order to maximize yield


Here are some more shots:

BEAUTIFUL, simply BEAUTIFUL!!!

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I have done water curefeeding it at the end wont do much of anything to your yield thats the reason the plant uses up the stored nutrients in the fan leaves and they turn yellow as it does its final bit of growing before it starts to die,let it do its thing if you want good tasting bud and want a good yield. I would do what i suggested above, your buds will be clean,no water curing that alters the taste,and you can have good smoking buds before the water cure would even be done, buds could be dry in 5 days easy and ready to smoke and they will taste good if you flush,and by the way water cure wont fix chemical buds

I agree water curing alters the taste, but I am not taste freak, water curing removes much more stuff than jar curing, water cured weed looses more mass compared to jar cured, and it is not THC that is lost, but basically all the other crap, that it's not getting you high or doing any good at all. The excess water from water curing basically turns brown from all the crap it sucks out of the plants, it is not only removing chemicals but also the chlorophyll, leaf mass and so on. It is a matter of personal taste, some people smoke weed for the taste - I smoke it to get high, and lets face it - smoking anything is bad, so I prefer making sure I smoke weed that it as clean as possible, and that is water curing. I did both water and jar curing and prefer water, cuz as I already said, I don't care that much about the taste, plus I can smoke water cured weed everywhere and people can't even tell it's weed even if they smell the smoke.

Plus with water curing I'll be having clean and nicely burning weed in 7 days, while air dry and jar curing takes up to 3-4 weeks time and the end result is good smoke, not clean smoke

10x for the advice anyway, I appreciate it

BTW I decrease the food I put in the water the last 2 weeks, I grow in soil and use only 1/2 strength nutes during flowering, but the last 2-3 weeks I drop it gradually from 1/2 to 1/4 and even less and use nutes less frequently - from every second watering in the half of the flowering cycle to every forth watering in the end, so the last 3 weeks my plants get very little nutes, about 2 times with 1/4 strenght, pretty much a flush but not a straight flush

ddriver said:

I agree water curing alters the taste, but I am not taste freak, water curing removes much more stuff than jar curing, water cured weed looses more mass compared to jar cured, and it is not THC that is lost, but basically all the other crap, that it's not getting you high or doing any good at all. The excess water from water curing basically turns brown from all the crap it sucks out of the plants, it is not only removing chemicals but also the chlorophyll, leaf mass and so on. It is a matter of personal taste, some people smoke weed for the taste - I smoke it to get high, and lets face it - smoking anything is bad, so I prefer making sure I smoke weed that it as clean as possible, and that is water curing. I did both water and jar curing and prefer water, cuz as I already said, I don't care that much about the taste, plus I can smoke water cured weed everywhere and people can't even tell it's weed even if they smell the smoke.

Plus with water curing I'll be having clean and nicely burning weed in 7 days, while air dry and jar curing takes up to 3-4 weeks time and the end result is good smoke, not clean smoke

10x for the advice anyway, I appreciate it

BTW I decrease the food I put in the water the last 2 weeks, I grow in soil and use only 1/2 strength nutes during flowering, but the last 2-3 weeks I drop it gradually from 1/2 to 1/4 and even less and use nutes less frequently - from every second watering in the half of the flowering cycle to every forth watering in the end, so the last 3 weeks my plants get very little nutes, about 2 times with 1/4 strenght, pretty much a flush but not a straight flush

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Your just posting information from grow faq section......Have you ever done water cure???im guessing not seeing as how your asking about when we think your plants should be finished.Like i said i have done water cure,it only removes chlorophyl and other by products,you will still be left with chemical's in the bud,it only helps reduce it.Drying the buds is where 90% of the moisture,chlorophyll and other nasties get evaporated off with the moisture,with the little bit left you have in a sealed jar converts into good tasting chemicals.Theres more to growing then just getting a final crop that gets you high,you mine as well dry it under a lamp and smoke it the same day if taste has no meaning,growing different varieties and trying different tastes and smells is what its all about if you cant appreciate that then gl

i think i might try some and see if i like

t0k3s said:

