A customer has a question and I hope we can get some opinions on it, thanks
“I am a first time grower. I bought the fruity mix pack from you back in December. So far I’d consider the grow a great success. I planted 3 of each kind. All germinated. Veg state went as expected. I shifted to 12/12 on Feb 9. All have buds. Some look fantastic. Big buds with very sugary looking trichomes. My problem is that I don’t see any amber trichomes. I look every day with a jewellers loop magnifier. I see Brown hairs and some cloudy trichomes but I’m so new to this that I wanted to see an amber trichomes before harvesting to be sure. My big concern is that I might be waiting too long because the web site says that strawberry matures in 55 days, blueberry in 63 and pineapple in 85. With a Feb 9th switch to 12/12, I’m at day 78 now. Way past the 55 and 63 for strawberry and blueberry respectively. Why aren’t I seeing amber trichomes? Should I harvest anyway? Is waiting till day 78 too long for strawberry.
Thanks, rich”
Rich first off welcome to the forum if you could fill out a support ticket that would help tremendously and if you could snap a few photos to throw on we always like those two but I would say you were getting very close it sounds like. 78 days is not too long sometimes it takes shorter sometimes it’s a little longer let’s see if I can get a few more people in here to get you rolling my friend @Matthew420@bob31 ( can you throw up a support ticket Bob ) @latewood@Hawkeye_diesel@Majiktoker@Aquaponic_Dumme
As mentioned. Listed finish times are approximate, and cvan be sqewed by gorw methods and veg times.
Did you veg for 2 months or longer? Or, did you do a short month long veg.
I always find that it takes 2-4 weeks longer than posted finish times. In my experience; Nothing is done on the shorter side of time. Of course you can harvest without amber trichomes, and there will slightly less of a medicinal affect.
Blueberry is an Indica and thus it is supposed to be finished in a couple months. The Kush is more of an Indica Sativa hybrid, but Kush itself is Indica and finishes faster. The Pineapple Haze is Sativa and can take 12-13 weeks.
Also; Sativa sometimes will not show the golf ball on a tee type trichomes; It will just look like sugar poured on the plant, similar to what “frosted flakes” look like right out of the box.
Hope to see you around; Be patient and wait. Happy growing lw
I mentioned this before: don’t hesitate to take a sample that you can examine in a better location than on the plant. I couldn’t see the progression of the trichomes until I snipped a sample leaf from a bud site.
Trichomes that represent that shape are glandular trichomes, trichomes that dont resemble that and are strait with no bulbs are non-glandular trichomes to put a name there
lw