harvest time :white hair cloudy trichomes

That's the only picture i can upload right now but could it be that pistils are still white and the trichomes are mature enough ps: if you zoom you can see some of the milky trichomes is it ready to be harvest i want an uplifting high

That has 4 more weeks to go.

fdd2blk said:

That has 4 more weeks to go.

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Thx for your advise , my last harvest was pretty late so the high was sleepy i don't want the same result again

How long has she been flowering?

Looks like you're only about half way through flower, so like fdd2blk said, about 4 weeks left. You don't want to cut too early or it won't taste or smell like much other than hay. Nobody wants to smoke hay. You'll also be missing out on potency big time. If its an 8 week strain per the breeder, take it to around 8 weeks. Start checking trichomes at 7 and wait for the clear triches to go milky then cut before they turn amber. That will give you the "up" high that you seek without giving up taste, flavor and potency.

Hay smell is a symptom of drying too fast. I will happen regardless of strain.

Personally I like the10-20% amber trichs. They continue to turn after cutting also and this means degradation of Thc.

Hay flavor is also from harvesting too early. The plant doesn't start really pumping out essential oils and terps until later in flower. Buds harvested at 6 weeks will not be anywhere near as smelly or flavorful as those harvested round weeks 8-9 when they're ripe. Obviously talking indica or shorter flowering strains as a basis for this conversation. As an example, I had to chop an entire crop at week 5/6 due to hermies. I dried and cured that crop just the same as any previous harvest but the smell and flavor never came out in the cure. I can assure you they weren't dried too quickly. That entire harvest is reserved for cooking because smoking it tastes like I'm smoking lawn clippings. To top it off, the stone is mild, short lasting, and very racy, not really enjoyable unless mixed with other weed. I would personally rather just smoke the other weed because it tastes better!

I completely agree with the 10-20% amber. I find that to be my sweet spot for harvest. I feel like most people harvest too early. It's the excitement or the impatience that gets 'em. Breeders listed flowering times are nonsense. Most everything I've grown went 1-2 weeks longer than suggested by the breeder. I'm cutting them based on what i see in my loupe, not what i see on the breeder pack.