Brown vs White Pistols

I'm just starting week 8 of flower (so ~ 2 - 2.5 weeks left) and one of my plants is covered almost entirely in brown pistols almost no white on it and the other 3 plants are covered in almost all white pistols.

They are all the same strain (Green Crack Indica), all from seed, all in same soilless (coco), nutrient, light, feed schedule etc. etc.

The brown pistol plant has all milky trichomes and the white pistol plants have no milky trichomes yet. What do I do? I can't harvest just the one and wait (because they are all tangled up under a SCROG net and also becuase the tent is the only place I have to dry and cure my weed so I would have nowhere to put the brown plant if I harvest it).

Parts of the brown pistol plant have shown a bit of what I think is light stress because they have grown up pretty close to the light (I only have a 60" tall tent so I had to flip them when they were pretty tiny as it is, I couldnt really leave any more room between the light and plants after they stretched).

I've never had a crop that finished all at the same time, I think I did chop 2 plants at once a few times. When the hairs turn red and curl in 50-70% I then begin to check with a loupe, At the first sight of amber I chop. Your one plant is ready and if you leave it go it's only going to deteriorate the cannabinoids so as much work as it may seem you have to chop that plant and hang it elsewhere, as a last resort you can sun dry it. Those other three are weeks away from being finished if it's still all white hairs.

I'm not at expert by any means, but I think the brown one needs more time, too. You've got a ton of white hairs on it still. I suspect it's maturing faster than the rest (for whatever reason), but neither brown or white look ready to me.

I'm interested to see what others think.

These plants have suffered some light burning during the last 2-3 weeks (I just have very little/no room to grow in 60" after they have stretched).

You can see by the pic what I mean with the yellowing leaves. The bud with all the brown that I put a pic of is very close to the bulb (you can see the bulb at the very top right of this pic) so I wonder if they have turned brown because of heat?

I will try and take more pics of this plant once it wakes up but i'm pretty sure that in general it has more brown pistols on it then the others, and its trichomes are milky (the others are still clear).

I forgot to mention that I flipped to 12/12 60 days ago and first started seeing sex 50 days ago (so I just started week 8 after showing sex).

If I chop her now she will have had no flush, dunno how bad that will affect the smoke ?

I use trichome color to choose when to harvest it. If you arent happy with them all wait and give the others more time and just harvest the one. I have never "flushed" and so far everythings been great, maybe it's one of those things i don't know what i'm missing out on.

BostonBuds said:

I use trichome color to choose when to harvest it. If you arent happy with them all wait and give the others more time and just harvest the one. I have never "flushed" and so far everythings been great, maybe it's one of those things i don't know what i'm missing out on.

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By flush I mean I will just be feeding it pHed water for the last 1-2 weeks, not actually flushing the pot until there is no run-off. My bad in using confusing language.

In any event I cant really get a pic of the trichomes themselves (cant get phone camera to focus on jewelers loupe and jewelers loupe focus to plant).

guitarguy10 said:

By flush I mean I will just be feeding it pHed water for the last 1-2 weeks, not actually flushing the pot until there is no run-off. My bad in using confusing language.

In any event I cant really get a pic of the trichomes themselves (cant get phone camera to focus on jewelers loupe and jewelers loupe focus to plant).

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Based on the 3 photos you posted I would say they have more time. Just use water if that's what you normally do before harvest and wait until your'e happy with the trichome color. I've had much worse heat damaged leaves than that and the bud was fine after trimming.

I think it depends on your own personal sense of style...

Observe & Report said:

I think it depends on your own personal sense of style...

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Guns are stupid and largely (esp. handguns) pointless so I have no taste in either of those.

One took the light and maybe heat burn better. That just don’t look quite right for ripening Cannabis. Trichs rule for harvesting.