Are the tops of these ready to harvest? 1st time grow

[Hrrmph]

I see. When it comes time I may just do the whole thing then. I am planning to immediately plant 2 more and I’m really looking forward to using what I’ve learned so far.

[CaptainWiese91]

I’ve always Harvest the whole plant.
Waiting 2 more weeks for the last buds, is for me not worth it.
2 weeks after harvest I’m already started on the next grow, seedlings popping up.
But if you have the time or patience for it, then it’s possible to harvest a little at a time.

[Hrrmph]

And thanks to you bboy! So, what is your or anyone’s opinion of harvesting a little at a time? I have read you can do that but it seems like most people harvest the whole plant and I don’t know why.

[bboyfromwayback]

Thanks! Your tris are pretty much white so it may be ready, definitely time to start flushing if you haven’t already. Mine are mostly white but there’s still some clear, especially when you go further down. Ive been growing a long time but this is only my 2nd time growing autos. Your first time growing them look way better than my 1st attempt so great job! With photo types I prefer to have some amber trichomes but on my 1st auto grow they never turned amber so once all the leaves died off I harvested. There’s always conflicting information on any subject but I’ve read that some autos don’t turn amber and that they’re ready once all white. GG autos are supposed to be ready 8wks into flower and mine started flowering on day 22 so I’m going to let them go until Wednesday then turn the lights off, give em 48hrs of darkness then chop down Friday.

[Hrrmph]

Oh ok. Those are some fat buds! I hope mine get bigger. I know I made a lot of mistakes so I’ll be happy with whatever I get. I don’t actually know how old they are. 10 weeks at least, maybe a bit older.

[Hrrmph]

Close up

[bboyfromwayback]

The red on the top leaves is normal. All the energy is going to the buds so the leaves die off. What week are you at total? My GG autos hit 10wks yesterday and still have another week to go I’d say. Here’s a pic of them a few weeks ago just so you know the coloring is normal. Lights are off right now or I’d take a pic of them almost bare since I remove the leaves as they die off.

[crunchyfrog]

I am just now getting close to my first harvest myself and, without being able to see a good closeup of the trichomes, I would say they are not ready yet. There are still a lot of white pistils and the buds do not look fully developed to me. I think a statement or a picture about a close up view of your trichomes on the buds would help.

[Hrrmph]

Here are pics of the main Colas of my 2 gorilla glue autos. I think the red is from stress of over feeding a few weeks back, at least that’s what I gathered from people.

and here are pics of the whole plants

Another question, why is the redness predominately on the top of the canopy? Is it stress from the lights? I don’t have room to get a photo of my full setup.