Do these trichomes look ready??

Are these trics ready?

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OscarZulu

OscarZulu

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Agreed, not ready yet. More milk needed. You will see a few amber colored trichs usually before you are ready to harvest and I don’t see any here.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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I can see a few turning amber when I view it on my 55" tv, but they are just starting to change and are more amberish than dark amber. Thanks, I'll definitely wait. It's a clone only Green Crack from a dispensary in CO. Supposed to be 45-55 days. Today is day 52, but I know you can't always trust that. Thanks again.
 
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nobighurry

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Looks like at least a week more padawan, still too clear,it's not unusual to see a few Amber trichs extremely early usually on the leaves if you look close they are typically damaged and infrequent, not a good indication of ripeness, you will catch on...
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Sadly not done. Way to many clear trichomes still. The ambers you are seeing now are most likely either from slight damage or they were just the very earliest to form. You don't need to be afraid of ambers, but what you want at ALL nice and cloudy. Clear is no good, they won't have the potancy or terps your looking for.

45-55 days is a pretty fast plant, not many strains actually finish that early. If its a clone only strain I would hope the people selling it know how long it takes, but it wouldn't surprise me if they didn't really and just got the info off the web. I gaurantee you that 45-55 days is ACTUAL FLOWERING TIME in a perfect environment, not 12/12 light timing in an ok grow.

Plants take time to transition from one stage to the next. This is one of the most common issues new growers have. It usually takes between 7-10 days for plants to transition to flowering. If you start counting as soon as you flip your lights, you will automatically be shorting your count by that 7-10 days.

Another variable is the grow itself. Plants grow slower in non-ideal conditions, and we just have to work with that.

I'd love to see more pictures to really get a better feel for how your plant looks, the trichomes are really only one small part in determining the harvest window. The buds swelling to their full potential is typically more important in my book. The last 2 weeks of growth the buds stop growing fresh calyxs, and they just start to swell up and get heavier. Watching for the swell will help make sure you don't short change yourself on the quality and quantity of your harvest.
 
PadawanWarrior

PadawanWarrior

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Thanks for all the responses. Here's a closeup of a bud. It's a tiny plant that I threw in there at the last minute. Buds are tiny, and I'm thinking for a few reasons(I didn't add any perlite to my FFOF, had them in 1 gal too long, only organic notes, and I'm a noob). I think I just need to get my roots bigger.Thanks again. Thunder Thunder Thunder Thundercats!
 

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Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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PadawanWarrior said:
Thanks for all the responses. Here's a closeup of a bud. It's a tiny plant that I threw in there at the last minute. Buds are tiny, and I'm thinking for a few reasons(I didn't add any perlite to my FFOF, had them in 1 gal too long, only organic notes, and I'm a noob). I think I just need to get my roots bigger.Thanks again. Thunder Thunder Thunder Thundercats!
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This is done to me, trichs are irrelevant and hard to read unless your a pro :-)
 
Keeprollinup

Keeprollinup

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Kingrow1 said:
This is done to me, trichs are irrelevant and hard to read unless your a pro :-)
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Trichs are the best known thing to look at on the whole plant witch a 2 year old child could see with a 60x magnifier for when it's ready. So are completely relevant. Why take them at the wrong time and lose thc weight and size. Everyone to there own. But your advice is bull shit my friend.
 
tyke1973

tyke1973

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No not for a strong hitting,Harvest at that age and you will get a higher cbd content though,Some strains taste super sweet when the trichomes are that color ,Exodus Cheese for one,Once tried it with a bud that broke off.But i wait till they get milky with just a few amber
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Keeprollinup said:
Trichs are the best known thing to look at on the whole plant witch a 2 year old child could see with a 60x magnifier for when it's ready. So are completely relevant. Why take them at the wrong time and lose thc weight and size. Everyone to there own. But your advice is bull shit my friend.
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If he bud looks done the trichs will be, why does my two year old need a loupe for that?

Mainly you took somthing SIMPLE and preached only the hard way till noobs think they need to look at trichs or they cant harvest at the correct time.

A lot of my recent posts are aimed at newer growers like you so others can get correct info not just some recemt mumbo jumbo market speil.

:-)
 
Keeprollinup

Keeprollinup

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Kingrow1 said:
If he bud looks done the trichs will be, why does my two year old need a loupe for that?

Mainly you took somthing SIMPLE and preached only the hard way till noobs think they need to look at trichs or they cant harvest at the correct time.

A lot of my recent posts are aimed at newer growers like you so others can get correct info not just some recemt mumbo jumbo market speil.

:-)
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Like I said everyone to there own my advice was good advice and the best way to no when your plant is at its full potential and there's nothing more simple than checking trichs with a magnifier even for (noobs) your previous advice you have gave was bad advice deal with it.
 
Kingrow1

Kingrow1

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Keeprollinup said:
Like I said everyone to there own my advice was good advice and the best way to no when your plant is at its full potential and there's nothing more simple than checking trichs with a magnifier even for (noobs) your previous advice you have gave was bad advice deal with it.
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My advice was that using a loupe is more complex than just looking at the plant and deciding its done.

Case in point is the amount of threads where trichs look ready at 4 weeks, we need to see the plant not the trichs.

Using a loupe was a way to try and fine tune but you still need to wait for the plant to look ready before zooming in.

I sell a simple concept but if you go around selling just the loupe and omit the rest (what ive explained) you look like mere recent hype and give some idea you cant harvest without a loupe.

See all these new growers who dont realise that its easy simple and the most used way to just chop when the bud lokks done and the loupe is an extra uneeded step because of all your threads saying so.

Was it your intention to get newbies worried in all the complexities or do you think you will eventually give the whole truth and stop printing only your independant decision?

:-)
 
Keeprollinup

Keeprollinup

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Go fuck off you nob
Kingrow1 said:
My advice was that using a loupe is more complex than just looking at the plant and deciding its done.

Case in point is the amount of threads where trichs look ready at 4 weeks, we need to see the plant not the trichs.

Using a loupe was a way to try and fine tune but you still need to wait for the plant to look ready before zooming in.

I sell a simple concept but if you go around selling just the loupe and omit the rest (what ive explained) you look like mere recent hype and give some idea you cant harvest without a loupe.

See all these new growers who dont realise that its easy simple and the most used way to just chop when the bud lokks done and the loupe is an extra uneeded step because of all your threads saying so.

Was it your intention to get newbies worried in all the complexities or do you think you will eventually give the whole truth and stop printing only your independant decision?

:-)
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Go fuck off you nobhead
 
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