Any tips on trichome development and when to harvest?

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I’m expecting harvest between now and may 13 hopefully gonna flush tm or the next day and from there hope the timing works out well

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I don’t have any tools or devices to see closer sadly idk if there’s an easy way to tell without like a jewelers loupe or some but would like opinions this was a bag seed so no flowering estimate but I guessed abt nine weeks and that seems accurate but this is my first grow

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Any other lens?

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Not the best but not the worst
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I would have never thought. I have like 20 pairs around the house :neutral_face:

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She looks beautiful. What are you running? Medium? Nutrients? Ima newbie. But she looks great. I’d buy👀

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Careful eh that lens gotta be like spotlessly clean no fingerprint nothing. And nothing gets inside when open.
It only gave 2-and-some ounces though. From big soil box no nutes but worm food.
Lens + camera, ok, lens + eye better. Looking for white trichomes.

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imho…shes showing some signs shes got a little more left in her yet…like additional white pistils.

I see no amber trics. Not that amber is super important, but by the time you see a few amber (on true flower parts, not just sugar leaves) you can be sure a good portion of the trics elsewhere are milky white.

I like to chop when most of the trichomes present milky, and an obvious but small ish amount are amber. I find a few amber gives the effect some good staying power. The plant will continue to throw new resin glands so there will always be a few clear trics even at harvest.

Here’s one thats almost entirely milky, but no amber to my eye. At least another week i think.

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Amazing brother. Thats nice.

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I’d ask spiney about this…… @Spiney_norman

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I used this tonight and it was awesome…came free with some nutes. I believe they are only like $15 anyway…was surprised at how effective it was actually…

Nice looking plant btw!

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They look good. I see a few weeks left by the look of the pistils.

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I learned everything from these guys,
Boiled down to simplify,
You need two things to be ripe
1 - Nearly all browned pistils , this occurs around 9th week of flowering but longer is common.
2 - Milky trichomes with your preference of amber %. 5 to 10% amber is common.
Note: Milky trichomes can appear very early and should not be the only criteria you use. I have seen milky trichomes on bud as early as the 3rd week.
So 2 factors for ripeness. Brown pistils and milky/amber trichomes.

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lol idek what strain she is this is actually my first grow but people keep saying imma natural

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I just went out and picked up a 5x magnification lens bc it’s all I could find at Walmart and the difference is shocking I’ve actually noticed a couple amber trichomes but I’m gonna just keep a close eye and wait since I want to maximize the yield and it looks like there’s lots of white pistils

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