Tried it this year with the outdoor crop and it is definitly worth waiting when you can. Indoor gave substantial result in yield and felt potency/effect. Thank you
I started growing in the early 1980’s long before the talk of amber trichomes. My education came from hippie growers who grew since the 60’s and they always told me to harvest outdoors a week after all the hairs Turn brown and curled in. If you still see white hairs let it go longer. I was also told to harvest in sections. Harvest the top of the plant, wait a week or week and a half harvest the middle and then another week or week and half harvest the bottoms. I have harvested bottoms well into November. Those bottoms that were tiny little buds when I harvested the tops were now fat frosty nugs loaded with resin and a deep purple.
Every time I'm 1 month into flower I start watching these 'when to harvest' videos. They help me sit on my hands and refrain from chopping the plants too soon.
@@jeffngarden The most stressful part of growing. My current method is. 24 hour RO water soak, transfer to between two paper towels sandwiched between two plates, popped seed then placed into a divot of Happy Frog surrounded by Ocean Forest. Clear plastic cup, with air holes cut in, placed on top of the planted seed.
IMO if your looking for max yield, and you let your flowers amber, the buds will get fatter and heavier but not more potent. I pick at the first sign of tricomes turning amber. If you let 25 percent amber up you have reduced the potency of the bud because THC, CBD etc are turned into CBN. Also you will notice the amber heads will begin to deteriorate. Personally I would rather have my flowers at max potency and a little less couch feeling than max yield. I also grow different strains for different effects. Just my unprofessional opinion as a successful home grower.
I do agree. Mostly. Try a few colas and pull around 60-70% instead of 25%. Then allow it to get a full cure. Then next fall try it. So smooth and mental, perfect for the winter blah. Even though I love this, I only do it to maybe 20% of my overall yield.
If you harvest cloudy you can get more of a high than stoned, but they all have to be. more stoned is 50/50 cloudy, amber and will indeed have higher yield but can cause issues with small parts of the buds drying up, like they don't get any water because the plants themselves don't ask for it that much anymore it's last 2 weeks, can be genetic specific. i once had a 8 week indica that bloomed for 14 weeks and still 1 could go for a week more
“More of a high than stoned” 😂 I remember in high school when we used to say “I’m not high yet, I’m only stoned” like the words actually had a different meaning.
Finally, OMG, finally a good video educating ripe flowers. I have noticed more experience growers get huge buds but don't explain to much. If always "you r choice or you will know". Buds really start bulking up when hairs slow down, you see them shrivel and turn. This happens in bulking, trike's continue to form. Some clear, some cloudy and a few amber. As you keep monitoring which seems forever, the change is gradual over 1 to 2 weeks regarding trike's but the size of the buds keep getting larger. So yes, with practice and time forms confidence. I now start doing my flush when I see 10 to 15 percent clear, 70 percent ish cloudy and about 5 to 10 percent amber. At this point I know I have a good 7 days of flush, checking every other day the trike's. When I see things progress and leafs get used up, I determine when my 48 hours of darkness will be done. Huge tip: this put plant into autumn panic mode and you will get a good amount of trike's. I also keep it cool and that help preserve trike's longer (67 F roughly). Don't boughter watering during this time either. These are my personal finishing touches that works well....most of my friends love the advice and enjoying their grows much better. I hope this helps you too 😉
That lines up with what greengoblin answered in a question I asked on one of his vids. Asked if a mostly sativa hybrid would need to go past 10 weeks as that was the advertised time, actually 9-9.5, but he said some sativa hybrids can go anywhere from 11 weeks to as mush as 14 weeks.
lol exactly, the game is to be sold, not to be told. I laugh at people commenting about milky trichomes, and % this and % that. The bro science is entertaining, Mark is letting out some good secrets!
A new study been done on the 48 of darkness done by a professor at an University. Triconbs are produced in the light cycle through photosynthesis . On you tube Chris Mr. Grow it did an interview about that step and triconbs is a response from stress from too much light or heat . So by putting more stress 48 hrs of light could benefit. Something new to experiment.
I’m 40 and did this experiment outdoors years ago with just 1 big plant…and you wouldn’t believe the resins and oils, some were almost black they were so prevalent…it ended up being my most potent plant I’ve ever grown…I let it go til the night before I first actually frost…I’m in Buffalo/Western New York area…so yes do NOT be afraid to experiment and try things outside the box! Great video @Mark! ✊🏾❤️💯💯💯
if you grow outdoors white trichomes have less CBD so it will be more uplifting but if you keep it till dark amber it will have more CBD thus making you drowsy sleepy heavy. some might not like it.
Very cool, but to maybe enlighten. Depending on your desired effect.... letting it go to far can give people headaches. Fast high with quick recovery. Personally I chose to start a week flush when I see on buds only, about 75% cloudy leaning into solid milk. I know that I have a solid 7 days for flush and 48 hours of darkness. With no water, leafs nutrients being eaten by plant/bud they hit 48 hours of darkness. The trike's go into overdrive preservation ( like it's winter). Seriously, trike's plump, and dam near double the frost. I chop and hang in cool dark insulted box with little air flow with cool air from bottom and warmer air venting top where fan and filter is. 5 to 8 days for stem pop and its trim time, start to cure and burping. I usually have bud last a full year, strong and tasty as the 3rd and 4th week of cure. Terps hate heat and light, love 62% RH to maintain that semi moist freshness. Many people do this different but use same principles. I enjoy my long lasting clean high from a half bowl. Nothing wrong with amber but it's a sign of over ripping, to much amber I fined the taste s effected.👍 Happy growing buddy!
@@LiesGov You mean cbn, thc turns into it when the trichs ripen. Cbd is strain dependant it tones down THCs effect and has other health benefits but won't make you as sedated as cbn
Haven grown alfalfa for years, past a certain point, you sacrifice quality for quantity big time by letting it mature more. There is s sweet spot there though to get kinda the best of both worlds. I’m guessing lavender is the same.
I've been a prisoner of the trichome trap and harvested way too early for so long. Not that I'm impatient but listened to the wrong information. This is GREAT!!! Makes sense, next plant will be a proper plant!! Thanks for the videos!!
I just did the same thing. I got impatient. Started to see some Amber and ended up clipping them a few weeks too early. Very disappointed… but this is my inexperience showing. This was my first indoor run.
"Next one will be...". Great hobby as you an never reach 100% perfect result, so you will never get bored to grow the next plant 😊 Ive been growing 25 years and still no perfect plant🤠
Grew my first 4 plants last summer. I have not smoked weed in over 40 years. I harvested with only a few ambers showing. 1 or 2 puffs and i am wack. No need for me to fuss over plants any longer. I got enuf stash to last me for years. I added a slice of apple to a tupperware bowl with my flowers to keep them soft and tender
It's a trade-off. You are getting more yield by waiting, but when trichs turn amber they are decarbing. Am I going to get more profit from the extra weight or the higher THC? Every single time - the higher THC brings in exponentially more per harvest batch. This is why I wait until the trichs are milky white and no more than 30% turning amber. To get extra weight, I defan about 2 weeks before harvest. This gives you one final boost in weight, and after 2 weeks the boost slows down to a crawl. This is the way. When I wait until the trichs are all amber, it means that at least 30% of them are now copper and brown. My THC% is now crashing and that 21% strain is now down to 14%, which is a HUGE difference at market.
@@slaup1163 I manage cannabis farms and always get more $$$ from high TCH than higher weight. A 25% strain fetches up to $2000 a lb. at market, but if I wait to harvest while bulking the buds and those trichomes turn amber and copper, my THC is now 14%, but I got an additional 5% weight of a strain that only sells for $800. Clearly I'm falling behind when I wait to harvest while trying to bulk. I always do my bulking techniques before harvest anyway, so at harvest time its 100% about the trichomes. Yes, you get a more sophisticated smoke from amber trichs, but nobody buys weed for its complexity. It's all about bag appeal: Eyes, Nose, Mouth, with the Head, Body, Legs and Wings being a story I have to tell the customer since they can't see or smell those qualities in the dispensary. Same goes for a complex smoke - it's a story I have to tell them and stories typically don't sell weed. They want high THC%, the higher the better, because this stuff is expensive to buy and the less they have to burn to get high the longer their bag lasts, right?
I agree with you 100% except i wouldn't defan. my growers all this season brought in between 22% - 34%, No one got lower this year in my group. I would also recommend Drops of Balance ty for you post bother you are being pinned
@@SuperZekethefreak thats what ive heard and read, thc numbers sell because thats really all customers have to look at unless the terp numbers are listed too. Even then, its the overall thc numbers that help the sale
As everyone will always have an opinion mine would be the more amber trichomes you have the more you decrease the potency of your grow. Yes, and I agree your yield may be slightly more but that's where my trade off begins. I harvest at a milky/cloudy stage where the potency is at its peak and a better high than a so-so high without waiting to be disappointed. Nice video though. Good work.
