How do you know when its ready?

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Lexuson22

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I have a couple a kouch plants that are showing red hairs. Buds arent as full as i wanted and expected them to be but lots of red hairs are starting to show

I heard once a certain amount of red hairs are showing means they are ready.

Any help would be great

I will post picks later

Thanks
 
jsn9333

jsn9333

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Lexuson22 said:
I have a couple a kouch plants that are showing red hairs. Buds arent as full as i wanted and expected them to be but lots of red hairs are starting to show

I heard once a certain amount of red hairs are showing means they are ready.

Any help would be great

I will post picks later

Thanks
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I have heard hair color is not a reliable indicator. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. That makes sense to me, since some strains are known for having more red hairs then others. Anyway, I am a first time grower also, and my two ladies already have some red hairs and they are only halfway into flowering (4 weeks into flowering, and this strain is said to flower for 8 to 9 weeks).

What I have heard is reliable is to get a 10x (30x or 100x would be better) microscope and look at the trichomes on the buds. When they start to get cloudy the bud is almost done. When some of them are turning amber is a good time to harvest. More cloudy or more amber is a preference choice. This is all from what I have read, I have no experience harvesting yet.

You could always post some pictures here and people will give you advice.
 
madcow

madcow

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no prob,most strains take 8 weeks to finish...id still like to see some pics if u can. :)
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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hair color doesn't madder, you can get brownies in the beginning or middle of flowering, before THC is even produced. the color of the trichomes does madder, when they turn amber they are ripe. the trichomes is/are the "resin" on the buds, when they turn from white to amber the plant is at peak potency, after this point plant growth stops and THC starts to degrade. buy a cheap $20~ 100x microscope (handheld) to make sure they are primed.

something like this but cheap....you can get fairly good cheap ones.
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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madcow said:
no prob,most strains take 8 weeks to finish...id still like to see some pics if u can. :)
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thats a fucking lie....an out right lie.
some indica strains take 8 weeks to flower, some ruderalis take 4 weeks, and everything else (sative and afghanica) takes 10+ weeks to flower. and seeing as afghanica and sativa are the most common breeds, most plants take 10-12 weeks to flower.

everything about pot lays within the genetics.....learn something about them.
 
Cyndrindale

Cyndrindale

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Yup, the only way you know if "your" plant is done is by Trichome identification. Even if you know the exact strain and how many months it takes to flowers it all can vary depending on a lot of factors such as light, nutrients, soil/hydroponics and proper PH just to name a few. All the flowering times listed are merely guidelines to go by.:bigjoint:
 
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Lexuson22

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Cyndrindale said:
Yup, the only way you know if "your" plant is done is by Trichome identification. Even if you know the exact strain and how many months it takes to flowers it all can vary depending on a lot of factors such as light, nutrients, soil/hydroponics and proper PH just to name a few. All the flowering times listed are merely guidelines to go by.:bigjoint:
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Hmmm so i have to get one of those telescope things i guess.. I dont want to mess it up after coming this far.
 
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Puna Bud

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Corbat420 said:
hair color doesn't madder, you can get brownies in the beginning or middle of flowering, before THC is even produced. the color of the trichomes does madder, when they turn amber they are ripe. the trichomes is/are the "resin" on the buds, when they turn from white to amber the plant is at peak potency, after this point plant growth stops and THC starts to degrade. buy a cheap $20~ 100x microscope (handheld) to make sure they are primed.

something like this but cheap....you can get fairly good cheap ones.
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where do you pick them up at? Jewelry shops,or any.....?
 
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Puna Bud

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Corbat420 said:
thats a fucking lie....an out right lie.
some indica strains take 8 weeks to flower, some ruderalis take 4 weeks, and everything else (sative and afghanica) takes 10+ weeks to flower. and seeing as afghanica and sativa are the most common breeds, most plants take 10-12 weeks to flower.

everything about pot lays within the genetics.....learn something about them.
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yo, take a deep breathe dude! a fucking lie? Perhaps just an oversight, but I find it not necessary to scream "that's a fucking lie,...an outright lie"

cut the dude some slack. Why the need to jump all over him, then call him a liar? Is this the way of all Canadians? People make mistakes, just like you! Since you felt the need to educate "homey", educate me too. Aren't all Afghani strains from Indica plants originally?
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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the reason im so harsh with this guy? is because i've had other threads where he spreads his "brown butter" around and people go wrong......and i HATE it when people put other people on a bad path, making it possible to damage plants or (in this case) f***ing with the harvest, so buds aren't nearly as potent, dont taste as good, or are their less dense.
on top of all that, one of my biggest petpeves is people that just spurt bull shat and belive the stuff that they say, and in both posts this was the case.

the afghanica phenotype was originally introduced (as a term and classification) to the marijuana world in the early-mid 80's when geneticists realised that "afghanica" is the closest we can get to the original marijuana plant from asia. mariujana is Not a native plant to africa or europe. when we (as humans) moved from africa to asia and then back to africa, europe and the rest of the world, we brought the marijuana seed with us, inducing 1000's of years of evolution within the marijuana (just as we've evolved). afghanica is like......the "black person" of marijuana, the closest to the original.
 
Gilfman

Gilfman

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wow ... yeah you know how long ago native marijuana plants grew? and how far they have been altered and bred?
 
Corbat420

Corbat420

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all we know about how long they've been around is, they've been around aslong as we have. i dont know alot about how they've been altered and bred....other than the evoloution process caused indica to develop in south-centeral europe, sativa to develop around the equador, and afghanica is the closest genetic variation to the "original" pot plant out of asia.
 
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