HELP! When to harvest?? Soil CFL Indoor

[tmarsh1093]

Heya fellow growers,

This is my first grow, and I'm not quite sure if this puppy is ready for harvest - a little advice from some experienced growers would be much appreciated! I'm thinking of starting my 2 week flush now. The leaves have prolly 10-20% amber, but the actual bud only looks cloudy to me.

A little background:
Indoor grow tent
7 weeks into flower
soil is organic potting mix + perlite
nutes = Bontancare Grow (during veg), Botanicare Bloom (during flower), CalMag (entire grow), Botanicare Liquid Karma (entire grow)
pH'd water (charcoal filtered -- Brita)

https://imgur.com/a/cN6cF

[tmarsh1093]

Oh yes, and some of the bottom fans are getting a pale/yellowish (which I've read is supposed to happen cause buds are draining nutes from leaves).

[D.A.A.S.69]

Hey tmarsh, that's a beautiful plant ,good job, what kind of plant is she ?
You need to see Amber on the buds, they always get amber on the leaves first.
Your close ,but not quite ready yet, by the time your flush is done maybe she will be ready. Good job.
Welcome to GWE.1093.

[tmarsh1093]

She was just a bag seed that was particularly healthy/fast growing. I believe she is an indica based on her growth style.

For round 2, I cloned her and picked up clones of Purple Cadillac and Grand Daddy Purple from the store =). Figured if I'm going to put in the effort, I might as well start with good genetics.

[9fingerleafs]

It all sounds great. I also grow in soil with CFL and feed botanic are line. Forget the leaves trichomes and focus on the buds. On the top, middle and bottom buds. A picture would be great to try to guess a timeline but I think you could wait another week to start the flush specially if the leaves are yellowing in its own. Once you start finding amber trics on all the buds then flush. Organic soils don’t require flushing but using nutrients a little flush won’t hurt. Happy growing congrats

[tmarsh1093]

Thanks for the advice! Any speculation on yield range?

[D.A.A.S.69]

Maybe 2 ozs,dry, would be my guess, I hope you get more though.

[Resinator]

You have to buy yourself a little scope so you can see the trichomes up close, ALWAYS pay attention to trichomes when figuring out when to harvest!! If they're clear don't touch, cloudy is usually peak thc percentage and will give you more of a heady sativa high. If you want more body, couch lock feeling the trichomes should be about 20 to 30% amber and the rest cloudy. I just harvested my strawberry banana yesterday and this is what it should look like. Cloudy and amber will never let you down

[Trichomefarmer88]

Sounds like you're doing great! The advice you where giving is spot on! Start your flush an wait for a few amber trichs an your ready to chop!! I like to leave my plants in complete darkness after my last flush and before I chop already 12 hours of just I.R lighting followed by 36 hours darkness then I chop.. supposed to make your THC count a little higher? Been working great for me! Good luck! Happy growing

[tmarsh1093]

9fingerleafs do you give nutes every watering or every other on your soil CFL grows?

[9fingerleafs]

depending on the individual plant itself, ive been recycling my soil to the point that there are no nutrients in it, so i water with nutrients every time, around 1.6 EC for both veg and flower But i mix tap and RO water so my starting water is 0.8 (well water with lots of calcium and magnesium), first few runs youll probably feed too much, but think about it this way, you are not trying to feed the right amount of nutes every time (that doesnt exist) you are trying to learn what the plant is asking you for, you want to be able to tell if you are feeding too much or too little, differenciate fast growing lanky plants from the slower tighter stronger plants, etc.... my advice: fuck up and make mistakes only once, its the only way to learn

[tmarsh1093]

Here's an update peoples. So things are coming along, still feeding some low dose PBP Bloom, but shes getting to done looking...

Unfortunately, I'm seeing a few scattered seeds on the outsides of buds (see pictures), This plant was in the same room as a plant that was probably male during veg (I got rid of it during that time). Haven't really seen bananas but there was a night a couple weeks ago that got too cold (windows open by accident).

https://imgur.com/a/d0GIM

What do you guys think? Should I let her ride out until trich's tell me its time(I would guess 1-1.5 wks) or try to harvest earlier.

[9fingerleafs]

Let them ripe. Seeds or no seeds those are some magnificent buds. Better to at least have a great smoke out of it

[tmarsh1093]

Thanks for the advice/support 9finger.

I'm trying a similar mainlining technique (from Gordo) as you did for your GDP journal with the clone of this current plant =) was surprised how quickly she recovered from supercropping - was scared shitless when doing it lol

[D.A.A.S.69]

Hello 1093, really nice looking plant, but you still got a little while to go.

[tmarsh1093]

Heya guys,

Just wanted to update you cause y'all helped me through the above problem.

Plant dried a little too fast (4 days to crispy), but otherwise looking great! They are in jars with humidipaks and I'm monitoring humidity with hygrometer.

First CFL grow and the dry weight is 3.5oz from a single plant!

Edit: Oh ya - it gets me really baked as well =)