Ok Forum Friends. I shall be Harvesting my 1st Crop in a little while. Is there anything I should know? I am about to read through my notes and see what I’ve felt was pertinent enough to write down about it. I plan to hang them inside their tent. No need to put them elsewhere. I just poured 1.5gal of pH water all around their stems and and have them in there waiting for me to do something. Probably be pulling in a couple of hours so any info in that time frame would be most fab. Thanks-Karen
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You are taking pics of trichomes on sugar leaves. Those on leaves will go amber much more quickly than those on flower. You should be evaluating trichomes on flower instead. I would look at trichomes on flower and then decide if today is the day.
Note: terpines are contained within trichomes. Terpines are not visible, as they are compounds that are contained within the trichomes.
Ideal drying conditions are ~68F and ~60% humidity. A dry should take 7 to 10 days in these conditions. Cure in the same conditions in mason jars or Grove bags. I generally cure for ~3 weeks.
Congratulations on your harvest.
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Trichomes are not terpines.
Those are Trichomes that turn milky and amber, terpines are basically the chemical compounds that we tast and smell and cant not be “seen” with the naked eye.
They are defined as follows:
ter·pene
/ˈtərˌpēn/
noun
CHEMISTRY
plural noun: terpenes
any of a large group of volatile unsaturated hydrocarbons found in the essential oils of plants.
Terpines are found throughout the plant not just if the trichomes, though there is a very high concentration in the trichomes compared to other parts 
As @MidwestGuy says, try to focus of the trichomes on the calyx (the bit that hairs stick out of) rather then the sugar leaves.
Calyx is alot better indicator of ripeness as sugar leaves change alot faster typically 
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Well damn. Now I’m confused all over again and don’t know what to do. They have been in full flower for just at 7 weeks if that means anything. I have already moved all the equipment out of the tent, but can out it back in if needed. I will go get photos of their budding area only. In the meantime, here are my notes on Harvesting and curing. Do they seem to be about right? Going in to take those shots now.
You probably have a couple of weeks left. It takes flower 8 to 10 weeks to ripen. Longer if you want amber.
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Veey good info to make a call 
There are some fast flowerers that finish in 7 weeks but as @MidwestGuy says again, typically 8 weeks is the average with some going 10-14.
Give your trichomes a good look on the bits the hairs stick out of and if they are all or most all cloudy with any amber at all then they are in the window and will be fire so go ahead and chop.
If the calyx has alot of clear then you may want to go another week 
How does the pistols look as a hole all over the plant, are they nearly all dark or is there still alot if white haris?
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Ok. Let me be clear that it’s 7wks in full flower and another 4 in pre flower. Just want to make sure we are on the same page.
I took photos here as close in as I could get which is about 20x mag. Then a shot of the bud I took the photo from.
What I want my end product to be is more of an upper as opposed to melting me into a couch. I got the Juicy Mix because 1 is Sativa Dom, 1 is Indica Dom, the last is a close 50/50 blend, so the way I saw it when I ordered was that the strain itself would mostly determine its effects. Then I’m reading on multiple sites that the resulting effect is due to the stage of the, what I been calling Trichome but now I see it’s that other term that I’ll need to get used to smh, color. So now I just don’t know and have been quite impatient for about a month now. I am out of nutrients as of 4 days ago. Just had to put up $3500 for my son’s custody battle so absolutely have nothing left to buy more. That was my rainy day fund and it has dried up completely. So what now, you see? I hate to be a big cry baby, but I am just ready now. Y’all ever felt like that? It sucks to be ready and then be told to wait. Lol! But I’ll take y’all’s advice regardless. That’s why I’m here. But I want you to have the whole perspective and whatever you need to see from whatever angle to advise me.
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I was just reading another Kats posting and I can feel him. Except that so far I’ve accidentally clipped off 2 lower branches from 2 different plants, let them dry about 4 days and smoked them up in 3 pinners with some friends on 2 separate occasions and we all got effed way up and for hours. Like 4 hours of major stoneage. Nit a whole lot if taste. But no coughing. Just smooth smoke that fucked us up in a great way. I guess i am kinda afraid of losing that if I don’t harvest now.
Your harvest notes look good to me
The newest thing in cureing is Grove bags.
They are amazing and make cureing nearly fool proof.
They aren’t expensive at all either and if ya get the zip lock ones they are reusable. I have been useing the same ones for over 2 years now.
After drying you fill the bag and forget it.
No need to open (aka burp) ever like with jars. They control the RH on their own if in a cool dark placec😁
Cut it down hole or in sections like limbs at a time or whatever you like really.
