crazyhorse73
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I don't have a lot to contribute here.
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Ime I look for all cloudy with some amber depending on the effect wanted. More amber = more couchlock/sleep. Used to hear to go by pistils however some strains keep putting out pistils late in flower so not so accurate to go by them. As far as the terpenes they change during the grow as they keep evolving until ready for harvest. Harvest with clear trichs will get you high but will be short-lived, don't want to harvest too early.I don't have a lot to contribute here. I have not seen a thread that embraces this topic so I thought I would start one. My research about when to harvest comes across many different recommendations and I understand that some of the considerations are strain-dependent and some are just a matter of preference. I was interested in other people's criteria for when harvest time is and how they go about it. Might be a help for some of the less experienced cultivators to gain some useful knowledge. I know looking at the calendar doesn't help. Milky trichomes seem to be desirable but is that hard and fast as a rule? I have noticed myself that some strains seem to reach a plateau in smelliness and from there it is downhill but the trichomes are still mostly clear. I guess the thing to do is take them when they are the smelliest to test that theory. Photo's to go along with explanations would also be handy. Just looking to simplify the process and take away some of the stress when this important time draws near. It is sometimes difficult to know if the photo's that accompany the seed breeders products are an indication of when to harvest or not as well. Peace.
Good one Islandgrower. That gets the ball rolling.Ime I look for all cloudy with some amber depending on the effect wanted. More amber = more couchlock/sleep. Used to hear to go by pistils however some strains keep putting out pistils late in flower so not so accurate to go by them. As far as the terpenes they change during the grow as they keep evolving until ready for harvest. Harvest with clear trichs will get you high but will be short-lived, don't want to harvest too early.
My 2 cents
Thanks Longball. That photo is helpful mate.They are looking beautiful, good job, however, they are not looking ready to me. I see you have a Goldleaf.
For reference, here is a Goldleaf closer to being 'ready'.
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Longball
Cheers Longball, you are very generous with your time and knowledge.The Canon 300D is a pretty decent DSLR that should give you excellent images. Until you are familiar with the settings I would just set it to Auto Focus and let it feed. Not sure what you mean by resized to small? Is that something on the camera? For best results use a 3rd party compression program and make the picture about 1MB or 1024KB in size. That is the present size limit on the site(it's been slowly going up). Compressing a picture usually gives a better result than resizing the picture.
When you have compressed the picture to about 1024KB you can attach it to your post by clicking the 'Attach files' and 'open' the pic from your phone or pc. When it loads you have the option of thumbnail or full page. Does not matter which one because if you load the picture that way the picture will blow up to full page if you click on the thumbnail. Your pics are not doing that so not sure how you loaded them. We have all had problems loading up pics so just keep asking questions and members will keep helping until ya get it right! Lots of helpful folks on this site.
Longball
Mostly I go by experience looking at a plant.
The lower leaves will get sucked dry by the plant, turn yellow, and drop off, and this process works it's self up the plant.
Every weed plant does this as it's getting close to ripe....unless you have PH issues like the ' Jack Herer same one with a different Trainwreck beside it Day 49 flowering ' pic.
Yup, those large yellow/brown areas on the leaves are from PH issues.
Every pic you posted up there has a minimum of 2 weeks to go.
I harvest, and have harvested, all my plants by smell since the 1970s.
I can't smell yours.
There will always be a change in smell about 1 week before what I've come to recognize as the best harvest time.
You don't have to rub a stem and it should be a dramatic change....but maybe it's just something I've come to recognize and others don't.
Dunno, that's just how I do it.
This little columbian dude taught me about it way back in the day and damn me if he wasn't right.