5th week of flower

I take it you don't have a preferred method? I'll just spout out a few things here. Do you have a jeweler's loupe? You can use trichomes as one of your guides. Another thing I notice about most plants in the fan leaves surrounding the buds will look like harvest time. I've seen a lot of people asking what's wrong with their plant when it gets really close to harvest because their fan leaves start to orange and brown out. It's just a sign that the time is near. The plant will start focusing all of its energy on the buds. The plant is willing to die to make the buds and that's exactly what you'll see begin to occur.
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Those leaves still look pretty happy and healthy. I'd say you have a ways to go!

 

Some people keep up strong doses of nutes all throughout flower and keep perfectly green plants up to harvest. I'd say waiting until almost all the hairs are red would be a bit more accurate in my opinion that is if a loupe is not used.




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You didn't show a pic of the entire plants but most of the buds look small and very ripe for 5 weeks. What lights are you using?
These two plants are 5 weeks of flowering for a comparison.

 

They look a bit over fertilized...dark green leaves means nitrogen toxicity. A pic of the overall plant would be nice instead of just the bud tops. We run a 10 week flower cycle here but you can usually harvest most strains at around 8 weeks....assuming you have environment/lighting/etc. needed to do the job.

 

What lighting? My guess is CFL's.

 

You might want to consider a shitload more light for your next grow. As you can already see 48 watts of light will not yield you much at all.

 

You need to check the color of your trichs to determine that.