I need some help on my photo Chocolope!
Taking forever! In organic super soil. Pictures are about 6 weeks since started showing flower and that was about 1.5 weeks after switching to 12/12.
Sprouted end of November 2023. Today date is March 10 2024.
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Nice grow dude, For most cannabis strains, the flowering period will last about 7-9 weeks, although some sativas require even longer for their buds to mature. So it’s time to be patient which is hard to do for sure. Let them buds fatten up until all the white hairs turn in and are brownish and then start checking your Trichomes. Good luck
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Yeah, you have several weeks to go.
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Nice big plant , when those colas fill in they are going to be huge. You still have a few weeks to reach the finish line.
Happy growing 
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Thanks! I have trouble when it’s comes to color, I’m a little color blind, it’s hard for me to tell when white hairs turn light brown and when using a good magnifying scope it’s hard for me to tell when trichomes turn from clear to amber?
Also what do you mean by hairs turning in?
I have a fear of waiting too long and losing that heady high and a lot of thc, Chocolope is highly Sativa and I fear waiting to long to harvest and it being more cbd
The white hairs will turn in toward the Bud and turn brownish
At that point the Trichomes is how you know your ready to harvest. All cloudy Trichomes and the window of chop has opened. I chop when I have 10-15% amber color. I love sativa strains. I’m color blind myself but a $25-$30 microscope used to look at the Trichomes on the bud (not the sugar leaves) and you will see the difference.
Thanks for the info!! Much appreciated!!
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I just saw this and wanted to let you know that the turning to amber is not something that happens so fast that you will ruin a harvest. It is a very slow process. So slow it can be agonizing to wait for. I do see on occasion a post saying it happens fast and to watch the trichs every day. I have never found that to be true. Perhaps if the plant is outside and something weather wise or insect damage causes them to go amber faster, but indoors I just dont see rapid changes in trichomes myself. I have had plants that just wont form amber and I see some others post comments about that too.
So my point is you should not worry about the plant going south on you. Check every few days and see what develops. Upper buds will get there before lower ones. You can cut the buds that are ready and leave the lower ones another week or whatever and take them later. Even leaving some much longer to see what the effects are from a greater amount of amber if you like.
Just a few thoughts from what I have learned over the years.
Thank you so much for the valuable feedback ! Much appreciated!
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Great looking plant.
As previously mentioned photo can range from 6-10 weeks, on the longer end of that for Sativa. I have seen 14 week flowering plants.
This can make it a short window to catch that heady high.
Keep a 60-100X lighted microscope for viewing trichomes and aim for under 10% amber.
Patience is part of this game.
Further: depending on what you are feeding and what is already in the soil, there are flower boosters that will help speed up the flowering process if necessary.
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Yeah they’re looking good , colas are filling in. Looking back at the first picture plant don’t have that barber pole strip know.
Happy growing
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My chocolope took 12 weeks to flower but it was some of the most potent buds I’ve personally grown and the stankiest by far.
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What say the OG growers now? I’m getting so antsy to chop!! I have a good lighted scope and they all look cloudy to me still not seeing that amber look. But growing up on a farm I’m seeing all that yellowing that you see when plants are ripe, grew up growing garden and tobacco.
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Youre getting there. Id check in another week or so. Might i suggest picking up a wireless microscope on amazon on the cheap? It will allow you to fine tune your harvest.
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In your picture I’m seeing mostly cloudy? Correct? No amber?
I have a good microscope but it doesn’t support pictures
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Just a note that these are sugar leaves and you want to be watching the flower buds.
Look for the browned pistils and follow them back to the flower. Look at that to see what the trichomes look like. Sugar leaves turn cloudy and amber long before the flowers and will trick you into harvesting early.
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