The flower will only give a COUCH LOCK high when you let all the trichs turn amber💯% the reason they want less amber is for that in between buzz so you can function. Me I function too much so I need that calm my ass down buzz n relax💯% atleast you didn’t get it harvest prematurely
it develops into a personal preference, how amber, how soon, etc and when you can get them all down (weather pending) I start the harvest when I see begining to turn amber, or if I have a 2 wk flush undergone, as long as they are all milky and hairs dry, good to go before the insects come and ruin everything. (or thieves)
@@mramsey123 Flush with a flush agent if using any non organic feed. Or go a step above, and flush with a weak mix of cannazym and bio boost, get much better terps earthyness and flavour than just using water and you dont need to taper off your feed after week 5
😉I could tell by the leaf texture as well, my lavender plants have been growing for some time but my key indicator was its leaves. They went from this silky smooth texture to a almost lizard rough quality. Yet they are still green and healthy looking. I'm pulling my lavender pedals this weekend.
My trichomes are 90% cloudy and 10% amber. I'm pulling them under the full moon on Monday night. Oh what a marvelous summer it's been for growing. My friend's crop got whacked with spider mites. I took one puff and it smelled like Bigfoot lit a fart with a Zippo. Tasted like hamburgers.
For what it's worth, the trichome color is an important indicator of when to harvest but the color is based on your preference: Clear - Do not harvest. They're not ready yet. Milky - Heady high Amber - Couch-lock high
Great video! I have gotten patient and don’t rush any of my grows anymore. People can wait and the product will be there when it’s ready. I refuse to rush cutting down my plants because I used to be in that position all the time. People would bug the hell out of me asking me at least every couple of days “is it ready, I need blah blah this and I need blah blah that”. I don’t care what they need because all they want is to be the first to get my bud and sell it so they can move on and forget about whether or not if it was fully ready or not. Be patient and wait!!! Don’t let anyone start pushing you to cut everything down they can go to the next one and pester them.
I think the chopping early comes from the old outdoor grow days when an early rain would cause serious bud rot. Still applies if you're growing outside of a greenhouse...
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Great trichome talk, man. I just pulled one plant from my tent, it was showing plenty of red/brown trichomes, I'm giving it 48 hours of darkness, then snipping and drying. I probably could of waited another week, but it's my first grow, and I'm still getting sensitized to the cues. Thank you!
@KALI GIRL ....and then you change the strain and it could be totally different.....each strain has its own strengths and weaknesses.....unless one grows multiple grows of same strain for at least 2-3 runs, it is IMPOSSIBLE to know and learn that strains strengths and weaknesses, and all of that strains specific capabilities.....my 2nd run of any strain, is ALWAYS better than the first round.....the first round is a learning experience....period....lol....imo
I have one plant set to pick on the 9th (full moon). The rest are set to get picked on the new moon (Oct 23rd). Cut waterings from the 9th. Now water on 11, 14, 18, and harvest on the 23rd.
kept the leafs on half of my in's this last time. it took a bit longer to dry but i can tell the difference on the press. the flower even looks better. long time wet trimmer changed now. thanks mark for sharing all the great info. i also only flush for a few days. happy growing everyone
Quick tip from personal experience: let the entire plant completely dry out, roots in soil and everything. Once dry you will have bud instantly ready to smoke, smoother than anything else
I allways used to harvest early. I was doing guerilla grows in the woods.small patches here and there then i lost one patch i couldnt find for a few weeks. I finally found them by smell. Waaay better bud. I couldnt figure out before why my weed smelled so grassy before turns out i had been jumping the gun that whole time!
9:40 I wouldn't think the plant just pulls nitrogen out of the leaf's. The plant itself knows its getting close to the end of cycle but will never give up until actually killed. Even if the smallest chance to continue living, it will try. This includes devouring itself to remain viable. Its using whatever it needs from wherever can be spared, leafs are just the first sacrifices. In a natural setting she likely would be storing extra, nature doesn't operate on specifics or regularity concerning nutrition and water. You get what you get, that's it. As far as leaving foliage for a "cocoon" effect. Again not sure the benefits of that but the plant significantly overproduces foliage as well. Another "stockpiling" defense and for thousands of years this planet was grazed by herbivores in the wild. Plucking tender new growth from all over, exactly how we mimic topping and defoliation. These are regular experiences for it in the wild even today. People who say leave it alone it knows how to grow. Well, your kinda wrong. It knows how to make seed that's it's only desire in life, to do whatever necessary to remain fertile and develop seed. If your looking to harvest seeds that's fantastic but most are not. Prune them, top them and bend them, how naive are we to think pruning has just come from humanity. 😂 Nature's got this shes been using animals to prune long before any humans started doing it.
I harvested my plant in April and I left the little buds on the planet and I kept watering my plant and it started all over and I will be harvesting my plant for the second time! 😅😂
When you cure the little buds do a smoke test to feel the difference so is it more couch lock or energetic ? I have wondered if leaving the lower limbs longer after cutting the main top colas would be the way to go because the lower limbs did not get as much light .
If you cut a square off and it had 100 trichs and 30 were amber, and it took 7 days to dry. Is there 30 amber after 7 days or do some cloudy ones turn amber in that drying time, and some clear ones turn cloudy?
Who else is doing recon for harvesting?I'm so excited myself,first time iv gotten to the point where I have buds and I spent 125$ on a rain barrel,that's all iv been given my plant and three feeds of plant nutrient dry mix to the soil.
Good luck. It's the season for harvest. I grew a few this year. And cut 4 plants yesterday. I didn't realise it took so long to trim them down. Nor did I realise the amount of sticky that would end up on your hand and scissors. Oh well. Have fun...🎄
@@capitaldd3693 well it was a nice harvest but I didn't premature harvested..smoke was good tho.this year I have tree plants. not going to screw up like I did ten months ago.i had small piece of paper laid down underneath the buds to catch anything that fell off
I have a friend that goes out and watches his plants to see if the are spitting, he called it. He said at one point they spurt. That's when he harvests. It's the only bud ive ever tripped on. It was a pin joint..😂😂 idk what hes doing..but wow
Hey bro', that's wild. Cannabis "spitting." We'd love to see that on video. Ask him to record a visual of it happening, and we'll invite him on the show to chat about it. Our viewers would LOVE to check it out. Thanks for the comment bro'! Happy harvest!! Hope you get some more of that psychedelic thc.
Ive seen this go the other way many times. Ive seen growers get scared to harvest too early and end up harvesting too late and product has lost all terps and structure. Ive seen this happen in a matter of 2 weeks. There is definitely a happy medium. Most cultivars have their own specific "best" time to harvest.15+ years exp here. The only way to be close to perfect is to have experience with the cultivar you work with.
absolutely nailed it "The only way to be close to perfect is to have experience with the cultivar you work with." My mentor preaches genetics and I am convinced with all my research its mostly genetics that decides the potential, its your knowledge of how it grows that can maximize it.
im just starting in week 14 of flower seriously is this an unheard of amount of flowering time in week 8 and 9 i droped light cycle down to 11 on and 13 off and once week 10 started i droped down to 10 on and 14 off and my trichromes are barley starting to turn cloudy is the flowering time taking so long beacuse i tweeked the light cycle
How do you decide which parts to examine for trichrome mix? I see plenty of amber trichromes on the sunny sides of my buds but not on the shady sides, so the choice of where to look will make a big difference. I simply never hear about where to sample.
10 year grower here I found a new easier way to tell. Take the new vape pens with the ceramic hot end. Vape some sugar leaves close to the buds you think almost done. If that's the effect you want harvest. If not wait. No grower can know what the consumer wants unless they know them personally. Ask 3 people to grow you the same 3 different strains. Even if you let them grow more than one cycle they will all have different effects. From each grower even though the strain is the same. This is why anyone who smokes. Not really sure what their fav herb is cause it's to random unless you grow it yourself. Sure there are great dispensaries with great growers but get ready to pay hard cash for that. Herb should be so cheap that when it's federally legal big tobacco companies cannot take over. I got it down to about 80$ an ounce of top shelf herb, 15 a gram for dabs, and 50 a gram for crystalline. I swear if big tobacco companies try to get into my area I will hand out free herb till they shut down.
@KALI GIRL This is nature. This is why breeders will plant hundreds of seeds cause they all will vary. So they look for the genetics they want. Then clone that plant/breed it. Each seed will always vary. There is no way that I know to control nature trying to evolve and alter it's genetics in the process. Besides cloning from a mother plant. Same goes for the bs % numbers of thc that the seed will be. It's a marketing scam. It's impossible to know how much thc will turn up in your grow setup and will always very. So grow them out and take clones so you can keep that strain you like that comes out better. Hope that helps.
Lately I keep hearing about seed companies claiming 8 week harvest, then I see the actual plant harvested on their TH-cam page at 72 days, not even looking heavy like they claim. Then you read actual journals and hear this top shelf advice here thankfully, don't listen to the seed companies, like his current videos are talking about. Don't be scared of "bagseed" either a lot of the time a good growers bag seeds are quality S1 seeds. Chemdog came from Gerry Garcias Bag seed lol.. So glad to come reference this video again upon my harvest. Tired of the industry speed dried and trimmed weed, done in bud tumblers which steal all the tricomes for their pleasure, leaving you with cured hay, not to mention non organic issues of all kinds you could avoid easily with Brix and Perfect Gardens. Thanks again Mate!
