Hi all, so I have a Northern Big Bud autoflower that is in it’s late 16 week(pics included). The flowers on top all the pistils are shrunk back into the flower and the trichromes are 95%-5% cloudy to clear. I’ve only spotted a few (singular) amber on the whole plant. I’ve been doing a deep dive on why some tric’s take a long time to show full maturity and why judging on trichromes solely for when to harvest is not recommended. I’m trying to take in as much as I can before making a decision, I have harvested to early before and am wary of making that mid again.
First I should say that my grow tent is in my garage and the seed popped the day after Christmas. The max temperature through the majority of the grow was about 55-60 f for daytime temperatures and 40-45 f nighttime. She grew sluggish but she did grow.
So my question is this, is it stupid to keep waiting seeing as the plant is so old. She is showing all the signs of senescence yellowing crinkled leaves, not taking much of any water so on and so on. I’ve read that some plants will never produce amber ones and waiting past harvest will just completely degrade your final product. I want the couch lock not the energetic high. I had originally bought planned to harvest a week from this Sunday no matter what. Should I go ahead and chop? Or wait the extra week like I had planned. Also could the cold weather be the reason I haven’t seen the amber yet? I know the cold can cause problems with stunted and slow growth. I actually think for the temps she grew well, just took longer.
Any advice would be appreciated and the sooner the better. Thank you, Peace and happy growing.
I grew some plants indoors fall of '21, in my garage. Flipped the lights Oct 1, hoping for an early December chop. It was cold, and they took a long time to mature. Instead of smoking it at Christmas, I chopped Christmas day.
Since then, I put styrofoam under my tent to keep the temps up a bit. Not the air temp, but the temp of the pot and soil. Did the same strain this fall (from clones of clones), and from light flip to harvest was 2 weeks less…flipped January 9th, harvested March 10. Temps were still cold, but the root temps were higher throughout the grow, especially as they neared harvest.
If you can put the pots on some styrofoam so the concrete doesn’t suck the heat out of the root area, that might help. And hopefully by next Sunday you get some amber! Good luck!
Yeah ended up putting some towels under the pots late January to keep the roots from getting to cold at night and eventually used a seedling heat mat when temps would dip hard at night. The styrofoam is a good idea I’ll try that next winter. I’m just worried and I’m leaning towards a harvest this Sunday instead.
Thanks man, it’s my third grow and I still haven’t had any flower that is as amber as I want it. I took a sample earlier this week and smoked some tonight and I’m am happy with it so I put it in the dark a couple of hours ago. I figured better safe than sorry, I’m learning that my gut is my best gardening tool.
Peace thanks again.
