2fast2vast still not ready, and worried about it

Some plants will never have amber trichomes and using trichome colour alone as an indicator for harvest is, in my opinion, not the best idea. I have grown plants with 50% amber trichomes at week 4 and definitely nowhere near ready for harvest. Judging maturity according to pistil condition is far a more reliable method for harvesting decisions, as pistil colour will relate to plant health and plant health will dictate trichome quality. Try harvesting when your plants pistils have browned to about 98%, meaning just a very few white pistils remain and this will give you flowers with high THC and at prime quality. There is no need to put a plant in extended darkness, this is an urban myth perpetuated by people who don't understand how plants function. An extended darkness will stress your plant and the last thing you want after weeks of careful growing is to harvest a stressed plant! Extended darkness will just cause an extremely slowed metabolism, meaning that if the idea is "to use up nutrients", then the slowed metabolism is the worst way to achieve this! Try harvesting your plant after a normal day and night cycle and about 2 hours after the light comes on, on the chosen harvest day. No need to keep her in the dark or do ridiculously long flushes, 2-3 irrigations with plain water before harvest is all that is needed, especially if grown in soil as there are less chemical build up as compared to hydro. To me your plant looks ready for harvest, and as you say, close to death, meaning leaving her much longer will just lead to the THC breaking down and giving you inferior flowers that just make you sleepy and don't give you much of a high. Hope this helps,........... Organoman.

@Drmambo a dark period is when you put your plant or plant's into a dark period before harvest. Let's the plants use up the rest of the nutrients before harvest. 24 hr is the min 72 hrs is the max. This is my opinion. If you grow hydro or use non organic nutrients I would suggest 48 hrs or longer. Best of luck on your grows.

Why 16/6 light during flower? That seems aggressive, and shortening the day period helps in trichome maturation and terpene production and maturation I've read. Best of luck, and I'm pulling for ya!

Thanks guys she been at 20 to 25c and 40 humidity. Plenty of air circulation and light. What is dark period?

I see a couple amber. You will be fine. Looks like another 7 days then you can do a dark period. Enjoy the harvest.

Just be patient. If the plant starts to die, then you'll have a lot of ambers appearing all of a sudden. Environmental factors could extend the overall time by 3-8 weeks. Sativas often go for 15-16 weeks.

Some strains will turn cloudy and you could wait forever to amber, cuz they simply wont amber. See if you can find any info on that stains triclomes. Cheers