is my plant ready for harvest
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Kush Knight
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Nope give it at least 7-15 more days depending and do a flush if you haven't. Pics suck btw. What week of flower? is it auto or photosensitive? Do you know the strain?
datwin8
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Kush Knight
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What week of flower? is it auto or photosensitive? Do you know the strain?
datwin8
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It's like week 6 of flower and it's just a bag seed Idk genetic information
Kush Knight
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then chances are its a 7-9 week strain. If you have at the very very least a 10x-21mm magnifier (30x is standard) you want to see that the heads of the trichs are no longer cloudy and that at least 70% are amber. Also the hairs will turn red, then start to recede into the calyx, plumping it a little more. Good luck.
datwin8
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thanks man
grow tiger
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I had the same question , I'm about six weeks into flowering and I noticed alot of the hairs are coloring and the colas are covered in crystles. . To be clear, to properly flush, is it just feeding my plant only water for the next two weeks???? Cuz I seen some videos of people pouring gallaons of water thru the soil like days before his harvest. N to me, how does that not drown the plant ..... And my plant I got looks so good, bud wize but I don't wanna harvest to soon, so the best way is to look at the tricks n harvest when there not cloudy??? Or do u harvest right at the end of them getting cloudy n make sure at least 70% are amber ???? Any dmadvise will help, thanx guys
Kush Knight
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Flushing is done a number of ways. As long as the roots get the appropriate amount of oxygen, you really cant down the plant, just over watering is likely. A 2 week flush of moderate/heavy waterings on watering days is imo to minimize over watering an dry time. A (bad practice outdoor) quick flush can have the hose running all day, provided adequate drainage.
Just look at the thread under the harvesting/curing section, and the general growing section. And im pretty sure the trichs only turn amber after/during they clear up. So 70%amber -15-30% clearing up, leaving only 0-15% cloudy.
In your peak harvest time, which spans about a week, there is actually a way to choose the high you want, with early end being short and heady, and the late side being longer lasting body high.
DirtyNerd
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Hey bro make a note to your self to not remove the fan leaves so soon as that's the life blood of your plant the fan leaves take in the light and turn that in to energy for your plant removing some close to the end maybe 4 days before you chop is okay as it will make harvest not so much of a pain in the ass
anyway good job for your first grow
anyway good job for your first grow
grow tiger
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thanx man, I just shut up n listened n asked stupid questions and I'm so happy it paid off to ask n just read read read..... It was weird but the other day I barley bent a fan leave and it broke in half.. I was watering it and just barley put any pressure on it... But so far I'm hopeing it doesn't stress her out ... N when I do chop it to harvest, some people keep it in the soil in the dark for 48 hours , does it make a difference . I plan on hangin my plants upside down with the fan leaves on for two thre days , then trim them off n and continue to dry. I figure the fan leaves will slow down the drying so it doesn't dry to fast ... N one more quick question, does the room, or my case , closet have to be at a certain temp during the drying
Kush Knight
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Actually there are lots of arguments for defoliation. In low light situations, removing any leaf not directly lit, or any leaf that covers a bud can help massively to increase bud size, weight, and especially trich density. An obvious indicator that they ARE NOT the life blood is that the leaves that no longer serve much function start to get light red/purple stems. Leaves contain a build up of stored nutes, both macro and micro, and take in a little energy. Other than that, removing up to 20% of the leaves can be very very good. Even Stems have chlorophyll and can perform photosynthesis.Hey bro make a note to your self to not remove the fan leaves so soon as that's the life blood of your plant the fan leaves take in the light and turn that in to energy for your plant removing some close to the end maybe 4 days before you chop is okay as it will make harvest not so much of a pain in the ass
anyway good job for your first grow
He did fuck up tho, and i agree. Too many leaves gone, and too early too. Probably did em all around the same time too.
Instead of asking more questions on this thread, how bout you go to the rollitup harvesting and curing section and PAY ATTENTION to what you read. People take the time to write lengthy easy-to-read guides, and you just prefer we repeat ourselves to the ends of the earth.
Also if barely touching the leaf breaks it, you got bad nute burn or under watering, or both, and its worse than it looks, flush now!
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Kush Knight
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My knowledge is that of 5 different growers experiences, basic biology, personal expeience, and the accumulated information from over 8500 threads both on and off RIU and have watched over 200 dif video logs. IME The best info came from pure READING. So my advice was to google, you'd get a thorough answer, and quicker.
I think you were the ignorant annoying one.
Age has no relevance to my statements.
I think you were the ignorant annoying one.
Age has no relevance to my statements.
Will do man, just get worked up when someone wants to call me ignorant and annoying for advising them to google something.
RIKNSTEIN
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Wow, I'm glad I made it past 40 so I don't act like a hormone induced child anymore 
...but I am a toys 'r' us kid still 
......................and everyone take a toke and listen up, you want to wait till all the pistils have started to recede and the calyxes swell up, the leaves will get a copper sheen to them (at least for the 7 different strains that I grow)...otherwise look for the leaves turning yellow no matter how much you water, and she will stop being thirsty= less watering, less often....I never use my loupe anymore, after awhile, you just know...peace and play nice ppl...
...but I am a toys 'r' us kid still ......................and everyone take a toke and listen up, you want to wait till all the pistils have started to recede and the calyxes swell up, the leaves will get a copper sheen to them (at least for the 7 different strains that I grow)...otherwise look for the leaves turning yellow no matter how much you water, and she will stop being thirsty= less watering, less often....I never use my loupe anymore, after awhile, you just know...peace and play nice ppl...
grow tiger
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Wow, I'm glad I made it past 40 so I don't act like a hormone induced child anymore
smallclosetgrowr
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Hard to tell with the lighting but I would say roughly 10 days to go
gardengardian7
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Bud looks nice though.it seems as if you were unsure what week your in. Accuracy is the overal key.