How much longer until harvest?

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cannabiskid20

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I already posted this once about a week ago so I'm sorry for the double post I'm just getting really excited seeing all these buds haha, i guess i just need to learn patience lol. I've heard to wait till at least 50-60% of the white hairs turn orange? about 40% are orange while almost every single white hair has atleast a small tint of orange starting on the middle or the tips of the hair. I don't have a magnifying glass or anything but it looks like some of the trichomes might be turning an Amber color while the lower buds look frosty, any help would be great thanks!

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joegrowsmeds

joegrowsmeds

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get a good loupe bro. if you keep the hobby up itll make things way less complicated once you use it enough. Basically you look at differnet parts of the plant and see what the dominant trichome color is (clear, cloudy, or amber) mostly clear is not ready, mostly cloudy is psychadellic properties at peak, mostly amber getting you that couch locky feeling.

Edit:In my opinion i would let her go a while longer. she still has a lot of fresh white hairs... just my .02

good vibes at you CK
 
Gaz29

Gaz29

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Get your self a microscope or jewellers loupe and check the trichomes (frosty stuff), and see if THEY are Amber ,cloudy or clear..I'd give it a week or two more as looks like buds could swell more (imo). What medium you using ,lights , how long they be flowering for.? More details = more accurate feedback ..! Good luck happy growing
Gaz
 
Tupapa

Tupapa

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cannabiskid20 said:
I already posted this once about a week ago so I'm sorry for the double post I'm just getting really excited seeing all these buds haha, i guess i just need to learn patience lol. I've heard to wait till at least 50-60% of the white hairs turn orange? about 40% are orange while almost every single white hair has atleast a small tint of orange starting on the middle or the tips of the hair. I don't have a magnifying glass or anything but it looks like some of the trichomes might be turning an Amber color while the lower buds look frosty, any help would be great thanks!

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Wait at least until all hairs resides to the calyx and swell., In the last 2 weeks is when u get the most weight., Dont get impatient now. How many weeks she been flowering for? Wait like 2 more weeks and post pics again., You can always harvest the tops and leave the bottoms to mature more.. GL. By the way she looks awesome good job!! :clap:
 
Budzbuddha

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Don't guess ... Don't cheat yourself ... Go get a damn lens and check the triches proper.
If you harvest too early - triches will be immature , hay smell and shitty smoke.

Your plants look killer but you got to get it right !
Amazon has loupes for a couple bucks ...

Or ...

You can check out Trichomes using your digital camera.
Here are the steps:

1) Put your digital camera in Macro mode (this is the setting that looks like a flower)
2)Get as close as possible to a bud with Trichomes.
3) Transfer the picture to your computer.
4) open in up in a editing program (Photoshop, Paint etc...) and zoom into the picture.

And there are clip on phone lenses ... Super cheap.

Plus there is MY DIY THREAD on this subject.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/diy-microscope-modification-for-phone-ipad-easy-cheap.864913/
 
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cannabiskid20

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Gaz29 said:
Get your self a microscope or jewellers loupe and check the trichomes (frosty stuff), and see if THEY are Amber ,cloudy or clear..I'd give it a week or two more as looks like buds could swell more (imo). What medium you using ,lights , how long they be flowering for.? More details = more accurate feedback ..! Good luck happy growing
Gaz
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Im on the 7th week of flower, using fox farm ocean forest soil with the fox farm trio nutrients but I stopped using nutes and flushed 5 days ago, I'm using a 250w hps and a 132w viparspectra led for the side light.
 
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cannabiskid20

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Budzbuddha said:
Don't guess ... Don't cheat yourself ... Go get a damn lens and check the triches proper.
If you harvest too early - triches will be immature , hay smell and shitty smoke.

Your plants look killer but you got to get it right !
Amazon has loupes for a couple bucks ...

Or ...

