When to Harvest Green Crack?

ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

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WillieNelsonFan said:
I’m not arguing, I’m genuinely asking why you say that. When I look at my photo Isee a majority cloudy trichomes with 40 -50% of the pistils turned dark. That is the “definition of ready” from what I’ve read. Granted, I was sure hoping the buds would be bigger and more dense, so I am happy to hear you say it’s not ready. But I am also really NOT wanting to losing the energetic, creative, heady qualities. What do you see or not see that tells you it’s not ready? Thank you!
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There is distinct differences between your plant and ripe.
Almost all of the pistils should be orange first off, you have a ton of white pistils still
The pistils also are too long and stringy. When the plant is ripe, those pistils will shrivel up into the calyx, they will look half the size or smaller.
Simultaneously as the pistils shrivel up, the calyx itself will begin to close, and swell into a big ball. It will almost look like there is a seed in there.
Your plant easily has 3 weeks untill this point

Here is a bud about a week before I harvested.
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Here is right after the chop
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WillieNelsonFan

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ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:
There is distinct differences between your plant and ripe.
Almost all of the pistils should be orange first off, you have a ton of white pistils still
The pistils also are too long and stringy. When the plant is ripe, those pistils will shrivel up into the calyx, they will look half the size or smaller.
Simultaneously as the pistils shrivel up, the calyx itself will begin to close, and swell into a big ball. It will almost look like there is a seed in there.
Your plant easily has 3 weeks untill this point

Here is a bud about a week before I harvested.
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Here is right after the chop
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Thank you so much! Very helpful and enjoyed seeing your buds...beautiful..
 
Lordhooha

Lordhooha

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WillieNelsonFan said:
Okay, I will let them grow. I took small cutting today to dry and cure. I’ll try to do that every 2 or 3 days so I compare them once it is all cured (in the name of scientific discovery.)
Prodigy sounds familiar, but I can’t remember what it was (like many things). lol
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You’re looking at 5 weeks at least before I’d even consider it being done.
 
Wizzlebiz

Wizzlebiz

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WillieNelsonFan said:
I’m not arguing, I’m genuinely asking why you say that. When I look at my photo Isee a majority cloudy trichomes with 40 -50% of the pistils turned dark. That is the “definition of ready” from what I’ve read. Granted, I was sure hoping the buds would be bigger and more dense, so I am happy to hear you say it’s not ready. But I am also really NOT wanting to losing the energetic, creative, heady qualities. What do you see or not see that tells you it’s not ready? Thank you!
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Way too many white pistils left for it to be anywhere close to done.
 
YardG

YardG

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OP If you're just testing it to see when cuts will be done, or something, no need to consider this, but if you're hoping to achieve a good yield taking buds off it repeatedly will likely cut into your final tally (beyond the obvious loss of the individual buds you remove).
 
MY OWN DANK

MY OWN DANK

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WillieNelsonFan said:
Thank you. I really appreciate the information about harvesting 75% cloudy resulting in considerably reduced yield of upbeat heady high. Am I to assume your photos are of this harvest?
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Pics of said harvest yes....

Its not the white hairs that's scream "not even close" in your flower pics...its the unswollen calyxs...some plants spit white hairs till death...let your buds swell some so when they dry they still have some meat on the bone
 
PJ Diaz

PJ Diaz

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Real Green Crack (aka Cush or Dream Queen) is an elite clone only strain. Your seeds are an attempt at recreating that short flowering elite cut, but the outcome in seed form will produce many different phenotypes, some longer flowering than others.
 
Tom Buzz

Tom Buzz

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Wow even old post someone might look at this .
them buds I just looked close at. My green crack buds have tons of red hairs etc and this bud in pic was picked 1 1/2 -2 weeks early cause of spider mites I just harvested early to save it
Should have a lot more red hairs and compact buds like crystals look on some it. Smell omg. And get you high super high for hours it’s like 22% when right. Here is fresh picked and trimming , buds on the plant E187C9DB-67EC-4BFC-AB29-338696008660.png
 

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