Sorry to burst peoples bubbles but flushing does matter. It matters for our bodies and it matters if you're smoking your final product. I have over 20 years of smoking and growing experience and I always notice harsh smoke and bad taste if I don't stop using my organic nutes 2 weeks before harvest
I know you would increase weight but many talk about their plants producing a couch lock effect if left to mature to the end ? Not sure?!? I’m growing sativas so I don’t know if I left them grow more they would lose their sativa high and I would be asleep on the couch !
I never worried about the flood because I always did long cures. When they were ready around Xmas time and just after the new year, the flood dried up and I was just putting it out to the market.
Now you know why "Years" of experience is required. I see many think .. Ill just grow and get rich ha ha ha ha ha ha ... Money makes money .. with experience. I grow to stay in bud..You should too.
I am glad I dont listen to so many claimed experts lol...some say watch the hairs...when they turn brown harvest..BS! My trichromes still looked clear so I took the chance and let them grow,,all those buds have doubled in size and still have no look of dying ..although I know it is soon I live in the north east. My branches look like that stick 3" in diameter and 2 feet long lol (bruce banner Sativa
So ive never really understood the whole if you pick it when they are milky its an uppy high and if you pick them Amber it's a couch high. Why have 2 different strains if they do the same thing. Sativa picked milky is an upper type stone and Amber it's a couch lock. Indica picked milky its an upper stole stone and Amber it's a couch lock. I don't get it. I would think that an indica does this and no matter when you pick it it does that.same with sativa's. So either can be both?
Sativa/indica are more about terpenes, but that’s another topic. You could say like this: A sativa with amber are uplifting with a touch of couch lock, nice when relaxing but still want to focus a bit, like playing games. While a indica with amber are super couch lock to the point of hard to focus. Nice for night time before sleep or when you want to relax and no need to focus.
The best way to know ( for sure) is to let the plant tell you, other words let the heads fill out, or stay swelling until they start looking like their mushrooming. Not a problem to let a good portion of them to go full amber, almost too much. As long as the majority are still swelling and ripening up. Personally I let mine go until its obvious there finished. 70-75% will be that nice golden color just before they reach that amber look. And 25% will be that dark amber you know is finished. I've noticed the terpenes are abundant at this time. The last week of flowering is when the Terps start stacking up... Remember you want the grow media to be good and dry at harvest. This hastens the ripening, brings out terps, makes clipping easier I Does the balloon look like it can take more air
You bet, the longer you let it ripen,or swell up, the heavier the high..they'll take up all water/carbs left in the roots and leaves. Big key is leach your soil, before the golden trichromes turn amber. By this time the plant should be in the last 7 days of flower. Stop watering all together. Let her take up all the water/nutrient storaged in the roots,leaves. When the leaves are wilting because of dehydration. Put them in the dark for 3 days, colder you can make the room the better. A little air flow is all you need. I've been doing it like this for about 8 years now, with no problems. The trimming work is easier too, sucker leaves are about ready to fall off. Looks like crystals on Everything... im gonna call it "couchlocking"a plant
@@kylesyx8432 All great advice! My soil is soo good I have worms crawling around in it and the amnesia haze that’s sitting in it has buds as big as my arm. 😂. But I’m figuring out very fast that chopping it is just the fucking beginning. I luckily have a cedar lined closet that dries nice and slow. If they were photo period seeds I would usually wait till first frost but I do autos because of I don’t want to go to jail. And they are fast.
This however, really doesn’t apply to autoflowers though. Their “time” is almost destined, set from the off with seed at least. It’s a very different matter determining optimal ripeness with autoflowers vs photos, you hardly want to see over 5% amber there but over 90 will be full traffic light shiny bulbous cloudy and smelling peak galore, IME anyway.
The kid who taught me how to grow eight years ago, had two words for me about harvesting. "Not yet". At 4100 feet, I leave them in the ground until the hard freezes come or Haloween--whichever comes first. This year I might have to pull some of my indicas before that so I don't plug up my drying area. Ended up growing twice as many plants as I needed because the runts kept growing after their replacements took over, and i just couldn't kill them. Now the runts are two feet taller than me.
My Chongs Choise Auto Gorilla Glue ... after a Heat wave all the Fan Leaves died and then then slowly the sugar leaves also browned and now the buds are browning with no leaves ... Nozt sure if i should havest before they go totally brown ...still just a rare amber amongst trichomes but looks like the plants dying any wayze ...
I've always had that theory that if you think it's ready wait 2weeks . I live in Maine so when there ready they usually start to get bud rot. An it's usually not quit ready. So to get that ripe flower you have to cut a little off. It is what it is
It’s hard to get good info about Maine. In this video he mentions keeping the foliage to make a cocoon. If we did that up here it would rot from lack of airflow.
If you get bud rot every year (not just in the years when there's more rain than usual in the last month of flowering) means you are growing the wrong strain(s).
Yeah in Florida they must harvest too early because the flower out here is subpar! Very disappointing to buy an eighth for a ridiculously high price and not feel anything after you smoke it!
I was always told that you’re trying to keep the tricomes in the “milky/cloudy” phase because that’s when they’re the most “potent” and less “couch lock”. And to harvest when tricomes are 1/3 amber so ensure maturity and to get a mixture of mind/body effects. Definitely get noticeably more yield every week after this point though
Yeah as I’ve understood it, and noticed myself, an early harvest is obviously weak and in the head with no body. A peak harvest (milky white with a few just starting to turn amber) is preferred in my opinion. A late harvest being anywhere from 20% to 70% amber. I like to harvest buds as I feel they mature. A few months back I made an early, peak and late harvest of Jungle Cake, all off the same plant. The early had a creeper effect, almost psychedelic and visual, very heady. The peak was the best and most balanced. The late was very physical, almost like a different strain. Confusing and stupefying. To me it all depends on what you want. I work at a grow and if you take three people who like Jungle Cake, one is gonna prefer that creeper effect, and one is gonna want it so stupefying that they can’t use it on break and successfully go back to work! We know this, it’s all a matter of preference. I prefer the peak harvest of basically no to very few amber trichomes. My grows are all personal though, I’ll share with friends and have my own. I don’t go for yield, I always go for the closest thing to “perfection” I can find. I suppose you could say quality over quantity. With a large commercial grow, the cost of quality is naturally gonna dip when yield is the focus. 20 years ago, the way we harvested was by the amount of pistils that turned orange compared to the ones that were still white. There was no consensus about trichomes or what peak time was, and no one I knew or in any books I had were actually inspecting them under magnification. It was much more touch-and-go than it is now. Everything is so scientific now.
@@ajhproductions2347 I think I’ll harvest when they just start turning amber too. Gelato 41 x Sunset Sherbet bx2 by Seed Junky. Very gelato purple indica. Want more euphoric effects but want them to be done too. They’ll keep turning amber as they dry/cure. 15%/20% amber in the end is what I want.
It depends on the weather if it's outdoors, inside you can have trichomes that take forever to switch over to amber. In the real world it's hard it's difficult you just got to make a call
An excellent point being raised here is that Its always a good idea to re assess the ways and whys of what you do. my babys have just started sexing coz im in the southern hemisphere and I dont have fancy stuff like feminized seeds :) I got a bunch of unknown sativa strains growin out back that are the reason I get up early :) Love the channel and Ill try let some more amber into my life this year
You let too many of those trichromes get amber your weed will be like a tranquilizer. If you like weed that just knocks you out then yeah let her keep going.
what do people here think of harvesting a indica at a cloudy trich or maybe a sativa at couch lock trich? i only have last fall and this fall for experience with cannabis. lots of perennials though under my belt. its so fascinating how many different techniques are capable of being utilized with cannabis!
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Hey! I am growing my first plant in Virginia and about 75 percent of the white hairs have turned orange but all the white crystals on the leaves still look clear maybe some have a milky look but it’s not a big plant so it’s hard to see if the crystals are still clear or if they are a little milky. I have 2 more seeds I’m waiting to sprout but I have learned a lot from my first plant and made a lot of mistakes but I smoke everyday well vape and I’m allowed to grow 4 plants at a time and this has always been a dream of mine and it will save us a lot of money from the medical marijuana pharmacy. Can you give me any advice on when I should harvest my plant?
Ive grown for over 8 years, alot of poeple see big buds n wonder what am i doing wrong, most heavy resinous buds are acheived through strain type, air flow n the types of food you use, honestly, most huge buds depend on the strain, theres thousands of hybrids available yet only some are heavy yeilders. If ya want huge flowers pick a strain that produces bothe yield and potency, what i recommend is big bud, blue dream, white widows etc. Dont believe the pictures, ya cant make a medium yielding strain produce huge buds, its in the genetics
Also i forgot, if ya want to, purchase a strain that matures in 50to 65days, some strains require up to 90 days. Its common sense, faster developing strains offer more growing cycles.also, through almost a decade ive known about terpene enhancers, how it works it tricks the plant into a higher photosythesis wich increase smell, taste, plant resins and you can usually harvest a week earlier then normal. I personally prefer medium yields with a faster growth cycle. More crops better production without losing quality. And also make sure the strain you choose is wise because alotta genetics dont get super tall, questions??, contact an experienced person like myself. Theres way more too it then ya read.
