Zeus's Take on Harvesting

damargentina said:

hey yall! remember me? i have right now a big bang, lemon skunk, SAD and two red dwarves, the latter are autos.
i told you i d post when they were about ready and well we are about to chop our first red dwarf. it is right now 58 days old. plz take a look at the pics and let us know what you think last time we waited too long and the effects were like narcotic... psicodelic, wanna make sure that doesnt happen again. we dont have a scope or anything so i remembered your post and told my hubbie we should post on your thread. here are the pics he took... anxiously waiting for your reply
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What are the effects supposed to be with this strain? It may just have that effect at finish time. To me it looks like it could at least go and extra week. Take a look at attitude's pic of it, this looks ready to harvest.


I would take a sample nug and see if you prefer the high now. Even if its not finished you may enjoy the high more and if so harvest now. After all it is your bud. Highs are different from strain to strain so it may just be that this plant when done doesn't give you the type of high your looking for.

So how do you feel about chopping sections of the plant as they become done first and letting other continuing to develop, on smaller more plant personalized grows.

Great great great read!!!! I stumbled upon this thread getting ready for my plants to harvest, and I'm seeing I'm going to need more time than I realized. I've read Zeus' guide a few times now, and I keep something new out of it each time. Anyway, thanks for your guide Z!!!

Great guide Zeus, you saved me from harvesting too early. Everywhere I've looked so far, all they mention is the trich colour as the best indicator and I took that as gospel, seems I'll have to add another week until harvest. Thanks a bunch!

thanks zeus you are my teacher on harvest i was going to post just to make sure but now i'm pretty sure!

/sticky plz

I wouldnt try to judge trich color from that tiny amount of magnification. That amber could be the hps glowing through the "globe" on the top of the stalk. Could be the color of the floor or anything shining through. Just like if you had a glass marble on a blue carpet you would see blue in the top of the marble right?

That plant doesnt look ready to me in either pic. I like to magnify trichs 150x min, then you can see INSIDE the stalk and really see whats happening. I found when i ripened according to the pistils then looked through the microscope most of my trichromes were shrivelled and falling off when disturbed. This wold be phenomenal for hash i bet, but ill take my trichs on the bud please. Ill make hash out of the trim. lol

Still, there are a thousand people with a thousand ways to tell when your plants are ripe. Perhaps w each look for a different feeling in our bud, and we have subconsciously dialed in what we like to see on the plant to achieve that end result?

At the end of the day, you wouldnt FEEL as if your bud was awesome if you went by trich color, and i wouldnt feel like my bud was at its potential if i waited longer...but I do want to say, by the 25% mark my buds have long finished swelling..perhaps you just have phenos that dont amber up. This isnt uncommon and i wasted a plant by waiting way too long for it to amber up. It was such messy high, but i still enjoyed it lol. Messed me up but i was non functional.

just my opinion, not saying you are wrong as you can see, to each their own!
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To each their own though, I know people that wont harvest by any of the usual methods...they wont go by trichs, or time, or pistils, some like the smell. I cant tell, but they sniff their plants and know...their trichs are about 30% amber at this point. (well more amber than mine, but still SIGNIFICANTLY under 50%).

subscribed!...and thanks again!

I'm subscribed.

I have (at 50 days 12/12) :

1 Sour Diesel - going to be picked first
1 C-4 - will be picked after that
2 Super O.G.'s - going to let them ride it out.

Thanks

was a very interesting article thanks i skipped a few pages in between but every body has pretty much the same response in different words i think my head is getting soar from learning so much about these weeds that i realized its not just growing any more its an art, which i would like to master thanks to every one in the thread that posted some good propaganda. salut zeus

Bump worthy thread.

Just wanted to give a quick smoke report and weight from my papaya and blue mystic. All total my wet weight came out to 383.6 not including the 13.2 Grams of popcorn buds that i took off early dry weight...As for the smoke report I was going for the couch lock and i got it if its this good now the two week cure will be outstanding, the papaya is the most flaverful and the most fragrent but not by much with the blue mystic just a lil bit of a smoother high but still very potent..They both held there bag apeal and smell very well so far and thats a plus to me..Here are a couple of pic's pf the smaller bud sights that are still drying on there way to the jar..hope you all enjoy and if you get a chance grow theses two strains they are worth it..peace

awesome info

+rep this post was very helpful, thnx!

great thread.
thank you kindly for sharing.
+rep.

+rep man awesome stuff, I will be harvesting in a short time, thanks to you they will definitely be ready! Thanks again.

excruciating is not the word. absaloute painstaking pain Lol.. idk excruciating does describe it pretty well.. DAMMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN
PLUS REP +++++

Whats up all ? i just wanted to say not bad bag appeal,and smokes even better my bluemystic...Peace

wooowzerrss

I saw this tidbit earlier in the thread and was hoping someone could elaborate on its idea
"I was informed by great growers here that another sign of coming ripeness, was a second explosion of pistil development as well."
I'm presently a day away from week 9 of 12/12 with my first grow using bagseed, and this comment struck me. I noticed on at least one of my plants it looked like there were some new pistils coming out of little seed shaped growths (basically like when pistils first appear but the thing it comes out of is a little bigger) on some of the bud growth. Also I will throw this question out there just for the heck of it (even though it probably isn't related to this thread) - Anyone know whats up with little white petal flowers on my bud? On at least one of my plants there are a few pinky nail sized white growths on the top bud that look like little white roses (petals and all). With my pocket microscope they seem to be an extreme concentration of trichomes, but I'm not 100% on that (since its so white its so bright I can't get a great look at it). Wondering if this might be a sign of when to harvest, but I can't find anything about it on the internet.

This is great. i haven't seen too many pics with the pitisols receding into the bud. it looks great. thanks