Sexx Pistils
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I'm on Week 9 of an autoflower grow--my first. I have a magnifying glass but it's not sufficient to really see the color of the trichomes, plus I have a hard time telling the difference between clear, cloudy & amber in many of the online picture examples anyway. And my camera is absolute garbage. If I posted a pic here it wouldn't help a bit is what I'm saying.
Estimates for this strain range from 8 to 10 weeks, but most growers say that those estimates are lowball guesses & it'll take a couple weeks longer for non-professional growers. I was planning to harvest early Week 12 but now am starting to wonder if that'll be too late. The middle buds are starting to look like the trichs are fat & white & the upper half of the plant has lots of orange/shrunken pistils (about 30%).
The bottom buds on the offshoots, however, still have all white/straight pistils & very small trichs. They are getting their own special LED side lighting so it's not that they're under-lit. I wasn't planning on harvesting in stages as I wanted to hang the whole plant to dry at once. It's very small...a Solo cup grow. I'd rather not take single buds off if possible.
Can you cut the entire main stem/top cola off a small auto & continue to keep the bottom portions alive? Should I attempt to do that if the top portion looks like it's passing peak potency while the bottoms are still immature? Or just wait & harvest the whole plant at once like I was planning?
(Getting a magnifying lens is not an option right now as I'm broke--and I mean BROKE lol. Don't even have $5 to my name. So this is what I'm working with. I'm more just asking about harvesting in stages I guess).
Estimates for this strain range from 8 to 10 weeks, but most growers say that those estimates are lowball guesses & it'll take a couple weeks longer for non-professional growers. I was planning to harvest early Week 12 but now am starting to wonder if that'll be too late. The middle buds are starting to look like the trichs are fat & white & the upper half of the plant has lots of orange/shrunken pistils (about 30%).
The bottom buds on the offshoots, however, still have all white/straight pistils & very small trichs. They are getting their own special LED side lighting so it's not that they're under-lit. I wasn't planning on harvesting in stages as I wanted to hang the whole plant to dry at once. It's very small...a Solo cup grow. I'd rather not take single buds off if possible.
Can you cut the entire main stem/top cola off a small auto & continue to keep the bottom portions alive? Should I attempt to do that if the top portion looks like it's passing peak potency while the bottoms are still immature? Or just wait & harvest the whole plant at once like I was planning?
(Getting a magnifying lens is not an option right now as I'm broke--and I mean BROKE lol. Don't even have $5 to my name. So this is what I'm working with. I'm more just asking about harvesting in stages I guess).
