Harvest advice...

[SageSteele]

Time to harvest or wait? First grow...Northern Lights...

 

[crucialbunny]

Not yet in my opinion.

 

[homegrown]

agree with crucialbunny, lots of white pistils..when they turn rusty colored..then you can start looking close at trichomes..cant really see them in pic. nice looking bud though. hang in there....

 

[MeEasy]

Couple weeks will probably get you a third fatter only a few little red hairs you want most of the white hairs to turn. If you don't have a magnifier there's apps for your phone I use one called "cosy magnifier and microscope " it works to see the trichomes

 

[SageSteele]

This is a closeup of the trichomes...a week later (70ish % of the pistils have darkened now)...

 

[USMCnoviceMedical]

Wait about a week or so. Check them daily you tricombs look pretty clear to me. You want them all cloudy/milky whit with little to no amber

 

[SoOrbudgal]

You decide give it a shot

 

[SageSteele]

So then focus more on the trichome than the pistils...

I did harvest one bud on wednesday just as a "experiment" to compare to the rest of her, which I intend to attempt to harvest at the "prefect" time...

 

[SageSteele]

This is her sister...who grew VERY tall and much lighter leaves, lol...seems definitely to need more time - and most pistils still white...

 

[USMCnoviceMedical]

I never go by pistols. I go by tricombs only. I like them all cloudy with an amber here and there.

 

[MeEasy]

Aww baby trichomes... without seeing more than closups I'm guessing you probably have another month or more. The most common cause of a small harvests is a early harvest

Edit = had to come back and laugh at myself for posting the same picture twice 🤣😁😂

 

[SageSteele]

It's a autofem that had a 56-60 day harvest spec...today was 60 from germination. You think another month?

 

[USMCnoviceMedical]

I know what the time lines say on the sites but in all honesty if you want good bud and to not feel disappointed with your smoke I would wait for the tricombs. It took me a few grows to learn the patience necessary.

 

[420chicano]

Let those Amber Hairs Curl in nice and tight to the Nug ..then ...look at the trichomes ..

 

[MeEasy]

Those harvest schedules from the seed salesman are what happened when they grew them in their top dollar grow rooms with absolutely perfect conditions. You'll find that in the real world you will need to add 1-5 weeks to their timeline. It fluctuates with the equipment you are using, do you have a $75 light or a $1000 light and so on