I believe at harvest time, exploring staggered cut, some flowers look like all white pistils have disappeared as others still have some. Any ideas appreciated…
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Trichome maturity is the key. Do you have a jeweler’s loupe or a portable microscope? Take a look at them and harvest to your taste. Make sure that you are looking at trichs on flower rather than sugar leaves.
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That all look like they could go a while longer to me.
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like @MidwestGuy stated, Trichomes is what will tell you when to harvest. That chart works perfect, just invest in a the jewlers loupe or USB microscope, i prefer the microscope lol.
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Also make sure you check trichs on the older more mature buds. The new white pistil growths are called foxtails. That grow may not catch up with the rest.
Check trichs on the actual bud with older amber pistils
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lookin great
like they said above dont worry with pistils its the trichomes that need to be cloudy. there are several (microscope) apps on ur phone that will let look at them now but for future grows invest in a loop. keep growing
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@Easy is that Tombstone,AZ in your profile pic?
i cant tell with that pic, maybe other can
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I’ll try and take a better one I’m taking them with phone so quite hard to get a good one.
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yeah took a month long road trip to cali this past year and stopped everywhere i always wanted to see. tombstone and ok coral was towards top of list
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Still cant really tell. Really hard with the naked eye to judge trichs. Thats why everyone preaches get a jewelers loupe. Gives the perfect zoom
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This is an example of a readable trichome picture. You can this quality or close to it with a cheap amazon usb microscope. They run around 20 to 50 bucks and connect to your phone via wifi so your phone screen is your visual. An eyeloop/jewelers loop is the next best thing but will still run you about the same in price
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@Richardbennett85 i would estimate around 2 weeks or so before harvest just based off of pistil growth. Youre are certainly in the window for harvest right now, but i feel it would be a premature harvest and youre high would not be as enjoyable because the amber/cloudy/clear ratio will lean more towards clear/cloudy which tends to give more of an anxiety paranoia speedy high with less body load and balance. I personally grow a lot of Sativa dominant strains that are long flowering and will wait until im around 10%amber before harvesting. I feel this gives an excellent balance of cerebral and body without locking me down all day. This is strain dependant of course and a Sativa vs an Indica dom will have different harvest windows. With indicas leaning more towards a cloudy harvest with minimal to no amber because of the sedative effects of CBN which is what THC degrades to when over rippened aka (couchlock).
When in doubt give it another week. Or in this case about 2
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i would have to agree with ebb little too soon. wait atleast a week or two.
hard to see in the pics u got though.
use ur best judgement. cloudy and amber not clear and cloudy
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awesome, i used to live in AZ, been there a few times and went to Bisbee also, cool little town.
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yeah i had a blast
i wss expecting more but it was cool
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Send a few buds my way, I will cure, taste and test them for you, gladly.
YES, stagger you cutting operation, or you may be overwhelmed with work required quickly.
I always try to take some just to shape, but your past that.
Take some now, before NATURE
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Thanks to everybody for advice greatly appreciated.
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