9 weeks - Ready for harvest... or not? (Pics)

[jonask]

hi everyone

it's almost finished woohoooo and I'm so happy

but the question is

Should i wait one more week? i really feel like chopping them tomorrow

anyway, the strain is sensi skunk and today is day 63 (week 9 flowering) already been flushing for 9 days the trics are 90% cloudy 10% clear,
the buds are really cover with trics, leafs are yellowing and it looks to me ready! but i'm not sure! unfortunately i never seen before a finished
(rippen) plant alive, only dried

so here it goes last night pics
if u want to see the picts much bigger click on the signature link on the bottom of the thread

LOWER BUDS

SOME OF THE MAIN COLAS

some detail shots of the buds... tric shot lol

PS sorry for so much scrolling

 

[TodayIsAGreenday]

hey ill scroll as much as you want me to for sum bud porn

if you wanted to chop you definately could

but you could also wait that extra week and let half the thrics get amber

its completley up to you

btw really nice grow and journal

looks delicious

 

[Golden Ray]

I Love your Plant very Nice Job. The Trichs say YES. I checked with a review site on Sensi Skunk, and yes they say harvest 7-8 weeks so you are ready and Great timing.
Give her a big drink of water and then Harvest her after 12 hrs of light before lights on. You can take off all the leaves today so tomorrow you can just cut branch by branch and hang them.

 

[jonask]

thank you guys so much

you don't even imagine how happy i am by reading your replys... so much positive and very nice complements to start my day
and because i deddicated sooo much effort on these babies... but always with no big expectations, so...

thanks alot
(do u guys remember how u feel in your first harvest, that's me right now )

 

[jonask]

i dunno if it's a important factor or not, cause i'm growing indoors (like to think it is) but tonight it's FULLmoon

awooohoouuuu

 

[natrone23]

yeah they look pretty good man, you could harvest if you want or give a couple days or a week, and try to get your humidity levels as low as possible, adds more trichomes

 

[mjgrower]

Looking good mate - you'd have to be holding me back with the scissors to stop me harvesting that - In fact - where you live? snip snip..

 

[SenorSanteria]

Those trichs are mostly clear or cloudy. You want to wait until half of them are amber. Id say another week or two.

 

[jonask]

when u guys say give it another week when it's rippen!what exaclty do you mean? is it waiting for THC transform into a more percentage of CBD or is it for any other reason besides that?

 

[SenorSanteria]

Your plant is not yet at its maximum potency. The time when the plant is the most potent is when you want to harvest. The plant is most potent when about half of your trichomes have turned an amber color. 95% of your pistils will be orange at that time. The entire plant will have a "golden" tinge to it. Thats when you harvest. It would suck to grow for 4 months only to harvest too early and get mediocre weed. Let that shit finish, it will be well worth it.

 

[jonask]

thanks very much for sharing your opinion,

but isn't the tric color also of kind of reference of what the high will be (cloudy=cerebral/ambar=couchlock) also heard that peak of THC was when 100% trics are cloudy everything after that its actually THC decreasing transforming it self in CBD and CBN giving the more narcotic effect (not sure it's true but kinda following that thumb rule)

 

[Golden Ray]

The Differences between Indica and Sativa Cannabis plants:
Fat Leaves and Short Bush = INDICA
Thin Leaves and Tall Bush = SATIVA

Indica....higher CBD than THC equals heavier, sleepy type of high. Yield is usually higher than Sativa, and shorter growing season. Better for indoor growing, because they don't get as tall.

Sativa....higher THC than CBD equals cerebral, soaring type of high, more energetic Yield is usually lower than Indica, but is very potent. eg: Thai Sativa grow taller and have a longer flowering period, so they are better suited for outdoors.

 

[jonask]

INDICA... for sure at least concerning leave size and length

but even being all from the same strain and from the same pack of seeds, all of them
have different scents and phenos (at least 3 very well visible ) one is more hairy , another his more buddy with alot of calyx growing out older calyx and another one looks more like the mix of these 2

but lemme ask u something

Indica....higher CBD than THC equals heavier, sleepy ....

if so just by it's genetics are all cloudy trics with a bigger percentage of CBD?
because indicas tent to be more couchy!

