Not sure when to harvest help me out

Matt Rize

Matt Rize

Hashmaster
well, maybe not yet, its hard to say from a distance.

you need to judge the trichome quality, the color of the trichome heads will go from clear to cloudy to amber. If you harvest when they are mostly cloudy you should be good. Do you have a loupe or magnifying glass?
 
purplekitty7772008

purplekitty7772008

Well-Known Member
from first glance it doesn't look ready to me....

Most of the time, when buds mature the pistils turn orange and recede back into the buds, so they won't be
long and white like the ones in your pictures.

BUT, just check the trichs.


If you have a radioshack around, you can buy a loupe from there for around $10-$15.

Have a look at fdd2blk's harvest tutorial bro.

https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html

I think it will help you.
 
kushbluntz420

kushbluntz420

Member
Matt Rize said:
well, maybe not yet, its hard to say from a distance.

you need to judge the trichome quality, the color of the trichome heads will go from clear to cloudy to amber. If you harvest when they are mostly cloudy you should be good. Do you have a loupe or magnifying glass?
Click to expand...
Im going to wait till they turn ember color to harvest it.
 
kushbluntz420

kushbluntz420

Member
purplekitty7772008 said:
from first glance it doesn't look ready to me....

Most of the time, when buds mature the pistils turn orange and recede back into the buds, so they won't be
long and white like the ones in your pictures.

BUT, just check the trichs.



If you have a radioshack around, you can buy a loupe from there for around $10-$15.

Have a look at fdd2blk's harvest tutorial bro.

https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/28072-harvest-time-tutorial.html

I think it will help you.
Click to expand...
Thanks man that helped alot
 
purplekitty7772008

purplekitty7772008

Well-Known Member
kushbluntz420 said:
I wasnt aware i had to flush it for the final weeks, What do you mean by that exactly?
Click to expand...

He means flushing out all the nutrients that the plants currently have so the bud will
burn clean (white ash), taste great, and cure more quickly. I remember me and hubby's first grow,
we forgot to flush and the bud was SOOOO fucking harsh. We had to cure it forever until you could
get a smooth hit from it.

But when you flush your plants, they eat up the last of the nutrients and then continue on
maturing the trichomes until you chop.

Looks like you are doing soil. Flush with 2x the amount of water in correspondence to how many
gallons of soil you are growing in.

So lets say you're growing in a 3 gallon pot, you would flush with 6 gallons of NO-NUTRIENT, ph balanced water.

I usually don't do it all at once. I switched to dro, but my last grow I flushed for 10 days at 3 gallons
of water a day until chop time. I don't recommend this though, because that shot the humidity up way
too much, and I got mold on about 3 colas.

So just do it all at once.

Good luck bro
 
kushbluntz420

kushbluntz420

Member
purplekitty7772008 said:
He means flushing out all the nutrients that the plants currently have so the bud will
burn clean (white ash), taste great, and cure more quickly. I remember me and hubby's first grow,
we forgot to flush and the bud was SOOOO fucking harsh. We had to cure it forever until you could
get a smooth hit from it.

But when you flush your plants, they eat up the last of the nutrients and then continue on
maturing the trichomes until you chop.

Looks like you are doing soil. Flush with 2x the amount of water in correspondence to how many
gallons of soil you are growing in.

So lets say you're growing in a 3 gallon pot, you would flush with 6 gallons of NO-NUTRIENT, ph balanced water.

I usually don't do it all at once. I switched to dro, but my last grow I flushed for 10 days at 3 gallons
of water a day until chop time. I don't recommend this though, because that shot the humidity up way
too much, and I got mold on about 3 colas.

So just do it all at once.

Good luck bro
Click to expand...
I didnt even use any nutrients so i dont think i can flush it, The soil im using is mircle grow potting mix it feeds plants for up to 6 months. I will not use this soil again it sucks my plant got nute burn on mostly all of the leaves and there was nothing i could do to control it
 
RawBudzski

RawBudzski

Well-Known Member
Could be other reasons for burns. Maybe Lacking certain nutes? ^^ uhm,. Looking good, Kinda stout like mini me. But looks like it could go another 2-4 weeks. :O maybe its a sativa dom. strain?
 
purplekitty7772008

purplekitty7772008

Well-Known Member
kushbluntz420 said:
I didnt even use any nutrients so i dont think i can flush it, The soil im using is mircle grow potting mix it feeds plants for up to 6 months. I will not use this soil again it sucks my plant got nute burn on mostly all of the leaves and there was nothing i could do to control it
Click to expand...
Whoah. Don't use miracle grow again since you're experience a lot of problems. If you're growing in soil, I can recommend Rootz organic potting and garden soil. Works great.
 
kushbluntz420

kushbluntz420

Member
RawBudzski said:
Could be other reasons for burns. Maybe Lacking certain nutes? ^^ uhm,. Looking good, Kinda stout like mini me. But looks like it could go another 2-4 weeks. :O maybe its a sativa dom. strain?
Click to expand...
Yeah its a mini plant lol not sure if it was a autoflower or what but i did leave it in a party cup for a while so that could of stunted the growth also but i was running 12/12 but i switched to 24/0 just yesterday to speed up the process and more of the trichome heads are turning an amber color so once they are all amber color im going to cure it.
 
Brick Top

Brick Top

New Member
kushbluntz420 said:
I didnt even use any nutrients so i dont think i can flush it, The soil im using is mircle grow potting mix it feeds plants for up to 6 months. I will not use this soil again it sucks my plant got nute burn on mostly all of the leaves and there was nothing i could do to control it
Click to expand...
Using any soil with slow release nutrients in it is still feeding it nutrients so you should still flush.

In the future do not use any soils with slow release nutrients. Use a quality soil without nutrients and feed your plant(s) the proper amounts and the proper nutrients when needed.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top