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Why are my sunny NM outdoor Indica-dominant buds airy and light?
After studying the above chart on five or ten different blogs and photo essays, I feel I just harvested too early, by about two weeks. Fortunately I have three more plants to learn from. My second grow, but many years of professional gardening experience, including a large canna growm
I feel there is an entire category of instruction absent from the ‘when is it ready?’ question, branching off from the best indicator, the overall appearance of the plant.
I feel that there is a stage of development that is not being spoken of, as an elephant-sized bud in the room is anticipated but not sketched, from a perspective of bud density: nuggets versus popcorn. We see charts that show thc levels rise and fall as cbd levels rise, but if we added a third line, the line of bud density, then I propose that it would follow parallel to the cbd rising line long after the thc line falls. I feel that there is an aspect of the waiting period where a bud should be squeezed for sudden density and stickiness gains, that ine can and should expect and wait for a sudden increase, no matter what the terpene colors or stamen hairs resemble, perse.
I feel that the ratio if 1:10 amber trichromes is an accurate but bad indicator for a minimum cbd/maximum thc harvest time, because I feel that during the bud density-increase portion of the ripening process, that more milky dots will appear, whereby (and here is the kicker) a MORE constant ratio of 1:10 is UPHELD, only gradually changing to 3:10 (or whatever) as BOTH milky and caramel trichromes multiply. Therefore we should not jump, as I did, and harvest AS SOON as we see a little caramel here and there on the ovary-sac portions of the plant, (if and when we strive for low-CBD) but rather take patience, knowing that that ratio will only gradually increase as the bud IS ONLY BEGINNING TO DENSIFY and more white milky trichs will be appearing, maintaining a ratio MORE than they change a ratio, at least in the early/middle ‘window’ portion of harvest.
Hope this helps
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I don’t know what uploaded but the close-up was two days into drying/hànging .
Some evidence of darker trichs àloñgside too many clear trichs. Seems a couple more weeks was warranted, duly evidenced by what I left uncut on the plant that is finally turning more milky and with just as many if not fewer darker trichs in the new mix or flush or fattening or whatever this moving kaleidescope of a stage should be known for lol