fatboyOGOF
Well-Known Member
i know this is an old thread but for newbs reading it, maybe it will chill them out a bit about when to harvest vs OMG you have fucked up by cutting them way to early!
to all you folks who think there is a perfect time to cut your plants, it might be for you but it's not for others. before the internet hooked us all together to figure things out people were harvesting all over the place. trichs weren't even part of the discussion, and harvesting often came down to what the hairs were doing. then terps entered the discussion. yay terps.
as time went on, many were happiest when terps, which were mostly cloudy with some magical percent of amber was the perfect time to cut. it's an opinion and is not set in stone. it's not scientific, it's a place that after many threads, a lot of people have decided is a perfect time for them. the perfect high for them. so the best harvest time mentioned by the most of us, eventually became a rule of thumb.
over time anything other than this exact time was deemed wrong by some. bad. stupid... many folks used to insist that cutting before the trichs were 1/2 amber was the wrong time. some would cut very early when the trichs were all clear (i had a grow book way back when that stated that this was when thc was at its strongest. another book said to pull up the plant, roots and all, so the thc could flow from the roots to the buds). what gets you high might give me a tiny buzz or a headache. what gets me stoned might have you rolling another joint as you aren't there yet.
mostly cloudy is my favorite time to harvest and has been for decades. but a few days either way is meaningless. if you think you can tell the difference in highs from 90 days vs 87 days or 93 days, you are an exceptional stoner. like one of those wine genius'. to this day, i also harvest some if not all around 1/2 clear and 1/2 cloudy as that is also a great high, for me. a different high, but not a bad one by any means. it's not even close to the disaster some folks indicate that it definitely is. it's not an ok high, it's a great high and will keep you stoned until the end. this is just a different thought for some of the newer folks who can now grow legally instead of jumping every time someone rings the bell or knocks a bit too loudly!
try it sometime instead of convincing a bunch of newbs that cutting any earlier is a crime against nature and flies into the face of botanical science. test a bud or 2. does it get you feeling great? why not cut some or all of it down. i do.
damn near everything we know about growing weed comes from thousands of comments from people who were feeling their way around growing our favorite plant. experiments galore, different ideas, some goofy, some great.
the perfect time to harvest is when you test a few buds and shazam, minutes later you find yourself smiling, feeling all warm and fuzzy and wondering what you just watched or read for the last 10 minutes. my last live in GF didn't love what i grew, not stoney enough for her and her cousins. so if i had the time and space, i'd grow a few plants until they had a bunch of amber, she loved it. different strokes eh?
free your mind and your ass will follow.
to all you folks who think there is a perfect time to cut your plants, it might be for you but it's not for others. before the internet hooked us all together to figure things out people were harvesting all over the place. trichs weren't even part of the discussion, and harvesting often came down to what the hairs were doing. then terps entered the discussion. yay terps.
as time went on, many were happiest when terps, which were mostly cloudy with some magical percent of amber was the perfect time to cut. it's an opinion and is not set in stone. it's not scientific, it's a place that after many threads, a lot of people have decided is a perfect time for them. the perfect high for them. so the best harvest time mentioned by the most of us, eventually became a rule of thumb.
over time anything other than this exact time was deemed wrong by some. bad. stupid... many folks used to insist that cutting before the trichs were 1/2 amber was the wrong time. some would cut very early when the trichs were all clear (i had a grow book way back when that stated that this was when thc was at its strongest. another book said to pull up the plant, roots and all, so the thc could flow from the roots to the buds). what gets you high might give me a tiny buzz or a headache. what gets me stoned might have you rolling another joint as you aren't there yet.
mostly cloudy is my favorite time to harvest and has been for decades. but a few days either way is meaningless. if you think you can tell the difference in highs from 90 days vs 87 days or 93 days, you are an exceptional stoner. like one of those wine genius'. to this day, i also harvest some if not all around 1/2 clear and 1/2 cloudy as that is also a great high, for me. a different high, but not a bad one by any means. it's not even close to the disaster some folks indicate that it definitely is. it's not an ok high, it's a great high and will keep you stoned until the end. this is just a different thought for some of the newer folks who can now grow legally instead of jumping every time someone rings the bell or knocks a bit too loudly!
try it sometime instead of convincing a bunch of newbs that cutting any earlier is a crime against nature and flies into the face of botanical science. test a bud or 2. does it get you feeling great? why not cut some or all of it down. i do.
damn near everything we know about growing weed comes from thousands of comments from people who were feeling their way around growing our favorite plant. experiments galore, different ideas, some goofy, some great.
the perfect time to harvest is when you test a few buds and shazam, minutes later you find yourself smiling, feeling all warm and fuzzy and wondering what you just watched or read for the last 10 minutes. my last live in GF didn't love what i grew, not stoney enough for her and her cousins. so if i had the time and space, i'd grow a few plants until they had a bunch of amber, she loved it. different strokes eh?
free your mind and your ass will follow.
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