Harvest Time: A Tutorial

DobermanGuy said:

1. I'm sure a small leaf won hurt anything as long as its like once-a-week type cutting.
2.I believe the recommended time is when they are 50/50 cloudy/amber; that's what i plan on doing. but it comes down to personal preference. Try the "all cloudy" harvest and and let some reach the "50-50" stage and compare the 2.
IM NOT AN EXPERT, but i have a good learning curve going. Yummy.
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Thanks bro i think i'll follow your tip.
Any idea how much time between only cloudy and 50/50 cloudy-amber ? ( days or hours ? )
Nice piece of art you have there
Thanks again

gforgrow said:

Thanks bro i think i'll follow your tip.
Any idea how much time between only cloudy and 50/50 cloudy-amber ? ( days or hours ? )
Nice piece of art you have there
Thanks again

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thanks bud. Id think ther'd be a week or 2 in between, but i dont have experience to say for sure. I know more than a few hours for sure.

im still learning, came across this.

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Want the weed from your plants to be at its best? The final steps to a smokeable product is as important as the first steps of planting and growing your marijuana plant.

When to Harvest

There are three ways of judging if a plant is rady or not. Det most common way is to look at the pistils, when a plant is getting mature the pistils turn red and shrivle up. Some people harvest when aprox 75% of the pistils have turned red, at this point the high of the weed is more uplifting. Other people wait until 85-90% are red to get maximal strength. Some people dont harvest until all pistils are covered by a calyx for maximized amount of grams, however this can lower the level of THC and increase risk of mold.


The best way to judge if the plant is ready or not is by looking at the trichomes. Take a microscope and have a look at these beatuiful “crystal-shrooms”, its in the “heads” of these shrooms that most of the plants THC is produced. The trichoms mature in four steps, they “rise”, grow “heads”, the “heads” swell and finally the “heads” change color from milky white to a orange like color. When the thrichome heads change color to orange the THC level is starting to decrease. The best time to harvest is just before they change color, thats when the plant reaches her peak.

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Try one of these scopes, they work really well. Easy to look around a plant. It's power is enough to see the trics really well but you can keep it steady and in focus. Plus it's cheap.
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Also just try picking at different times and see how you like it. You don't have to wait to see amber to have really good weed. Most people like it on the early side.

doesn't anybody read the first post anymore?

Hash Lover said:

Also just try picking at different times and see how you like it. You don't have to wait to see amber to have really good weed.

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I agree. It really is a matter of personal preference more than anything else. People need to learn what is BEST TO THEM and NOT WHAT IS BEST IN THE OPINION OF SOMEONE ELSE.

Now if someone is talking from a position of nothing more than the highest possible levels of THC I would not say the same thing but we all grow something we like and we all want it to be the closest to what we want so each person should find out what it takes to get what they enjoy the most.

The standard accepted trichome color chart of clear, cloudy and amber trichomes is only so accurate and not something that should be considered to be followed to a 'T' for all strains.

A pure or very predominant sativa strain will reach its maximum THC levels when most trichomes are still clear and a pure indica or very predominantly indica will reach maximum THC levels when most trichomes are cloudy.

Now "clear" does not always mean colorless. While not the most common of occurrences some strains can have slightly yellow or slightly amber trichomes right from the start rather than being clear and colorless and then clouding and changing color. In cases like that color is almost meaningless and only a clouding in the trichome heads matters, the rest is the same as if you were looking at color.

Once peak THC levels have been reached THC breaks down, it degrades and is lost as it transforms into CBN. CBN causes a person to feel messed up and confused rather than to feel high or stoned. Many people have confused those sensations as the result of increased THC levels when it is just the opposite. The more clouding and the more darkening someone allows their trichomes to change to the more THC is lost.

If that is what someone likes the most it is totally cool and the gang for someone to do it. I just wish they would stop perpetuating the myth that doing so results in increased levels of THC rather than decreased levels of THC. People keep spreading the myth and more and more new growers fall for it and then when the next crop of noobs come aboard the last crop of noobs passes on the myth to them and the result is they end up with less potent herb and wrongly believe they have achieved maximum levels of THC.

