Somango ripe before it's time?

Hey all,

Soma's somango at 7.5 weeks in flowering... Breeder says 9-10 but I beleive she will be fully ripe 7 days from now. I'm already been flushing for a week, she had fast growth from start of flowering. What ya think?

i would still wait maybe reintroduce some light nutes cuz u still seem to have a good majority of white hairs
when the hairs r pretty much all red and start to reced into the bud is when u wanna start lookin to chop
i would still wait until an extra 2 weeks

Yea as a good rule of thumb I usually like to look at the hairs. I see alot of people on here getting out their magnifying glasses examining trichomes for color and cloudiness. I know it close to harvest when about half of the hairs on the plant have turned red or amber. But it really is personal preference, a fully ripe bud will produce much more of a fully body stone (couch lock) as opposed to a bud harvested slightly earlier, producing more of a energetic uppy high (head high). In your case, those buds are looking fucking delicious, probably about half of the hairs are red, maybe let them go another week and see what happens. nice grow, keep it up.

outstanding buds bro! I'd run a bit longer too, who knows it may look "ready" in a week but then again, it may be another two or three weeks. No close ups of the trichomes, how do they look? Any ambering yet, I've been pulling mine just before the trics go amber. I look at the trichomes clouding plus the reddening of the hairs like most do but I also will pull the buds when they look ready to me, they tend to show that "ripe" look just when the trikes start to amber but not always, sometimes earlier, sometimes later.

I bet those are some sweet smelling/tasting buds man, are they as dense as they look? congrats on a fine set of buds there bro!

I disagree regarding the re-introducing nutes... I might not flushed enough my last plants and the I really could taste the nutes until I water cured. Iv'e seen plants grow amazing with barely feeding so I'm sure she will do well even with a 3 week flush. This grow is with the least nutes Iv'e ever gave and she might be smaller than then rest, but the taste and trich density is sublime.

About the ripeness - She's just been really fast, I see daily progress and from how it seems now I'm sure shell be all orange pistils within a week.

The colas are dense and really full with dense and big trichomes, I don't have much amber but I've barely seen them even on over-ripe strains so I just know thats a genetic rule and if trichs seem full and mostly cloudy it's best not to keep waiting and let that thc degrade.

The size has came to a peak, I haven't seen any size progress within the past week - if not it only made it look smaller since the pistils are regressing back in instead of shooting out. The smell has reached a peak and microwave dried buds are really potent.

lol no one pays attention to the calyx anymore?

i see people pulling their plants before any calyx surge happens (not every plant will but just about most of them will increase mass in the calyx)


always look at the calyx / hairs / trichs in correlation to each other

well i'm learning with each grow, I do find it somewhat related to the strain, I grown og kush before that is consider a somewhat heirloom strain and the calyx's were swollen even 2 weeks before haverst time. I see my small buds pretty full with orange and the calyx pods are small even though my plant was really high in pistil x leaf ratio, I guess thats why they say somango is not a heavy yielder. At what point should calyx's swollen , late in the harvest window?

my buds really need a bump? don't they look delicious enough?

Those don't look done to me. I would leave them for a couple weeks.

They do look very nice though. MMMMMM

New photos taken yesterday, I due agree she will need like 5-6 more days....
crystals are amazingly 80% cloudy, 5% amber, 15% clear, since this is a very uplifting strain - i'm expecting her not to turn fast to amber and should be chopped when fully cloudy.

How does it smell like? strong mango aroma? How long do you veg?