When Should I Harvest...Look At My Pics Plz!!

[kana]

Hey people, this is my 1st grow so i have made a few mistakes which i will explain, firstly i am growing amnesia lemon, purple haze and sharksbreath, i vegged my plants for too long so i had 2 adjust my tent and increase the size, the amnesia lemon got extremely tall and is now bent over (not the best of plant at the top of it), my plants have been flowering for 8 and a half weeks now and would appreciate help as to when i should harvest my plants!

here are the pics of my grow

Sharksbreath:
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Purple Haze:
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Amnesia Lemon

 

[NLXSK1]

Looks like you got a couple weeks at least but you should look at the color of the trichromes to be sure.

 

[kana]

Looks like you got a couple weeks at least but you should look at the color of the trichromes to be sure.

thanks 4 the help, i have already started flushing as i thought harvest would be soon, do you think it will be alright to start using flowering food again?

 

[FirsTime]

Eh, You have about 2 weeks. You could just give it quarter strength food. Well depending on how long you've been flushing, But give it half strength or quarter strength and flush it in about a week and a half. Let it go for a week after that. Should be ready for harvest, Don't take my word... Look at the trichromes.

 

[kana]

Eh, You have about 2 weeks. You could just give it quarter strength food. Well depending on how long you've been flushing, But give it half strength or quarter strength and flush it in about a week and a half. Let it go for a week after that. Should be ready for harvest, Don't take my word... Look at the trichromes.

ive been flushing for nearly 2 weeks, so would you say to check them again around the 21st and if the trichromes have gotten darker then start flushing? thanks 4 the help!

 

[paxneotech]

I use this ;

 

[kana]

here are some more pics of my purple haze, some advice would be nice (9 weeks into flowering)

 

[Brick Top]

here are some more pics of my purple haze, some advice would be nice (9 weeks into flowering)

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The best advice you can be given is to look at the color of your trichomes and harvest when they are the color that will best give you what you want.

 

[*Love420]

When most of the white hairs die back. Trichomes will be really cloudy and amber, It's Time!

 

[Brick Top]

When most of the white hairs die back. Trichomes will be really cloudy and amber, It's Time!

Traditionally marijuana has been harvested when the pistils die and the calyx starts to swell into a false seed pod. These days the best growers are getting much more detailed in their harvesting criteria. They take a close look at the trichomes themselves to judge peak harvest. Evidence that this is the only real way to tell peak maturity is in Sagarmatha's strain Matanuska Tundra, which ripens resin glands while most pistils are still alive and white. This seems an odd twist of evolution but proves that the pistil color and ripe glands do not necessarily have any correlation.

 

[doug lawrence]

brick top -- whats up with pistils turning red but glands are clear--- diesel kush - 5.5 weeks into flower - 600w

 

[Brick Top]

brick top -- whats up with pistils turning red but glands are clear--- diesel kush - 5.5 weeks into flower - 600w

Without anything else to go on I would say it is genetic. Possibly not normal for the strain but possibly a rare or semi-rare phenotype where it will happen. I do not know what all is in the strain, as in the varied genetics in it, the genetics of the different strains used in the various crosses that took place that eventually led Diesel Kush being made, but my bet is somewhere in the chain of different mixed genetics is a strain where pistils will turn red early, or possibly some other color but the mixed genetics caused yours to be red. Depending on what Diesel strain went into the cross, some have very mixed genetics and like how the families of a friend of mine and his wife had for generations all had black hair or dark brown hair they ended up with two redheaded children, and his son, when he grew up and married, then had a redheaded daughter. Later they found that a great, great grandfather had red hair. The genetics lay hidden deep in the chain and then for some reason it surfaced, it popped back up. Possibly it is something somewhat along the same lines with your plants. If it is somewhere in the chain of DNA at some point it can surface and it can, at least for a while become dominant.

Some people have grown Stinky Pinky and not seen a single pink pistil. I have seen Stinky Pinky with almost every pistil being pink earlier than 5 1/2 weeks.

It might in part be conditions/environment, but my pure guess is that it is genetic.

I grew the real deal Panama Red back in the 70's and Panama Red got it's name because of it's red pistils. It was a LONG flowering strain, mine took 22 week, but they didn't wait until the final weeks for the pistils to turn red. They were not red by 5 1/2 weeks but given the long flowering time, and the flowering time I am assuming Diesel Kush has, the Panama Red pistils likely turned as early, if not earlier, proportionally speaking in relation to overall flowering time.

Normally pistils will remain white for as long as they are still viable for pollination and then change color once no longer able to be pollinated. Possibly your genetics are ones where the pistils only remain able to be pollinated early in flower, though I have never read where that is the case in any particular strain, but it is a possibility.

If they are not shriveling up and instead are standing up firm and proud and sticking out as normal I would not concern myself with it.

 

[kana]

a lot of my trichomes are cloudy on my amnesia lemon and sharksbreath, but slighty darker on my purple haze, i just purchased a 60x mini microscope and looked at them through there, reckon i can harvest? they have already been flushed for 2weeks +?

(also a lot of the buds are weighing the branches down on the purple haze (plant on the right with all the shoots) , and my sharksbreath is the plant which is the one with the really long cola in the picture on the left which is also leaning greatly to one side)

 

[NLXSK1]

a lot of my trichomes are cloudy on my amnesia lemon and sharksbreath, but slighty darker on my purple haze, i just purchased a 65x mini microscope and looked at them through there, reckon i can harvest? they have already been flushed for 2weeks +?

It is a judgement call. Nobody but you can ultimately decide.

 

[kana]

It is a judgement call. Nobody but you can ultimately decide.

thank you, from what i have said do you think the buds would be greatly different if i was to harvest now, of would those factors still depend on the way in which i dry and cure the buds?

 

[NLXSK1]

thank you, from what i have said do you think the buds would be greatly different if i was to harvest now, of would those factors still depend on the way in which i dry and cure the buds?

The color of the trichromes indicate the high you will get from the marijuana. Clear/Cloudy = upbeat high & Amber = Couchlock

Whether it is an indica or a sativa makes a difference too.

Drying and curing is not going to make a difference in the maturity of the trichromes.

 

[kana]

thanks i have read up on the different highs regarding the color of the trichromes (upbeat high i dont mind lol), but what i was trying to say is wether the yeild will be impacted if i harvest now or later?

 

[Brick Top]

a lot of my trichomes are cloudy on my amnesia lemon and sharksbreath, but slighty darker on my purple haze, i just purchased a 60x mini microscope and looked at them through there, reckon i can harvest? they have already been flushed for 2weeks +?

I am NOT telling you what you should do .... but based on what you said if they were my plants I would have already harvested the Purple Haze and would be harvesting the others now ... BUT that would be according to my preference in trichome color and the type of high or stone each will give and the strains you are growing.

But do whatever YOU feel most comfortable with doing and what you believe will be best for you.

But whatever you do be sure to give them a slow drying process and then a nice long curing process so you get the most out of them that you possibly can in the end.

 

[kana]

I am NOT telling you what you should do .... but based on what you said if they were my plants I would have already harvested the Purple Haze and would be harvesting the others now ... BUT that would be according to my preference in trichome color and the type of high or stone each will give and the strains you are growing.

But do whatever YOU feel most comfortable with doing and what you believe will be best for you.

But whatever you do be sure to give them a slow drying process and then a nice long curing process so you get the most out of them that you possibly can in the end.

thanks 4 the help man, im a newbie so im just trying 2 grasp as much information as possible, but thanks 4 the help appreciate it!