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Harvest time?

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This is my first time growing. I'm getting close to the end and I can't tell when to harvest. I'm growing Doobiebird daydream, and the package said that it can be harvest in 8 weeks. I started flushing at 6 weeks, but I am thinking I started that too early. The past week I started adding nutes again, and thought I'd flush for just a day or two. I don't know if I should continue feeding or should I flush and harvest in a few days? I'm posting pictures. Since I have never done this and have no comparison, it looks to me like the trichomes are cloudy. My plant looks so different than all the pictures I see, so I can't compare how it should look. Thanks
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I'd be chopping that. I see plenty of amber trics in one of your pictures. At least for me. Quit adding nutes. Flush for a few days to a week, whatever floats your boat.
 
It's a beautiful plant. It could be harvested at any time but if it were mine I would give it a boost of potassium and see if those calyxes don't fatten a little more over a week. If it was a photo I'd shorten it's light hours. Excellent job.
 
Not sure what you mean by "If it was a photo I'd shorten it's light hours" but I have it on 12/12. I don't have potassium by itself. I guess I'll feed it a few more times then flush. I did read somewhere that some people put it into darkness for 24 hours right before harvest. Is that what you mean? I also saw that they stress it by making an incision in the stem right before harvest also. My plant looks so different because all the buds are up on one side of the stem, it's not surrounded. I used the low stress method because I have t5 and I didn't know if the light would be strong enough to reach, so I see how some flowers became individual buds and they are not part of the main colas. I hope that is not what they mean by popcorn buds.
 
You can make a simple potassium amendment by cutting up a banana and putting it in a gallon of water and let it soak for a day or two. After straining off the banana parts add a tablespoon of Epsom and a tablespoon of molasses for a bud tea. I grow outdoors so when my daylight becomes short and my plants are budding nicely like yours I give them this concoction and the calyxes fatten up rapidly. I mentioned photo because you didn't say if your doobiebird was photo or auto. With photos when they sense the shorter days they fatten their calyxes trying to form seed. At harvest my plants are usually only receiving 9-10 hours of light outdoors.
 
Thanks for your response, my second question was before I read your answer. I'll do the banana trick,
should I use the peel too? I think its photo not auto. So to get this straight, I should lower the light time now, and for the next 1/2 week give it the potassium. then harvest next week?
 
Yes you can use coffee grounds but it does contain a lot of nitrogen. Be careful to use coffee sparingly. I once used too much and killed a plant over night when I confused my pure emulsion with my diluted feed.
 
Thanks, I'm so proud. Hopefully I won't mess up the curing phase. All new territory for me. If you look at one of the photos it has some whitish pistols on top of the plant. And from pictures posted, they all have so much more resin. I guess that's because I used t5's.
 
Just don't rush the dry! The cure, haha, you'll be sampling it every day. But man, oh man, do not skimp on the time and conditions necessary to create the perfect smoke and you will be rewarded handsomely.
 
You can rest assured that your plants in person are never going to look like my photos or anyone else's pictures.
Try turning off the grow-lights and using the flash, and your pictures will look like a lot of others you see - nice and frosty - the glitter of the plant world :)

For a while I had plant-envy, but realized they are all a little less-impressive in person, without a flash. At least mine are.
I'm not impressed and they are my plants, lol.
That binding makes me think you were a sailor either in this or a past life, because that is a hell of a rigging job!
 
Yes on the peel. You are in the harvest window now but you might want to try the banana and more darkness for a week. When I do this, often times my calyxes will swell to the point that those sugar leaves will be almost enveloped and dense.
 
Don't you have to dry it before you can sample it? Also, if it's too soon I read it can cause anxiety and paranoia.
 
I have 3 in the tent now little gals like yours my buds are not as big yet they are in day 37 of flower but for some reason are ripening very quickly. I took them as clones from a early flowering Mom. So who knows but they are healthy that's all i care about. Your looks great and i have stopped feeding too early before and then reintroduced bloom and unsulfurated molasses to help plump the buds. Don't be afraid of taking a bud off to test it as long as it's all milky trichs. I only felt anixious or had racy thoughts when i smoked clear trichs the pistols were not even curly in or brown you don't want to do that.
 
The anxiety/paranoia thing has to do with the trichomes at harvest (clear - cloudy - amber), not so much the cure...but....
You can smoke your weed whenever you want. Even pull a bud right off the plant and light it up. It's not going burn for crap or taste very good, but it will taste better than the tippy-toppest-shelf bud you have ever smoked - because you grew it!
Dry it too fast, or at too high of heat and you end up with a pile of something that smells like hay and smokes like Prince Albert in a can, lol. Just awful.

Great place to start while your plant is still on the hoof: https://www.growweedeasy.com/drying-curing
You have some choices to make - wet or dry trim - depending on your climate. Where I am, I have to do a wet trim because we have webbed toes in the PNW - nothing dries out without help, lol. But someone in a dry climate would want to do a dry trim if slowing down the dry necessary. So many decisions, so little weed, LOL.

I found the wait till it was cured properly to be the one thing I had trouble with the first grow. I was just far too excited and curious about the process - it was more of a scientific exploration than a crop at that point, lol. So much trouble waiting for a proper cure I have no idea what my weed does when it's cured right because we smoked all of it,..except the trim. That cured just fine, LOL. The 2nd run of the same strains is about to come off and I find I'm not as eager to try it until it's really ready. But I recommend trying it throughout the cure your first time (or any time ;) ) because the only way to learn why is to walk through the process.

My 2 cents usually turns into 73 cents. I apologize, lol.
 
You're right, looks better without lights.. There was a lot more binding, it was getting hard to water and prune. I've removed almost 1/2 of the ties so far, the plant is not rising up, it is staying pretty uniform. I was using the leaves to hold it down as it grew but the leaves are dying now. All is good, until the next phase. Man, there are so many steps. I'm sure it will be easier next time since I know what to expect. Thanks for your help.
 
Ok, it’s been a week, I fed the plant with the banana tea and turned the light off for 15 hours/days as suggested. I thought I would be ready to harvest in the next few days but the white hair on the top of the plant look straight still. Do I start feeding it again? I keep stopping and starting. The trichomes look amberish, and the literature I’ve read says 8 weeks to harvest. I don’t want to harvest to early, but I want the energetic effect. It’s been 9 weeks In flower phase now.
 
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