Trichomes & Harvesting

Here is another painkiller trichome shot

ILLwannabe said:

Here is another painkiller trichome shot

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that one looks pretty damn close, as long as that's a calyx shot. ignore the trichs that are out on sun leaves, only look at the ones on calyxes. if those are calyx trichs, i'd say it's ready

Should you reduce co2 levels down to atmospheric levels towards the end of flowering, as increased levels of co2 prohibits the production of ethylene, vital in the maturation of trichome?

Also foxtailing is new growth and thus immature compared to the rest of the calyx and its purported that it is only cosmetic but surely it would reduce overall potency as opposed to only being aesthetically unappealing?

How are plants utilising increased levels of co2 towards the end of flowering? Is it a balancing act to acquire adequate trichome maturation and yield or is increased co2 production in the latter stages superflous?

Disregard the foxtailing question if it is deemed off topic, great thread

Thanks

Hey harvesters!

Please find my microscopic photos attached of my Skywalker OG Kush from Reserva Privada at 49 days (7 weeks) of flowering.

Definately the most challenging thing I have done today, my heartbeat is visible to a huge degree!

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Hey jay bio, in your 5th photo do those look more clear or cloudy to you? Kind of hard for me to distinguish the two.


Also here is an updated trichome photo of my plants

JayBio420 said:

Hey harvesters!

Please find my microscopic photos attached of my Skywalker OG Kush from Reserva Privada at 49 days (7 weeks) of flowering.

Definately the most challenging thing I have done today, my heartbeat is visible to a huge degree!

Please follow me and check out my
Grow journal for this weekends update!

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looks like a couple of weeks left to me, look at the ones sticking up past the edge of the leaves, still a lot of clears.
nice pics

ILLwannabe said:

Hey jay bio, in your 5th photo do those look more clear or cloudy to you? Kind of hard for me to distinguish the two.


Also here is an updated trichome photo of my plants

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Definately more clear than cloudy in mine, the opposite in yours.

Hey guys. Just wanted to post some pics of some diesel 7 weeks into flower. I do not have a loupe. Should be here soon!

Yo here to join the bandwagon, I got a few mamamia and blueberry, I think I should start the flush right now, my clone had very occasional amber trichomes and it was ahead of the rest possibly because the lesser veg time the mother of it is mostly clear compared to it, but they are close imo, lmk what u guys think.

Hey there, hi there. New to growing, this is my first grow. I didn't put much money into it and realized my lighting was not what it needed. This is making it hard to tell if they are ready to harvest. I would love your guys opinion.

1st grow in 30yrs. A Mama Mia and an LSD in rear (seedsman) Im thinking around 5-7 days to go. About 10 weeks into bud.
Thanks

JJFOURTWENTY said:

Couldn't agree with this more! Soooooooo much MISinformation pertaining to amber trichs on this site and a whole lot of others as well. "Don't chop until you see at least 30% amber." WTF??!! I hear that bullshit all the time. My first harvest I let it go a week too long and consequently started flushing way too late as a result. Bud was still bomb, but it was very noticeable at least to me that the overall effects had drifted far from the psychoactive to the medicinal part of the scale. Now don't get me wrong I love a little bit of couchlock, but my ass being put straight to sleep after a few hits is not exactly what I'm aiming for.

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I did this same thing,I don’t know if this is to far back of a comment to get your help and understanding,but it’s worth a try.I really hope I didn’t mess these up to bad lol.I have a few going and the first few I think I waited to long and started flushing to late ,which made more amber tricked.My question is,I am in coco and used advanced nutrition and flushed 2 days with flawless finish 2days water and then another flawless finish because the leaves are not turning yellow really,only on one and I have another question with that lol.Some leaves are yellowing on that one but few,the sugar leaves and the top of the buds that start with c lol sorry can’t remember are like yellowing almost like new growth,it’s only the top so I think it is but not sure.Sorry I have been none stop studying all this stuff.should I just harvest with the little fishing I’ve done?Should I just go cut them ones before lights come on and before it’s ruined?

RyanjMaine said:

I did this same thing,.... started flushing to late ,..... flushed 2 days with flawless finish 2days water and then another flawless finish because the leaves are not turning yellow really,....Some leaves are yellowing .... blah blah...... yellowing almost like new growth....blah...

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Flushing schmushing..
Read some more of the early pages of this thread. They are pretty old now, but still gold.. The whole flushing debate is certain never to end until the dinosaurs that are still doing it have died, but it was pretty solidly debunked by the guy that started the thread.
I'm not really sure that is does any harm, but it certainly contributes to unnecessary complexity, particularly for new growers, who can tend to be experiencing a bit of anxiety and over-thinking at this critical stage in the process.
Ditch the whole flushing stage and you'll massively simplify not only the process, but your thinking too, making it easier to pick the correct time to harvest.
Once you are confident with your timing and a few of the other components that make for a solid grow, knock yourself out with a flushing regime and tell us if you can really measure a difference.

These all look cloudy to me but I’m noob. And I know it’s too soon, how will I know even better ? How can I be sure? See pics

grower411 said:

These all look cloudy to me but I’m noob. And I know it’s too soon, how will I know even better ? How can I be sure? See pics

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first off, those are on a leaf...not a valid indicator. you have to look at the trichs that are growing on calyxes to get the real picture. leaf trichs are more exposed and age faster, they can be starting to amber while calyx trichs will barely be starting to get milky.
the biggest thing to know, imo, is to look at them from the side, and not from the top down. when you look from the top down, the base of the stalk they sit on will reflect light and make them look white when they're actually still clear. looking at them from the side gives you a much better picture of whats actually going on

Roger A. Shrubber said:

first off, those are on a leaf...not a valid indicator. you have to look at the trichs that are growing on calyxes to get the real picture. leaf trichs are more exposed and age faster, they can be starting to amber while calyx trichs will barely be starting to get milky.
the biggest thing to know, imo, is to look at them from the side, and not from the top down. when you look from the top down, the base of the stalk they sit on will reflect light and make them look white when they're actually still clear. looking at them from the side gives you a much better picture of whats actually going on

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Thanks man, do you have any pictures you could show as example. It would help a lot as I am a visual learner

its kind of hard to illustrate unless you can look at some from overhead, then look at the same ones from the side and see the difference, but these kind of illustrate what i'm talking about
look at the ones directly facing the camera, they all look cloudy, while the ones you can see from the side are still obviously clear

I go by the whole picture and not trich alone. Hairs receding, growth stopped (easier to monitor in hydro), all signs of finished. I’ve had strains that don’t amber so it can fool you if waiting for it.

Budley Doright said:

I go by the whole picture and not trich alone. Hairs receding, growth stopped (easier to monitor in hydro), all signs of finished. I’ve had strains that don’t amber so it can fool you if waiting for it.

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very true, but most of them will at least go milky, haven't seen one yet that was ready while it still had a lot of clears

Last year I had the opportunity to harvest the top cola of a bubblegum I grew. I harvested when the tricomes on that top were actually gold, not milky, clear but still no matter what angle I looked at it the tricomes were gold.

Best damned pot I ever smoked.