Almost ready?

Breelow

Breelow

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Hi there! This little girl is my very first plant. I am reading so much about trichs, etc. I definitely have some amber on sugar leaves but still white hairs, so I am guessing I should wait another week or two? She is a gorilla glue auto. Thanks for the help!
 

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Sounds good. Thanks for looking, definitely been fun watching her grow. I feel like I might cry a little when it is actually time to butcher her. bongsmilie
 
twentyeight.threefive said:
Looking nice. Has about 3-4 weeks left before it's ready for harvest.
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Awesome, thank you! I’ve been researching non stop since the moment I germinated the seed. So many different opinions on when is the right time, but I have noticed pretty much every one’s “ready” pictures have no more white hairs standing up. I started noticing some amber trichs a few days ago on the sugar leaves and started second guessing myself.
 
I am also really surprised at how much she doesn’t smell. I was worried at first, having to hide the smell from visiting family but it’s only noticeable up close and pretty pleasant.
 
Breelow said:
Awesome, thank you! I’ve been researching non stop since the moment I germinated the seed. So many different opinions on when is the right time, but I have noticed pretty much every one’s “ready” pictures have no more white hairs standing up. I started noticing some amber trichs a few days ago on the sugar leaves and started second guessing myself.
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Don't focus on trichomes it'll lead you to harvesting early. The plant will be ready when the pistils have all/almost all turned brown/orange and receed towards the calyx. The calyx will also swell.


Something like this.
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Perfect, thank you all. Having a time line makes me feel a lot better. She’s in fox farm, and gets flora gro in rain water. Should I go to plain rain water after another week then? I also read some one boasting how putting the plant in pure darkness 48 hours before their murder they swell and frost up a great deal. Is this worth doing?
 
Breelow said:
I am also really surprised at how much she doesn’t smell. I was worried at first, having to hide the smell from visiting family but it’s only noticeable up close and pretty pleasant.
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Some strains are like that...I just ran a few blueberry plants and they smelled just in the grow room but occasionally I would get a random whif throughout the house. Only one I have grow so far that had anything noticeable beyond the confines of the tent.
 
Breelow said:
Perfect, thank you all. Having a time line makes me feel a lot better. She’s in fox farm, and gets flora gro in rain water. Should I go to plain rain water after another week then? I also read some one boasting how putting the plant in pure darkness 48 hours before their murder they swell and frost up a great deal. Is this worth doing?
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I would feed until harvest and no 48 hrs of darkness does nothing.
 
That’s how mine are as well. Just an occasional interesting smell. Or when I open the grow tent. I went through the extra trouble of a carbon filter and it seems unnecessary.
 
I’m a little nervous about drying/ curing stage because the humidity here in the South can get ridiculous. Sometimes it’ll rain hard 20+ days in a row and you’re sticky soon as you walk outside. I have a closet dedicated to the drying and a dehumidifier I can set to the right humidity. And grabbed some boveda packs and these little humidity gauges for the jars. Hopefully it goes well.
 
Breelow said:
I’m a little nervous about drying/ curing stage because the humidity here in the South can get ridiculous. Sometimes it’ll rain hard 20+ days in a row and you’re sticky soon as you walk outside. I have a closet dedicated to the drying and a dehumidifier I can set to the right humidity. And grabbed some boveda packs and these little humidity gauges for the jars. Hopefully it goes well.
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Look into Grove bags, I'm on my first grow as well (outdoors), and it's idiot proof on the cure. They have advice on sweating the buds with paper bags after a week dry
 
Funkentelechy said:
Just know that cannabis is an annual, she would die on her own in the not-so-distant future even if you weren't to harvest her.
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Very good point! I suppose unless you tried to force forever veg, ha! But I do wonder if at the very end I’ll be so impatient that it kept being one more week, then one more, then another, if I’ll be anxiously ready with a knife
 
twentyeight.threefive said:
Don't focus on trichomes it'll lead you to harvesting early. The plant will be ready when the pistils have all/almost all turned brown/orange and receed towards the calyx. The calyx will also swell.


Something like this.
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Thank you so much for showing a perfect example of a mature plant! See too many early harvests from people, myself included. So important to let them finish. Not just about yield either. A lot of flavors and aromas develop at the end.
 
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