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JohnnyPotGrower
11-14-2005, 10:56 PM
Does anyone have a recomendation for the optimal flowering time for one Northen Lights plant being grown under a 400W HPS?

Thanks,
JPG
marimbas
11-15-2005, 05:48 AM
from 8 to 10 weeks, but buy a microscope at radio shack, 60x - 100x and check your trychlomes, every day at the 8th week, and see how cloudy they are getting...
xiansi
11-15-2005, 06:58 AM
from 8 to 10 weeks, but buy a microscope at radio shack, 60x - 100x and check your trychlomes, every day at the 8th week, and see how cloudy they are getting...

I also am going to grow NL for the first time... so this is good info, but why do you want to check the trychromes for "cloudyness"? Does this serve some specific purpose to the harvesting? And when looking to see how cloudy they are getting, what exactly do you mean?
JohnnyPotGrower
11-15-2005, 05:22 PM
xiansi,

the trychomes are indicators of the optimal time to harvest the buds. The will begin clear, then become cloudy, then whitish, and eventually a rusty color. You want to harvest when they are cloudy because that is when you will have the highest THC content in your buds. Anything after and the THC begins to get broken down.

Hoped that helped you and Im sure you didnt intentionally mean to hijack my thread, lol. Right now I am going to designate about 9-10 weeks for flowering but i would still like to hear from anyone else who either agrees with marimbas or has a different tecnique.

Thanks,
JPG
marimbas
11-16-2005, 04:22 AM
i would go from 8 to 9 weeks... i have grown northern lights and between the 8th and the 9th is the best time.


About the trychomes, first they are clear, thc levels are low, then they get cloudy, thc levels, get high, then they get amber, the thc levels are going down due a transformation of the substnaces.

The best moment to harvest is when they are 70% cludy 30% amber, so the high is higher, and the body stone is lower, the more amber they get the tougher the body stone is, but youll know what im talking to you, once you get a microscope and check out by yourself your trychlomes... anyway here is a little guide
xiansi
11-16-2005, 08:41 PM
Awesome! I have been growing for a few years now and have never once heard of this with the trychromes... guess it's time to pull my microscope out. Thanks everyone.. I may have to change a few harvest times for some of my strains.. lol