When to harvest???

[AussieBud]

i am so confused on the whole When to harvest question.....
in the marijuana growers handbook indoor/greenhouse edition by
ed rosenthal it sais to wait till you see 80% or so of those white hairs turn brown then it's mature to harvest... but that is like at 6 weeks or so with my indica and everybody is talking about 8 weeks of flowering
not 6 weeks so should i pick when 80% of hairs are brown or just leave it till their all brown and keep it going to grow bigger and bigger for 8 weeks or what????? can someone help......

AussieBud Reviewed by AussieBud on 06-17-2005. When to harvest??? i am so confused on the whole When to harvest question..... in the marijuana growers handbook indoor/greenhouse edition by ed rosenthal it sais to wait till you see 80% or so of those white hairs turn brown then it's mature to harvest... but that is like at 6 weeks or so with my indica and everybody is talking about 8 weeks of flowering not 6 weeks so should i pick when 80% of hairs are brown or just leave it till their all brown and keep it going to grow bigger and bigger for 8 weeks or Rating: 5

[GTC21]

I'm pretty sure there's no strain out there which finishes in 6 weeks. What fertilizer/nutes are you using, if it's fertilizer how often do you feed?
Are the calyxes (seedpods) swollen? Can you post pics?

[311junkie]

Okay, first off you need to be looking at the pistils, or hairs, on the buds. when you see about 70% of them change from white or amberish color to orange, red, brown or whatever; that's when you cut them. thus "harvesting"

After you cut them at the bottom of the stem, you want to cure them. to do so, hang them upside down in a closet or something, where you can control the air by closing it off, keep the door mostly shut for a day and them move it out a bit each day. after like a few days of that, you might want to cut the branches from the stem and hang them in a cardboard box until dry.

*note* cut them either earlier-for a more cerebral high- or a little later-for the couch lock effect high.

[AussieBud]

thanks guys for your help it is a five weeks flowering now and 1 or 2 hairs are brown.... so for 70% of then to go brown, it will take all up 7, to 8 weeks with any strain? thanks guys

this forum is da best for advise

i'll post pics when i take more for now this is my other thread
http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=21284

[HARDDON]

This has been discussed numerous times.

IGNORE the color of the hairs. Why do people still use hair color as a way to time harvest?????

You need to harvest when your trichomes are 65% - 75% cloudy.

The hair color is meaningless in terms of peak potency. Study the trichs at about the 6th week on. Check them daily. When they average 70% or so cloudy milky white, then you harvest.

Did I say IGNORE THE HAIR COLOR?

Yes, I did tee a putty tat...

Follow the trichs Luke.

[Da1KrayzieThug]

Hair color isn't what gets you high now is it? Trichs are the THC glands and hmm I wonder, What gets you high? OH SHIT ITS THE THC! Goodluck.

[Zandor]

The colors of the hairs are only part of the cycle of the plants life. They change color by temperature and maturity at the end of their life cycle. The only true way to know when to harvest is to view the trichomes with a 10x to 30x microscope. Mature trichome looks like a golf ball sitting on golf tee, big and round on the top. The color is clear to cloudy. Cloudy is peak for that trichome. Because there are millions of trichomes you need to harvest on the average. They will continue to mature through the drying process for a day or more. Amber color is past prime for that trichome so you are just looking for an average.

[AussieBud]

thanks everybody for your input and thankyou Zandor for your advise it is easy to understand, thanks guys

[newgroweroldsmoker]

you should feed them with nuts for a week more-up to completing week 6, then feed them only water for 2 weeks (week 8) and then harvest..more or less indicas mature in 8 weeks..

[newgroweroldsmoker]

the only one time that i have read a report on a 6 week ready mature indica was in overgrow.....i think it was blue moonshine....the strain finished in 6 weeks but was grown in hydro....top 44 from nirvana is supposed to finish in ~6 weeks (44 days) if everything is optimal..what strain is it that you're growing?