6) Green House / Super Lemon Haze Auto

I had been planning to ignore the foxtailing buds. The fact that the pistils on those were white was something I was willing to overlook - focusing only on the trichomes. But on Day 113, I noticed for the first time that those foxtail white pistils were turning beautifully red now. Well, the "artist" in me wanted to see this process play out to its conclusion. This gave pause to the notion that harvest was as imminent as I thought. I was thinking more and more around this time that the decision to harvest should almost be a last minute decision if you do it right. If you're planning with a hard date to harvest weeks before you do, you are prolly harvesting early. Nothing wrong with having a preliminary target date so that you can plan your grow parameters properly, but you should also be ready to change that preliminary date. That's all I mean. And you should keep postponing harvest until that moment you look into your loupe and it already looks somewhat a tiny tad late. By doing it this way, you almost guarantee harvesting at the perfect time. And I subscribe to the theory put out by Perfect Gardens that grassy smelling buds after cure is the result of harvesting buds too early, thus leading to less dense buds that have a bud to chlorophyll ratio that is too low. So maximizing grow time (and bud size) is more important, if this is true, than many might think.. So take ya time. ⏲️⌚⌛ Day 116 came around and I took a look under the hood (the trichomes). They were plastic and milky in many places. Glassy in fewer places. And amber in even fewer places. Left with the feeling that the end was very near for this plant. So I decided then and there that it was time to stop feeding her soon most likely. Day 119 to 121 most likely date. I ran out of "feed" on Day 117 and decided I wouldn't make another batch. Plain water around 6.0 ph from there on. On Day 118, I got the feeling described above. The trichs looked like they were a week away from handing me a simultaneously huge wave of amber - and it scared me. But I could not harvest on that day. Cuz it would potentially set up trim jail on a very bad day for my schedule the following week, so at least one more day it had to wait.