I feel as if you need to let the plants mature don't pull so early the more surface area the more clear or milky trichomes you will get even if you see alot of amber and some clear still. Trust me always take it 2 extra weeks is my rule of thumb. Also a 200x scope will be a miracle tool for you. Great video growmie
Mark. I agree with you on most of what you are saying. But isn't it true, that when the trichs. turn to color. That the THC is degrading ? So why would you want more trichs. to turn color? Sure you MIGHT get more yield, but if the high isn't there. Is it worth it? I don't believe the lost in potency is worth the percent or two of yield. I totally agree with you in regards to. If you think your plant is ready, that waiting another week or two won't hurt. I've performed numerous experiment's on this subject. With numerous different strains. Each experiment was performed on 42 plants at a time. The first experiment I let the 42 plants go 10 weeks. The next 42 plants 12 weeks. Then 14 weeks and the last 42 Plants 16 weeks. On each experiment I took one plant at 8 weeks, one at 10 weeks and so on up to 16 weeks. I used the top bud only. And measured the diameter. I just squeezed it for density. I took a wet and dry weight. And I used a microscope to see if there was any degradation or increase in trichrome production. And any degradation in bud structure. Oh and all these experiment's were performed with so called 8 week strains. The results of these experiment's were so small. That it's not even worth mentioning. I spent alot of time on these experiment's. Probably close to 40 hours. For basically nothing. I did find out that bud structure started degrading at 15 weeks. And then the difference from 15 to 16 weeks was pretty big. And of course that effected the trichs. a little. Also it was very hard to tell any difference in the high. So in conclusion this was a total waist of my time. Now if I wanted to make a name for myself. Like most the clowns in this industry try and do. I could state, oh at this week it increased this and at that week it increased that. But that's not what I'm after. I always try and keep it real. What I'm after, and what I have not even come close to achieving. Is some great one hit weed that knocks you on your ASS. Now this is just my opinion. And like Mark says. Opinions are like assholes. And almost everybody is one. LMAO 🤣. Later.....
Great experiment but shitty strains. they already genetically modified to die after 8 weeks so your experiment was already doomed from the begining. stay away from ALL GMO crops.
@@LiesGov LOL I didn't know you were a mind reader. Tell me, What strains did I use ? Oh and these experiment's were performed about 10 years ago. Good try........
@@assog5737 take it easy on levander it kills your memory too! as u wrote: "Oh and all these experiment's were performed with so called 8 week strains."
I think the high i better with cbd. I have heard the more cbd is on the plant the longer it flowers. Maybe I misspoke or misused the word degraded ty for your post as alway Ass OG
Depends on your area. Around here the first frost comes after almost a month of cold and damp weather that promotes rot and stunts the plant. Only autos are viable.
Did that last year, threw down some fine alfalfa hay to mulch and just harvested the large buds, left the rest till December, harvested that, leaving some lower growth. Around February I started to get seed sprouts coming up through the hay (that I had watered a little daily). They were all self pollinated guaranteed females. I dug them up and brought them inside till March, no direct sunlight. One plant gave 12 sprouts, I gave six to neighbors and got laid for it. Gas, grass, ass is still alive and well, thank you Jesus. What's weird is that my crop was completely seedless when I cured and cleaned it and I looked carefully at the buds that I left on the plant and never saw seeds, but there they were sprouting. I was using Bergman's Gold Leaf, shout out to them, they've replaced any order I had trouble with, sometimes twice! I have a secure outdoor grow of less than 6 plants, yearly, invisible from outside the property, locked, surrounded by cactus and cattle dogs in the Palm Springs area. Did I mention, two 300 pound, ornery (except to me), black mini pigs - if you go down in the back yard, all trace of you will disappear by dawn. Even the big bones. Also, I water cure and process to an amber resin for a couple of reasons. Vaping what amounts to shatter reduces the amount you have to smoke - You're not smoking sticks and stems. There is absolutely no pot smell whatsoever, and,...if you harvest everything at once you will have an illegal amount temporarily. So, harvesting over November into January allows you to never have an uncomfortable amount stinky, fat beautiful buds advertising their presence. I can Bubble Bag everything into a small jar that doesn't really even require refrigeration. And I could put that in a safety deposit box in case of a zombie apocalypse.
The Max Yield or a schedule are not my biggest consern. I heard that if i wait "to long" chances of getting a harvest/ Product which will lock me on my couch for hours is quiet big. But when i prefer a high that still allows me do be activ, awake and maybe a bit funny, i should chose an ealier harvest-point... when the majority of my trichomes is milky.... !???
This really isn't true actually it starts with the genetics and what turpines are gonna get produced from there you get your sensitive effect because of THC concentration associated with Terpines though
Bro...my lavender 💜 plants are getting close.. trichomes all clear still on the most advanced girl...perfect timing on ur post. Thnx for the guidance, Mark!
This is a little off topic but I would like to say something about adding sugars to the soil. I am against adding sugars because when a plant is in the lights out mode the roots release sugars into the soil to feed the microbes causing the microbes to stay close to the roots and if you add sugar into the soil it would cause the microbes to go away from the roots and out into the soil to get to the sugar and if the microbes are not at the roots the plants don't get what they need from the microbes. I only use sugars in my compost teas to feed the microbes and if I could strain the sugars out of the tea before giving it to the plants I would but of course there is no way of doing that.
@@DIRTYPLACCY Honey is antibacterial, so sort of kills microbes i think, mollases is the way to go, it just doesnt feed microbes but also feeds of photisynthesis and chelation of nutriets to plants
Dude thank you for this video, I have been watching so much videos to try and understand when I should harvest, I'm so close about 1 and half weeks away from harvest... But this helps put things into perspective
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Tried it this year with the outdoor crop and it is definitly worth waiting when you can.
Indoor gave substantial result in yield and felt potency/effect.
Thank you
Cool but the thychomes are not full ambers?
@@Userx4566 you want cbd? :p
I started growing in the early 1980’s long before the talk of amber trichomes. My education came from hippie growers who grew since the 60’s and they always told me to harvest outdoors a week after all the hairs Turn brown and curled in. If you still see white hairs let it go longer. I was also told to harvest in sections. Harvest the top of the plant, wait a week or week and a half harvest the middle and then another week or week and half harvest the bottoms. I have harvested bottoms well into November. Those bottoms that were tiny little buds when I harvested the tops were now fat frosty nugs loaded with resin and a deep purple.
I don't know enough to give advise but what i do know you hit right on the head...
THIS is GOLD... thank you so much 🧡👍
thank you
can you do this indoors as well thank you for your comments
Ya ??? I’ll try that
Every time I'm 1 month into flower I start watching these 'when to harvest' videos. They help me sit on my hands and refrain from chopping the plants too soon.
😂I swear … I search seedling care every time I germinate 😅
@@jeffngarden The most stressful part of growing. My current method is. 24 hour RO water soak, transfer to between two paper towels sandwiched between two plates, popped seed then placed into a divot of Happy Frog surrounded by Ocean Forest. Clear plastic cup, with air holes cut in, placed on top of the planted seed.
@@sensorycircuits1338 great method!
😂😂😂 Same. A out 60% of my pistols are amber. I'm like "Is it done yet." 😂😂😂
:)
IMO if your looking for max yield, and you let your flowers amber, the buds will get fatter and heavier but not more potent. I pick at the first sign of tricomes turning amber. If you let 25 percent amber up you have reduced the potency of the bud because THC, CBD etc are turned into CBN. Also you will notice the amber heads will begin to deteriorate. Personally I would rather have my flowers at max potency and a little less couch feeling than max yield. I also grow different strains for different effects. Just my unprofessional opinion as a successful home grower.
Truth!
I definitely agree, cloudy trichs and 1st sign if amber is chop time for me as well. Dont like the feeling of cbn
I do agree. Mostly. Try a few colas and pull around 60-70% instead of 25%. Then allow it to get a full cure. Then next fall try it. So smooth and mental, perfect for the winter blah. Even though I love this, I only do it to maybe 20% of my overall yield.
You are correct
Amen...my thoughts exactly..but i love seeing other ways work for others...occasionally ill find a trick i like....grow on
I am going to pass along advice I heard from an old timer... "I've never met a strain that wouldn't benefit from a good 9 week flower". 63
Try just one healthy plant and you’ll see that your old timer didn’t know everything.
@@johnhutchinson5398 You do know that It depends on the strain right🤦🤭😅😅😅
Is that frm lights change to 12/12
@@marcusdarkus8266 yes
@Kirk M if they are all milky yes. I pull when just starting to show amber.
Also binoculars if you look through them backwards they act like a microscope ;)
If you harvest cloudy you can get more of a high than stoned, but they all have to be. more stoned is 50/50 cloudy, amber and will indeed have higher yield but can cause issues with small parts of the buds drying up, like they don't get any water because the plants themselves don't ask for it that much anymore it's last 2 weeks, can be genetic specific. i once had a 8 week indica that bloomed for 14 weeks and still 1 could go for a week more
“More of a high than stoned”
😂 I remember in high school when we used to say “I’m not high yet, I’m only stoned” like the words actually had a different meaning.
