when harvesting

hello

my mate has told me when i harvest all the top bud sites off the plant, to leave the bottom ones a few week and they will grow and bush out?

is this true?

yes once your top buds are mature and ready cut the plant back to the lower buds and then grow them out , GL

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You should check the trichomes and harvest according to the color you want - different colors mean different stages of ripeness and different effects. This is the only way to harvest with surety.

You can harvest buds as they ripen. I found this harvesting technique especially helpful with tall plants where the bottom buds get much less light and can take weeks longer to ripen. Multiple harvests.

DJ Short's Flo is know for being a great producer when multi harvested:

"DJ Short Flo is a Sativa/Indica cross (60% Sativa / 40% Indica) with very Sativa phenotypic characteristics that also matures very early. The large, tight, spear-shaped buds are made up of small, densely packed purple calyxes. The plants are taller and like to branch out.

Indoors the buds of the Short Flo are fully mature by the end of their sixth week. Outdoors the DJ Short Flo is a super producer when multi-harvested over a period of time. The cannabis seeds first buds are ripe around the third week of September. About every ten days after that, new buds form and can be harvested through the end of November, if the plant can be kept alive that long. Therefore DJ Short Flo is ideal for greenhouse production."

http://www.cannabis-seeds-bank.co.uk/dj-short-flo/prod_837.html

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Sativa dominants can be left to go more amber without being too sedative; indicas will become much more sedative with the same color of trichomes.

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cheers, is that the cristals on the leaves and buds??

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The trichomes are on both the leaves and the buds, but check and go by the bud trichs Benson. The trichs on the leaves will ripen before the buds - but it's the buds we vape/smoke, and where most of the trichs are. Always by the trichs on the buds. Unless the hash or honey oil from the leaves' trichs is more important, but usually not.

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You can grow lower buds out but I find it isn't worth the time. I'd rather just get the jump on a new grow.

the buds have small white cristals, as do some of the leaves..
but they are still coverd with white hair?
cheers

This can be done but in my experiance the bud that you will recive from down the bottom of the plant is just wasteing time.Lolly pop the plants and have a fan blowing air up into the cannopy.If the buds that are on the bottom of the plants are little and fluffy then just make butter and cook with it.This is why it is in the best interest of the grower to flower small this way you will not get any small buds.Growing cannabis is not about haveing nice plants to look at it is all about the female flowers all though i like them to look nice too.Start flowering the plants at around a foot tall and you will recive nice dence buds on all the plant because of flowering small the whole plant will recive max lumans.Where has if the plant is tall the top 6/12 ince is where the dencest buds.This will also anable you to have more plants because of the room a plant flowed at a foot will use will be far less then a large one.The main thing is keep the lights has close has possible without burning the plant.

yea i flowerd at 1 foot, topped them into 2 heads..

now they are sitting in week 7 of flower..

nice they are..

theres lots of white hair left wat does this mean?? thanks

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"theres lots of white hair left wat does this mean?"

I'm assuming you mean pistils - they are part of the plants reproductive organs.



The pistils turn dark as the plants ripens and the pistils die, but they can grow back in white before the trichs are ripe. Many inexperienced growers judge ripeness by the pistils when their color should be taken only as an indicator to get your hand microscope out. A holistic view to recognizing approaching ripeness is important - ie calyxes swelling, buds have a sandy look, etc.

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Pistil

Female reproductive part of a flower. Centrally located, the pistil typically has a swollen base called the ovary, which contains the potential seeds (ovules). The stalk (style) arises from the ovary and has a pollen-receptive tip, the stigma, which is variously shaped and often sticky. There may be a single pistil, as in the lily, or several to many pistils, as in the buttercup. Each pistil is constructed of one to many rolled leaflike structures, or carpels. Differences in the composition and form of the pistil are useful in classifying flowering plants. See also stamen

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my bottom buds are usually done way before the tops are, i'm usually waiting for the top to finish

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Wiseguy I find that with some strains as well. Some ripen top to bottom, some bottom to top. Very few if any all at once.

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