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Hello! I was just curious.... My outdoor plant has just started to finally bud at the top but all the bottom branches have been budding for weeks now. My questions is are my bottin branches ready to be harvested if the white hairs have started to turn amber???
http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...ml#post1577678
You need a loupe or magnifier to accurately determine harvest time. Amber hairs and overall color mean you are very, very close though, if not within your harvest window. I would recommend a 10X-30X (anywhere in that range) magnifier to check the trichome color directly. When some are cloudy and a few are amber, you can start cutting. Mostly cloudy trichs with very few amber gives the cerebral up buzz high. Wait a little longer for more amber coloring if you want a more stoney, couchlock body experience.
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Here is a pic of a bud (5X loupe) that is still not ready to harvest. Notice it does have amber hairs, but the trichomes are still clear and cloudy. This bud is about one week from entering the prime harvest window (which should give it an 80% up/head high, 20% body stone). Check out my thread " http://boards.cannabis.com/basic-gro...ml#post1659822 " for more pictures and descriptions...
yeah, what he said!
So is it ok to cut my lower branches off but keep the rest growing since there is budding that just beginning at the top of the plant??
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Originally Posted by 1Blondie Chronic
LOL.... ok.... so even though there's amber hairs in my bottom buds just let the whol thing keep growing until the top one has formed right? thanks :)
The amber hairs don't mean anything. You can get amber pistils before there are hardly any trichomes or psychoactives present. Trichs, trichs, trichs. Harvest when the trichs start turning cloudy / amber. *IF* the lower branches have cloudy and amber trichs, you can harvest the *local sites* of the buds that are ready, but use good judgement and don't hack down half the plant. It is EXTREMELY RARE for the bottom to flower first. The top (apical) cola is, in 99.99% of cases, the first to show a calyx and finish flowering. In addition, the *TOP* calyx / cola is usually the very best one, and you do *not* want to risk damaging/killing it. I would suggest some pictures so we know what is going on with the plant, because it sounds very strange.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1Blondie Chronic
Im going to take pics now and post... gimme 5 :)
Ok here's some pics and maybe you guys can help me out... the bottome branches have been flowering now for like 3-4 weeks and the top has just started to show white hairs.... Im just so confused why its taken soooo long for the top to start budding.... :(:(:(:jointsmile:
Here are some more pics..... do you think it could have something to do with the container being too small??? Is it too late to transplant??:hippy:
How big is that container you have her in?
Booya
That is very strange, but more importantly, your plant is VERY stressed. It has multiple issues that are probably going to significantly affect yield. Because there are so many things going on, I'm not sure if I can diagnose them all correctly, but it looks like you have some nute burning, heat stress, pest problems, and water deficiency (I would suspect that the water is evaporating too fast). There is significant yellowing in many of the fan leaves, and the general color is not nearly as dark as would be ideal. I would first get the pest problems under control ASAP. Also do a deep flush with water, and then flush it again. Don't worry about oversaturation at this point. You want to get rid of any toxic levels of anything built up in there. Plus, the pigment is so light that a little extra water will help with the turgidity.
As for the buds - they still have several weeks to go. You aren't immediately near harvesting as far as I can tell (hard to give an exact date without images that are magnified). You are probably going to have to harvest the lower buds first, because the apical cola, well it really isnt even a cola yet, is going to take much longer. The reason the top is having such a tough time is due to how stressed the plant is. It is putting energy into just keeping itself alive up there instead of going into flower.
What is your water and nute schedule, and what is the ambient daytime temperature where it is growing? How about humidity?