Want to Know If Your Plants are Finished?

Hydroctopus

Member
Your looking at another 4 to 6 weeks there bud...but Id go by what trich mix your going to want..so if you have a scope ur good to go :)...is that sour D or sour G?...there looking fantastic and healthy keep it up and you should have some PHAT sticky buds :)
Is there an FAQ on the trichome vs. "effect" and harvesting details? I need a microscope anyway, now I have yet another excuse to buy one :-).
 

dajosh42069

Well-Known Member
A reminder to all those who talk about buying microscopes and jewelers loops, I have a simple 12MP Digital Camera, and ON the closeup setting, you can take a picture, and then zoom in to look at the tricromes, it's worked brilliantly for me. And it can for you too if you already have the camera.

Just trying to save some people a little money if I can.
 

dajosh42069

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?????? =)
Looked at the pics, give another week or 2, you may wanna start flushing now. Once it's dry again, if your gonna do a second flush, do so with ice water. It mimics first frost and will put the last couple days of bud production into overdrive. I also recommend leaving them in COMPLETE darkness for 72 hours before harvest.
But the flushing and darkness are optional, just methods used to get a little more weight and potency. But in 2 weeks it should be ready.
 

dajosh42069

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And I hate to repeat my post, but it ended up on the bottom of the last page, and I thought people about to harvest should have this

dajosh42069 said:
A reminder to all those who talk about buying microscopes and jewelers loops, I have a simple 12MP Digital Camera, and ON the closeup setting, you can take a picture, and then zoom in to look at the tricromes, it's worked brilliantly for me. And it can for you too if you already have the camera.

Just trying to save some people a little money if I can.
 

ndzbnln

Active Member
From what I can see..2 weeks maybe longer...longer as In "depending on how DONE you want them to be :) keep us posted these next 2 weeks so we can help you along in anyway...do you have a scope?She is looking beautiful by the way :) Whatsthat smaller plant you got there???
thanx killer,ill keep ya posted yeah magnifyinglass type of scope thing.the smaller plants are lst just put some lst into flowering.just testing out some supercropping techniques and i cant be any more happier with the topped progress.regards
 

noxiously

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Any help would be appreciated. Strain is Ice....8 1/2 weeks flowering....seems very very small for the time period, but I wonder if they are close to being done since it says it takes 8 to 9 weeks.










First five are the same plant.....



 

mister632

Active Member
as you can see there are two plants, i know that tall one is not done yet for sure, but i would like to know how many more weeks i would have to wait so i can smoke it, the other one is almost done but i am not sure when to cut it down, if you can let me know i would appreciate it, any questions about it feel free to ask, an sorry for the shitty pictures i forgot how to turn off the flash on my camera. ha, thx in advance! btw these are my first 2 plants that i ever growed.

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UGA

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mushroom, that is a confusing plant. buds are nice an ripe but i can't really tell on the trichomes. can you get an up close picture?


noxious, you are a few days, maybe a week from ready.


the way i chop mine is when the top of the plants trichomes are amber the middle will be milky and the bottom clear. so then i get a little of everything.
so even though i might be smoking the same strain from day to day its a different high each time.
 

mister632

Active Member
@UGA how long would each plant take? the one plant i would imagine not as long as the other plant would both are bag seeds btw, and also thx for the quick reply! :D
 

noxiously

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noxious, you are a few days, maybe a week from ready.
Thanks UGA, I've been checking the trichomes but none of them are even the slightest bit amber. At best, they are some where around 75% milky 25% clear still, been that way for two weeks. Is that a normal occurrence? How long after the trichomes start turning milky does it usually take before they start turning amber. I was wanting them to reach the point where they are 10% amber 80% milky and 10% clear.


BTW, the leaves haven't even started to turn yellow yet. I thought during the flowering process the leaves, especially the lower ones will turn yellow from using up all the nitrogen. Would that be due to still feeding them with a 10-54-10 fert, full strength?
 

UGA

Active Member
yes, switch to pure water. you don't want a bunch of chemicals floating around in the plant when you chop because then you will end up smoking those chemicals.

be patient and watch those trichomes, shouldn't take too much longer.



mister i would guess 6 or 7 weeks. how long have they been flowering, most plants need 8 or 9 weeks.
 

Benzfrd

Member
Hey guys Let me know what you think of this Lady. She is a Short term Amnesia on week 10. Is she ready yet ?? Thank you in advance.


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Hey guys, would like to know how long i should flower this plant (my first) before i get to harvest and smoke that shit up. The buds aren't swelling as much as i hoped yet but there are stigma all over the things. 2011-04-09.jpg
 

mister632

Active Member
yes, switch to pure water. you don't want a bunch of chemicals floating around in the plant when you chop because then you will end up smoking those chemicals.

be patient and watch those trichomes, shouldn't take too much longer.



mister i would guess 6 or 7 weeks. how long have they been flowering, most plants need 8 or 9 weeks.
i been flowering them for about 4 to 5 weeks i think, not sure, but the one has been vegged longer than the other plant before i switched both of them on 12/12
 

comeonplantgrow

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A reminder to all those who talk about buying microscopes and jewelers loops, I have a simple 12MP Digital Camera, and ON the closeup setting, you can take a picture, and then zoom in to look at the tricromes, it's worked brilliantly for me. And it can for you too if you already have the camera.

Just trying to save some people a little money if I can.
i use my rifle scope but looking thru it backwards and it zooms right up on it
 

killeroxx

Active Member
Is there an FAQ on the trichome vs. "effect" and harvesting details? I need a microscope anyway, now I have yet another excuse to buy one :-).
you can find all sorts of stuff on google :) Just have to type the right thing...but ya there are things out there...just make sure u read more then one thing about the same subject matter that way u knw ur getting the right information
 
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