Plants were ready and rebudded, now what?

georgyboy

Active Member
So I have a little bagseed plant that was pretty much done flowering. I have been flushing it with straight water for the last 3 waterings (about 12 days) and it has dropped all major fan leaves due to some intense heat that I had recently. I was really just waiting for the soil to dry out one more time and I was going to harvest. I only have a magnifying glass right now and can't see the trichs very well but a good 70%-80% of the calyxes were amber. I'm guessing I had some kind of light leak one night because recently I started noticing new white calyxes on the buds. Little "bud fingers" are growing up out of the buds now with bright white calyxes. The buds seem to be putting on more resin too, which is nice. I don't really know what I should do from here though. Since the original buds are ready, do I need to harvest them? Or do I need to let the new buds finish? I fear harvesting now can cause me to have green tasting weed, but because the plant hardly has any leaf matter at all (it really looks like some trimmed bud already) I feel like it needs to come down or it's just going to start dying and the buds are going to degrade. I recently ordered a pocket microscope and the decision will probably come down to what the trichs say, but I would like to hear personal opinions and reasons from other growers as well.
 

DeeTee

Well-Known Member
There's no reason why you can't harvest those buds that you feel are ready and let the rest continue.
 

georgyboy

Active Member
Well the ones that aren't ready, the new ones, are literally growing out of the buds that are ready. Imagine the original bud as the main stem, and the new buds coming out of it are like little branches. If I harvested the ready bid these buds would have to come with.
 

DeeTee

Well-Known Member
You do have quite a dalima (spelling) there, that's quite the choise but would you harvest the goods once now or sacrifice them just for new ones?
 

stoned cockatoo

New Member
Do you mean pistils?

Some strains will continue to pop out fresh pistils even past the peak harvest. I'd chop like you originally planned
 

intenseneal

Well-Known Member
I had this happen to a plant that was left go too long before harvest. New flowers started to grow out of the finished ones.
 

georgyboy

Active Member
I had this happen to a plant that was left go too long before harvest. New flowers started to grow out of the finished ones.
That's exactly what happened here. I had a hermie in the room that pollinated it a bit and I'm thinking maybe the pollination triggered the plant to put out new flowers in hopes of catching more pollen and buying some time to make viable seeds. These things are all about survival haha.
 

georgyboy

Active Member
I couldn't find my camera so I didn't take any pics but I decided I would harvest the plant. I'm ready to get the next grow going and this little girl has been holding me up for a while I feel like. I'll take a picture of the harvested bud tomorrow maybe, and I'll let you guys know how it tastes once it's dried and jarred up.
 
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