When to Harvest

6 to 10 weeks yet.

 

Best method to check for harvest readiness is looking at the trichomes with a usb cam, pocket scope or like product. Snip a little piece of bud (not leaf) and get it under to see those trichomes up close. Depending on high desired, you will harvest when trichomes are all cloudy, cloudy with some amber, or heavy amber.

 

The buds need to be finished for trich checking......

 

Get a jewelry scope to check pistols aka white hairs.....those got plenty of time....just keep updating every couple weeks wit pics ull have help u want to harvest at peak thc when trichomes are cloudy or all amder if u like couch lock effect.....not pistols i meant trichomes lol

 

Not much frankly and quite a few won't amber.
Shiny and sparkly is not ready yet once flowers are done.

 

Just a wild guess on my part but a long way till done.
You'll get there and once you do it fuckin ruins you for buying weed.

 

Research bro if ur new or newish
Grow weed easy.com

 

I got some about the same time frame as yours (little over a month into flower)

Even though it may start looking frosty, the trichs are probably mostly clear still like mine

If you harvest at this point, you'll get shit yield and very little potency if any

Wait until the buds are bigger and look for nice full oozing trichs, I'm also of the mind that as long as it doesn't get over like 50% amber, I don't notice much diff in the high.

This is a leaf shot, but it provides an ok example of the nice white cloudy full trichs (above the orange hair) as opposed to clearer, empty ones below the hair.


Here is a shot of some recent harvests, some I waited too long and they ambered almost all the way, the other bud is almost full white no amber, I've always felt as long as your buds were somewhere in between either of these, you will be fine.

 

Trichome farmers unite and get right.

 

Right now the 3 I have closest to yours are are 5 gal pots (moving to 7 gal next grow, feel like I can get them bigger)

Pot is a mix of 1/3 FF ocean forest, 1/3 FF happy frog (mostly left over from the 1 gal pots they start off in) and 1/3 OLY mtn fish compost mix from build a soil.com

I feed either FF or advanced nutrients, depending on what I can get cheaper at the time, right now its tiger bloom and big bloom. I give the plants the recommended amount of food, but do not use the FF feeding schedule,

I feed the plants when they start looking like they need food, just like I don't water so much on a schedule, but when the plant leaves feel papery and dry, the pot feels too light, or the leaves start drooping.

Here's where they are at now, germinated over Easter weekend and vegged for about 8 weeks (when I'm not in a rush, I like to veg them a few weeks longer like 9-10 weeks, seems like I get more explosive growth in stretch and easier to weave or LST branches)
Forgot to turn off one of the blurple lights in this shot, but they are all more or less uniform green like the back buds

 

I think you might be overthinking it a bit, basically as long as your water is a relatively neutral to very slightly alkaline before you mix anything into it you should be fine, depending on what you mix with the water, nutes can throw the PH all over the place (just ask a hydro grower). Oh also I feed some cal-mag, but once again only if the plants look distressed. As for PPM, I'd go by what the manufacturer suggests, as that's tailored to the specific nutes rather than the more general guides on concentrations.

The plant will actually suck up nutrients more efficiently depending on the soil PH, for cannabis, most of the stuff it wants tends to absorb better at a more or less neutral PH. If your plant starts looking mag deficient, it might be because the PH is getting too high. I've made the noob mistake of adding cal-mag instead of addressing the PH issue and eventually started burning the leaf tips.


Some things like actual nutrients you should definitely use a spoon / dropper or however best to fairly accurately measure, whereas more general "treats" for the plant like worm castings or teas or top dressings (depending on how hot you make them) you can kind of just eyeball how much to throw on it at our skill levels.

I'm not a pro by any stretch and hesitate to make definitive statements, but I think pretty much everyone in here would agree me on on this at least for folks like us that are still learning.

If the plants seem fine, just let it ride, until you are really confident in your growing skills, its often better to be reactive for some issues rather than proactive, (IE trying to make sure your plants have enough nitrogen usually ends up in me giving it too much, I've been better served to wait until I see the leaves start to change hue then add the nutes, plant is good to go like 24-36hrs later (seems to take about 2 full "sleep" cycles for the plants to show the full effects for me)

Looking back this thread is almost the sum total of my growing knowledge, don't know if I should feel smart, or stupid lol.

 

Gaia Greens good ! Its a powder u water in.

 

Jacks pro 20-20-20 at 1\2 tsp. per gallon tap water comes out to 3-3-3.
A bale of sunshine mix4 and that's all you need to grow perfect plants.
Use every watering no ph,meters,adjusting,adding or worrying.

 

Experiment with your plants