Harvesting

Many strains have 2 and 3 rounds of swelling. This is where the pistols will turn red or orange and then swell, then new pistols emerge. Some say you can't follow pistols at all for harvest. Especially with more sativa leaning strains, as some don't ever full turn all pistols orange or red. The only way to truly know is to check your calyxces, the little round ball with a hair coming out of it where two branches separate. Once you identify one, look at the bottom of each bud. Each bud has one. it's what forms the buds to the stalk.. these are where you check your thricomes. Buy a 30x and 60x magnifier or jewlers loop. Ac infinity has one for . This will allow you to check your thrichomes. Most shoot for 20-30% amber "orange yellow colored".. Thrichomes start clear, then turn cloudy then turn amber. The peak THC is cloudy.. The more amber the more couchlock effect you will get as THC gets converted to CBN. If you want uplifting energetic high go all cloudy If you want medicated sedative couchlock go 30-50% amber If you want a balance of both go 10-20% amber. Also take into account most allow sativas to go longer and show more amber because they are already uplifting plants. It balances them out. Most cut indicas early and all cloudy as it's already heavy sedative feeling. Some don't care and go 10-20% amber so they have a balance regardless of sativa or indica. You can cut some early while only cloudy and try it and cut some later so you can see which you prefer. But multiple stages of pistols is OK Please consider me as the answer so I can be entered for a chance to win grower of the month contest 🙏 please and thank you 😊

Lmao foxtailing outdoor..

Looks very early to me 3+ weeks wait for hair to turn 60-80% red then you need to check the trichomes

she just started to flower, she will need at least 4 more weeks, for next year go with fast flowering/ early flowering genetics like dutch passion frisian dew, Shaman royal queen seeds Speedy chile, and my fvourite the honey cream from RQS you can look into my outdoor diaires

that's nowhere near harvest.. Even if that is new pistil growth, i don't think the old growth is ripe either.

Foxtailing outdoors ??? ;)))) To me they are not ready too. Few weeks at least. After cold nights some my late girls showed fresh new pistils on week 4-6 of flower, from cold nights they were all brown and shrinking, good weather was giving them chance and they were responding in same manner.

It is starting to fox tail. Proceed to harvesting as scheduled.

Those don’t look ready. Looks like they need a few weeks still to bulk up