But keep in mine the smaller the peice you make it, the faster it can dry. If you want a long dry hole is best or biggest chunks possible if ya got a huge plant 
definitely no reason to pull it up if that’s what you was asking on that.
Wet trimming is way harder, dry trimming is way easier. Especially if you have alot to go through.
Some will disagree but i standvon my statement.
Dry trimming is way easier
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Seeing them pictures starting from top to bottom 1st looks like it could benefit from a little more time or it will be a very speedy mild buzz.
2nd ones is good to go and looks like it may be your bedtime smoke. I’m guessing thats the indica as it got plenty of amber.
The other pictures look maybe in the middle.
Honestly we all nit pick about the perfect timing but really these all look very “in the window” to me. .
2nd picture is well ready and the first does look a little early for me, some sativa genetics take the longest 
If you’re samples from lower branches got you there then you’re golden chop them babies
Thats a sure fire way to know 100%
If it makes you feel how you want it to then its ready to go .
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One last thing.
I don’t think i mentioned it but, that is all some dang good looking bud, very frosty and vibrant.
You done a very good job, and dont get hing up on the terms and words to much, sry i did
So much is confusing and so many different words for different things. Long as we all know what where talking is all that matters 
Keep us posted of the smoke after it’s cured
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I like your way of thinking. I think they are amazing. I only have 1 friend that grows and he says “these may be small but there’s bud all over each. Look better than anything I ever grew.” He’s having issues right now though.
I think where I don’t work and it’s just me and my dogs here, other than selling stuff on ebay or working on my property when weather permits, I have all the time in the world to devote to the garden. I do my best to treat them with love and they always have music playing and I ensure to keep the temp and RH at whatever is highest recommended for that stage. It takes me like 3 hours just to water 6 plants. Lol! I’m awful about things being just so.
That one, I think ILGM warehouse got something wrong with my order. I am supposed to have 3 strains and am pretty sure there are 4 because that one has been way different than the other 5 all the way along. It’s supposed to be Super Lemon Haze, which is indeed a Sativa Dom. However, it’s supposed twin really smells like Lemon and that one doesn’t. So idk what it is. Lol! But I’ll smoke it! Without question.
Thanks for all your advice and just for being so cool. If I had somewhere other than that tent to dry them in I would leave that obe for a couple more weeks as it’s always been way small. But with the other 5, I think, being ready, that’s 5 to 1 and majority wins. I think that’s a democracy but anymore the definition seems to have changed. Still 5-1 and… Ah! Majority rules. That one is better.
As for the TerpBags, I did check their site and thought they were like, and it’s been a while, 20 for $300 or some similar? I shall look again.
I will be sure and let you know how it all comes out. You’re awesome!
Yay 1happypappy!!!
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Traits like smell taste tall or short even color are all penos, strains oike lemon haze tends to haveca lemon smell more often then not but these traits are not 100% .
Sometimes purple strains aren’t purple or skunk strains are skunky or tall strains are short.
Its just how genetics work.
If you want the best genetic stability then you need to look for F5 seeds.
It gets super complicated and technical but just Google “F5 seeds” or “IBL seeds” and it will all make sense
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Lol! I shall google that. How much sense it will make to me has yet to be determined. I may be super smart but am also super dumb on some stuff. If that makes sense.
Also, yes, you answered my 3 questions famously. Thanks for that.
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look in to grove bags, they are amazing for curing, they burp themselves, in my opinion, they work better than jars. many many people use them on here
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I am going to have another look. I must have interpreted their proces wrong when I looked the 1st time.
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Grove bags are a no-brainer. They’re about 15 cent more than a mason jar. I think I paid like $1.19 for 1 oz bags and about $2.10 for quarter pound bags. For around 20 bucks I had enough bags to cure nine plants.
We spend a lot of money, time, effort, and research growing these plants. You’re very lucky to have a network of people who know what they’re saying when they say it.
Patience is the key to success. Impatience is the key to paranoid headache weed. It all breaks down to that in a nutshell.
I’ve got Auto flowers right now going on 125 days that’s 17 weeks (13 weeks in flour) just today I seen 90% milky and 5% Amber. And I’m still going to give them another week. What’s the worst can happen your weed gets better!
As for being out of nutrients. Don’t let that bother you. They don’t require much nutrients in ripening. I’ve got a girl that I thought was going to be done a month ago and she’s had no nutrients. She’s 100% yellow and brown but she still hanging in there and ripening.
Good luck with everything 
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Thanks everyone.
Lol! Now that I’ve Googled F-Strains I want to know what my Strains parentage is. There really is a lot to learn about everything and spending so much time in the tent you have very little time left for study. So I’m going to use this upcoming down time to do just that. Learn.
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