I think They're Ready + Worms???

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I'm thinking these are ready to harvest but wanted to make sure. Also have a few buds that I think worms got to and destroyed because they're dried out and crumbly. Here's some pics.

Is this because of worms?

[dirtymike]

I might be wrong but they might be a little on the moist side. Is that budrot i see??? 4th pic

[Bluey]

Yep. Sure is. Well advanced too.

[SoOrbudgal]

I think if you don't find them worms when you broke open that bud it's more like bud rot. When i find worms in bud it's usually right there munching occationally i find them chewing right in the center and i see a very small spot of brown. Do you see any teeny tiny poop balls? It looks almost like flea dirt? If it's been real wet an humid could of been rot.

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I know that the plants have never gotten wet from rain, just watering at the base and our humidity is low at around 30% at it's worst. It could be rot, I'll look closer for poop. What do you all think about the other pics, are they ready for harvest?

[SoOrbudgal]

Geeze i blew them up for a trichchome closeup i see milky which is in the zone for harvest. But i don't know how old these are photo or auto what's the seed site say about how long it grows? If it's a bag seed find then it's close i'd like to see more of the plant. Mine were outdoors from june 12th till just 10days ago and i started them indoors had them 2months prior to going outside. If you got great weather let them go as long as you can and get a jewlers loupe to check the trichs or microscope of some sort. Are the leaves dying?

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I looked closer and did not see any poop, must be bud rot. What do I do now?

[SoOrbudgal]

Gotta cut that out of the bud and check over all that plant for more of it. I throw it away, how could you use it? If it's all through the plant best to harvest it

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SoOrbudgal- They are all clones and were hardened when I got them and planted outside the day after mothers day. Here are a few pics of the entire plants The green ones are Shiskberry and the purple ones are a Mac and a Cake. We are suppose to have two days of 83° temps then back down in the 50's after that. I just watered them today so should I wait or harvest now?

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Here's another really close up of one, I can't take a pic with my jewelers loupe.

[SoOrbudgal]

All i'm telling you is from this huge bud shot it looks ready for harvest. I had a all purple plant like yours i harvested 10days ago. Only you can see the true ripeness in person. I harvested the top, middle colas off mine and left the lower parts to ripen further for 7days under cover. I'm in the PNW it's cool an rainy now and i found beginnings of mold/stem rot. When buds get real dense later in the fall the chances of mold then bud rot really happens quickly. Great shot of that last pic big bud yesss sir that looks ready.

[SoOrbudgal]

I removed top and middle of these last plants do to long rainy days earlier in the month of Oct. I was able to let the bottom halfs ripen more cause i had protection for them. But still with fog or rain in the evenings i harvested the best ripest like yours. I'm burping jars now. Don't take too long to make up your mind that's a beautiful plant you've taken care of for many months.

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Yours sort of look like ours, have you noticed that this years plants seem to be less full than last years? I know last years you couldn't see the stem at all. BTW, if you don't remember, I'm in Medford so our weather is most likely like yours, cooler and wetter.

[SoOrbudgal]

Sorry forgot we are sorta neighbors LOL. I was in Central Point last weekend with my daughter. Went to that festival downtown Medford. Well i'm getting rather slack on outdoor grows during summer anymore, this year felt like i could'nt get away for more than 2days. You are abit dryer than us couple hrs north. Sure i could of let my biggest go longer but i'm tired of watching them. I gave away probley a LB of pretty good buds on branches, just tired of trimming,hanging and burping jars. My plants did fine, i'm happy with the results and the smoke is fine for me and my friends. I'm cutting back with growing so much just going to provide for me and folks who really aren't able to grow.

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Harvested most of the plants leaving just a few lower limbs for a bit longer. I guess we got lucky and only found 4 buds with some rot.

[dirtymike]

Sweet, got to love harvest. Wheres me pipe.