Trichrome pics - How close to harvest?

[echdk3]

Hi guys! How close do you think I am to harvest based on these trichrome pics? These are Girl Scout Cookies 47 days since the flip to 12/12. This is my first harvest so please give me your advice! Thank you very much in advance

[CaptainWiese91]

It’s a little blurry on the buds itself, but I think I see some amber here and there.
remember it’s the Buds you need to focus on and not the sugar leaves which have plenty of amber.

[echdk3]

Thanks! So are you saying that the sugar leaves will always have more amber than the buds, and that I should only gauge how close I am to harvest based on the buds and not on the sugar leaves?

[CaptainWiese91]

Correct.
When my sugar leaves are full of amber, this is the time I normally start to look at the trichomes on the buds.

[echdk3]

Very helpful information, thanks for that!

[PLreef]

Any way you can take pics in regular light? Those blurple lights are screwing with my eyes. Like Capt said, make sure they are pics of the buds not the sugar leaves.

[echdk3]

Thanks for the replies. These are the best I’ve been able to capture so far, but I’ll try again.

Does 47 days seem kind of on the early side? I was expecting more like 8-10 weeks or longer but I could be way off.

Would it be okay for me to turn my lights off right in the middle of a 12 hour lights-on cycle in order to get some natural light photos? Doesn’t mess with my girls to have their light cycles interrupted?

[SoOrbudgal]

Just pull them out of the tent with the lights on.

[echdk3]

Thanks SoOrbudgal but I can’t do that because I’m tied in to a scrog.

[MagicMike66]

Don’t mess with the dark cycle. Take pics during the day

[echdk3]

But it should be fine if I turn my lights off during the day for a few minutes so that I can get some natural light photos? I don’t intend on disturbing the 12 hours of darkness.