Harvest in sections or off the entire crop mature until lathe late bloomer is ready?

I would just harvest all at once in my opinion if you want to wait until the tops are over ripe maybe 30-35% amber that’s fine the tops are going to ripen faster than the lower parts but remember THC is degrading fast and if you’re waiting until 50-70% to harvest that’s too long imo you’re gonna be knocked out on the couch!! And it will be less potent effects!! I say don’t do staggered and go ahead and full chop when trichomes are about 30% amber if you’re looking for couch lock but I wouldn’t wait much longer than that Happy growing my friend

I'm not a huge fan of stagered harvest unless the plant is massive, and by massive I mean like 6feet tall outdoors and wide as a redwood cedar. But if you want to do it. try it. My ideal for amber is 10-15% the lower the better IMO. The more amber it has the more sedative the weed will be. So if you want something for sleep then yea, wait till is 75% amber but its gonna knock you out. the THC starts to degrade into CBN and CBC. Just based off the pic this plant is ready for the chop now. If you do staggered harvest vs whole plant, just try and dry the harvested bits in a cool dark location. The main plant might stop growing from the shock and just ripen up fast. I often find its not worth the extra effort and time of one week this stuffs ready for the cure jars and the other is waiting more. Good Luck!

Personally I'm not a fan of staggered harvests. At least for an indoor grow. I'd much rather clean the slate and fire up the next run. Better return on your time and effort. When I'm looking at trichomes I'm usually more focused on an absence(or near absence) of clears moreso than a certain percentage of ambers. I've had strains that seem to never amber up. I wouldn't push them too far. The trichomes don't stay frozen in time after chop, they continue to ripen/degrade during the cure and storage. As others have mentioned, at a point it will get you less high and just more sleepy.

The bud in this picture is well and truly ripe and ready for harvest. 10-15% amber is my personal preference, but some genetics will be 70-80% amber from about the 4th week of flowering and have honey coloured buds at maturity......it's all about the genetics of each individual plant. I have played around with partial harvests over the last 40 years and do not ever do it any more. After chopping the most ripe buds off and leaving the bottom bits to "after ripen" does not work in my experience. Chopping large parts of the plant off causes a huge metabolic shock..........the plant then goes into some sort of coma and the left over buds never get the quality of the first picked buds, no matter how long you wait for them to "after ripen". It seems once you chop large pieces off, the plant is unable to function properly (makes sense to me) and the left over buds just sort of stew rather than achieve greatness. Even when left to "after ripen" the buds from the second pick never seems as good as those slightly under done buds from the first harvest. These days I always harvest the entire plant in one operation and accept it for what it is rather than hoping for a maybe/could be.

oh, i like 10-20% amber at the most. I don't want sleepy time buds.

Well, if you take off half the canopy, i bet those RH spikes go away or at least attenuated. the plant is what is creating the moisture, so if you remove half the foliage, it won't put out as much moisture. Staggering is an option. Just don't expect it to impact yield or anything, and you can make an informed choice about it. Is it worth you extra effort? is the extra electricity worth it? these are mostly personal choices because the outcome is only slightly different. "amber" is overripe. Even the milky/cloudy is the first sign of degredation. Having "some" amber is just about the overall average. If you want to do a staggered harvest, i woudln't wait for too much amber ontop colas.. take when they are all milky and a few amber. I also like the glassy vs plastic trigger.. when trichomes are glassy, it's too early.

Ich ernte bei 80% / 85% milchig und der Rest amber / durchsichtig. Und meistens alles auf einmal, ausser es sind wirklich viele wo noch nicht reif sind im unteren Bereich, dann kann es schon mal sein das ich in 2 Schritten ernte. Deine Buds sehen gut aus viel Erfolg