Your just posting information from grow faq section......Have you ever done water cure???im guessing not seeing as how your asking about when we think your plants should be finished.Like i said i have done water cure,it only removes chlorophyl and other by products,you will still be left with chemical's in the bud,it only helps reduce it.Drying the buds is where 90% of the moisture,chlorophyll and other nasties get evaporated off with the moisture,with the little bit left you have in a sealed jar converts into good tasting chemicals.Theres more to growing then just getting a final crop that gets you high,you mine as well dry it under a lamp and smoke it the same day if taste has no meaning,growing different varieties and trying different tastes and smells is what its all about if you cant appreciate that then gl

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What I already wrote - I have tried both water curing and jar curing, besides I haven't read the faq


Also there is hell of a difference between bad tasting bud and no taste at all

I posted pics asking how much longer cuz this time there is a strain I haven't grow yet, the other two I've grown for years and it takes 9-10 weeks of flowering till harvest ready - thats 3-4 weeks more and more than double you suggested - but hey, I would be very happy if you are actually right and my bud is ready in a week or 2 instead of 4

ddriver said:

What I already wrote - I have tried both water curing and jar curing, besides I haven't read the faq


Also there is hell of a difference between bad tasting bud and no taste at all

I posted pics asking how much longer cuz this time there is a strain I haven't grow yet, the other two I've grown for years and it takes 9-10 weeks of flowering till harvest ready - thats 3-4 weeks more and more than double you suggested - but hey, I would be very happy if you are actually right and my bud is ready in a week or 2 instead of 4

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Well normally when someone makes a thread,mainly asking when we think it will be done i assume they are getting impatient so i give them the minimum time frame so they at least don't harvest to soon,im not saying your plants will be done they may not but from the pics they seem they could be ready in 2-3 weeks,if you have been growing years,regardless of strain i would think you would have some knowledge of what a plant would look like when its close to harvest time and how long till it would be done,as for water cure,keep hiding in the shadows

Well here is tha catch, this is my second INDOOR grow, I've grown for years under the sun, without any forums, internet, magnifying glasses and so on, but I recently moved to a big city and didn't have a choice but to become a hi-tech grower

I did't do too well with my first indoor stealth grow, didn't have enough plant mass to take the maximum of my light, but eventually I managed to get about 70-80 grams dry, I haven't looked at the trichs the first time when I harves, but waited until most of the hairs are red/brown, so this time I got a decent camera and decided to upload some images, in order to check my progress and show those beautiful, beautiful plants

Yes I have an idea of how a harvest-ready plant looks like, but I've read in a few threads here that pistil color sometimes is not a very good indicator.. and thats why I started the thread


Patience... is a great virtue, over the years I learned that being impatient is NOT a good idea most of the time. Plants need to take their time, plus those are mostly sativa and they take quite a bit longer than indica dominant strains. I am prepared to wait as much as I need to, I just didn't knew trichs color can be indication for the type of buzz I will get, and since I am a HIGH type of person, I really woundn't want to wait too long for most of the trichs to turn amber

peace, out

ddriver said:

Well here is tha catch, this is my second INDOOR grow, I've grown for years under the sun, without any forums, internet, magnifying glasses and so on, but I recently moved to a big city and didn't have a choice but to become a hi-tech grower

I did't do too well with my first indoor stealth grow, didn't have enough plant mass to take the maximum of my light, but eventually I managed to get about 70-80 grams dry, I haven't looked at the trichs the first time when I harves, but waited until most of the hairs are red/brown, so this time I got a decent camera and decided to upload some images, in order to check my progress and show those beautiful, beautiful plants

Yes I have an idea of how a harvest-ready plant looks like, but I've read in a few threads here that pistil color sometimes is not a very good indicator.. and thats why I started the thread


