Pineapple Chunk - 74 days and counting!! - When should I harvest?

anymore it seems compnies ay anything to get their beans sold. When I'm growing them a lot of times don't seem much like the decription t all n ends up being a big dissapointment. I feel for you gimme, planning is the most important part of any grow and when 55 days turns into 12 week thats not right at all. Howcome so many breeder only have one picture of the buds in the description do they even bother growing out hybrids before they sell them for 80$ a pack or what? Pretty lame if you ask me. I grew a Barneys farm top dawg plant, the description says it has an 11 week flowering cycle and they recommend flowering from seed so i put one in my flowering room. 10 weeks later I had a small plant that looked like it wa 2 week in flower and had no trichs and super leafy. I didn't even finish her because it wasnt worth my time. I don't know if I will grow the rest later or not now, I wasn't impressed with this cannabis cup winner at all.

I respect the companies who give honest reports on their strainsand I feel that the one company I have used that is very spot on is federation seeds. My romulan, mikado and island sweet skunk are very close to the descriptions from their size, flowering length and taste. (havent flowered the romulan yet but the growth is just as described) Can find a couple of their strains around IDK if next generation's are the same or not.

i just brought a pack of these top dawg, damit!
Live and learn Hopfully it was a rare dud

gimmethatfish said:

I really want to wait. And I initially started this thread with the intention of waiting... But then I looked at a calendar and realized I have to be on a plane in less than two weeks. So if I don't want my PC rotting in my jars I don't have a lot of choice. I wish I had another 2-3 weeks to give these ladies, unfortunately I didn't plan for a 12+ week flowering period.

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I'd be interested in what you end up doing. Our problem seems similar, and although I dont have to leave my plants I do have people coming over around Christmas. I'd like to have it chopped and curing by then. I think with the weather I'll end up cutting from the top down starting on Sunday/Monday.

Yeah... so I've been cold shocking for about 3 days. Harvest probably tomorrow or Sunday. Took a peek today and it seems to be speeding ripening of those which were already closest. My most mature have dried stigmas, etc. But I have a feeling my best nugs will be premature : (

I would totally have friends do it, etc. But there's something about "Hey man could you house-sit for me, oh and also can you harvest all my plants at exactly the right time and trim and dry all of them for me and get them curing? Ok sounds good see you in a week." That seems like a recipe for disaster.

I really wish that I had started with Barney's LSD, which I know for a fact is significantly shorter and has a shorter flowering period. Now when I come back I'm stuck with PC again because I have a mom, and don't really have the time to start an LSD mom / wait 2 months to clone her.

gimmethatfish said:

I really wish that I had started with Barney's LSD, which I know for a fact is significantly shorter and has a shorter flowering period. Now when I come back I'm stuck with PC again because I have a mom, and don't really have the time to start an LSD mom / wait 2 months to clone her.

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Ive had lsd plants flower for over 100 days and havent had one under 3.5 feet

Holy eh 74days ,looks like a few weeks to go imo ,be patient looks real tasty ,lax on the nutes abit also i id say ,sometimes i feel less is more with nutes in the final weeks ,we tend to get hardons and think a drop more wont hurt,and in the final weeks theres no time for them to bounce back,anyways goodluck lookin sweet

Some serious shit, yo. Looking good. Can't wait to see some harvest pictures.

That looks really good. Starting to get a bit crispy, yet?

Probably a bit too crispy to be honest. I dried them in my BCNL drier for about 48 hours, then had to transfer them to jars for 12 hours for a move. After relocating they were put on a drynet from Tuesday afternoon until Wednesday evening. I jarred them again until last night. I removed everything from the jars for about an hour and replaced them in a different order. Stems are snap-able and everything seems a bit too dry. There was never any moisture inside the jars, and they were definitely ready for cure. Now they just seem crispy and don't really smell like much of anything unless they've been closed up for a while in which case you can get the "true" smell under the dry plant matter / hay smell.

Normal? Did I just overdry?

Made some sick hash oil.. see my grow log or album for pics.

put them in a paper bag it really helps bring that moisture back out

back out? I'm not sure I follow.. as far as I can tell I dried TOO much. Or at least did too much of my moisture removal in drying rather than curing. Putting them in a paper bag is just going to remove even more moisture.

I grow barneys Nightshade. It's a great plant, vigorous growth, excellent pine-tasting smoke, but I found the 60 day flowering period to be far to short. I let it go to 10 weeks now, and have let it go to 12 in the past, and the buds still weren't fully mature. This is something I often hear about barney's strains.

By contrast I have GHS cheese and it's ready at 8 weeks every time, although I let it go 9 cos I like being a zombie.

I am growing PC too. I have grown 6 od the Barney's strains. I have always purchased fem seeds, just to save sexing time. I have found that fem seeds all give different results (phenos). I plan my room and plan for the next grow only to get it screwed up by way extended flowering times. PC is feminized seeds only, so it is hard to plan too far ahead. Currently all of my PC is 53 days into flowering. One plant is 3 feet tall and 3 of them are over 5 feet tall. The 3 footer (basically single cola) is looking like it is getting ready for last push (leaves are yellowing and drying) and the other 3 are weeks behind with lots of side branches. My next grow is LSD and getting ready to clone, I am hoping the room will be harvested, but I can see there are at least several weeks left before harvest.

gimmethatfish said:

Yeah... so I've been cold shocking for about 3 days. Harvest probably tomorrow or Sunday. Took a peek today and it seems to be speeding ripening of those which were already closest. My most mature have dried stigmas, etc. But I have a feeling my best nugs will be premature : (

I would totally have friends do it, etc. But there's something about "Hey man could you house-sit for me, oh and also can you harvest all my plants at exactly the right time and trim and dry all of them for me and get them curing? Ok sounds good see you in a week." That seems like a recipe for disaster.

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Hi there, noticed you are growing in the same appliance I’m using. Fourth crop for me in the BCNL bloombox now. I’m still strain hunting though, something for a heavy hitting indica that has high thc and yield. My box has the led lights. Three crops all around 10.5 ounces dry weight when all said and done. Tried Purple Kush twice, now clones are from a spoetnik #1 Mom. How are you doing?

wineart said:

I am growing PC too. I have grown 6 od the Barney's strains. I have always purchased fem seeds, just to save sexing time. I have found that fem seeds all give different results (phenos). I plan my room and plan for the next grow only to get it screwed up by way extended flowering times. PC is feminized seeds only, so it is hard to plan too far ahead. Currently all of my PC is 53 days into flowering. One plant is 3 feet tall and 3 of them are over 5 feet tall. The 3 footer (basically single cola) is looking like it is getting ready for last push (leaves are yellowing and drying) and the other 3 are weeks behind with lots of side branches. My next grow is LSD and getting ready to clone, I am hoping the room will be harvested, but I can see there are at least several weeks left before harvest.

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Same thing happened to me. Pull em down early, spread 5hem ev3nly across the thre3 scre3ns from th3 dryer. Th3n I put 3m back in the flowering chamber. Then I left for 11 days. It was too dry wh3n I got home. So yeah, I need to join a cannabis club so maybe we can wa5ch each other’s crops when we are away. It’s s bit much for a neighbour. I’ll shut down my box for my vacation, that’s a drag. But gone fo4 28 days, need a sharecropper lol