How much time left to harvest??

I'm growing outdoors on a deck at lattitude 38.7 in SF, west side and west facing, with significant sun blockage at this point in the season. Plants are only getting direct light in the last 4-5 hours of a sunny day, and some on one side, maybe only 2-3 hours direct light max. Plants were sprouted May 1 and planted at the same time. First flowers started appearing mid-July, latest was about mid-August. Lost 2/3-3/4 of my crop to gray mold, still fighting it every day, but weather has been good and is staying good for now. My goal is to get what I have now to maturity, before losing another large batch of it to the mold. So my question is: any idea how close this to mature? Some bud tops are la

rgely red-hair, but the buds a little lower, still lots of straight white hairs. Are these taking an extremely long time to mature because of the declining direct sunlight perhaps? My current view is when the next thick fog approaches (may be at least 6-7 days away based on weather reports now), I should just harvest it all and count my blessing; I've had the experience of going overnight through a fog and finding tons of bud infected, not pleasant! I am using actinovate, and perhaps its helping, spraying every 4 or so days in the sunshine and wind to allow the water to dry quickly. But still, there are small mold spots that appear here and there just about every day, even in the good weather. SO...any idea how long these buds might have to go to get to prime maturity??? Best guesses? Many thanks!!!

google a "trichome harvest chart" and compare your trichomes to the chart. nobody can see your trichomes and nobody knows what types of effects are ideal for you so guess what? thats right, you have to decide when to cut that fine looking plant for harvest based on your own personal choices.
I fear if you wait until prime maturity your buds will succumb to mold. you have weeks and weeks to go for that, be watchful

Those are perty. Get a magnifying glass and follow chemphlegm's advice.

chemphlegm said:

google a "trichome harvest chart" and compare your trichomes to the chart. nobody can see your trichomes and nobody knows what types of effects are ideal for you so guess what? thats right, you have to decide when to cut that fine looking plant for harvest based on your own personal choices.
I fear if you wait until prime maturity your buds will succumb to mold. you have weeks and weeks to go for that, be watchful

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Extremely helpful for a newbie to the art of the grow...thanks!!!

Do you know what strains they are they look beautiful

I think I'll just take the incremental route. A few buds definitely have a significant percentage of cloudly tri's, and I snipped some of those just now. Also a few not so mature, but were in an overly dense area. I did another spray of actinovate. And now, primal and tribal sun prayer, to continue the relatively fine weather gracing SF!!! I'll post photos of the best I get in the end. we'll see!

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Do you know what strains they are they look beautiful

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That's the somewhat amusing part. When it got close to germinate time, I had no seeds. My son had roughly 25, so I figured I'd germinate 12, get 6 females. Got 12 females, and that led to extremely crowded conditions (along with fantasies of giant harvest!), statistically impossible unless they were from feminized plant? Anyway, along with that, zero definitive knowledge of strain. Across the plants, at least 2 maybe 3 different strains. Next season, I try to locate a strain optimized for local conditions, particularly mold resistance.

Looking good. I'm sure they're close.

Under my 4x lupe, I'm finding lots of clear trichomes on most of the buds. The few that show more cloudly on top still have lots of clear ones just underneath. My guess is this is a slow mature due to the failing direct sunlight (and now we have a smoke haze, yuch). It's all about dry weather...but in fact we have some possible rain in the forcast in about 7 days. I'm taking it day to day, with slowly more aggressive incremental pruning.

Here's the latest. Hanging in there, with minimal occasional loss of a bud due to a speck of gray mold. However, we just started getting fog in the last 15 hours, in theory it won't last another day and I'll escape yet again. Spraying with actinovate every 5-6 days. I think the buds are STILL ~2 weeks (or more?) out. Trichomes maybe 20% hazy on most buds, and still perhaps 50% white hairs overall, some even more on some buds. I guess a latitude 38.7 outdoor grow in moderate/cool conditions just takes foreeeeeeevveeerr!!!!! Early November anyone? As long as my buds make it...

Love the Purple Color in flower's,The Best Purple Strain i have ever done was GDPPBC From Johnson Genetics.

Beautiful Strain with amazing Purple buds ,But the Final count was not so good around 4 oz per plant,I normally pulled 14 from that room per plant too.(dry cured weight)
But the taste from that Candyland Cross was amazing sweet,with a real punch,But no matter what i did the buds just never gained weight fluffy.

Jha Bless.
Tyke

When checking trichomes, make sure to check them on the buds, not the sugar leaf. Great looking buds!!!