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The trichomes start off clear and then turn cloudy about the time they stop producing THC then over the next several weeks a percentage of them will turn amber as they degrade. Some like the effect/high when the trichomes are as close to 100% cloudy and some like to wait another 2 or more weeks till they see 10 to 20% amber.
Some growers wait until the stigma/pistils pretty much have all turned a brown or reddish-brown color and shrunken back enough that it looks like they were pulled back into the plant. Then they look at the trichome color.
With practice and after several grows the gardener starts to see patterns. As the end is approaching the leaves can change appearance and color. The rate of growth of the buds changes. Fewer and fewer new stigma/pistils are growing and eventually next to no new ones. There are more things happening.
You want at a minimum of 8 weeks of flowering. Some say to start counting the day that light schedule is changed and some say to start the count when the stigma/pistils start to show. My personal view is 1 week after the light change for transition with the next 8 weeks for minimum flower development. What happens after that is up to me based on overall plant health & appearance. I am not a big fan of the couch-lock effect so for the most part I harvest 9 to 10 weeks after the light change. Sativa or Indica dominant plants have their differences with the Sativa tending to take a bit longer than the Indica to reach any common stage of growth or maturity.
This coming Wednesday will be 5 weeks since you changed the light schedule so another 4 weeks minimum allowing for the one week transition and 8 weeks flowering time.
Figuring out when the week or two from harvest is going to be is part of the watching for patterns. But, what is the point of stopping the plants being able to take in nutrients? Makes no sense to start to kill the plant since the last two weeks are just as important as any other two weeks in the flowering stage.
Skip this worry about stopping the feeding. Next to look up is the harvesting itself including trimming, drying and curing. Lots of different methods and theories. Got 4 weeks and a couple of days.
I bought the metabolic transformer too.might as well try it. the plant's never been on proper nutes or feeding schedule. why start now ?
doing something is better than doing nothing and letting it starve.
again, that product is only part of a feeding program.
I will have everything on the next grow and I am going to do 2/2
2 plants that are grown with the entire dr earth system and the geoflora system on the other two.