Finally, OMG, finally a good video educating ripe flowers. I have noticed more experience growers get huge buds but don't explain to much. If always "you r choice or you will know". Buds really start bulking up when hairs slow down, you see them shrivel and turn. This happens in bulking, trike's continue to form. Some clear, some cloudy and a few amber. As you keep monitoring which seems forever, the change is gradual over 1 to 2 weeks regarding trike's but the size of the buds keep getting larger. So yes, with practice and time forms confidence. I now start doing my flush when I see 10 to 15 percent clear, 70 percent ish cloudy and about 5 to 10 percent amber. At this point I know I have a good 7 days of flush, checking every other day the trike's. When I see things progress and leafs get used up, I determine when my 48 hours of darkness will be done. Huge tip: this put plant into autumn panic mode and you will get a good amount of trike's. I also keep it cool and that help preserve trike's longer (67 F roughly). Don't boughter watering during this time either. These are my personal finishing touches that works well....most of my friends love the advice and enjoying their grows much better. I hope this helps you too 😉
Great advice man thanks for share of the knowledge 💪
That lines up with what greengoblin answered in a question I asked on one of his vids. Asked if a mostly sativa hybrid would need to go past 10 weeks as that was the advertised time, actually 9-9.5, but he said some sativa hybrids can go anywhere from 11 weeks to as mush as 14 weeks.
Great advice, you must be speaking on indoor only I asaume
lol exactly, the game is to be sold, not to be told. I laugh at people commenting about milky trichomes, and % this and % that. The bro science is entertaining, Mark is letting out some good secrets!
A new study been done on the 48 of darkness done by a professor at an University. Triconbs are produced in the light cycle through photosynthesis . On you tube Chris Mr. Grow it did an interview about that step and triconbs is a response from stress from too much light or heat . So by putting more stress 48 hrs of light could benefit. Something new to experiment.
I’m 40 and did this experiment outdoors years ago with just 1 big plant…and you wouldn’t believe the resins and oils, some were almost black they were so prevalent…it ended up being my most potent plant I’ve ever grown…I let it go til the night before I first actually frost…I’m in Buffalo/Western New York area…so yes do NOT be afraid to experiment and try things outside the box! Great video @Mark! ✊🏾❤️💯💯💯
if you grow outdoors white trichomes have less CBD so it will be more uplifting but if you keep it till dark amber it will have more CBD thus making you drowsy sleepy heavy. some might not like it.
Very cool, but to maybe enlighten. Depending on your desired effect.... letting it go to far can give people headaches. Fast high with quick recovery. Personally I chose to start a week flush when I see on buds only, about 75% cloudy leaning into solid milk. I know that I have a solid 7 days for flush and 48 hours of darkness. With no water, leafs nutrients being eaten by plant/bud they hit 48 hours of darkness. The trike's go into overdrive preservation ( like it's winter). Seriously, trike's plump, and dam near double the frost. I chop and hang in cool dark insulted box with little air flow with cool air from bottom and warmer air venting top where fan and filter is. 5 to 8 days for stem pop and its trim time, start to cure and burping. I usually have bud last a full year, strong and tasty as the 3rd and 4th week of cure. Terps hate heat and light, love 62% RH to maintain that semi moist freshness. Many people do this different but use same principles. I enjoy my long lasting clean high from a half bowl. Nothing wrong with amber but it's a sign of over ripping, to much amber I fined the taste s effected.👍 Happy growing buddy!
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ty for your post bro
@@LiesGov You mean cbn, thc turns into it when the trichs ripen. Cbd is strain dependant it tones down THCs effect and has other health benefits but won't make you as sedated as cbn
Haven grown alfalfa for years, past a certain point, you sacrifice quality for quantity big time by letting it mature more.
There is s sweet spot there though to get kinda the best of both worlds. I’m guessing lavender is the same.
I've been a prisoner of the trichome trap and harvested way too early for so long. Not that I'm impatient but listened to the wrong information. This is GREAT!!! Makes sense, next plant will be a proper plant!! Thanks for the videos!!
I just did the same thing. I got impatient. Started to see some Amber and ended up clipping them a few weeks too early. Very disappointed… but this is my inexperience showing. This was my first indoor run.
"Next one will be...". Great hobby as you an never reach 100% perfect result, so you will never get bored to grow the next plant 😊
Ive been growing 25 years and still no perfect plant🤠
I've been growing outdoors for about 40 years and I still always question whether I'm pulling them out at the right time.
Growing for almost 50 years for personal use, I leave as long as I can, makes buds denser and more narcotic effect.
Grew my first 4 plants last summer. I have not smoked weed in over 40 years. I harvested with only a few ambers showing. 1 or 2 puffs and i am wack. No need for me to fuss over plants any longer. I got enuf stash to last me for years. I added a slice of apple to a tupperware bowl with my flowers to keep them soft and tender
The apple will cause mold
Piece of bread
bread causes mold to because of the yeast
take integra or boveda packs, eventually with oxygen absorber
Wow you really this stupid
It's a trade-off. You are getting more yield by waiting, but when trichs turn amber they are decarbing. Am I going to get more profit from the extra weight or the higher THC? Every single time - the higher THC brings in exponentially more per harvest batch. This is why I wait until the trichs are milky white and no more than 30% turning amber. To get extra weight, I defan about 2 weeks before harvest. This gives you one final boost in weight, and after 2 weeks the boost slows down to a crawl. This is the way. When I wait until the trichs are all amber, it means that at least 30% of them are now copper and brown. My THC% is now crashing and that 21% strain is now down to 14%, which is a HUGE difference at market.
Im with you 100%, harvest for prime ripeness, not yield. But to this video's defense, in it's title its "how to harvest for more $$$".
@@slaup1163 I manage cannabis farms and always get more $$$ from high TCH than higher weight. A 25% strain fetches up to $2000 a lb. at market, but if I wait to harvest while bulking the buds and those trichomes turn amber and copper, my THC is now 14%, but I got an additional 5% weight of a strain that only sells for $800. Clearly I'm falling behind when I wait to harvest while trying to bulk. I always do my bulking techniques before harvest anyway, so at harvest time its 100% about the trichomes. Yes, you get a more sophisticated smoke from amber trichs, but nobody buys weed for its complexity. It's all about bag appeal: Eyes, Nose, Mouth, with the Head, Body, Legs and Wings being a story I have to tell the customer since they can't see or smell those qualities in the dispensary. Same goes for a complex smoke - it's a story I have to tell them and stories typically don't sell weed. They want high THC%, the higher the better, because this stuff is expensive to buy and the less they have to burn to get high the longer their bag lasts, right?
....and that, " ALL amber ", will put you straight to sleep, EVERY TIME....YOU ARE 100%....BIGGER YEILD, MEANS LOWER THC.....
I agree with you 100% except i wouldn't defan. my growers all this season brought in between 22% - 34%, No one got lower this year in my group.
I would also recommend Drops of Balance
ty for you post bother you are being pinned
@@SuperZekethefreak thats what ive heard and read, thc numbers sell because thats really all customers have to look at unless the terp numbers are listed too. Even then, its the overall thc numbers that help the sale
Great video man, sometimes I get a little antsy and harvest while the trichomes are just milky vs Amber because I’ve had some issues with bud rot
As everyone will always have an opinion mine would be the more amber trichomes you have the more you decrease the potency of your grow. Yes, and I agree your yield may be slightly more but that's where my trade off begins. I harvest at a milky/cloudy stage where the potency is at its peak and a better high than a so-so high without waiting to be disappointed. Nice video though. Good work.
Don't go by the trichomes on the leaves
They always amber wayyyy before the trichs on the actual flower bracts.
The flower will only give a COUCH LOCK high when you let all the trichs turn amber💯% the reason they want less amber is for that in between buzz so you can function. Me I function too much so I need that calm my ass down buzz n relax💯% atleast you didn’t get it harvest prematurely
My first year as a homegrower, I’m going to harvest at 70% cloudy and 30% amber roughly, see how it goes. Great video
When your flushing are we just watering no food for how long till they go to Amber?
@@mramsey123Probably too late now, but trychomes take 2 weeks from cloudy to amber. So when u get 30%mily u start flushing
it develops into a personal preference, how amber, how soon, etc and when you can get them all down (weather pending) I start the harvest when I see begining to turn amber, or if I have a 2 wk flush undergone, as long as they are all milky and hairs dry, good to go before the insects come and ruin everything. (or thieves)
@@mramsey123 When his flushing?
@@mramsey123 Flush with a flush agent if using any non organic feed.
Or go a step above, and flush with a weak mix of cannazym and bio boost, get much better terps earthyness and flavour than just using water and you dont need to taper off your feed after week 5
😉I could tell by the leaf texture as well, my lavender plants have been growing for some time but my key indicator was its leaves. They went from this silky smooth texture to a almost lizard rough quality. Yet they are still green and healthy looking. I'm pulling my lavender pedals this weekend.
My trichomes are 90% cloudy and 10% amber. I'm pulling them under the full moon on Monday night. Oh what a marvelous summer it's been for growing. My friend's crop got whacked with spider mites. I took one puff and it smelled like Bigfoot lit a fart with a Zippo. Tasted like hamburgers.
