This has to be ready?

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ComfortCreator

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Thundercat said:
Well that will have you the most intune with the biology of the plant. Sativas definitely can take much longer then indicas. I’ve had one that took 14-16 weeks of actual flower time. They eneddd up being awesome though and people asked me for more years after.

I figured I’d share this with you too:

The signs of ripeness are pretty standard in cannabis plants. After growing 1k + plants from multiple varietals it’s clear how the maturation process takes place.

First a few of the pistils begin turning color and start receding. Your plant is just starting to ripen. Depending on the strain you could still have two months to go. We're just starting this journey.

Two to four weeks later you'll notice that most of the pistils(>80%) have now changed color and curled back into the bud. It's frosty, way bigger than it was a few weeks ago, and smells dank! It's time, right? Not a chance killer. Patience is a virtue

Over the next 2-3 weeks it doesn't look much different, maybe a little more swelling in the calyxes, and the rest of the pistils change over, but the stems ars starting to bend under the weight of the buds. These ladies are putting on weight and now the buds are doing their final ripening.

Now you begin looking at trichomes, on the calyx not leaves, and harvest according to your preference. When looking at trichomes it’s essential to look at them from the side. The bulbous heads can magnify the opaque stalk under it. Looking from the side allows you to more accurately see the condition of the resin in the trichome head.

There is still no rush to harvest, the window just opened, and you have several weeks before you MIGHT start having to think about it possibly beginning to get too ripe. It takes WEEKS for plants to mature not days.

It is very to harvest a plant to early. It is very hard to harvest a plant to late. I’ve never seen someone accidentally wait too long.
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I dont like the terminology of fattening, ripening, swelling. To me they dont properly describe the stages. Do you have names for the stages in your mind?
 
Wizzlebiz

Wizzlebiz

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I dont like the terminology of fattening, ripening, swelling. To me they dont properly describe the stages. Do you have names for the stages in your mind?
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Plumping, tastening, and my penis when I see my wife undress.

Is that any better?
 
twentyeight.threefive

twentyeight.threefive

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Wizzlebiz said:
I dont like the terminology of fattening, ripening, swelling. To me they dont properly describe the stages. Do you have names for the stages in your mind?
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Plumping, tastening, and my penis when I see my wife undress.

Is that any better?
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Small, medium, large.

Harvest at the end of large stage.
 
Cvntcrusher

Cvntcrusher

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Only trichomes you should be using to measure when to chop is on the calyxes.

You can have quite a bit of amber tricomes and cloudy on the sugar leaves and have NO amber on the calyx.

Usually about the time I have some amber on the calyx my tops close up and my pistils start curling and receding indicating they are ready for harvest.

I would say you can probably harvest but I would go one more week AT LEAST.

Every plant is different and will tell you when she is ready. Just have to know what to look for. Luckily you have a lot of nice and knowledgeable djents commenting.

Also you're 70 days from sprout? I just harvested two autoflowers on day 80 from sprout. They were ready at 80 days. So you could be close if you're running an autoflowering strain! 20210207_183331.jpg20210207_183336.jpg20210206_230707.jpg
 
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Wizzlebiz

Wizzlebiz

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Cvntcrusher said:
Only trichomes you should be using to measure when to chop is on the calyxes.

You can have quite a bit of amber tricomes and cloudy on the sugar leaves and have NO amber on the calyx.

Usually about the time I have some amber on the calyx my tops close up and my pistils start curling and receding indicating they are ready for harvest.

I would say you can probably harvest but I would go one more week AT LEAST.

Every plant is different and will tell you when she is ready. Just have to know what to look for. Luckily you have a lot of nice and knowledgeable djents commenting.

Also you're 70 days from sprout? I just harvested two autoflowers on day 80 from sprout. They were ready at 80 days. So you could be close if you're running an autoflowering strain! View attachment 4823081View attachment 4823082View attachment 4823083
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Different autoflower strains and phenos finish up at Different times.

I had 2 white widow autos this past summer one finished in 11 weeks of flower the other 13.

My og kush took 15 weeks in flower.
 
Thundercat

Thundercat

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I dont like the terminology of fattening, ripening, swelling. To me they dont properly describe the stages. Do you have names for the stages in your mind?
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Those terms are meant to describe what the plant is physically doing during the final parts of the flowering stage. The bracts(calyxs) will actually swell up and look plump when they are getting ripe.

Ripe describes a plant that has completed its growth cycle and has reacted a point of peak quality.
 
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ComfortCreator

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Thundercat said:
I dont like the terminology of fattening, ripening, swelling. To me they dont properly describe the stages. Do you have names for the stages in your mind?
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Those terms are meant to describe what the plant is physically doing during the final parts of the flowering stage. The bracts(calyxs) will actually swell up and look plump when they are getting ripe.

Ripe describes a plant that has completed its growth cycle and has reacted a point of peak quality.
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I know now when they are done, but the textbook descriptions of the stages are really confusing.

First white pistils begin to form. Then those pistils get bigger and more of them. The "buds" grow larger.

Then the pistils begin to change and become not just pistils but buds. They get much larger and eventually the pistils will change color and recede some.

The buds keep growing, getting big enough to touch each other and create larger continuous buds. What looked like just pistils now appears like bud.

As the pistils change a lot of people are now ready to harvest but they arent actually close to done. They begin that process where little calyx turrets begin to grow out of the buds, get bigger, then recede back in.

Again most people say done or way done, yet they will swell like this 2, 3 or more times while waiting for the trichs to truly be done.

What parts of that are fattening? What is swell? Why do we call the final part ripening? Again i see it, i think i understand it, but have no idea what each waypoint is called in textbook terms.
 
Rurumo

Rurumo

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It's hard to tell, or to go by descriptions, or just by checking trichome color. Once you see a bunch of perfectly ripe buds, you get an idea of what "doneness" looks like. Plus, it's easy to cut your buds too early, but hard to cut them too late so it's almost always beneficial, from a yield and quality standpoint, to give them more time if you are unsure.
 
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