When do you plan to harvest?

I'm around the 38th parallel (north) growing outdoor. Figured I'd harvest around Oct 15-18 but Farmers Almanac says first frost isn't going to be until Nov. 4th. Now I'm thinking I may push my harvest back another week, maybe two?

Why don't you just harvest when there ready and to your liking

Sativa dominant strain that will never "finish" outside...

Depends on when your plants ready to be harvested. That's when you wanna get em.

Due to the joys of forced darkness, It has been harvesting the last couple months, with a steady flow until November.
But for the ladies untouched, she will likely be done mid October.

I can agree with the other saying "when she's ready," but I'm sure OP is a smart enough fellow to know that.

Yeah, should have forced flower in late July but due to unforeseen circumstances that wasn't possible. To late to worry about it now. I was just curious what people growing outdoors thought.

I'm on the 44th, NW Wyoming. My first-to-flower has clear and cloudy trichomes, I'm hoping to harvest it on my birthday, about 2 weeks away, IF she's ready. The rest as they come ripe. As large as my plants are, I may can do just one or two a day, trim, cut, groom, hang, make hash. We're in the 90°s today, so so far no frost in sight... But in Wyoming that can change in an instant. Luckily I've been granted more time, and hope all 12 get to finish out before it freezes. It has usually frosted by now, rare warm September.

Well if you have to take em early you'll just end up with a serious head type high smoke ......but depending on how they look amount wise you may end up with hash plants but I think you'll be fine .....pics would help my friend

I've been harvesting autos for the past two months first ones to come down where my northern lights autos in August.
The second ones to come down where my OG Kush autos, I cut them down September 20th.
The next ones to come down are going to be my master Kush, they are a pheno I started blacking out the 1st of August. I will probably be cutting them the second week of October give or take a week. This is what they look like now.

Not sure why people worry about frost? It brings out some beautiful colors
back on topic...starting tuesday my forecast is calling for showers,rain or drizzle 6 of the next 10 days...no sense risking the ones that are ready....they'll get the chop tomorrow and I'll have to bring the others in and out(for the love of cannabis Lol)

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Not sure why people worry about frost? It brings out some beautiful colors
back on topic...starting tuesday my forecast is calling for showers,rain or drizzle 6 of the next 10 days...no sense risking the ones that are ready....they'll get the chop tomorrow and I'll have to bring the others in and out(for the love of cannabis Lol)

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A frost here can be light, or it can drop to zero or below and not budge. We've had temperatures as low as -35°. It's not the "went to 28° and warmed back up to 50°" kind. It's the "dropped to 10 and won't go above freezing for four days" type. That's why. A hard freeze, not a frost, really.

Halloween here....east of SF...just in time to join the flood of buds

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I'm on the 44th, NW Wyoming. My first-to-flower has clear and cloudy trichomes, I'm hoping to harvest it on my birthday, about 2 weeks away, IF she's ready. The rest as they come ripe. As large as my plants are, I may can do just one or two a day, trim, cut, groom, hang, make hash. We're in the 90°s today, so so far no frost in sight... But in Wyoming that can change in an instant. Luckily I've been granted more time, and hope all 12 get to finish out before it freezes. It has usually frosted by now, rare warm September.

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I am on the 45th in Oregon.... white widow is further behind than my Northern lights. I think I might chop in about a week on the NL. .. weather is 70 to 80 daytime... 40 lowest at night... no rain to speak of in the next 10 days... buds are very sticky, love the smell, both very different. NL has far less but once squeezed it sure does... in fact my fingers are sticky even typing.... tested the NL, damn this is good!

Gotcha...I thought Maine had up and down weather.... 90s to -35 that's a hell of a swing!

I'm also at 38 degrees N. in the North Bay area and this year the projected harvest is from Sept. 30 to Halloween. The earliest will be BOG Bubble about Sept. 29. That's early for in-ground plants in my area but it's a 7 week flowering plant (BOG Bubble) according to BOG. The staggered harvests are good. It gives me some rest. Then, the Sin City Tangerine Power and Mr. Nice Early Queen a week later, then the Mota Rebel Lung Candy around the usual 15th and the Mr. Nice Angel Heart will go until Halloween. I've tried to grow Sativas (Reeferman) and have gone into late Nov. and early Dec., only because of the drought. But, the ground continues to cool and the plants never did finish. Never again.

Was going through my tree yesterday and noticed mold in 3 of the 16 big buds... Chopped them all trimmed and cut away any mold. As I was going through I found multiple smaller spots of mold. Left all the smaller buds to possibly finish out the season. We'll see what happens.