Special Kush Harvest w/ pics, Fruit Spirit ripe enough yet?

kaine84 · Jan 25, 2013

Royal Queens Special Kush #1 and Fruit Spirit.

The Fruit Spirit is in day 52 of flowering, starting to see amber; I see one or two per leaf in the tops and maybe 10 to 15% amber in the bottom branch leaves, I know she shouldn't be done cause she has like 90% white hairs! I don't know what's going on so I'm trying to get an idea of how long I have left with her. The SK was nice she's drying right now, can't wait to blaze her! I'm gonna post just the harvest pics from SK all the rest are from the Fruit Spirit, btw I got 128 wet grams off SK. I'm thinking 35 grams dry weight.

kaine84 · Jan 25, 2013

Does anyone have any advice with this Fruit Spirit, please advise on when to pick!

beanid · Jan 25, 2013

Looking Good so far but i would say you have 2+ weeks left, i personally dont use the trichome technique to see if a plant is ripe, but as i hear around the block NEVER EVER check SUGAR LEAVES for trichome ripeness, always check on the calyxs.

Dont be surprised when you dry those out and they become wispy little buds, bewst way to fix that next time is wait till you see the calyxs swell up, the base of the white hairs is where calyxs are and as the plant begins to ripen they slowly recede and the calyxs start to swell and fill with resin, and when the white hairs are amber/red and have receeded BACK INTO the now swollen calyx.

If you want me to upload some visuals let me know.

TL;DR
2 weeks then repost pics

ProfessorPotSnob · Jan 25, 2013

Take the advice given above and perhaps try a small nug in between for sampling what it would be like now and then as well .. I would take that girl around 65 days and it sure wont have many white pistils then .. Most new growers cut way to early , kudos for making it this far .. Might as well wait it out and not have any regrets ..

kaine84 · Jan 25, 2013

beanid said:
Looking Good so far but i would say you have 2+ weeks left, i personally dont use the trichome technique to see if a plant is ripe, but as i hear around the block NEVER EVER check SUGAR LEAVES for trichome ripeness, always check on the calyxs.

Dont be surprised when you dry those out and they become wispy little buds, bewst way to fix that next time is wait till you see the calyxs swell up, the base of the white hairs is where calyxs are and as the plant begins to ripen they slowly recede and the calyxs start to swell and fill with resin, and when the white hairs are amber/red and have receeded BACK INTO the now swollen calyx.

If you want me to upload some visuals let me know.

TL;DR
2 weeks then repost pics

Yeah some visuals would be cool, I haven't picked it (Fruit Spirit) yet. I never knew to check the calyxes, I've always checked the sugar leaves. So that sucks! Thanks for the wisdom though man. +rep

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