Using Dead Pistols as a Ripeness Indicator!

[vostok]

As I bow down to my plant and pray them trics are ripe
but often before My knees creek and crack as I bend
often I may stare and check the pistols have shrivilled
and say fuck it ..they are done

just on the fact the pistols have died
I may check the trics later when the plant is on the bench
rare do I screw it up and often wonder why 'we' don't
use the dead pistols as an indicator..?


Anyone

[homegrown]

I go by cloudiness of trichomes..The pistils are rusty and dead long before the trichs turn cloudy. And 3-4 weeks before the trichs turn amber.

[vostok]

I go by cloudiness of trichomes..The pistils are rusty and dead long before the trichs turn cloudy. And 3-4 weeks before the trichs turn amber.

Lemme try what you smoke it aint weed

[Farmall]

My first harvest ... I had a small Low magnification loupe and shit vision. Anxious as all hell, i envisioned I was looking at a few amber trichomes... that was probably More mental than visual but I did harvest a few top colas. They were everything I’d hoped for but letting the maturity of the plant develop further, led to more fullness to each bud and what I could only call a “refinement of quality” in smoking the finished weed. I had taken a few of those buds and checked them up under more high tech microscope as time and money permitted at a later date only To find a significant population of trichomes both cloudy clear and amber. Something I was surprised to see but was easily identifiable by such a close up view and side by side.

as a result, several of my comments over the last 14-16 months state a wide disparity between mature harvest and expected harvest. In fact today, I posted my reasoning for not really having concerns for a seed suppliers time line on harvesting a seed. My most successful method is observing trichomes. Armed with that, I can’t debate it in any other way.

[homegrown]

Hey vostok, you should really let your plant ripen a little longer...that way it wont taste like grass clippings. If i were to use your suggestion(dead pistil indicator) I would be cutting down my Hindu Kush that still has another 4+weeks to go lol. Granted, it looks good, but i'll wait till its ready. And i'll put up a couple of pics of buds 20 days apart so you can see the trich development in three weeks.. Keep at it...it just takes practice. good growing

[vostok]

Hey vostok, you should really let your plant ripen a little longer...that way it wont taste like grass clippings. If i were to use your suggestion(dead pistil indicator) I would be cutting down my Hindu Kush that still has another 4+weeks to go lol. Granted, it looks good, but i'll wait till its ready. And i'll put up a couple of pics of buds 20 days apart so you can see the trich development in three weeks.. Keep at it...it just takes practice. good growing

Who the said my weed tastes like grass clippings ..I'm not in the states or canada for that much thanks
this thread was posted to the more expierieced growers on this site that I have yet to meet!
fairly obvious no..?

Besides I don't like couchlock

Grow your own be wise welcome to my ignore ..

[homegrown]

Relax..all beginners make a few mistakes. And cutting down early is very common. You just have to be patient...Get a loupe or a usb scope. makes it much easier to distinguish between ready or not. Oh, and i could care less where you come from..are you allowed to have real cameras? or still using polaroids? some pics of your professional grow would be cool!

[vostok]

My first harvest ... I had a small Low magnification loupe and shit vision. Anxious as all hell, i envisioned I was looking at a few amber trichomes... that was probably More mental than visual but I did harvest a few top colas. They were everything I’d hoped for but letting the maturity of the plant develop further, led to more fullness to each bud and what I could only call a “refinement of quality” in smoking the finished weed. I had taken a few of those buds and checked them up under more high tech microscope as time and money permitted at a later date only To find a significant population of trichomes both cloudy clear and amber. Something I was surprised to see but was easily identifiable by such a close up view and side by side.

as a result, several of my comments over the last 14-16 months state a wide disparity between mature harvest and expected harvest. In fact today, I posted my reasoning for not really having concerns for a seed suppliers time line on harvesting a seed. My most successful method is observing trichomes. Armed with that, I can’t debate it in any other way.

Perhaps you maybe expecting too much from your first grow efforts..?
afterall your expectations of your harvest have been feed by an over optimistic attitude
along with a very pushy sales pitch ...more so buying seeds in the us

accepting that it just a weed and can grow most places with little water or food
should chill you out
IMO: look to planning out all the grow on your calender pinned to your fridge (or phone)
is seen as very popular to get noobies organized at least in europe

a good selection of genetics is vital

cheers

[Farmall]

First grows are always a learning experience. A well read and informed grower insists on great genetics. A learned grower with experience applies knowledge to each day of that growth in order to extract the best product possible. And the circle continues