Harvest Time?!

[NEWMEXICO420]

Hello All,

How can you really tell when your buds are ready for harvest? I want i head high to help my head pain. When should i cut it down?

Thank You for your help!

NEWMEXICO420 Reviewed by NEWMEXICO420 on 03-12-2010. Harvest Time?! Hello All, How can you really tell when your buds are ready for harvest? I want i head high to help my head pain. When should i cut it down? Thank You for your help! Rating: 5

[dedliug]

look at the stalked trichomes (white shafts with bulbous heads)

if the bulbous heads are clear, you have some time

if they are 'milky" then you can cut

if you want couch-lock, wait until the heads turn amber

read up more, there is much about this on the interwebs

[ColoradoCareMMJ]

You need to inspect the heads of the trichomes and make sure they are of correct color and ready for harvest.

Here is a chart to help you better understand trichomes and their stages of ripeness:

Usually you want to choose the strain you grow based on the relief properties you will benefit from most. If you are searching for a high uplifting energetic cerebral high, a sativa dominant hybrid will be your best choice.

However, if you do harvest your cannabis early (when the heads are developed, but still milky white) you will have a much less heavier clearer energetic head high, this may be something you may be intrested in doing, however if you are already growing sativas, I would advise against this.

Hope this helps, feel free to ask if you have any further questions,
Bryan:jointsmile:

[TurboALLWD]

You need to inspect the heads of the trichomes and make sure they are of correct color and ready for harvest.

Here is a chart to help you better understand trichomes and their stages of ripeness:

Usually you want to choose the strain you grow based on the relief properties you will benefit from most. If you are searching for a high uplifting energetic cerebral high, a sativa dominant hybrid will be your best choice.

However, if you do harvest your cannabis early (when the heads are developed, but still milky white) you will have a much less heavier clearer energetic head high, this may be something you may be intrested in doing, however if you are already growing sativas, I would advise against this.

Hope this helps, feel free to ask if you have any further questions,
Bryan:jointsmile:

Hey Bryan, when do you generally harvest you're Indicas? You definitely make sense of the Sativas. I'm curious as to what you look for in hybrids and Indicas, reason being is I think you have some of the best meds around so I'd really appeciate any advice you may offer. I'm shooting for 20-30% amber for my hybrids and Indicas.

[ColoradoCareMMJ]

Hey Bryan, when do you generally harvest you're Indicas? You definitely make sense of the Sativas. I'm curious as to what you look for in hybrids and Indicas, reason being is I think you have some of the best meds around so I'd really appeciate any advice you may offer. I'm shooting for 20-30% amber for my hybrids and Indicas.

Hey Turbo,

Thanks for the kind words brotha. I harvest my indicas about 4-7 days after the marjoity of the glandular trichome heads have turned amber. This will ensure the heavy sedative high that indica lovers tend to enjoy and benefit from the most. On hybrids it really depends what im trying to acheieve, if I have a sativa-dominant hybrid, im more likely to pull her right before her heads turn amber or when the heads are about half amber, half milky. If it is an indica-dominant hybrid, im more likely to let the majority of heads turn amber. You really just have to spend some time with your plants and get a good understanding of what your plants want to achieve, and through the subtleties of growing, nurture that need. The more you run and examine a strain, the better understanding of it you will have, and you will be able to produce a much better medicine through doing so.

Hope this helps, have a great saturday everyone.
-Bryan:jointsmile:

[NEWMEXICO420]

Hi Bryan,

Well i check the link you sent and it helps alot TY, My Tri are milky and clear and i really dont know what kind of plant it is. The main stock is round and the leaves only have 1,2,3 fingers. Also when you look threw the scope where should i check the tris? AT the bottem of the tops or the top top? TY for your help!

[ColoradoCareMMJ]

Hi Bryan,

Well i check the link you sent and it helps alot TY, My Tri are milky and clear and i really dont know what kind of plant it is. The main stock is round and the leaves only have 1,2,3 fingers. Also when you look threw the scope where should i check the tris? AT the bottem of the tops or the top top? TY for your help!

Your very welcome newmexio, just glad I can help. Your going to want to be checking the very top colas of your plant. These are the ones you want to make sure come out as good as possible. If you have alot of lower branches, they will mislead you as sometimes they are a little bit behind some of the larger canopy colas. Sometimes I have seen growers cut the tops off the plants when they are ready, then let the bottom of the plants develop and reach maturity before harvesting it. Personally, I train all my plants to reach an even canopy and then remove any growth that pops up under the canopy to ensure that wind can easily be transferred under the canopy, as well as forcing all the plants energy to focus on the canopy.

Hope this help ya, again if ya got any more questions, feel free.

-Bryan:jointsmile:

[NEWMEXICO420]

TYTY check out the pic this is a indoor plant and its been budding since jan 1 is it allmost done?

frankies008.jpg picture by NEWMEXICO420 - Photobucket

[ColoradoCareMMJ]

Well the picture is hard to tell, but it looks like you still have about 2 weeks or so left. Again its going to be hard for me to tell, without really being able to see the glandular heads, but from the look of the colas, and the pistills, it looks like its not quite ready for harvest.

[TurboALLWD]

Hey Turbo,

Thanks for the kind words brotha. I harvest my indicas about 4-7 days after the marjoity of the glandular trichome heads have turned amber. This will ensure the heavy sedative high that indica lovers tend to enjoy and benefit from the most. On hybrids it really depends what im trying to acheieve, if I have a sativa-dominant hybrid, im more likely to pull her right before her heads turn amber or when the heads are about half amber, half milky. If it is an indica-dominant hybrid, im more likely to let the majority of heads turn amber. You really just have to spend some time with your plants and get a good understanding of what your plants want to achieve, and through the subtleties of growing, nurture that need. The more you run and examine a strain, the better understanding of it you will have, and you will be able to produce a much better medicine through doing so.

Hope this helps, have a great saturday everyone.
-Bryan:jointsmile:

Thanks for the info