Patience... is a great virtue, over the years I learned that being impatient is NOT a good idea most of the time. Plants need to take their time, plus those are mostly sativa and they take quite a bit longer than indica dominant strains. I am prepared to wait as much as I need to, I just didn't knew trichs color can be indication for the type of buzz I will get, and since I am a HIGH type of person, I really woundn't want to wait too long for most of the trichs to turn amber

peace, out

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whoever said the hairs don't mean anything when it comes to harvesting is full of shit,just like the dumb ass who made the chart saying harvest your buds early with clear trichomes for a head buzz, not true your just getting immature resin glands,harvesting with clear trichomes would not only loose tons of potency but won't get you high for shit and will last for about 20 minutes before you need to smoke again,take a look at fdd's harvest page,Thats what you look for in harvesting,see how one bud still has tons of cloudy/clear trichomes and in general still seems to be growing,thats when you would harvest to get a so called head buzz,but really would loose more then anything,another crappy myth is harvesting sativas early so you dont get sedative type of a high by letting the trichomes mature,which is crap if some one wants a full head high get full sativa,if you want couchlock get indica or hybrid for a mix of the 2,but i can tell you from experience that harvesting at less then 50% amber trichomes will leave you with weak buds,you dont have to let them get full amber as thats when its starting to degrade,you get them at peak potency and you will have bomb bud if you do,harvest the before peak potency and its weak, to late and you just will get stoned you do want to be high right?I too grow under the sun and have been for about 10 years,and from all the thing's ive learned theres no better information then what the plant tells you,its all right there in front of you,you think they used magnifying glasses and microscopes to harvest buds 100's of years ago,off course not,but my point is take in what you can but also be carefull, people post alot of BS information on this site,you dont even have to take my word for it but i take in what i think is legit and if i dont i research into it to see if what really is the case.
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html

10x, will keep that in mind

It seems I won't be harvesting all at once, cuz there are a few plants that look almost ready, with just a week to go, but most of the plants' pistils are still bright white and pointy, also the tops of the plants are much more mature compared to the bottom branches, cuz my plants are just a giant bush of green and there is almost no light penetrating through the top layer, so is it a good idea to harvest the tops first and leave the bottom branches for another week?

whoever said hairs have absolutely nothing to do with wen the bud is done is 100% correct, not full of shit. were here to help you bro, not to lie to you. as you gain experience you will notice the hairs of the buds can vary in color greatly. always go by trich color. yes in a lot of cases the hairs are 3/4 brown wen i harvest, but there have also been times iv havestd with all the hairs brown, or all the hairs white. go by trich color and ul never have a problem bro. good luck growing man

ddriver said:

10x, will keep that in mind

It seems I won't be harvesting all at once, cuz there are a few plants that look almost ready, with just a week to go, but most of the plants' pistils are still bright white and pointy, also the tops of the plants are much more mature compared to the bottom branches, cuz my plants are just a giant bush of green and there is almost no light penetrating through the top layer, so is it a good idea to harvest the tops first and leave the bottom branches for another week?

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Yup you can do that with no problems,sometimes the tops get mature before the bottoms,chop the buds that look done, if the bottoms don't seem ripe to you let those buds go until you think they are ripe,you can stop at any time,which is why its a good idea to chop single branches wrather then the whole plant

twnty8gramz said:

whoever said hairs have absolutely nothing to do with wen the bud is done is 100% correct, not full of shit. were here to help you bro, not to lie to you. as you gain experience you will notice the hairs of the buds can vary in color greatly. always go by trich color. yes in a lot of cases the hairs are 3/4 brown wen i harvest, but there have also been times iv havestd with all the hairs brown, or all the hairs white. go by trich color and ul never have a problem bro. good luck growing man

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Learn the anatomy of the plant then come talk to me.... The hairs play far more into it then you think,and does not have to do with colors