Sugar leaf - close-up

[welshweed]

Hello chaps. I'm on Day 70 with my purple auto and wondering when I should harvest her.
Here's a pic of a sugar leaf on topmost bud. Is she ready for the chop d'you reckon?

[Ace1973]

I would go with what is on the bud, going by a sugar leaf won't tell you much.

[welshweed]

Why's that, Ace? Aren't the trychs on the sugar leaf representative of those on the bud?

[OldManGrower]

You smoke the bud not the sugar leaves. Also, a lot of the THC on the leaves is older than that on the bud. That's why you see it on the leaves early in the plants flowering stage.

[welshweed]

Guess I'll wait a while before harvesting then. Thanks for that info.

[UndergroundFarmer]

If you watch grow videos, most of the indica-dominant plants will have a yellow cast to their sugar leaves at harvest because of all the amber trichs there when the pros decide to chop.