 

[Londoner]

agrees with senorsanteria, was gona say myself at least another week or two, yes yr trichs are lookin nice yes yr calyx's are nice n swollen but i still see plenty of fresh white pistils, when the trichs are mostly cloudy u can harvest but i like to let at least 20-30% go amber and wait till 90% of pistils have browned, u want a certain amount of cbd and cbn and other cannabinoids aswell as the terpenes and flavanoids that u'l be missing out on if u harvest now, if u want the cerebral high u'l still get it if u dont let too many trichs amber off, how many plants do have? maybe harvest half now and half in a week or two, u'l notice the difference once dried and cured, or at least let one go a bit longer. Another thing ive learnt in my years of growing and i know other growers who agree with me is never go by the seedbanks recommended finishing times, in fact forget them, harvest when yr plant is ready, many of these finishing times that are given are based on clones not seed grown plants which take a lil longer, days are counted from the onset of flowering, not the date when u go 12/12, are given a perfect feed regimen in hydro, are grown in near lab conditions with perfect lights on/off temps and perfect humidity throughout the various stages of growth, and zero stress throughout the whole grow all of these things are how they grow them and the times are based on that plus if youre in soil it takes a lil longer too. Besides if yr after a cerebral up high i would of grown a pure if not near pure sat?

 

[jonask]

thank londoner, i found out my self not to trust the breeders estimate cause on the day 50 it wasn't even near what is today! gonna keep checking trics daily when i start seeing them, then I harvest!
about growing sativas or pure sativas i don't think i can do it (space conditions) and don't feel like waiting even more for a smoke than already indicas make me wait to be honest

 

[weezer]

thank you guys so much

you don't even imagine how happy i am by reading your replys... so much positive and very nice complements to start my day
and because i deddicated sooo much effort on these babies... but always with no big expectations, so...

thanks alot
(do u guys remember how u feel in your first harvest, that's me right now )

yes your very first harvest it is better than christmas morning
as an 8 year..
those are nice bud.
maybe give them some mollassa and give them another 10 to 14 days ...
if you got a few ,i would cut one now,and enjoy her

 

[Londoner]

and forget about watering just before the chop, increasing humidity just before the chop, and extra periods of dark before the chop.
1. If anything u want to let the soil dry out before harvest even let yr plants wilt off a bit the day of harvest, this will reduce the total water in the plant tissue, slightly decreasing drying times, plus excess moisture in dense bud is never a good thing i.e mould.
2. U dont want to increase humidity before the chop, this will only allow any mould spores(ud be surprised how many spores are present in the air that gets sucked into yr growroom) that are lying around on yr bud to germinate right before harvest when yr buds are at their thickest and densest, however iv heard that lowering the humidity even further a few days before harvest stresses the plant into producing more of its sticky resin i.e trichomes to protect itself from the dry air never tried it myself but makes sense to me.
3. The extra dark before harvest business is just a myth, done it my self, 24hrs dark, 48hrs dark the lot, lol yes they did produce resin during this period but no more than if id harvested at the correct time anyway with regular 12/12 til the chop.

 

[jonask]

my RH is usually low around 35%-50% at night maybe it gets up to 60%...

but is the 'chop' before lights on a myth as well?

 

[jonask]

how many plants do have?

sorry missed that

it's 5 plants

 

[Londoner]

thank londoner, i found out my self not to trust the breeders estimate cause on the day 50 it wasn't even near what is today! gonna keep checking trics daily when i start seeing them, then I harvest!
about growing sativas or pure sativas i don't think i can do it (space conditions) and don't feel like waiting even more for a smoke than already indicas make me wait to be honest

thats what i used to worry about, there are many near pure sats 80%+ that have just enough indie genetics to take the edge of height and finishing times, and there are quite a few that can be started on 12/12 from sprout and finish maybe 4-5ft tall, with half decent yield and no veg time which compensates for longer bloom period, i grew greenhouse himalayan gold 3yrs ago 1 week of 18/6 from sprout then 12/12, one of them hit 1.7 metres by week 7 and yielded 71/2oz dry, was one column of bud nearly as fat as my leg! I believe ssh is another good candidate.