How long do trichomes take to turn amber?
Cx2H
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Most people who wait try for 50ish %. Trial and error.
Get a scope or loupe
Too much clear you are gonna have a not too fun experience unless you like fast heart rate and feeling paranoid.
Too much over ripe amber and you made sleeping pills.
How long to ripen? Up to the strain, could be days or a month.
48 hours of darkness is claimed to help the plant do something. IDK but I do let mine sit in the dark for days because I get lazy and don't want to harvest because I hate trimming for days and have to get psyched.
At the very least you need to harvest them at least 4hrs in the dark period.
Get a scope or loupe
Too much clear you are gonna have a not too fun experience unless you like fast heart rate and feeling paranoid.
Too much over ripe amber and you made sleeping pills.
How long to ripen? Up to the strain, could be days or a month.
48 hours of darkness is claimed to help the plant do something. IDK but I do let mine sit in the dark for days because I get lazy and don't want to harvest because I hate trimming for days and have to get psyched.
At the very least you need to harvest them at least 4hrs in the dark period.
OldMedUser
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Some strains won't amber for weeks after their ripeness date and will continue to go amber after the harvest so why waste all that power twiddling your thumbs waiting. Lay the buds in the sun for a few hours to amber them faster as UV does that fast.
I just leave my grow light on their usual time and crop when I'm in the mood. I take the big ripe colas first then go up to another 2 weeks letting the lower buds fatten up and ripen before finishing them off. If the light's are on when I'm trimming so be it. It makes so little difference you would never notice any change in the buds waiting the mythical 36 hours or whatever the bro-science dudes are claiming this month. Kind of like flushing. It will remove nutes from the soil but removes nothing from the plants themselves. If a person doesn't overfeed during growth then you just have to use water the last couple weeks and ideally you'll see lower leaves going all yellow and limp which indicates the plant is stealing nutes from the leaves to feed to the buds. If all your leaves are dark green to the end then you've been overfeeding and will probably taste it in your buds.
I just leave my grow light on their usual time and crop when I'm in the mood. I take the big ripe colas first then go up to another 2 weeks letting the lower buds fatten up and ripen before finishing them off. If the light's are on when I'm trimming so be it. It makes so little difference you would never notice any change in the buds waiting the mythical 36 hours or whatever the bro-science dudes are claiming this month. Kind of like flushing. It will remove nutes from the soil but removes nothing from the plants themselves. If a person doesn't overfeed during growth then you just have to use water the last couple weeks and ideally you'll see lower leaves going all yellow and limp which indicates the plant is stealing nutes from the leaves to feed to the buds. If all your leaves are dark green to the end then you've been overfeeding and will probably taste it in your buds.
It never presented any nutrient burn but the yield was kinda small i think. What can it affect the buds being small?Some strains won't amber for weeks after their ripeness date and will continue to go amber after the harvest so why waste all that power twiddling your thumbs waiting. Lay the buds in the sun for a few hours to amber them faster as UV does that fast.
I just leave my grow light on their usual time and crop when I'm in the mood. I take the big ripe colas first then go up to another 2 weeks letting the lower buds fatten up and ripen before finishing them off. If the light's are on when I'm trimming so be it. It makes so little difference you would never notice any change in the buds waiting the mythical 36 hours or whatever the bro-science dudes are claiming this month. Kind of like flushing. It will remove nutes from the soil but removes nothing from the plants themselves. If a person doesn't overfeed during growth then you just have to use water the last couple weeks and ideally you'll see lower leaves going all yellow and limp which indicates the plant is stealing nutes from the leaves to feed to the buds. If all your leaves are dark green to the end then you've been overfeeding and will probably taste it in your buds.
Not enough light is the big one, genetics, problems in veg or flower etc..
OldMedUser
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It doesn't have to show signs of burn to be loaded up with nutes that will affect the taste. The taste also depends a lot on how long you take to dry and cure but that's a whole other lengthy process.
As mentioned above there's a lot of reasons for a plant to grow poorly. It wouldn't happen to be an autoflower would it?