First time grower - Do these look ready?

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niella

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Hi :leaf: First time grower, and I'm having trouble figuring out when to chop. Around 70-80 days flowering. I have a 30x loupe, and it seems the trichomes are at 70-80 percent cloudy. The pistils are about 80 percent orange.. I think the seed is a hybrid, leaning more towards sativa.
The reason I'm not sure is because I still have a lot of leaves (slowly dying off.. maybe a dead leaf or two a day) and the buds aren't super fat. But I guess that could be because I'm a new grower?

Thoughts, comments?

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urban1026835

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did you flower with a bic lighter????

sorry couldnt help myself just not a heavy yielder but those buds look close enough so now it's ersonal preference on how you like your smoke.
 
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niella

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urban1026835 said:
did you flower with a bic lighter????

sorry couldnt help myself just not a heavy yielder but those buds look close enough so now it's ersonal preference on how you like your smoke.
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Hehe flourescents :D. It was first grow and I wasn't too concerned about yeild, moreso it surviving. I saw amber trichomes today so I ended up harvesting, since I prefer the sativa high from cloudy trichomes. Thanks for insight
 
Garybhoy11

Garybhoy11

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if u got about an oz wet u will be lucky to end up with 5g dry u lose a ton of weight during the drying/curing process
 
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urban1026835

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i usually get back about 30% total weight once dried, sometimes less but honestly just a guesstimation. Usually i will take a nice size nugget and weigh it right away and then check that same nug 5 days later. Never actually weighed the whole harvest wet (why would you?)
 
bunnyface

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urban1026835 said:
i usually get back about 30% total weight once dried, sometimes less but honestly just a guesstimation. Usually i will take a nice size nugget and weigh it right away and then check that same nug 5 days later. Never actually weighed the whole harvest wet (why would you?)
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Just in answer to your question, why weight it when wet?
Wet weight can be use to estimate the final moisture content of the harvest. E.g., harvest wet weight was 100g, You normally lose around 75% of moisture/gases during drying, so you get 25grams dried. Now if you weight the wet harvest ever few days you could then say that when it gets to about 25g i can then jar it for curing. Or if you wanted to cure you buds with say 45% moisture content ( i saw this figure on another website,i wouldnt personally,sorry ranting now,) you simple jar it at 45g.

So there can be a use for it. We actually use this technique in grain harvesting/storage. Basically you take the M.C of the fresh grain harvest,(you actually do it before you combine it too), then dry it for however long(depends on drying method) and then measure M.C to see how much has dried, and you can dry it again or its ready for storage or sale etc.
(Edit. I guess you could do that with the single bud too but one bud may of dried more than other etc..)
take it easy.
 
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