To Harvest or not to harvest>!?

when should i harvest a sativa & indica i have? now i understand when trichomes are amber color that is like a chronic high which makes you feel "blown" and locks you on the couch. now they both essentially started flowering at the same time maybe within a few days of each other, they are about 30-40 days in (not sure "exactly").

They both have about 95-100% milky trichomes. While the indica has about 5% amber trichomes and sativa about less than 5% amber trichomes. Pictures wouldnt do any good because i cant get a close up pic of the trichs. I was thinking about letting them go till the end of october and maybe harvest early november.

Can i get some possible opinions on when to harvest? should i wait to get more amber trichs for the indica or the sativa? should i pull the sativa earlier for an upper energetic high? or should i pull the indica sooner since indicas typically mature faster? what should i do? if you honestly want pics i can post em but you cant really tell how much more it needs based on looks and size of the plants. thx

I'm going through the same situation, I would have to see pics to get a better judgement. I'm waiting day and night to pic mine, Its killing me haha so excited.

Patience is usally rewarded.

The milky / amber trichome thing only goes so far in how much you can change the effects of what you grew. The effects will mainly be genetic and all you can do it fine tune it slightly. It is not like amber trichomes will turn a sativa high into an indica body stone and you can’t harvest an indica when the trichomes are just slightly cloudy and have a sativa high.
　
When it comes to trichomes, when the majority of a plant’s trichomes have turned slightly cloudy THC levels have peaked. It will remain peaked until the majority of the trichomes have turned slightly amber and at that point THC is being lost through oxidation and the THC level drops and the CBN level rises.
　
I guess the point I am working up to is that more people need to purchase their strains by what the strain itself will give them that they most want instead of purchasing the flavor of the month, the new hot ticket from this week’s blistering hot breeder and then trying to make it into more of what someone wants than it is genetically inclined to be.
　
There are so many strains out there that if someone shops in a way that is logical and not emotional they can find some true gems and some of them are strains I never read anything about people growing. It is as if they were the unknown strains or something.

ya so they are both basically 100% milky white with the indica having a few more amber trichs than the sativa, what should i do?

Intcorquad said:

ya so they are both basically 100% milky white with the indica having a few more amber trichs than the sativa, what should i do?

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You are asking someone to decide what you will like the best.
　
Ok, if it were my crop and the trichomes were the color you say yours are I would unplug my lights tonight so they would not bet any more light before I could get to them tomorrow and I would harvest because the trichome color in this case is about as close to being exactly what I look for as one could get.
　
If you grew the indica because you like and want more couch-lock now and then and the sativa for a good head high then if most of the trichomes on the sativa are milky/cloudy … harvest her before any light hits her tomorrow. The high will be the most sativa-like that you can get.
　
If you grew the indica for some couch-lock let it mature a little more … until almost most of the trichomes have begun to turn amber .. not amber/amber .. but turning amber. You will still be at peak THC levels but you will get that tiny bit more couch-lock thrown in and after all that is why you picked an indica, isn’t it?