Is she ready??
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Gramada
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Even it has some white pistils, this is not a fact that she is not ready. I harvested a plant that had 30% brown pistils and 70% white and she was sooo strong...
Gramada
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Thank you very much!
bk78
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Your are absolutely incorrect. Pistils dying off and receding are most definitely one of the many signs of the ripening phase. Your plant still has at minimum 2 weeks, possibly 4.
Pistil color doesn’t mean much. Pistils change color based on environmental circumstances too. If you have a unripe plant and rub it’s pistils or give it too much air, they will turn brown and it won’t change the fact that the plant is not ready for harvest.
You need to check the trichome heads on the calyx and harvest when they’re 10-30% amber. Depending on the effects you want.
I forgot to add: Some strains also produce new calyx as they mature. Sativa dominant strains can produce new calyx and pistils for months and months. The old calyx will be mature and the new ones won’t. So really it’s strain dependent and up to the grower when they should harvest
You need to check the trichome heads on the calyx and harvest when they’re 10-30% amber. Depending on the effects you want.
I forgot to add: Some strains also produce new calyx as they mature. Sativa dominant strains can produce new calyx and pistils for months and months. The old calyx will be mature and the new ones won’t. So really it’s strain dependent and up to the grower when they should harvest
macsnax
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What he said ^^. I don't check trichs until all pistils have receded unless it's a plant that keeps tossing new calyx/pistils until the end. Trichomes will tell you when it's done.
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