Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
Hey all, you may have seen my other post.
I came home from a trip to a severely burned and crispy indica plant. I trimmed all the crispy leaves (may have been a mistake but they looked fairly dead,) and have continued to water the plant over the last 2 weeks. Temperature has been under control since the incident.
The plant has shown some slow new growth in the lower regions, but some of the buds are burned to a golden crisp (see pics) and there are no healthy/large fan leaves. Pictures below.
I am moving in 22 days! I have an Indica plant (on right) that is looking good and a Sativa that is just beginning to finally show large amounts of flowers but it could use the extra light.
Should I just harvest the struggling Indica? This would allow for a more favorable light configuration for the Sativa to get the most growth out of it that I can in the next three weeks.
If I were to harvest early, based on the pictures of the buds do they look fairly smokeable? Or would it better to just stay the course and harvest all three plants in 22 days (or less.)
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
Also forgot to mention:
If there is anything you can suggest to help get this damaged plant back on track, your advice is much appreciated.
Also... goes without saying:
My goal is to have the most yield by June 30th as possible.
Thank you.
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
They would probably be smokable. I think I would try and water them for 2 weeks and see if they perk up. If not, then you've flushed them good with no nutes so they should be good.
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
You mean another two weeks? They've already been like this for two weeks of watering.
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
I'd say you can chop the burnt parts (since they won't grow anymore), but if some parts are still green and growing, then leave it them. What do the trichomes look like under a microscope? Text
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
The burned plant has small amounts of new growth at the bottom of the plant. Not enough to seem like it will significantly increase yield in three weeks (see for yourself in the pics above, you will notice small new nodes along the branches.)
Here are some pictures of the more healthy-looking buds on this plant. As I mentioned there are no fan leaves. Please try to gauge if this is ready for harvest. I have read some guides but my lense is not good enough to tell the composition of trichs.
Thanks!
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
I would say wait out the 3 weeks to get those main buds a little bigger. They dont seem to be ready from what I can see.
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
Can't really tell from those pictures, because the lighting makes it difficult to see the color or the trich's. Try using some different light, and zoom in as close as possible (while keeping the picture clear of course). Post again and we might be able to tell you where you're at.
Radio shack microscopes are like $12... a great investment, and fun to look at nugs stoned :stoned:
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
Sorry BigTops, I'm just not able to spend any more $ on this project at this point.
Posted new pics with better zoom this time, let me know what you think. I value all input. I can post a zoomed in .jpg if that would help but I figure you can digitally-zoom on your own.
I would really love to harvest this one now (despite some new growth at the bottom,) because the Sativa is growing buds more rapidly, and at this point is larger than the other two plants.
Save This Plant or Harvest Early?
Perhaps I missed it, but how old are the plants? To me, they dont look anywhere near done. Since the sugar leaves are still green, I'd let them go. Without the fan leaves they won't do much as far as yield but you can at least get a little bit more mass and let the trichs mature to get the most out of your work.