ROFLMAO,.. When to harvest??

[Rusty Trichome]

Hello all,

Hi.

Issue is, I'm at 77 days of flower. On what I thought was an approximately 50/50 Sativa/Indica cross (bag seed, this guess was based on leaf structure). Thus I thought these would finish at or around 10 weeks. Being at 11 weeks now I'm still not seeing amber. I can find the occasional amber trich, but it's usually (not always) broken. Plus I still see small bursts of growth (as you can see in pic 5).

(from your growlog:

...We mixed a couple organic composts, bat guano soil, and worm castings, some of my local greenhouse potting mix and some extra perlite to make a nice soil. ...
Weeding4u also brought me some type of fish emulsion stuff. I was thinking since these are SO wet and this soil so rich, we'll wait until the next or following watering to add this.

Just as a casual observation...the larger the organic particles, the longer it can take to completely break-down into it's nutrient components. When working with liquid organic nutrients, the particles are already small enough for quick breakdown and uptake, and can dissipate before plant is thrown into flowering. Might be that you are over-organifying. (not sure that's a word, but, oh well) With those organic soil ammendments and the fish emulsion, possibly the plant is fighting between uptake of residual 'growth' nutrients, and a 12/12 lighting schedule.

Or, perhaps the plant's genes contains more sativa flowering habits than indica flowering habits...and will simply take longer. Once you get to know your strain, it's easier to determine if this is normal.

I have at least 85% cloudy or milky (not sure the difference).

Big difference. I see it as: clear trichs means a clear head. (tiz worth waiting for milky) More milky is more mature, and provides a heavier stone and sweeter flavor. If you are growing for flavor and effect, mostly milky is fine. If trying to impress someone else, you can risk the over-ripe stress and go for some rusty trichomes. (over-ripening is one of the ways to force nanners for femming seeds) You feeling lucky...? Some feel a higher percentage of rusty trichomes is worth the wait, but some feel it's not a big enough difference in medicinal value by risking nanners and screwed-up schedules. (creating a back-up in the veg closet while waiting...and waiting...and waiting...)

But your plants are looking good. I'd smoke 'em. :thumbsup: