First harvest for first time grower.

Hi there, First i hope you mean the "pistils", because if you grow pistols out of your plant, that'd be a bit strange. In regards to the harvest: The main question you should ask yourself is "what kind of high" do you like? Should it be more of an "active" head high for during the day, or more of a "body high" which pushes you into the couch and makes you sleep well? Once you know that, you should look at the strain you're growing.. If the plant you grow is a pure "indica" hybrid, the standard high will lock you more into the couch by default, while a pure sativa would give you more of a head-high (the basic sativa-indica difference), but then of course there are still a lot of hybrids in between. This is just a general rule, but it also depends on time of harvest. When it comes to trichomes you most likely know they go from clear to milky and then to amber. If this one is an indica-heavy plant (so more of a couch-lock), if you want a head-high, you'd be best off harvesting when around half are still clear, and half are milky.. If you want a body high, then most should be milky and some amber. If 20 or 30% or more of them are amber, it'll just be definitely in the body-high area, pushing you into the couch (and as always, don't wait too long or they'll fall off the plant). In comparison if this were a sativa, then even even when the trichomes are full milky it should still give you more of a head-high, and to get more of a body-high effect you'd need to wait until there are a lot of amber trichomes. The hybrids are obviously somewhere in between. So it's basically up to you, what you prefer and the type of strain you grow. happy harvest in either way ;)

30% amber-trichomes for harvest date. First step though, is to reach end of bud production stage! There's still a ton of white hairs, it looks like she's still growing your yield up fast. Give her 1 to 2 more weeks of growth. You can keep checking for cloudy vs amber trichomes, and flush for the final week. Multiple harvest can work, but I find that I've had enough of trimming/harvesting after the one session, so I rather just finish the job.

wait until you see about 20-30% amber trichomes then cut that girl down!!!