Still not ripe!

[Bud Lightyear]

Hi experts,

I’ve been growing 3 strains (blueberry, blue dream & green crack) on my enclosed balcony since April, I now have big beautiful buds but the majority of the trichomes are still clear so I am wondering if this is normal so late in the year?

Should I wait until they are more clouded regardless of the month or should I harvest? Blury pics attached but you can see they are still transparent.

Thaaanksss

[Joker]

Cut a sample dry & try, if you like it then it's good enough

[Dagmar]

If you can wait, wait. Perfect is better than good enough.

[Weed Pharma]

Try and hold out until you see mostly all cloudy trichomes (highest THC content)- or the weather dictates a harvest ie- killing frost

[Bud Lightyear]

the encosed balcony is adjacent to the apartment so when we turn up the heat it will never be freezing so we can keep the plants for a long time I guess. :S

[Canuck147]

Patience is a virgin.

[tyler_ hobbyist]

Wait it out ull be way better off

[tyler_ hobbyist]

How many weeks of flower are u?

[Bud Lightyear]

a lot ....flowering started in mid august so this would be around week 11 ....is that important?

[Dutchman1]

They look cloudy to me. But a close up would be better.

[Bud Lightyear]

i only have 15x magnifier and it's hard to take a nice pic but I took another one so you can check that out

[kingfish]

I always tell newbies that if you think they are ready, wait a week.

[Dutchman1]

Good advise ! ( Id add or two)

[Bud Lightyear]

yeah that's a good advice but I don't think they ready (based on the clear trichomes) I'm just worried it's been too long and something happened maybe some shock or something

[Bud Lightyear]

thanks for the input. I don't mind waiting I'm just worried if this is OK and I will get to the harvest

[oldjarhead100]

hey bud is there windows from the apartment if so it might not have gone into bloom in Aug but later than you thought still if you can wait it would be better we had to take a bunch of plants early they do the job very well but the yield was the main thing it affected. buds double in size the last two weeks good luck

[Bud Lightyear]

hi, yes they are powered by the sun through the windows in August we started to see first signs of small buds so I assume that's when it started. There's a lot of street light during the night so we cover them with curtains as I read they may go into shock

[NebulaHaze]

Is it possible to post a pic of an entire bud, as well as the whole plant in the setup? Sometimes when buds are taking too long to mature it's because they're getting light at night (even the light from a streetlight) or because they are getting less than 12 hours of uninterrupted darkness a day. If you know they're getting complete darkness for 12 hours every night, you could try giving them even longer nights, for example 13-14 hours of dark. If they get longer nights it makes them mature faster because they "think" winter is coming. More info on slow-maturing buds here (including what causes it, and how to get buds to mature faster) if you're interested.

[Bud Lightyear]

I added a pic of the bud and whole blueberry plant. This is the one that is the most mature. You can also see part of the curtain that we use during the night to avoid the streetlights. It gets dark around 6pm already so we cover the plants until we get up around 8am so the plant gets 12+ hours of dark for sure. I definitely read the article you referenced, maybe I should focus more on the buds as opposed to leaves. Thanks

[tyler_ hobbyist]

I might be wrong here but if ur growing thro a window ur plants maybe arnt getting enough light and thats why the growth has been slow and it takes longer to mature with lower light levels. Also glass doesnt let uv light thro which also slows growth. U might need to add some cfls or something to help the plant grow

[Bud Lightyear]

tyler_ hobbyist interesting. I mean the growth seems good but maturing seems to be slow. I guess I will do a taste test and decide

[tyler_ hobbyist]

Personaly I would put her in a closet of something with complete darkness for the next 24-48hours and bam she should be all done for ya because she looks pretty ready to me