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Micro G.

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Hi guys,
I don't have a microscope to check trichomes so I have to recognize the right moment to harvest mostly by the "snowy look" and pistils color and curlyness...
To me it looks like she is ready...maybe I could wait one more week. Today is the first day of the 11th week so it is around 7 weeks of flowering.
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Tuckatan

Tuckatan

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Micro G. said:
Hi guys,
I don't have a microscope to check trichomes so I have to recognize the right moment to harvest mostly by the "snowy look" and pistils color and curlyness...
To me it looks like she is ready...maybe I could wait one more week. Today is the first day of the 11th week so it is around 7 weeks of flowering.
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A fair amount of new growth there my friend, lots of white pistils, I’d give it some time if I were you. maybe zoom your cam in a little bit and take a pic when you want to check trichs?

lovely colours though!
 
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Micro G.

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Hi guys, thank you for all of your suggestion! I took the photo with my smartphone, but I can try with my mirrorless using a trick that transform a normal lens into a macro one.
 
Tuckatan

Tuckatan

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Micro G. said:
Hi guys, thank you for all of your suggestion! I took the photo with my smartphone, but I can try with my mirrorless using a trick that transform a normal lens into a macro one.
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Definitely not done but look lovely!!! Like somebody before me said, I’d be giving that at least 2 weeks.

what is your trick? Is it a drip of water on the lens? lol. Edit: thought you meant a trick to turn smartphone lens into macro, but I see you said mirrorless now!
 
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Micro G.

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This is the best I could do guys. Looking closer I can still see some clear trichomes. I mostly see cloudy trichomes but I can already see some amber ones.
I was thinking about flushing or not and when. I decided to start lower the feeding and today I gave her around 900ppm instead of the usual 1150ppm during flowering. If you say it will take 2 more weeks I will have to water her 6-7 times so could lower the ppm by 100 for every watering until I give her only water which is around 220ppm here.
Can it works? I'm not really worried about taste because I usually smoke 50% weed and 50% tobacco pots.
Any suggestion?
 
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Micro G.

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Tuckatan said:
what is your trick? Is it a drip of water on the lens?
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Tuckatan, if you have a DSLR or a mirrorles and a 50mm lens or a 35mm lens which are not macro you can simply take the lens of and turn it over. Of course you can not mount the lens this way but if you hold the lens in place like so, you now have a macro lens. Keep in mind you that you will have to adjust the aperture of your lens using your finger by moving the tiny lever that open an close the lens's diaphragm. Than you will have to focus your subject moving closer or further away from it.
It's easier than it looks!
 
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P10p

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No, do not harvest!

Beautiful plant needs alot of time still. Would be a shame to waste all this time growing it and harvest early. You're weeks away still. Also flushing is bro science, please don't deprive your plant when they need nutrition.
 
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ganga gurl420

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Micro G. said:
Tuckatan, if you have a DSLR or a mirrorles and a 50mm lens or a 35mm lens which are not macro you can simply take the lens of and turn it over. Of course you can not mount the lens this way but if you hold the lens in place like so, you now have a macro lens. Keep in mind you that you will have to adjust the aperture of your lens using your finger by moving the tiny lever that open an close the lens's diaphragm. Than you will have to focus your subject moving closer or further away from it.
It's easier than it looks!
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So here is the thing about checking trichomes that many new people dont understand and also the reason most harvest too early.
Most look at them on the leaves ...(even the small ones coming out of the buds)those mature far faster then the ones on the calyx where you are suppose to check them.
All the growers who have many seasons under their belt is all saying the same consensus for a reason.

It is your plant tho...but trust me you will be much happier if you wait for 2 weeks (at least) for it to actually mature.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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I don't even bother checking the trichomes. After years of growing I can tell by looking at the buds. Pistils receded, calyx's swelled, no new pistil growth, plant slows down water consumption, buds are dense not fluffy "strain dependent".

I think way too many people are harvesting early because they see a couple amber pistils and call it done because they looked at some illustration showing the different stages of trichome development. It doesn't matter how many amber pistils people see through some USB microscope attached to their phone. If you have 30% white pistils the plant is not ready. Now some long flowering sativa's will just keep putting out new pistils literally until the plant dies and harvesting those may be different but for the majority of people growing hybrids don't even bother checking the trichomes if the buds are covered in new pistils.
 
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