9 weeks - Ready for harvest... or not? (Pics)

wow giant harvest you got!!

but u know something! the taste is a very or maybe the 'thing' most important for me (of course the high aswell) if i smoke something that i don't enjoy it i really can't smoke anymore even if i know its kick off bud for example i really don't appreciate much the hazy taste (yes i know ...Blasphemy i know) but i realy don't like the taste, ak47 is another strain i really dont enjoy much, but the very best ever tasty F***in weed i tasted was NYC diesel , not for the kick but that taste shiiiit

jonask said:

my RH is usually low around 35%-50% at night maybe it gets up to 60%...

but is the 'chop' before lights on a myth as well?

Click to expand...

just harvest at a time thats convienient for u, i mean my lights come on at 5am so if i harvested just before lights on id be trimming bud at like 4.45am no thanx i need to trim straight after harvest to keep trim fresh for freezing for ice hash, il be doing a thread at my next harvest on my own ice extraction method using 100% cheap household items, no butane no iso propyl alcohol no bubble bags no expensive screens or meshes, making pure fmcdb hash(full melt clear dome bubble), anyway, some people say this some people that, just dont read too much into the old housewives tales and go with what suits u, i realy cant see how a few hours is going to make any difference to resin production on an already ripe plant.

jonask said:

my RH is usually low around 35%-50% at night maybe it gets up to 60%...

Click to expand...

Yep thats fine, any where between 30-55% during late bloom is fine, id worry if it got above 65 at any time in late bloom, i think above 65 maybe 70 is when most species of mould spore will germinate.

the science behind this from what i heard is that by night some types of mineral / nutrients go to the root area !!??! so if u chop it before the light are on the nutes 'theoretically' they would be in the roots, man i dunno everyone says different things
i will only know once i do for myself but just didn't wanna do it in the 1st time

jonask said:

wow giant harvest you got!!

but u know something! the taste is a very or maybe the 'thing' most important for me (of course the high aswell) if i smoke something that i don't enjoy it i really can't smoke anymore even if i know its kick off bud for example i really don't appreciate much the hazy taste (yes i know ...Blasphemy i know) but i realy don't like the taste, ak47 is another strain i really dont enjoy much, but the very best ever tasty F***in weed i tasted was NYC diesel , not for the kick but that taste shiiiit

Click to expand...

precisely, thats why i grow for quality and taste with organics as opposed to speed and yield of hydro, i learned to grow using hydro and got great fast yields but they just dont compare to my organic nugz.

jonask said:

the science behind this from what i heard is that by night some types of mineral / nutrients go to the root area !!??! so if u chop it before the light are on the nutes 'theoretically' they would be in the roots, man i dunno everyone says different things
i will only know once i do for myself but just didn't wanna do it in the 1st time

Click to expand...

hmm not too sure about that i know N is mobile throughout the plant maybe P and K too but the rest i think are immobile, they stay in situe. I know more veg and early-mid bloom(the stretch) growth happens during lights off and roots grow at a faster rate during lights off, personally i believe the light energy and co2 is absorbed while lights on and roots are absorbing water and nutes ready for the dark period when this energy, co2 and the water/nutes absorbed by the roots during lights on are processed into plant matter i.e growth and the roots grow out in search of fresh water/nutes on lights off ready for the next light on completing the cycle, but, at the end of flowering there is no upwards growth only buds filling out, so maybe chopping at the end of its dark period will catch it at the point where its done its growing/swelling for that given day/night cycle before the next cycle starts. There could be something in it, but tbh its probably not even worth thinking about

eheh probably u right

i wonder if the mythbusters would interest themselves to solve cannabis growing myths

I agree with waiting. You said that your trichs are 90% cloudy & 10 % clear right? I pretty sure from my reading that clear trichs do nothing for you. If you can wait another week or so until your at 80% cloudy & 20% amber I think that would be better. That should make it a cerebral high. A 50/50 ratio is probably the best, but I understand how tempting it gets. Your plant looks fantastic - great work.

thanks everyone once again

i'm going to reach week 10 for sure!