You can check out Trichomes using your digital camera.
Here are the steps:

1) Put your digital camera in Macro mode (this is the setting that looks like a flower)
2)Get as close as possible to a bud with Trichomes.
3) Transfer the picture to your computer.
4) open in up in a editing program (Photoshop, Paint etc...) and zoom into the picture.

And there are clip on phone lenses ... Super cheap.

Plus there is MY DIY THREAD on this subject.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/diy-microscope-modification-for-phone-ipad-easy-cheap.864913/
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Sweet thanks man!!
 
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cannabiskid20

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Tupapa said:
Wait at least until all hairs resides to the calyx and swell., In the last 2 weeks is when u get the most weight., Dont get impatient now. How many weeks she been flowering for? Wait like 2 more weeks and post pics again., You can always harvest the tops and leave the bottoms to mature more.. GL. By the way she looks awesome good job!! :clap:
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Sweet thanks!:)
 
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cannabiskid20

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Budzbuddha said:
Don't guess ... Don't cheat yourself ... Go get a damn lens and check the triches proper.
If you harvest too early - triches will be immature , hay smell and shitty smoke.

Your plants look killer but you got to get it right !
Amazon has loupes for a couple bucks ...

Or ...

You can check out Trichomes using your digital camera.
Here are the steps:

1) Put your digital camera in Macro mode (this is the setting that looks like a flower)
2)Get as close as possible to a bud with Trichomes.
3) Transfer the picture to your computer.
4) open in up in a editing program (Photoshop, Paint etc...) and zoom into the picture.

And there are clip on phone lenses ... Super cheap.

Plus there is MY DIY THREAD on this subject.
https://www.rollitup.org/t/diy-microscope-modification-for-phone-ipad-easy-cheap.864913/
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I found a magnifying glass with an additional jewelers loupe type thing that actually works pretty good and it looks like every trichome on the upper portion of the cola are cloudy white and there are some that are starting to turn Amber, the lower part of the colas are all frosty but some of the triches are still slightly clear but the cloudy ones outnumber the clear by a long shot all the lower buds have more white hairs as well.
 
Gaz29

Gaz29

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Yeah keep up the good work (if it was me) I'd give plant/s another feed n flush in a week- looks likely to fatten up in the last couple of weeks. What strain is it.? Good luck n happy growing
Gaz
 
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cannabiskid20

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Gaz29 said:
Yeah keep up the good work (if it was me) I'd give plant/s another feed n flush in a week- looks likely to fatten up in the last couple of weeks. What strain is it.? Good luck n happy growing
Gaz
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Not sure on the strain just pulled the seed out of a bag
 
joegrowsmeds

joegrowsmeds

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cannabiskid20

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joegrowsmeds said:
i still say another week or two at least, but from the pic looks like you are forming quite a bit of milky...is it like that over several differnt parts of her or just one specific area?

Edit: what effect you lookin for?
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It's like that over most of the buds the amber color is more near the very tops, and the bottoms are just milky but still have a lot of white hairs. And I'm looking for a couch lock/ pain relief type high, I guess just the dankest I can get it haha
 
Gaz29

Gaz29

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cannabiskid20 said:
It's like that over most of the buds the amber color is more near the very tops, and the bottoms are just milky but still have a lot of white hairs. And I'm looking for a couch lock/ pain relief type high, I guess just the dankest I can get it haha
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Let it/them go for a week or two and you'll see calyx's swell.. You should also have loads more Amber n just a couple of brown pistils in amongst your fattened buds.! Try post more pics in a week or so.. Good luck
Gaz
 
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cannabiskid20

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Gaz29 said:
Let it/them go for a week or two and you'll see calyx's swell.. You should also have loads more Amber n just a couple of brown pistils in amongst your fattened buds.! Try post more pics in a week or so.. Good luck
Gaz
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Alright it's been about a week and they're looking pretty nice I'm going to do a flush tonight, should I go another week? I also ordered a loupe that should be here tomorrow.

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