# New grower, is she ready?

**URL:** <https://ilgmforum.com/t/new-grower-is-she-ready/116350>\
**Category:** Grow Support\
**Tags:** trichomes, harvesting, photo, indoor-grow\
**Created:** [December 8, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/new-grower-is-she-ready/116350 "2024-12-08T02:46:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Akleiner90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Akleiner90](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Akleiner90)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 2:46am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/new-grower-is-she-ready/116350/1 "2024-12-08T02:46:27Z")

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Hello, new grower here. I’m on day 70 of flowering this Platinum Rambo strain. I can’t find much online about how long she should go before chopping. I’m using ocean forest soil. To clarify it’s day 70 from when I flipped the lights to 12/12. She definitely smells good and the buds don’t look like they’re getting any bigger. The trichomes are hard for me to decide. I’ll attach some pictures. Any help would be much appreciated. I was contemplating on chopping her down tomorrow

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**Author:** ![Fieldofdreams](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/fieldofdreams/32/688813_2.png) [@Fieldofdreams](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Fieldofdreams)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 2:56am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/new-grower-is-she-ready/116350/2 "2024-12-08T02:56:20Z")

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She’s in my ‘window’. At this point it becomes ‘growers preference’. I like my pistols to all be orange and I like them to shrivel back into the buds. Like a dark burnt orange if I can. Sometimes a plant will simply refuse to stop throwing out new white pistols though. In those cases I’d say to follow your breeders suggested flower time.

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**Author:** ![Akleiner90](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Akleiner90](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Akleiner90)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 2:57am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/new-grower-is-she-ready/116350/3 "2024-12-08T02:57:58Z")

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Thanks for the advice! Unfortunately I bought her as a small clone and they didn’t have any info on her besides the strain name lol. I just don’t want to chop her too early or too late. Thanks again

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**Author:** ![Fieldofdreams](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/fieldofdreams/32/688813_2.png) [@Fieldofdreams](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Fieldofdreams)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/new-grower-is-she-ready/116350/4 "2024-12-08T03:04:50Z")

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I don’t think based on her appearance that she’ll disappoint you. Nothing left but a nice quality dry and cure and you’ll be blazing away on cloud 9. 👍🏻

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**Author:** ![Lostgirl](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/growingmarijuana/user_avatar/ilgmforum.com/lostgirl/32/1000798_2.png) [@Lostgirl](https://ilgmforum.com/u/Lostgirl)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://ilgmforum.com/t/new-grower-is-she-ready/116350/5 "2024-12-08T17:05:27Z")

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Looks good to me. Before I jump to chop I would make the deciding factor the **trichome production**