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Severed Tongue

Severed Tongue

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Day 1 is the first day after 12 hours of dark, when growing indoors and if you're changing from 18/6 or 20/4 or 24/0.

Unfortunately cannabis users and have to overthink and try to make every little detail about growing some kind of magic secret.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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Lazyeyez said:
Safe to say I’ve been counting “bloom” wrong this whole time? When do you guys start counting bloom weeks as soon as 12/12 starts?
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When you count from is totally irrelevant, the plants aren’t done until they are done. Biologically flowering begins once the plant starts to form flowers and ends when the plant stops attempting to reproduce and ripens. Indoors or outdoors is irrelevant the plants still follow the same basic growth cycles.

Here are some pointers to tell when they are actually finished properly so you don’t have to worry about counting. I stopped counting years ago at this point.

Before even thinking about harvesting take a look at this and see if your plant is actually showing you all these signs.


The signs of ripeness are pretty standard.

First a few of the pistils begin turning color and start receding. Your plant is just starting to ripen. Depending on the strain you could still have two months to go. We're just starting this journey.

Two to four weeks later you'll notice that most of the pistils(>80%) have now changed color and curled back into the bud. It's frosty, way bigger than it was a few weeks ago, and smells dank! It's time, right? Not a chance killer. Patience is a virtue

Over the next 2-3 weeks it doesn't look much different, maybe a little more swelling in the calyxes, and the rest of the pistils change over, but the stems ars starting to bend under the weight of the buds. These ladies are putting on weight and now the buds are doing their final ripening.

Now you begin looking at trichomes, on the calyx not leaves, and harvest according to your preference. When looking at trichomes it’s essential to look at them from the side. The bulbous heads can magnify the opaque stalk under it. Looking from the side allows you to more accurately see the condition of the resin in the trichome head.

There is still no rush to harvest, the window just opened, and you have several weeks before you MIGHT start having to think about it possibly beginning to get too ripe. It takes WEEKS for plants to mature not days.

It is very easy to harvest a plant to early. It is very hard to harvest a plant to late. I’ve never seen someone accidentally wait too long.
 
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