LMMFAO
Lmao
Does he have any bacon flavored phenotypes? 😂
I love Bigfoot !
Don't ever give a Zippo to a Bigfoot. They can't handle the truth.
Mine are late slow bloomers. All white trichomes, but samples already knocking dicks in the dirt. Taking em down soon..
For what it's worth, the trichome color is an important indicator of when to harvest but the color is based on your preference:
Clear - Do not harvest. They're not ready yet.
Milky - Heady high
Amber - Couch-lock high
Great video! I have gotten patient and don’t rush any of my grows anymore. People can wait and the product will be there when it’s ready. I refuse to rush cutting down my plants because I used to be in that position all the time. People would bug the hell out of me asking me at least every couple of days “is it ready, I need blah blah this and I need blah blah that”. I don’t care what they need because all they want is to be the first to get my bud and sell it so they can move on and forget about whether or not if it was fully ready or not. Be patient and wait!!! Don’t let anyone start pushing you to cut everything down they can go to the next one and pester them.
I think the chopping early comes from the old outdoor grow days when an early rain would cause serious bud rot. Still applies if you're growing outside of a greenhouse...
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They ripen from top dwn take tops leave middle and bottom another10days spread it out let it all rippen👍😎
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Great trichome talk, man. I just pulled one plant from my tent, it was showing plenty of red/brown trichomes, I'm giving it 48 hours of darkness, then snipping and drying. I probably could of waited another week, but it's my first grow, and I'm still getting sensitized to the cues. Thank you!
Good stuff!
@KALI GIRL ....and then you change the strain and it could be totally different.....each strain has its own strengths and weaknesses.....unless one grows multiple grows of same strain for at least 2-3 runs, it is IMPOSSIBLE to know and learn that strains strengths and weaknesses, and all of that strains specific capabilities.....my 2nd run of any strain, is ALWAYS better than the first round.....the first round is a learning experience....period....lol....imo
Try giving them 48 hours of light instead before harvest
@bigbasil1908 what would this accomplish?
I have one plant set to pick on the 9th (full moon).
The rest are set to get picked on the new moon (Oct 23rd).
Cut waterings from the 9th.
Now water on 11, 14, 18, and harvest on the 23rd.
kept the leafs on half of my in's this last time. it took a bit longer to dry but i can tell the difference on the press. the flower even looks better. long time wet trimmer changed now. thanks mark for sharing all the great info. i also only flush for a few days. happy growing everyone
Quick tip from personal experience: let the entire plant completely dry out, roots in soil and everything. Once dry you will have bud instantly ready to smoke, smoother than anything else
Milky is full THC (head high)
Amber has more CBD (body high)
also,clear never harvest
sweet spot is milky with 10-20% amber
I allways used to harvest early. I was doing guerilla grows in the woods.small patches here and there then i lost one patch i couldnt find for a few weeks. I finally found them by smell. Waaay better bud. I couldnt figure out before why my weed smelled so grassy before turns out i had been jumping the gun that whole time!
The reason it smells like grass normally is because of poor drying and curing practices.
Fast drying is the cause of the grassy taste/smell.
It will also happen on an early pull when there's more chlorophyll in the plant.
9:40 I wouldn't think the plant just pulls nitrogen out of the leaf's.
The plant itself knows its getting close to the end of cycle but will never give up until actually killed.
Even if the smallest chance to continue living, it will try.
This includes devouring itself to remain viable.
Its using whatever it needs from wherever can be spared, leafs are just the first sacrifices.
In a natural setting she likely would be storing extra, nature doesn't operate on specifics or regularity concerning nutrition and water.
You get what you get, that's it.
As far as leaving foliage for a "cocoon" effect.
Again not sure the benefits of that but the plant significantly overproduces foliage as well.
Another "stockpiling" defense and for thousands of years this planet was grazed by herbivores in the wild. Plucking tender new growth from all over, exactly how we mimic topping and defoliation.
These are regular experiences for it in the wild even today.
People who say leave it alone it knows how to grow.
Well, your kinda wrong.
It knows how to make seed that's it's only desire in life, to do whatever necessary to remain fertile and develop seed.
If your looking to harvest seeds that's fantastic but most are not.
Prune them, top them and bend them, how naive are we to think pruning has just come from humanity. 😂
Nature's got this shes been using animals to prune long before any humans started doing it.
I harvested my plant in April and I left the little buds on the planet and I kept watering my plant and it started all over and I will be harvesting my plant for the second time! 😅😂
When you cure the little buds do a smoke test to feel the difference so is it more couch lock or energetic ?
I have wondered if leaving the lower limbs longer after cutting the main top colas would be the way to go because the lower limbs did not get as much light .
If you cut a square off and it had 100 trichs and 30 were amber, and it took 7 days to dry. Is there 30 amber after 7 days or do some cloudy ones turn amber in that drying time, and some clear ones turn cloudy?
Correct your plant keeps aging
Here is a great video you may like
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Who else is doing recon for harvesting?I'm so excited myself,first time iv gotten to the point where I have buds and I spent 125$ on a rain barrel,that's all iv been given my plant and three feeds of plant nutrient dry mix to the soil.
Good luck. It's the season for harvest. I grew a few this year. And cut 4 plants yesterday. I didn't realise it took so long to trim them down. Nor did I realise the amount of sticky that would end up on your hand and scissors. Oh well. Have fun...🎄
@@capitaldd3693 pro tip is to not step on all the leaves and trim, makes your shoes and floors sticky
@@capitaldd3693 well it was a nice harvest but I didn't premature harvested..smoke was good tho.this year I have tree plants. not going to screw up like I did ten months ago.i had small piece of paper laid down underneath the buds to catch anything that fell off
I have a friend that goes out and watches his plants to see if the are spitting, he called it. He said at one point they spurt. That's when he harvests. It's the only bud ive ever tripped on. It was a pin joint..😂😂 idk what hes doing..but wow
Hey bro', that's wild. Cannabis "spitting." We'd love to see that on video. Ask him to record a visual of it happening, and we'll invite him on the show to chat about it. Our viewers would LOVE to check it out. Thanks for the comment bro'! Happy harvest!! Hope you get some more of that psychedelic thc.
Ive seen this go the other way many times. Ive seen growers get scared to harvest too early and end up harvesting too late and product has lost all terps and structure. Ive seen this happen in a matter of 2 weeks. There is definitely a happy medium. Most cultivars have their own specific "best" time to harvest.15+ years exp here. The only way to be close to perfect is to have experience with the cultivar you work with.
absolutely nailed it "The only way to be close to perfect is to have experience with the cultivar you work with." My mentor preaches genetics and I am convinced with all my research its mostly genetics that decides the potential, its your knowledge of how it grows that can maximize it.
im just starting in week 14 of flower seriously is this an unheard of amount of flowering time in week 8 and 9 i droped light cycle down to 11 on and 13 off and once week 10 started i droped down to 10 on and 14 off and my trichromes are barley starting to turn cloudy is the flowering time taking so long beacuse i tweeked the light cycle
Dude. The wink had me laughing, lol
Has about 2 weeks left imo.
Hey I dont grow lavender, I only grow "tomatoes" *wink* *wink*.
My tomato terpenes are on point
:)
How do you decide which parts to examine for trichrome mix? I see plenty of amber trichromes on the sunny sides of my buds but not on the shady sides, so the choice of where to look will make a big difference. I simply never hear about where to sample.
I just record a video i will release it asap
you are correct tho. Also watch - th-cam.com/video/inPBGLlepzI/w-d-xo.html
Great Question
10 year grower here I found a new easier way to tell. Take the new vape pens with the ceramic hot end. Vape some sugar leaves close to the buds you think almost done. If that's the effect you want harvest. If not wait. No grower can know what the consumer wants unless they know them personally. Ask 3 people to grow you the same 3 different strains. Even if you let them grow more than one cycle they will all have different effects. From each grower even though the strain is the same. This is why anyone who smokes. Not really sure what their fav herb is cause it's to random unless you grow it yourself. Sure there are great dispensaries with great growers but get ready to pay hard cash for that. Herb should be so cheap that when it's federally legal big tobacco companies cannot take over. I got it down to about 80$ an ounce of top shelf herb, 15 a gram for dabs, and 50 a gram for crystalline. I swear if big tobacco companies try to get into my area I will hand out free herb till they shut down.
@KALI GIRL This is nature. This is why breeders will plant hundreds of seeds cause they all will vary. So they look for the genetics they want. Then clone that plant/breed it. Each seed will always vary. There is no way that I know to control nature trying to evolve and alter it's genetics in the process. Besides cloning from a mother plant. Same goes for the bs % numbers of thc that the seed will be. It's a marketing scam. It's impossible to know how much thc will turn up in your grow setup and will always very. So grow them out and take clones so you can keep that strain you like that comes out better. Hope that helps.
well said
Couldn't agree more, so about that free bud brotha 😂🤏
Lately I keep hearing about seed companies claiming 8 week harvest, then I see the actual plant harvested on their TH-cam page at 72 days, not even looking heavy like they claim. Then you read actual journals and hear this top shelf advice here thankfully, don't listen to the seed companies, like his current videos are talking about. Don't be scared of "bagseed" either a lot of the time a good growers bag seeds are quality S1 seeds. Chemdog came from Gerry Garcias Bag seed lol.. So glad to come reference this video again upon my harvest. Tired of the industry speed dried and trimmed weed, done in bud tumblers which steal all the tricomes for their pleasure, leaving you with cured hay, not to mention non organic issues of all kinds you could avoid easily with Brix and Perfect Gardens. Thanks again Mate!
most companies lie to sell seeds
Sorry to burst peoples bubbles but flushing does matter. It matters for our bodies and it matters if you're smoking your final product.
