how long till i should crop?

this was a mother plant put into flower a few weeks ahead of rest of crop

i have no microscope

am gonna uplug from ebb & flow tonight to flush for a week

calyxes have not expanded greatly yet but 50% of pistals are brown/reddish

i pulled a bud yesturday - dont smoke well due to nutes + seems weak




i know u gonna tell me to get a x25 microscope and it is on my list for b4 i crop my other plants but not in time for this one

any tips / help much appriciated

Cant tell with those pics.....use a digital cam....that you can zoom in with then check the image on the computer......milky trichomes-20% amber....but this is a matter of taste.

i am crap with my cam - i can zoom in but its well out of focus

its been 8 yrs since my last crop and i am worried that the buds are so small and light - i know they almost double over the last 10 days but i see almost 50% red pistals so in theory should be min 4 days away imo and i dont see much expansion.

someone hold my hand i am over worrying i am sure oh and strung out cause i have no cash for bud (wont be a prob soon)

happy new year all

any idea what strain and how long it's been in flower? It doesn't look great, but the pics are too fuzzy to even really tell much. I can tell you it's not done, by the pics, and your own description. Wait till almost all the hairs turn; you should see a dramatic reduction in new growth (meaning new white hairs) it should be almost nill. You will also see many hairs start to curl in and recede. Somewhere in here get a scope, and start getting a feeling for trich behavior (research can help a lot here, look at scope pics of trichs). A combination of these signals will tell you a good time to chop. It's an art, you get better with practice.

You've got a lot of leaf curl, looks like a cal-mag def. That could definately be stunting their growth. Get that problem fixed and then you have a while till they are done. You didn't mention how long they have been in flower?
GS

good tip on the white pistal growth Gobbly just the sort of tip i was looking for thanx :*

and yeah Godsave u may be right - this particluar plant was given to me by someone who needed to turn his room back to veg - and this baby was way slower than the rest of his crop - the roots look shocking (brown) and i have cut off loads of lower growth as it was dusty with mould

still a free plant is always a bonus

i think this plant has been on 12/12 for 9 or 10 weeks now - it was obviously a sickly plant so i am not too fussed

i have smoked some of this and it dont give the bodily stoned effect - only a mild heady stoned effect

anyway nothing i can do for this one now really - good news is my crop i grown from seed is flying now - looks about 3 weeks away

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