Is this Plant Ready to Harvest ?

it looks pretty far along but it really depends on what strain it is. To me it looks like the hairs are still pretty white and the bud could probibly swell up more. I'd say a week at least

 

Do this

iPhone with a zoom phone app with a 40x loop.

You want to see a mix of white and amber trichomes like this.



Good luck and happy growing!

 

I say you should give it at least another week. The leaves are suppose to yellow off and die, that's how you know it's about ready. Think of the effect Autumn has on trees. Make sure you stop feeding her nutes and give her a nice flush. You should be set real soon.

 

i still see white hair! not done yet

 

Always loved the "trichome theory" only cause solid trichs start at around 4 weeks. Go by pistils, thats the true telling sign of a done plant. You have about 3 weeks left on her.

 

Glad to hear im not the only person who uses water only. I never understood the concept of putting something you would never drink in your plants soil.

 

I'll bet your soil mix has a lot of things in it you wouldn't eat or drink. LOL

 

Water is so undervalued as a plant nutrient.

 

Water as a nutrient ? Everybody's water is different but even the richest well water doesn't offer much as a plant nutrient. It's your soil mix that has the nutrients. The nutrients that are water soluble of course dissolve ( a small amount) with each watering makeing them available to the plants roots.
If you can get by without useing any nutes for an entire grow (16 weeks or so) then you have a very good soil mix. But I think I know what you mean and you are right. A lot of people use a good soil mix and therefore don't really need to fertilize but they still do, never realizing that they don't need to. All they really need is water !
On the other hand ; if you never fertilize how do you know your weed could't be heavier and or better ?
I know I have a good soil mix that will get thru the whole grow but when I started fertilizing during the flowering period my yield increased by 25 -30%. I'm just saying, how do you know?

 

FERTILIZE  it's not random shit. Well some of it really is shit but its not random, although a lot of people use it randomly. A good fertilizer is well worth it, but be careful, it is easy to over fertilize. Never use more than the recomended amount and useing less than the recomended amount is recomended by most in the know. To make it real easy try a general purpose fertilizer.
How do you know you didnt see any differences ? You don't know what the plant would have looked like without it. LOL

 

I would say about 3 more weeks.

 

watch buds, if theyre still beefing up dont chop