Ready to chop?
- Thread starter mastrmasn
- Start date
Lordhooha
Well-Known Member
Give it a week MAYBE two
Herb & Suds
Well-Known Member
Two weeks minimum
mastrmasn
Well-Known Member
Two weeks puts it at 10 weeks total. And so far the trichomes a nearly 100% milky with some clear and amber.
biffchicken
Well-Known Member
For what I've been told it all depends on what type of strain you're growing, and what kind of effect you'd like from it. If it's an Indica dominant strain, it will tend to have a more medicinal, body high effect. Good for pain relief. Whereas a Sativa will have more of a "head" stone, euphoric effect.
Harvesting when trichromes are on the clear side will give you more of a Sativa effect, and harvesting when amber will give you more of an indica effect.
At least this is what I'm to understand, I may be completely wrong.
Harvesting when trichromes are on the clear side will give you more of a Sativa effect, and harvesting when amber will give you more of an indica effect.
At least this is what I'm to understand, I may be completely wrong.
onegreenthumb
Well-Known Member
herb and suds has it at least two weeks
Hugo Phurst
Well-Known Member
How about some close-ups
Hugo Phurst
Well-Known Member
I don't see any amber.....too bad, another week
mastrmasn
Well-Known Member
I’ve started to flush would I start nutes again if I’d wait that long?
jaggwaa
Well-Known Member
No, u have green leaves, no more nutes imo, let them fade out, turn yellow, crisp and dry. You crop is definately in the last stage of ripening. Mostly it will take 10 to 15 days to fully yellow your plant.
Lordhooha
Well-Known Member
Flushing is a load of crap. If you fed the plant properly your good. Mine stay green til I chop and generally feed til that time. Why starve your plants and make it start eating itself?
jaggwaa
Well-Known Member
Take a green leaf and dry it. Then take a dead dired yellow brown leaf from the plant. Smoke both, u'll know the difference. Decide yourself
jaggwaa
Well-Known Member
Unless u do that, u will never understand the difference. No disrespect btw.
Lordhooha
Well-Known Member
I’ve done plenty if dried properly and allow the chlorophyll to break down properly your good. All of my rooms are fed til the end I used to believe in starving my plants long ago. I simply reduce my feed til the end. On top of that the soil I build stays green til the end with zero feeding. As far as my rdwc room goes same thing. I’ve taken my buds to cannabis cup several times I’ve done the whole see which is flushed and which one isn’t done properly I’ve never had one person that was able to tell. On top of it all my patients all disabled veterans like myself care about quality so if starving them did something magical to flush anything from the plant i would have continued to do so.
jaggwaa
Well-Known Member
Wao.... respect man,
so you are an expert in curing right. Do u agree it takes time and a lot of harvests to reach to the point where you are right now regarding curing. and one harvest is a 5 to 6 months long process. 3 days hanging or 5 day hanging, small stalks sniping but big stalk bending, or big stalks cracking, hanging in card boxes, drying in paper bags jars open jars closed, ..... and it goes on and on and on
You have perfected the way you cure. Now people like me in general , will always make mistakes, when curing. A lot of us doesn't have or access to setups to control humidity and all that sophisticated stuff to make a perfect cure, i mean whats the harm in taking a pre harvest step that will just enhance the taste and smell, and less chance of a hey smell weed at the end. Do u agree?
btw reducing the amount of nutrients towards the end slowly is also a sophisticated type of flush. Just saying
Lordhooha
Well-Known Member
Most people get the hay smell from cutting early. Happens all the time here it’s why you see so many post of “ is it ready” especially this time of year. Drying and curing is an art that part is true. Most folks don’t even try and control their environment is the biggest issue too. But your right it is along process from start to finish time gives you experience. But no I don’t consider myself an expert in anything in life if I was it would make life a big pile of suck. I do have an advantage considering all my rooms are controlled via their own geothermal heating/cooling and humidity control. But if you use the paper bag method it kind of negates the humidity issue if you have one. But again the hay smell has a lot to do with immature buds. If you think it’s time to chop most time there’s an extra week or two on most gross I’ve seen. I simply don’t fall for the whole starve the plant or dumping tons of water through your medium to flush anything from the plant.
I’ve been in school getting getting another degree this time in botany I also have a small 40 acre hobby farm and live around nothing but farmers and never has that word been uddered honestly.
Lordhooha
Well-Known Member
Also referring to the reduction of nutrients that’s common practice. Most people that talk flushing are one that follow whatever bottles feed schedules and are for some ungodly reason dumping 1600 ppm worth of nutrients in their soil. For my heaviest feeding girls I never go past the 900-1000ppm mark most time less. At the end of the grow I’m still feeding 200 ppm. Flushing came from the shiny bottle companies to get guys to buy more crap.