I have over 20 years of smoking and growing experience and I always notice harsh smoke and bad taste if I don't stop using my organic nutes 2 weeks before harvest
I know you would increase weight but many talk about their plants producing a couch lock effect if left to mature to the end ? Not sure?!? I’m growing sativas so I don’t know if I left them grow more they would lose their sativa high and I would be asleep on the couch !
The cough is normally excess nitrogen in the flower
@@PerfectGardensTV Waited as long as I could and got 12 oz in a 2x2’ tent , but airy buds . Still potent!
I never worried about the flood because I always did long cures. When they were ready around Xmas time and just after the new year, the flood dried up and I was just putting it out to the market.
Now you know why "Years" of experience is required. I see many think .. Ill just grow and get rich ha ha ha ha ha ha ... Money makes money .. with experience. I grow to stay in bud..You should too.
As far as yield goes... as long as my yield is decent I dont mind bc I'd rather grow for quality not quantity
I am glad I dont listen to so many claimed experts lol...some say watch the hairs...when they turn brown harvest..BS! My trichromes still looked clear so I took the chance and let them grow,,all those buds have doubled in size and still have no look of dying ..although I know it is soon I live in the north east. My branches look like that stick 3" in diameter and 2 feet long lol (bruce banner Sativa
So ive never really understood the whole if you pick it when they are milky its an uppy high and if you pick them Amber it's a couch high. Why have 2 different strains if they do the same thing. Sativa picked milky is an upper type stone and Amber it's a couch lock. Indica picked milky its an upper stole stone and Amber it's a couch lock. I don't get it. I would think that an indica does this and no matter when you pick it it does that.same with sativa's. So either can be both?
Sativa/indica are more about terpenes, but that’s another topic. You could say like this: A sativa with amber are uplifting with a touch of couch lock, nice when relaxing but still want to focus a bit, like playing games. While a indica with amber are super couch lock to the point of hard to focus. Nice for night time before sleep or when you want to relax and no need to focus.
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The best way to know ( for sure) is to let the plant tell you, other words let the heads fill out, or stay swelling until they start looking like their mushrooming. Not a problem to let a good portion of them to go full amber, almost too much. As long as the majority are still swelling and ripening up.
Personally I let mine go until its obvious there finished. 70-75% will be that nice golden color just before they reach that amber look.
And 25% will be that dark amber you know is finished.
I've noticed the terpenes are abundant at this time. The last week of flowering is when the Terps start stacking up...
Remember you want the grow media to be good and dry at harvest. This hastens the ripening, brings out terps, makes clipping easier
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Does the balloon look like it can take more air
Does this give more of a couch lock because that’s what I am looking for.
@@KL-uu2vq exactly
You bet, the longer you let it ripen,or swell up, the heavier the high..they'll take up all water/carbs left in the roots and leaves. Big key is leach your soil, before the golden trichromes turn amber. By this time the plant should be in the last 7 days of flower. Stop watering all together. Let her take up all the water/nutrient storaged in the roots,leaves. When the leaves are wilting because of dehydration.
Put them in the dark for 3 days, colder you can make the room the better. A little air flow is all you need.
I've been doing it like this for about 8 years now, with no problems.
The trimming work is easier too, sucker leaves are about ready to fall off. Looks like crystals on Everything...
im gonna call it "couchlocking"a plant
@@kylesyx8432 All great advice! My soil is soo good I have worms crawling around in it and the amnesia haze that’s sitting in it has buds as big as my arm. 😂. But I’m figuring out very fast that chopping it is just the fucking beginning. I luckily have a cedar lined closet that dries nice and slow. If they were photo period seeds I would usually wait till first frost but I do autos because of I don’t want to go to jail. And they are fast.
@@KL-uu2vq gets some PK ;)
This however, really doesn’t apply to autoflowers though. Their “time” is almost destined, set from the off with seed at least. It’s a very different matter determining optimal ripeness with autoflowers vs photos, you hardly want to see over 5% amber there but over 90 will be full traffic light shiny bulbous cloudy and smelling peak galore, IME anyway.
Love how you added "lavender" plant.
Watch out for bud rot…
The kid who taught me how to grow eight years ago, had two words for me about harvesting. "Not yet". At 4100 feet, I leave them in the ground until the hard freezes come or Haloween--whichever comes first. This year I might have to pull some of my indicas before that so I don't plug up my drying area. Ended up growing twice as many plants as I needed because the runts kept growing after their replacements took over, and i just couldn't kill them. Now the runts are two feet taller than me.
My Chongs Choise Auto Gorilla Glue ... after a Heat wave all the Fan Leaves died and then then slowly the sugar leaves also browned and now the buds are browning with no leaves ... Nozt sure if i should havest before they go totally brown ...still just a rare amber amongst trichomes but looks like the plants dying any wayze ...
that's what I was looking for :))
grrrrrreat video , thx for sharing !
Great info. And none of that dog shit annoying, obnoxious, and distracting background "music". Kudo's to you and your channel.
I've always had that theory that if you think it's ready wait 2weeks . I live in Maine so when there ready they usually start to get bud rot. An it's usually not quit ready. So to get that ripe flower you have to cut a little off. It is what it is
It’s hard to get good info about Maine. In this video he mentions keeping the foliage to make a cocoon. If we did that up here it would rot from lack of airflow.
If you get bud rot every year (not just in the years when there's more rain than usual in the last month of flowering) means you are growing the wrong strain(s).
Yeah in Florida they must harvest too early because the flower out here is subpar! Very disappointing to buy an eighth for a ridiculously high price and not feel anything after you smoke it!
I was always told that you’re trying to keep the tricomes in the “milky/cloudy” phase because that’s when they’re the most “potent” and less “couch lock”. And to harvest when tricomes are 1/3 amber so ensure maturity and to get a mixture of mind/body effects. Definitely get noticeably more yield every week after this point though
Yeah as I’ve understood it, and noticed myself, an early harvest is obviously weak and in the head with no body. A peak harvest (milky white with a few just starting to turn amber) is preferred in my opinion. A late harvest being anywhere from 20% to 70% amber. I like to harvest buds as I feel they mature. A few months back I made an early, peak and late harvest of Jungle Cake, all off the same plant. The early had a creeper effect, almost psychedelic and visual, very heady. The peak was the best and most balanced. The late was very physical, almost like a different strain. Confusing and stupefying. To me it all depends on what you want. I work at a grow and if you take three people who like Jungle Cake, one is gonna prefer that creeper effect, and one is gonna want it so stupefying that they can’t use it on break and successfully go back to work! We know this, it’s all a matter of preference. I prefer the peak harvest of basically no to very few amber trichomes. My grows are all personal though, I’ll share with friends and have my own. I don’t go for yield, I always go for the closest thing to “perfection” I can find. I suppose you could say quality over quantity.
With a large commercial grow, the cost of quality is naturally gonna dip when yield is the focus.
20 years ago, the way we harvested was by the amount of pistils that turned orange compared to the ones that were still white. There was no consensus about trichomes or what peak time was, and no one I knew or in any books I had were actually inspecting them under magnification. It was much more touch-and-go than it is now. Everything is so scientific now.
@@ajhproductions2347 I think I’ll harvest when they just start turning amber too. Gelato 41 x Sunset Sherbet bx2 by Seed Junky. Very gelato purple indica. Want more euphoric effects but want them to be done too. They’ll keep turning amber as they dry/cure. 15%/20% amber in the end is what I want.
We had one of these years ago but I never really liked the high. It's just a different feeling. I always liked a clean glass bong with ice.
It depends on the weather if it's outdoors, inside you can have trichomes that take forever to switch over to amber. In the real world it's hard it's difficult you just got to make a call
If the trichomes haven't turn milky or light amber in 5 minutes.... Just wait longer😮
An excellent point being raised here is that Its always a good idea to re assess the ways and whys of what you do. my babys have just started sexing coz im in the southern hemisphere and I dont have fancy stuff like feminized seeds :) I got a bunch of unknown sativa strains growin out back that are the reason I get up early :)
Love the channel and Ill try let some more amber into my life this year
Mine is a feminine cherry 🍒 I made took yrs
I grow outdoors and the harvest is controlled by the weather and I have no complaints but it's just for personal.
LOL
For years I have been trying to tell people, that when you think they are ready wait for two weeks More and then they are ready.
You let too many of those trichromes get amber your weed will be like a tranquilizer. If you like weed that just knocks you out then yeah let her keep going.
what do people here think of harvesting a indica at a cloudy trich or maybe a sativa at couch lock trich? i only have last fall and this fall for experience with cannabis. lots of perennials though under my belt. its so fascinating how many different techniques are capable of being utilized with cannabis!
