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WEEK 13 (DAY 85) Hey guys its Farmer Johnston this is my 5th indoor Organic compost grow. After having 5 successful grows under my belt thought id share some of my organic sustainable methods! if you want to see a video of all these 40 Autoflower plants (at day 90), 1-2 weeks from harvest , growing for max yield, up to 3 plants per 45 pot of compost! Amnesia haze, white widow, Northern lights. I posted a video on my new Youtube account - Aussie Farmer Johnston - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN7FUneCjFU, Also I show my stealth grow room setup, my equipment and drying area, hope you enjoy and get something useful from it, if so give it a like and subscribe for more to come! :)
would you harvest day (85 pics), day 98 today, if most plants are showing nearly all the signs they are finished, yellowing of fan leaves, pistils mostly brown, sugar leaves on top crisping, purpling of some small leaves, taking in less water but no trich are amber? wait 1 week?
Easy Mate :) How are things over the old pond in Australia I'd love to visit one day. No amber trikes I would be very very suprised if you had 0 ambers at this stage evaluate the whole plant im sure you will find some i tend not to look really into to trike maturity that much when cropping I look at all the other aspects of the trikes like how big they are how many there are what shape are they ect then I pull the flower towards me and take a big whiff does it smell like pukka bud ready for harvest ? last and most crucial is what i go buy when it comes to harvesting and that is are all the pistils dried up and rertracting into the bud if all of them boxes are ticked and all I can see is cloudy it wont matter too me you can mature trike dramatically with just a 48 hour dark perioed at the end of your grow so I would advise just doing that if your concerned then your guarenteed to find some ambers. though your crop your choice my friend just dont be putting this on the barby :P sorry couldnt resist 👊
G'day, a few things. Not all plants will develop amber trichomes, so waiting for plants that never get them can lead to harvesting over ripe plants with degraded THC and harvesting plants that are close to death. Secondly, by giving them weeks/months at 24/0, this may have caused problems, as plants need a dark period every 24 hours to complete their photosynthesis and this is why 18/6 is optimum. By not getting a dark period to be able to complete their photosynthetic cycle, this leads to plants with an incomplete metabolism, which may then lead to incomplete cannabinoid sythesis, possibly accounting for the lack of amber trichomes (maybe).
At this stage, if you have 95-98% brown pistils, you are well and truly in the zone for harvesting, much longer and/or waiting until all the pistils are brown and withered, actually leads to trichomes with reduced THC and elevated CBD and CBN levels, giving you flowers that produce a more sleepy/heavy body type of stone, rather than a mind bending head high of earlier picked flowers (90-95% brown pistils) with their peak THC content.
All of the signs you described in your question are signs of a plant that is close to death and probably past its prime, so I would suggest harvesting sooner rather than waiting another week, otherwise you could end up with buds that put you to sleep, but don't get you that bent.
I would also strongly advise you to go to 18/6 on your next crop, plants do need sleep and the myth that it is OK to grow auoflowers for their entire life with an incomplete photosynthetic cycle (24/0) and then still being able to produce top quality buds needs to removed from the world of cannabis cultivation. 24/0 could only be recommended by people who don't understand how plants function and/or don't understand photosynthesis. Besides, cannabis can only grow so much during any one 24 hour period and this growth tops out at around the 18 hour mark, meaning running your lights any longer than 18 hours is basically a waste of electricity.
So, I would suggest harvesting now, or very soon, and believe in your gut feeling that your plants are ready for harvesting.
Hope this helps, Organoman.
DAY 97! Pre Harvest day, photos taken just before there first lights out, 48 hours of darkness to come, first darkness in 97 days! overall I think its a great success, most are seeds, from my Amnesia haze plant that in my last grow Hermied and self seeded some of my plants produced seed aswell as decent buds, BONUS! if you ask me! the same seeds produced lots of different mutations this run which was cool to see, even when all grown in similar conditions! there are a few buds that are not as ripe and alot of the lower buds also are underripe due to the crowding and spacing of so many plants in a small area. though the goal was to produce as much yield as possible in this area, under these lights. i think i did fairly well considering, i may only try 30 or so plants in this area next grow instead of the 40 here. the plants life seem to be coming to the end of there life regardless of flower ripeness i think its better off chopping the whole plants then chopping only the top buds with so many. A few plants are a little overripe aka some top buds aswell. mostly the plants are all dying off at similar rates considering most the seeds are from the same mother plant. since there is a vast amount of plants (40) in a 1.6m by 3m space) i will slowly start trimming and hanging them after maybe 24 hours darkness, so hopefully by the time its around 72 hours in darkness they will all be trimmed and hanged.
The theory of this comes from harvesting your plants before sun rise. Because trichomes plump up in the dark to get ready to protect themselves from uv rays. Also why plants need 4 hours of darkness when growing
Some people say it is. The real issue is that there is now way to quantify it. People say it makes more trichomes. If it does it would have no time to make them milk or amber. I harvest after my 12 hrs of dark. If i have autos i give them 12-18 hrs of a dark period.
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