Hey there, I believe my first auto lady is nearing her harvest time. However most guides I saw online suggest using microscopes and the likes to check on the trichomes for a cloudy appearance to gauge when it's time. Thing is, I m poor af, my whole setup is astronomically low budget and despite this the girl did her best and seems to have a respectable, for a first timer, yield waiting for me and I don't want to overshoot my window and ruin it. Any way I can check the plant to know when it's ready to cut without having to buy gear? I checked online for relevant photos but they are a bit all over the place. For example should I wait for the fan leaves to wilt? I uploaded some low quality photos of a couple of buds as they are right now. Am I close? Thanks!
Just let her go until it's obvious she is dying. She will shed her fans and all the hairs will retract and spots in the buds will actually die and turn brown and her smell will have long faded by half. At that point she will be as strong as she is going to get and past that is all downhill. I routinely let my plants go extra long as I don't like the jitters I get otherwise. BNW
Thanks for your detailed answer! From what I read, if you let it go too long it's going to have a more narcotic effect, that is something I don't want which is why I m a bit nervous about this, plus got to know when it's best to flush so...
You’ve got agess also there referring to a loupe which you can pick up of eBay/amazon for under 10 not that expansive just get a 60x or higher if you can Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
<-- in 45 years of growing the herb I've never flushed it. Well Once when the cops were busting down the door but that is a whole different kind of flushing. I use one like this and they are only $12.00 so not a bank breaker. 60x is what you want and take several tiny snips from a range of the plant top to bottom where the light does NOT shine. Go inside to a table and chair and see what you have. I wait until I have big swatches of amber like graffiti on a wall. Waiting doesn't make it more narcotic IME just stronger. What wait does do is take the fingernails on chalkboard feelings down several notches. Harvest to early and it'll be a jittery, can't set still high that I really don't like. Lets some of the THC degrade to CBN and it also changes the ratio of THC to CBD and gives a much more mellow stone that is getting lost in the rush to get the plants harvested. Even with a very late harvest I get shit from the wife asking why I'm acting so wired. No dear it's just cannabis. BNW
or look at them backwards through binoculars You can cut a bud, let it dry and smoke it You can cut a bud and go straight into the oven at 170f for 30 min. I mix mine with dry tobacco to get it to smoke better. That's what I'm stoned on today. Mine still has a ways to go. No problem, I won't be doing anything anyway until someone unlocks this couch.
That's nice, I should get one of these sometime... Well as said it's my first plant so it's mostly knowledge gathering and experimentation, and if I get a usable yield at the end, all the better, it's little sister is already on it's way where I ll do things more seriously...
I have a cheap amazon scope for my phone that works pretty as it's supposed to but my problem is I don't know exactly how to work lol. Whether I figure it out or not I want a scope like yours Sent from my Coolpad 3310A using Grasscity Forum mobile app