early skunk #1 harvest

could i harvest my 2 plants now ?? i know its abit soon but the main cola is flopping and bending like crazy and will 1 day snap im 52 days into flowering ive read up its a 49 - 55 day strain
anyway i have amber hairs i have no magnify to check the tricromes and my sight is not that great either so i prob still wouldnt see it with 1

i got new strains in flower atm so i want to start new concentration on them and move them into my tent once i have these girls out the way

You have awhile left, 3-4 weeks for optimum ripeness

lilzuko said:

You have awhile left, 3-4 weeks for optimum ripeness

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i see wot u mean but if the strain says 49 - 55 day flowering how do you work out i need another 28 days when im 52 days already ? that would take me to 80 days .. its called early skunk because it is ready 2 week earlier then normal skunk. and given 7 -8 week flowering I did this strain before left till about 60 days and it was totaly over done ?

hitmanjay99uk said:

i see wot u mean but if the strain says 49 - 55 day flowering how do you work out i need another 28 days when im 52 days already ? that would take me to 80 days .. its called early skunk because it is ready 2 week earlier then normal skunk. and given 7 -8 week flowering I did this strain before left till about 60 days and it was totaly over done ?

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your running with CFL's, they take longer to flower, but if the breeder pack says 7-8 weeks flower... thats for perfect conditions, but in reality you don't have perfect conditions, so always add about 2 weeks more than what the breeders say.

From your pictures i see lots of white hairs and no swelling of the calyxes... Which means you still have a little bit to go. You need to go off the trichs not what the flowering time requires.

Also add some support to your main cola so it doesn't break if your worried.

Forget counting days and learn how to spot a mature plant. As lilzuko says above, there's a ton of straight white hairs still showing on those buds which means 3 - 4 weeks at least.

You could harvest now, but you'll be sacrificing potency, yield, and taste. You've invested this much time in them, why start something new which forces you to pull these early?

where are the tons of white hairs ? ok there is a few but not tons .. maybe the usless lowewer budding sites thet will produce nothing ,but u also telling me il have to flower into 12 - 14 weeks ? thats a bit extreme on any grow ok they may not be quite ready but that wasnt my question

It will be good buds if you let it go another 4 weeks, just trust what every1 is telling you.
They are only half swollen @ this point, so you will over double your yield if you w8 4 weeks.

dude the advice your getting is solid. There is still many white hairs visible in your pics and the buds don't appear to be mature.

As the guy said, give an extra 2-3 weeks above breeder info if you are growing from seed or not in perfect conditions. "early " skunk or not there will always be longer flowering phenos, the skunk line has some long flowering sativa in its ancestory so you can't always bank on an 8 week finish.

good job though so far, nice and healthy still.. what line of soil and nutes did you use?

http://rollitup.org/f/cfl-fluorescent-lighting.75/

All these threads will help you out..

Dude - you have several people telling you the exact same thing. You asked for advice from people more experienced than you and we have helped point you in the right direction.

Why would you ask for advice, then argue with the opinions that are offered???

So I have new advice for you... Do whatever you want to do. Cut it NOW. It's not my weed, why should I care?

Do you still want to argue?

hitmanjay99uk said:

where are the tons of white hairs ? ok there is a few but not tons .. maybe the usless lowewer budding sites thet will produce nothing ,but u also telling me il have to flower into 12 - 14 weeks ? thats a bit extreme on any grow ok they may not be quite ready but that wasnt my question

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White hairs turn brown when she is nearly ready and you still have alot of white hairs..

Lots of good, correct advice has been given but its your plant at the end of the day.