Almost ready?
- Thread starter Breelow
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Hugo Phurst
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twentyeight.threefive
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Looking nice. Has about 3-4 weeks left before it's ready for harvest.
Breelow
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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.
Dank Bongula
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I agree with this...plenty of time to swell still. I don't look at trichomes, just wait for those hairs to recede. Looks great, keep it going.
twentyeight.threefive
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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.
Breelow
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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?
Dank Bongula
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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.
twentyeight.threefive
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I would feed until harvest and no 48 hrs of darkness does nothing.
Breelow
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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.
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
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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.
Breelow
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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
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.