Well said Brick Top.

First off all i must say

<< A BIG THANKS TO ALL YOU THAT ANSWER TO MY QUESTION >>

After Brick Top's reply i think i'll start when i see the first amber,
or even better i'll post some pics to want to know if your plants are finished?
and i'll wait for FDD to do the job for me. He he he....

I'm a little worry for my plant if you want check herehttps://www.rollitup.org/337912-help-heat-problem.html
https://www.rollitup.org/harvesting-curing/337912-help-heat-problem.html
and please help if you can.

I know i put my post to the wrong section, but i dont know how to move it,
so if someone can move it please do.

Thanks again dudes

fdd2blk said:

doesn't anybody read the first post anymore?

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your first post just says to harvest when the bud turns amber, or golden. Based on other factors and posts i would like to harvest at max thc, which is before then. This is my first grow and I'm quite pleased, howver i dont want to fcuk it up by waiting for a golden bud. do you leech your medium fdd? I was unaware of the flush is a reason why im asking redundant type questions.
Ive read that amber means degradation, and BrickTop says that any clouding means THC degradation. Just trying to get some facts straight.

DobermanGuy said:

your first post just says to harvest when the bud turns amber, or golden. Based on other factors and posts i would like to harvest at max thc, which is before then. This is my first grow and I'm quite pleased, howver i dont want to fcuk it up by waiting for a golden bud. do you leech your medium fdd? I was unaware of the flush is a reason why im asking redundant type questions.
Ive read that amber means degradation, and BrickTop says that any clouding means THC degradation. Just trying to get some facts straight.

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first grow and you already got sucked into early harvesting.

it's not ripe until it's golden. you lose NONE of the high by waiting. pot does NOT get weaker if you let it go longer. you will not "fuck it up" by letting it RIPEN.

kinda the point i was trying to get across on post #1.

fdd2blk said:

first grow and you already got sucked into early harvesting.

it's not ripe until it's golden. you lose NONE of the high by waiting. pot does NOT get weaker if you let it go longer. you will not "fuck it up" by letting it RIPEN.

kinda the point i was trying to get across on post #1.

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si senor. Ive seen a few of your grow pictures (and trees), with experience comes knowledge, and its obvious that you have experience. Im just trying to absorb so much info here lately as Ive realize that the harvest and curing process is probably the important process if you want the fully reap the rewards (assuming they were grown correctly). I forget that its my learning experience and im gonna have to figure things out these first few. Heres a preview. Once i harvest I'll post pics of my prizewinners.

DobermanGuy said:

si senor. Ive seen a few of your grow pictures (and trees), with experience comes knowledge I suppose. Im just trying to absorb so much info here lately as Ive realize that the harvest and curing process is probably the important process if you want the fully reap the rewards (assuming they were grown correctly). I forget that its my learning experience and im gonna have to figure things out these first few. Heres a preview. Once i harvest I'll post pics of my prizewinners.
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looks perfect, so far.

fdd2blk said:

looks perfect, so far.

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yes, key words. thanks btw.

How should a first timer using your method determining the flush date (for soil)? I'm assuming since i don't have any info that I should just start the flush 2 weeks prior to the seed co. flowering time info? More or less just pick a day about 2 weeks out? Im at about 6.5 wks.

DobermanGuy said:

yes, key words. thanks btw.

How should a first timer using your method determining the flush date (for soil)? I'm assuming since i don't have any info that I should just start the flush 2 weeks prior to the seed co. flowering time info? More or less just pick a day about 2 weeks out? Im at about 6.5 wks.

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i try to watch the hairs. when i see they are rapidly starting to turn brown i start my flush. you kinda have to take notice of the daily changes. once you see brown hairs appearing faster then white ones you can start flushing.

Thank you clearing a few things, bump!

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badr6969 said:

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are they flushed? they look pretty much done.

also look like they were grown in 08' ;-p

yes i have stop giving them stuff two weeks ago and only been giving it water since then . and i know my camera say 2008 had to put new batterys in it. is that what u mean by flushed