d42zero
Well-Known Member
Hi,
I've been doing some baked thinking lately (dangerous!) and I was wondering why I've never seen information on staggered harvesting.... every time I read about harvesting weed, it talks about chopping the whole plant or harvesting the whole lot in one go.. that seems like just the way it's done. If a tomato plant had ten tomatos but only five were ready, you wouldn't harvest all ten at the same time... you'd harvest the ones that are ready, leaving the others on the plant to be harvested when they were ready. With weed we seem to play this balancing game where we harvest when we think all buds are within an acceptable range, rather than waiting for each individual bud to be ready.
Has anyone experimented with staggering harvests? I wonder whether you could have two or three harvesting sessions where you remove only what's ready and leave everything else to ripen a bit more... if the lower larfy stuff fattens up a bit from the extra light then surely that's going to bump yield up?
What do y'all think? I'm about two weeks away from a harvest so I have a chance to try this, reckon I should give it a go?
EDIT: I think I'm going to photograph trichomes on the larger buds and smaller larfy stuff before harvest, if the larfy stuff looks visibly less ripe close up I think I'm going to go with the idea and see what happens. Still keen to hear what you guys think tho
I've been doing some baked thinking lately (dangerous!) and I was wondering why I've never seen information on staggered harvesting.... every time I read about harvesting weed, it talks about chopping the whole plant or harvesting the whole lot in one go.. that seems like just the way it's done. If a tomato plant had ten tomatos but only five were ready, you wouldn't harvest all ten at the same time... you'd harvest the ones that are ready, leaving the others on the plant to be harvested when they were ready. With weed we seem to play this balancing game where we harvest when we think all buds are within an acceptable range, rather than waiting for each individual bud to be ready.
Has anyone experimented with staggering harvests? I wonder whether you could have two or three harvesting sessions where you remove only what's ready and leave everything else to ripen a bit more... if the lower larfy stuff fattens up a bit from the extra light then surely that's going to bump yield up?
What do y'all think? I'm about two weeks away from a harvest so I have a chance to try this, reckon I should give it a go?
EDIT: I think I'm going to photograph trichomes on the larger buds and smaller larfy stuff before harvest, if the larfy stuff looks visibly less ripe close up I think I'm going to go with the idea and see what happens. Still keen to hear what you guys think tho