That is another video
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Hey! I am growing my first plant in Virginia and about 75 percent of the white hairs have turned orange but all the white crystals on the leaves still look clear maybe some have a milky look but it’s not a big plant so it’s hard to see if the crystals are still clear or if they are a little milky. I have 2 more seeds I’m waiting to sprout but I have learned a lot from my first plant and made a lot of mistakes but I smoke everyday well vape and I’m allowed to grow 4 plants at a time and this has always been a dream of mine and it will save us a lot of money from the medical marijuana pharmacy. Can you give me any advice on when I should harvest my plant?
Wait tell they turn milky
You do know you need a loupe x50-100 right in order to check the tricome colour?
Ive grown for over 8 years, alot of poeple see big buds n wonder what am i doing wrong, most heavy resinous buds are acheived through strain type, air flow n the types of food you use, honestly, most huge buds depend on the strain, theres thousands of hybrids available yet only some are heavy yeilders. If ya want huge flowers pick a strain that produces bothe yield and potency, what i recommend is big bud, blue dream, white widows etc. Dont believe the pictures, ya cant make a medium yielding strain produce huge buds, its in the genetics
Also i forgot, if ya want to, purchase a strain that matures in 50to 65days, some strains require up to 90 days. Its common sense, faster developing strains offer more growing cycles.also, through almost a decade ive known about terpene enhancers, how it works it tricks the plant into a higher photosythesis wich increase smell, taste, plant resins and you can usually harvest a week earlier then normal. I personally prefer medium yields with a faster growth cycle. More crops better production without losing quality. And also make sure the strain you choose is wise because alotta genetics dont get super tall, questions??, contact an experienced person like myself. Theres way more too it then ya read.
Check trichomes on flower parts not leaf. And bud will swell a lot if you wait.
Loooove lavender 😏 I have a habit of harvesting to early, not this time. Auto's in Dwc \😆/
I feel as if you need to let the plants mature don't pull so early the more surface area the more clear or milky trichomes you will get even if you see alot of amber and some clear still. Trust me always take it 2 extra weeks is my rule of thumb. Also a 200x scope will be a miracle tool for you. Great video growmie
2 weeks from when shes closed up . lumpy swollen no hairs left still wait 2 weeks ?
I know mine our not ready but mother nature chooses harvest up here in MI without a greenhouse
Mark.
I agree with you on most of what you are saying.
But isn't it true, that when the trichs. turn to color.
That the THC is degrading ?
So why would you want more trichs. to turn color?
Sure you MIGHT get more yield, but if the high isn't there.
Is it worth it?
I don't believe the lost in potency is worth the percent or two of yield.
I totally agree with you in regards to.
If you think your plant is ready, that waiting another week or two won't hurt.
I've performed numerous experiment's on this subject. With numerous different strains.
Each experiment was performed on 42 plants at a time.
The first experiment I let the 42 plants go 10 weeks.
The next 42 plants 12 weeks. Then 14 weeks and the last 42 Plants 16 weeks.
On each experiment I took one plant at 8 weeks, one at 10 weeks and so on up to 16 weeks.
I used the top bud only.
And measured the diameter. I just squeezed it for density. I took a wet and dry weight. And I used a microscope to see if there was any degradation or increase in trichrome production. And any degradation in bud structure.
Oh and all these experiment's were performed with so called 8 week strains.
The results of these experiment's were so small. That it's not even worth mentioning.
I spent alot of time on these experiment's.
Probably close to 40 hours.
For basically nothing.
I did find out that bud structure started degrading at 15 weeks. And then the difference from 15 to 16 weeks was pretty big.
And of course that effected the trichs. a little.
Also it was very hard to tell any difference in the high.
So in conclusion this was a total waist of my time.
Now if I wanted to make a name for myself. Like most the clowns in this industry try and do.
I could state, oh at this week it increased this and at that week it increased that.
But that's not what I'm after.
I always try and keep it real.
What I'm after, and what I have not even come close to achieving.
Is some great one hit weed that knocks you on your ASS.
Now this is just my opinion.
And like Mark says.
Opinions are like assholes.
And almost everybody is one. LMAO 🤣.
Later.....
Great experiment but shitty strains. they already genetically modified to die after 8 weeks so your experiment was already doomed from the begining. stay away from ALL GMO crops.
@@LiesGov
LOL
I didn't know you were a mind reader.
Tell me,
What strains did I use ?
Oh and these experiment's were performed about 10 years ago.
Good try........
@@assog5737 take it easy on levander it kills your memory too! as u wrote: "Oh and all these experiment's were performed with so called 8 week strains."
@@LiesGov
You prove my last paragraph, TRUE.
Thanks......
I think the high i better with cbd. I have heard the more cbd is on the plant the longer it flowers. Maybe I misspoke or misused the word degraded
ty for your post as alway Ass OG
Phones have awesome cameras now take a photo and zoom = magnifying glass
oh god, I fucking died at that intro. (Yes, Ive been smelling tons of lavender this morning)
Amber means THC is degraded 😂 keep that CBN.... IM good 😂
Harvest? Depends on number of people sniping on your plant.
If ur growing seasonal, my family always waits till the 1st frost. WOW, WHAT A DIFFERENCE! 😑😶🌫️🤤🤯 try it!
Depends on your area. Around here the first frost comes after almost a month of cold and damp weather that promotes rot and stunts the plant. Only autos are viable.
Did that last year, threw down some fine alfalfa hay to mulch and just harvested the large buds, left the rest till December, harvested that, leaving some lower growth. Around February I started to get seed sprouts coming up through the hay (that I had watered a little daily). They were all self pollinated guaranteed females. I dug them up and brought them inside till March, no direct sunlight. One plant gave 12 sprouts, I gave six to neighbors and got laid for it. Gas, grass, ass is still alive and well, thank you Jesus.
What's weird is that my crop was completely seedless when I cured and cleaned it and I looked carefully at the buds that I left on the plant and never saw seeds, but there they were sprouting. I was using Bergman's Gold Leaf, shout out to them, they've replaced any order I had trouble with, sometimes twice!
I have a secure outdoor grow of less than 6 plants, yearly, invisible from outside the property, locked, surrounded by cactus and cattle dogs in the Palm Springs area. Did I mention, two 300 pound, ornery (except to me), black mini pigs - if you go down in the back yard, all trace of you will disappear by dawn. Even the big bones.
Also, I water cure and process to an amber resin for a couple of reasons. Vaping what amounts to shatter reduces the amount you have to smoke - You're not smoking sticks and stems. There is absolutely no pot smell whatsoever, and,...if you harvest everything at once you will have an illegal amount temporarily. So, harvesting over November into January allows you to never have an uncomfortable amount stinky, fat beautiful buds advertising their presence. I can Bubble Bag everything into a small jar that doesn't really even require refrigeration. And I could put that in a safety deposit box in case of a zombie apocalypse.
The Max Yield or a schedule are not my biggest consern. I heard that if i wait "to long" chances of getting a harvest/ Product which will lock me on my couch for hours is quiet big. But when i prefer a high that still allows me do be activ, awake and maybe a bit funny, i should chose an ealier harvest-point... when the majority of my trichomes is milky.... !???
This really isn't true actually it starts with the genetics and what turpines are gonna get produced from there you get your sensitive effect because of THC concentration associated with Terpines though
Bro...my lavender 💜 plants are getting close.. trichomes all clear still on the most advanced girl...perfect timing on ur post. Thnx for the guidance, Mark!
Use your mobile phone zoom in and i can literally count clear cloudy amber .
I have plant im trying this out with to see how far she can actually go before its time for the chop
I let my plants go til the calyxes r swell n the hairs reseed into the calyx n I wait for trichomes to milky n like 20 percent amber maybe more
This is a little off topic but I would like to say something about adding sugars to the soil. I am against adding sugars because when a plant is in the lights out mode the roots release sugars into the soil to feed the microbes causing the microbes to stay close to the roots and if you add sugar into the soil it would cause the microbes to go away from the roots and out into the soil to get to the sugar and if the microbes are not at the roots the plants don't get what they need from the microbes. I only use sugars in my compost teas to feed the microbes and if I could strain the sugars out of the tea before giving it to the plants I would but of course there is no way of doing that.
You mean mollases right?
Cheers was thinking of putting honey in my water but I won’t
@@DIRTYPLACCY Honey is antibacterial, so sort of kills microbes i think, mollases is the way to go, it just doesnt feed microbes but also feeds of photisynthesis and chelation of nutriets to plants
To much amber will give you couch lock. 10% amber is more than enough.
Great video bro. Thanks for the knowledge. 🤘🏻✌🏻💚
Dude thank you for this video, I have been watching so much videos to try and understand when I should harvest, I'm so close about 1 and half weeks away from harvest... But this helps put things into perspective
Any time bro
I know it’s from 3 years ago, but… a Cease and desist against a review? Sounds like a good reason to contact the proper news stations. You have a slam dunk in your favor and the company doesn’t deserve to be in business
I appreciate u brother