White trichomes = time to harvest?
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ChronicClouds
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Go buy a scope of at least 30x they make small cheap ones for about 10-15$. You want min of 30x.
reverof
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I would go by the 2 main factors, color of hairs/pistols you want a minimum of 75% orange/brown pistols, trics effect the high, so the more amber the more couch lock, what i find to be a perfect mix is 15-30% amber trics, and 90%+ the rest cloudy, you will almost always have a few clear trics, just happens that way.
taipanspunk
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cloudy white is really good!!!
pazuzu420
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I noticed last run I took them with a cloudyd tric as I was looking for a strong head high, but this time I"m going to take it with extremely 'milky-white' trics with a few ambers starting to pop up. Some of the lower stuff had 100 red hairs and some were turning so I cut them, I account that to the lack of light as the bottom of the plant usually cures last doesn't it?
Oh, stoned is I! The main reason I was posting though was to say you can really tell the difference between a cloudy tric and a really milky one.
I read an article though that said resin production was similar to a volcano that when it flowed fast it was clear and as it slowed it turned to milky and then 'hardend' into amber. It also said that resin production can ramp up and down over the flowering cycle, making cloudy but not milky trics and then back to clear, so looking for amber is one of the more sure fire ways of telling ripeness.
Guess i'll have to dig up the article if I"m going to reference it, it was either in HT or Skunk.
Oh, stoned is I! The main reason I was posting though was to say you can really tell the difference between a cloudy tric and a really milky one.
I read an article though that said resin production was similar to a volcano that when it flowed fast it was clear and as it slowed it turned to milky and then 'hardend' into amber. It also said that resin production can ramp up and down over the flowering cycle, making cloudy but not milky trics and then back to clear, so looking for amber is one of the more sure fire ways of telling ripeness.
Guess i'll have to dig up the article if I"m going to reference it, it was either in HT or Skunk.
phillk6751
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That makes sense. I'm running a 200w cfl and my trichomes are usually milky with a few clear. So it almost sounds you might just lower the temps to harden or maybe a cfl can't produce the energy to "cook" the resin enough to produce the amber trichomes. Btw the light I have is a feliz 10k lumen 2700k color for flowering
Darwood
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The harvest time is a personal opinion. If you want a mind altering high, you want about 80% milky and 20% amber. If you want a more body/narcotic high you are looking for 70% amber 30% milky. I wouldn't harvest BEFORE you at least have 20% amber, because that ratio signifies the beginning of the window for peak ripeness, and around 70% amber shows the end of the window where the potency will just start to degrade from there on. Remember that indica strains tend to have a more intense body high where sativa tends to be more on the head/mind altering high, so it's always good to factor those into account when thinking about when you should harvest. I would say that the best thing to do is harvest at slightly different times to aquire different highs! The connisseur in me loves to explore all of the different potentials, you grew it, so why not? It's the only way you even GET to choose how your trichs affect the overall high. But if you do that, just remember to seperate the different trichome ratios and label them, otherwise you'll wind up with a bunch of randomness haha
Darwood
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Nice, isn't it just better when you do that? You get multiple varieties of highs from one plant! It's nice to have a strain that you love, and be able to have that uplifting high during the day from the early harvested buds, and then have that coughlock put you down type of high for at night. Gotta love the possibilities when you grow
RawBudzski
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Never again will I harvest a plant with less than 10% amber. That's just me though.
col. forbin
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ALSO: give your stem a squeeze in the middle of the plant. If it feels spongy and not hard then it is probably done. I check trichs too but I can never tell if they are cloudy or what. Usually the plant is failing around all over the place for a week or so from the fan kinda like a noodle. At this point I flush one last time real good. Then do 2-3 days of dark and chop. You can also tell when they frost up with cloudy trichs just buy looking at them. Advice is great but after a few times you will know.
