Well my fellow Greens Men , I think I have successfully made to the last few of my first Autoflower . How you think she looks ?? 8 weeks and 3 days old today , so I’m gonna need some tips on when’s the best time and how to tell if she is ready . Anything and everything helps thanks 
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She has a long way to go, all those white pistols means she is still building, keep up the great work my friend 
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Round about what kinda time period is your ( long way to go ) just curious , and all around what about the yellowing of the leaves is that just her getting older and then dying off ?
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It is consuming the nutes from the leafs, as they draw nitrogen from plant, no problem, you could lose all the leafs and you will be fine. It doesn’t mean much to say how old she is what really matters is how long has she been in flower? Indica run 7 to 10 weeks, Sativas could run 8 to 12 weeks of flower. I would guess you are about 5 weeks of flower, thats a guess. But when all those white pistols turned orange, she is close. Then check tricomes, thats a nice auto man practice patients 
oh I saw she is GG a 50/50 and she could follow indica or Sativa lol
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She looks nice & full!
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You have at least a couple weeks
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My GG4 autos came down on day 104. Every grow is different, but all my autos have taken over 100 days. It’s definitely worth giving them the time they need for buds to get fatter and mature. For hybrid strains you can usually figure on 10 +/- weeks of flowering.
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I suggest a good feeding. There should be several more feedings and waterings to go. Wild guess is 4 or more weeks at least.
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Thanks everyone again !!! If I didn’t have this forum and you guys in here , I would been cutting her in another week . With everything being said I’m gonna just gonna watch the pistols and tricomes for color change .
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Definitely more time needed. I like the suggestion to feed a couple more times. Check her trichomes to determine when shes ready to harvest…cloudy with amber to your liking. Pistils are a poor judge of flower ripeness in my experience…you gotta check the trichomes. GG4 from ILGM almost always goes to 70 days in my garden, but every environment (grow space) is different.
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Thanks bud for the info , definitely gonna feed her a few more times the hit it with a flush . I been looking up pics of ripe tricomes and how to tell . Thanks for your thought and keep your fingers crossed she makes it to my bowl lol
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You can only judge off of trichomes really. Check the trichomes and she’ll tell you when she’s ready. This is a great article and here’s a screenshot of a chart that I used a few times before I knew what I was looking for. Very helpful article, can’t suggest it enough.
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I’m guessing this is from seed to soil and not of flower. Which puts you around 4-5 weeks of flower (at the most). I’d aim for around 10 weeks like everyone above me said, giving you around 5 more weeks (plenty of time to sneak a couple more weeks of feeds in there)
Was the pics above taken just after watering?
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Thanks for the article bud , from everyone thoughts on her it seems as tricome color tells the tell of when to cut . Some I’m gonna keep feeding her for a bit and watch those and see where I get . Thanks again
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Yea you are correct with 8 weeks being from she come out of the ground . And yes I had just watered , what made you ask if I had watered?
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@PurpNGold74 has seen lots of plants in every condition. Your plant has a slight “droop” that is explained by recent watering. It can also signal the opposite as well as some other conditions. 
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That is an example of the great support in the forum. So many different eyes can catch every detail. Not much escapes this group.
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That’s why I had asked why for that question , because my head went to what’s wrong with my plants bla bla bla and so on lol I want all the feed back I can get . Good Bad ext .
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I’m the Plant Whisperer! Hahaha. Kidding but kinda serious. Leaves ‘talk’ to us in their appearance. This is a bit long winded but that’s the only way I know
So first look, the yellowing of the leaves. Typically that’s ‘feed me nitrogen’ but yours looks a tad different…
Next thing you notice is the burnt tips. That’s 90% of the time ‘too much nitrogen!!’ But there’s a fine line between giving them everything they can handle and overdoing it. I was going to ask if that was a recent thing or older damage.
The watering I deduced from the leaves slight wilt. Nothing to be alarmed of. Kind of says ‘my shoes are wet’. Now If they look like their shoes are damp more often then they aren’t? That explains yellowing as well, slightly overwatering.
Edit: Sorry I’m at the work site and thought I pressed send. Thanks for the assist @HMGRWN many hands make light work eh?
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I know just how you feel. It is not always a bad thing to be “helicopter parent” especially with autos. They can decline fast if not treated for problems quickly. Just have to be careful not to love them to death. 
I have over-watered, over fed, burned up and allowed them to get rot and bugs because of too much input from me. After all, it’s a weed that has been growing without any help for thousands of years
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