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PotCasso
PotCassostarted grow question 5 years ago
When to harvest? The pistil hairs are now starting to turn red(more so on 1) and I’ve begun looking at trichomes. More are cloudy than clear no real appearance of amber or red/brown in color. I have arbitrarily chosen day 80 as harvest because it falls on a weekend/no moon.
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CRiSPrGrow
CRiSPrGrowanswered grow question 5 years ago
Hey casso, so basically the plant is ready when (at minimum!) 100% of the trichomes are cloudy , clear trichomes means they are "empty" so no interesting molecules inside them. Amber means they are oxydised that means they are degraded (still interesting properties though!) . It's really not a good idea to look at the pistils for this , anyway all the pistils turn brown when you chop. Same for choosing day 80 : this is totally arbitrary it's best to go with the right data for this and of course the moon's effect (which I do believe is significant) is less important to your plants since they are indoors. You really need to look at the trichomes nothing else. I grew this strain before and what I can tell you is that it's a slow maturing plant, mine took 15 weeks if I remember correctly and they were 100% cloudy no Ambers. You can start the flush now anyway : in soil with autos the best thing is a 3 week plain water "flush" with no run off anyway. Apart from that these really don't look close to ready, six shooter gets fat right at the end, the difference in yield if you wait the correct amount of time will be pretty huge, but it's up to you to be patient growmie ! Hope this helps ! 🚀
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ivik80
ivik80answered grow question 5 years ago
I would check trichs now and then, when more or less all are cloudy you can harvest. Or if you like really "strong" weed for sleeping then wait a bit more until 20-30% is amber.
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DILLIGAF
DILLIGAFanswered grow question 5 years ago
@Casso Hi mate they may be ready by day 80 but more likely closer to 84 I would continue feeding them up until the 80 day mark then flush for the next 3 and the last day keep them in the dark and harvest after that But if you think they are ready to flush before day 80 by all means just alter the routine to suit Hope this helps
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