Need honest opinion on harvest

FreshOffTheCut

FreshOffTheCut

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I posted a couple days ago and need to know what a few of you would do in my situation. The plants looked healthy and fine this last weekend and I went a day or 2 without watering on time and the leaves are progressively getting worse.

Basically want to know if harvesting now is the smartest thing to do or let it go awhile longer.

The buds hairs still have some white, but majority have turned amber. The Trichomes are still very prominent, and the buds have fattened up even more in the past few days since my last post.

What are the risks of letting it go another week or so? Or am I better off chopping now before whatever deficiency spreads to the buds and effects their final quality?
 

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FreshOffTheCut

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Wattzzup said:
Do you ever go in there and pull dead leaves? Sheesh!!

Consuming unripe weed sucks. I would let it go until it’s ripe. Do you not have anything to feed with?
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Didn't wanna overload the post with information.

I've been feeding fox farm trio the whole grow, alternating water and then feeding. Like honestly the plants were SUPER healthy all grow, about a week and a half ago I noticed some spotting on the leaves and upped the feeding to higher increase but not by much because I was already doing half the recommended. Saturday, plants were fine. Monday they basically had turned to this....
 
FreshOffTheCut

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If you guys think I should let it go another few weeks what would you suggest? The next 3 watering do just feed instead of the alternating water/feed? Should I removed a majority of the dead foliage? I've been pruning them periodically throughout the grow, they definitely didn't lack care at all, this all manifested in a span of 3 days or so lol
 
Wattzzup

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Any reason you’re not pulling dead leaves that will do nothing but cause issues?

3/4 weeks from being done so up to you
 
FreshOffTheCut

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Wattzzup said:
Any reason you’re not pulling dead leaves that will do nothing but cause issues?

3/4 weeks from being done so up to you
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I noted up above that I've been pruning and pulling leaves that were showing any signs of deficiencies while trying to correct them at the same time. Again this isn't a lack of care or attention, it's just my first grow and no matter how much you research you find different answers to everything online. No clear path to a perfect grow lol
 
anexgrower

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I wouldn't feed, just flush before harvest, It looks ripe but the best way to tell is like this:
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FreshOffTheCut

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Horselover fat said:
If they got too dry the leaves can yellow like that. Your soil didn't run out of nutes that suddenly.
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That's what I was saying is that I was about 2 days late to watering. In you're guys opinion should I begin to only do PhD water or continue nutes? Anex suggests flushing, is there any harm doing 1 or 2 more nute feedings?
 
FreshOffTheCut

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I trimmed off majority of the dried out leaves. I've got my water sitting. I honestly think I'll give them nutrients today and then start doing just water for the last 2 weeks. I'm half way through week 6.
 
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I'll post pictures in about a week and see how they take to everything. The buds still look healthy, a lot of the inner growth and mid bud sites have little to no dying leaves. We'll see what happens :wall: :wall: :wall:
 
FreshOffTheCut

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But God damn do they smell loud and the stickiness is unreal o_Oo_O washed my hand 4 or 5 times and there's still resin on my hands lol
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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Let it ride .... pistils will continue to color off and pull back ( “ one sign “ of mature flower ) also the last few weeks are bulking and hardening off time.

Like picking fruit ... give it the time it needs.
Patience is everything , pull trigger too soon and get unfinished buds. Watching it will not make it finish faster ... i would at least keep some feed going as to stop it from fully cannabilizing itself ( reserves ) ( fade ) . It is very hard to chop “ too late “ .... 2-3 weeks seems about right.
 
anexgrower

anexgrower

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You can also harvest some of the tops (if and when you think they are ready) and wait for the rest to get more ripe. Some growers will tell you "if you think they are ready: wait a week" to make sure they are done.
 
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