Well thanks for this, I’m on it right away!
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Haha your desk looks fine like mine
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Oh I got so mad at it last night I actually cleaned it up - in my way. Looks kinda like I got in there with a leaf blower.
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Had kinda overlooked this, these edibles will be the death of my last brain cell, I swear.
I tried like hell to get him to defoliate but he wouldn’t do it, beyond a little bit several weeks ago.
This leads me into another line of questioning but I’m going to make that a new post.
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Ok! Even a rank newbie like me can tell Lucy is rapidly getting herself toward harvest time. Her buds have changed color, 90% + of the pistils are orange or brown, she’s smelling the house down - I smelled her when I came in the front door today, and she’s upstairs in her own room with a gigantic filter.
So, when I look at a million other journals, it seems to be nearly universal that the leaves on the plants start to die (get used up) in the process of ripening. This has never happened to Lucy, the only leaves she had that yellowed where the first one fingered leaves she grew. I have trimmed a number of fan leaves over the course of her life, I believe the number is 8 or 10. (Don’t laugh! She’s little!)
So is this something I should expect as a further signal that she’s “ready”? Or is it some plants do and some don’t yellow out at the end?
My own personal guess here is that she will be done at the end of next week, week 10. Given as how she loves to do things instantly once she’s made up her mind, is it possible that waiting the extra 9 days will be too much?
SO many questions. Let’s see if I can load some of my microscope shots. I wish I could get really clear pictures but well… I’m a shaky old lady.
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Hopefully some of these are worth a damn.
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That first picture is an outlier. I see no amber anywhere else on any of the buds I’ve examined.
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Correction: Near universal among autoflowers. Can’t speak to photos.
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pics look good to me, what are you using to magnify?
I have a little digital microscope. My problem is not getting a clear image, it’s more getting a clear picture. Hard to keep still enough.
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Make sure to really look on the buds themselves, not the sugar leaves. The first pic looks like a sugar leaf (so many amber on that one), as do a couple others.
Despite using amendments, my current autoflower has done a lot of yellowing within the past 7-10 days, albeit the last plants I had to yellow, it happened much sooner without using amendments. Good questions you ask about all of that.
I really have fed her very lightly throughout. She had more Recharge and Sugar Daddy than anything, couple of doses of Awesome Blossoms and MagiCal.
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Many people use a microphone boom stand with their scopes so it’s steady. But I think your pictures look great. That’d be getting really close for me
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She is looking gorgeous! Short and thick, just like my wife! Rick Flair Woooooooooooooooo
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Thanks! Her buds are showing better now…
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1/6/22 Day 59 - She had an odd night in which she used no water. I’m paying attention to signals like this, I think she’s really concentrating on “finishing” now. Main cola measured at 10 inches tall, and 3 - 4 wide throughout and she’s super solid. Lots of glamor shots this morning.
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Yummy! 
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She’s looking like next week, isn’t she?
Make sure you are putting the loope/scope on the bud as much as possible. Next week, or soon, you could snip off some bud to sample. Some folks do the microwave quick dry on a sampler bud. A couple of plants ago, I snipped off a larf and dried it for a couple days, then smoked it to see when I wanted to harvest, as I was OK with an earlier harvest on that plant. So maybe consider something like that. I don’t recall you saying how mature (amber) you want your bud, but as you know, it also depends much on that.
She’s really coming around quickly, though! 
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