Early harvest???

6 is way too early IMO. No way it's ready. I've only had one strain ready at 8 weeks on the dot. Just because you see amber on the upper most colas doesn't mean that the whole plant is done. You're most likely missing out on significant weight. My usual ripening time in flower is 8-11 weeks. Some go up to 14. AK47 is not known for being a super short maturing strain either.

Forget the glands. What is the percentage of active white pistils on your main tops compared to orange and retracted?

 

Also, where are you seeing the Amber? In the bud or on sugar leaves?

 

Just harvested a Tangerine haze and there were plenty of Ambers on the sugar leaves bud in the bud clear/cloudy so I knew it wasn't ready and let it go till they stopped swelling and no real new pistils were growing and most were receded. Trichs are only a part of determining readiness.

 

Check a bud mid way. I don't even pay attention to glands anymore. Anywhere you have fresh white hairs you have new growth that will continue to swell if you let it. I don't usually harvest a plant until new pistil activity is almost down to stopped on the upper most tops. You will still have new pistils mid way at that point. That's a good time to harvest. More of an old school indicator but just using glands is prone to error IMO. You have to judge the plant as a whole.

 

Only harvest early if you NEED to. Like cops or anti-weed relatives are coming type shit. The buds up top are going to mature before the rest will, which makes sense, because thats the "main" cola. Its closer to the light and where most of the plants focus is

 

Don't be surprised if you go longer than the 8. My 2 strains were 7-9 week and 8-9 week. They went 11.5 wks. But wait =weight
Nice looking ladies btw.

 

Wait=weight. My god i love that lololol

 

Mass here to bro. Go Pats

 

I always allow my plants extra weeks until there's simply no freaking way they're getting any better - and I've never regretted letting them go the extra time.

J

 

You really can tell when they stop growing. One of the main indicators for me is the feed rate. It definitely slows towards the end. It reaches a peak like a week or more before it's a good time to harvest.

I think many people think they are going to somehow miss out on a plant's peak time if they let it go a few extra weeks. This is just not the case. 95% of the time if you let it go you'll end up with a better product in the end.

Earlier harvested bud definitely doesn't have as good of a flavor IMO as stuff that is allowed to fully ripen. It's just like a peach.