gonna keep posting

alot of the myths surrounding growing weed are just that, myths. My advice to you would be harvest two now as your a newbie grower and obviously eager lol were all eager when we start growing for the first time, then harvest another two in a week or when trichs are 50/50 cloudy/amber and let the last one go another two weeks or until u get that amber/bronzy look to the plant as senorsanteria says, and see which stage of maturity/ripeness you like best altho this wouldnt be a truly fair test as u say u have different phenotypes and there will be some variations in the tastes and highs between the phenos, you'd need to use clones from the same mother and harvest at the different stages of ripeness to do a true and fair experiment. And if yr looking for any particular type of high then do some research for a strain that suits yr needs as this i feel dictates the type of high more so than trich colours, and concentrate on getting this all dialled because all the time yr thinking/worrying about what time of day/night to harvest as a newbie yr more likely to screw up on something thats actually important. If u want that potent taste flavour and smell then u need to let them go a bit as the full range of terpenes(smell, aroma) flavanoids(flavour) and cannabinnoids(high) will only come in the last stage of ripeness, altho u only get the truly full range when grown outdoors under the sun. And if flavour and taste is the most important factor to you then make sure u dry properly and give a good cure, i like a 2 month cure but the best tasting weed is cured for 6 months+

i think my stash of weed from this crop wont last 6 months
if it lasts for 3 i would be happy

for me right now i'm entering the hardest part, really! the mold issues really scares me! does it help to have a de-humidifier in the drying room? so it helps lowering RH cause i have the feeling that i'm gonna hit some high RH (around 65%) levels because of drying in the dark/lower temperatures

but gonna keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best

dam them buds are looking amazin good work man

let it go a few days i just did that with a bubble berry plant and in that extra week it plumped up alot i was surprised and happy with the results
also dont be impatient youll be happy if you wait

everything looks great man. a lot of the smaller buds look almost ready to chop, but the main colas look like they need at least a week, maybe a little longer. good luck

jonask said:

i think my stash of weed from this crop wont last 6 months
if it lasts for 3 i would be happy

for me right now i'm entering the hardest part, really! the mold issues really scares me! does it help to have a de-humidifier in the drying room? so it helps lowering RH cause i have the feeling that i'm gonna hit some high RH (around 65%) levels because of drying in the dark/lower temperatures

but gonna keep my fingers crossed and hope for the best

Click to expand...

once dried and cured enough to smoke, put a few 8ths in bags and stash them around a bit and try to forget about them, by the time yr done smoking the main bulk you can either find them or just come across them as u go about your shit months later, thats what i do and i love it when i find a bag of well matured weed it always tastes great and far tastier than what id previously been smoking.
Mould is a very real and common problem many growers overlook, de-hums do speed up drying but also can dry it too much if you dont check it very regularly, plus weed tastes best when allowed to dry under its own steam, if i had the space id get another budbox just as a drying room with an extractor fan drawing fresh air in and stale humid air out with an oscillating fan blowing around in there, i just hang my buds on a clothes drying rack in the open in the spare room keep it dark in there and put up with the stink for a week or two until theyre jarred

so... for me to taste/feel the best of what my skunk as to offered i should at least keep some fore some months to see the difference from a early cure... can't promise lol but i'll try

about de de-hum i though it could help lowering the RH in the fight for mold, not increase the speed of drying i guess it's the other side of the coin!!

one question : what do you smoke first the smaller buds or the main cola?
my common sense tells me to smoke first the small buds and leave the main colas curing more (because its usually the best bud of the plant, right?)

sorry to ask,
what kinda light?

wow where did you get your seeds from
you have done a great job
i want some please lol
keep up the good work

djmendoza21 said:

sorry to ask,
what kinda light?

Click to expand...

400W HPS grow & flow since veg.

2 week germination under the sun (inside a clone box)
4 1/2 weeks under 18/6
till now 9 weeks of flowering going to touch week 10


About the seeds i got them in Amsterdam @ Sensi Seeds shop
10 regular seeds = 26€

jonask said:

so... for me to taste/feel the best of what my skunk as to offered i should at least keep some fore some months to see the difference from a early cure... can't promise lol but i'll try

about de de-hum i though it could help lowering the RH in the fight for mold, not increase the speed of drying i guess it's the other side of the coin!!

one question : what do you smoke first the smaller buds or the main cola?
my common sense tells me to smoke first the small buds and leave the main colas curing more (because its usually the best bud of the plant, right?)

Click to expand...

yea a good cure in my and many others peoples oppinion is essential to a nice smooth smoke, it allows the chlorophyll and other plant chemicals to disperse from the bud, of course u can start smoking as soon as its dry enough but if taste is important to you then cure for 2weeks absolute minimum, otherwise i can almost guarantee you wont like the taste. I saw a good harvesting and curing thread by fdd on here, maybe give that a read? Its pretty much the same way i cure. As for the de-hum yea it will help a great deal against mould, but my advice would be if possible use one with a humidistat and set it to around 50% to prevent it randomly drawing all the moisture out of the air and drying yr buds too much, if no humidistat just check yr buds a few times a day to see how theyre drying. Smoke small popcorn buds or large colas first? For me its just whatevers at the top of the jar lol.