Are My Sugar Punch Plants Ready for Harvest?

TBoneJack

TBoneJack

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Below are trichome pics of my Sugar Punch plants. The breeder advertises a 9-10 week flowering time. But it's only day 60. Three days shy of the minimum advertised 9 weeks. And I started counting days the first day I flipped to 12/12.

But also worth mentioning is that I let the plants reach full sexual maturity, and then some, before I flipped to 12/12.

Are they ready? Sooner than the breeder said they would be?

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_MrBelvedere_

_MrBelvedere_

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Looks like they can go longer, but you can take a few buds now to see what the difference is now and in a few more days...
 
Blindnslow

Blindnslow

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Yeh take a full plant pic.. I've got a Sugar Punch in my tent right now and just past 10 weeks with about a week and a half more to go...
 
OGEvilgenius

OGEvilgenius

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It's a highly variable strain. I have a phenotype that is done at 7 weeks and it's stellar. I have another that is done at 11. So it could very well be finished.
 
TBoneJack

TBoneJack

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UncleBuck said:
n00b way of harvesting.

show us the plant, we'll know if it's ready or not.
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Why thank you UncleBuck for offering help. Hairs were golden, calyxes were bulging, trichomes were about 20% amber (my preference). So I harvested tonight. At day 63 of flowering.

My fingers are very, very sticky right now.

How do you determine when to harvest?
 
TBoneJack

TBoneJack

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Here is the final product from 3 Sugar Punch plants grown from seed in a 3.75 x 3.75 x 8 grow room under a 600-watt Hortilux Super HPS. I used Super Soil, and nothing but tap water (un-ph'ed) the entire grow. No additional nutes or additives of any kind.

Sugar Punch is not a huge producer. But she sure does smell sweet, and gets you high as hell. I'll grow her a couple times a year forever.

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TBoneJack

TBoneJack

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UncleBuck said:
swollen calyxes, leaves swallowed by flowers, slightly golden hue, cessation of swell, etcetera.
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Thank you.

Do you ever look at the magnified trichomes for clear/cloudy/amber, at your personal preference? Or do you just go by a macroscopic view of the plant?

And when you grow a strain you've never grown before, do you harvest based upon the same criteria as strains you've grown before?
 
S

SSHZ

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From your pic's, it still appears that you have a lot of clear trichomes.........I bet it would have been 30%+ stronger if you gave it another 1-2 weeks.
 
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