Urdedpal
New Member
HARVESTING IS THE ACT OF REAPING YOUR REWARDS and is without doubt the most fun you'll have in your garden. Assuming that you have followed the guidelines for flowering times the breeder set forth and that your grow was successful, you should be in a position to harvest an extremely high-yield from your crop.
First of all, you should know that harvesting is smelly and dirty work. It stinks up the place extremely quickly, so keep this in mind. Also, resin rubs off on nearly everything. Your fingers will be covered in a mass of resin and this will stain everything from metal to plastic, clothes, furniture, paper, books, equipment and even other pieces of bud. Resin is sticky stuff that is very hard to wash off. It must be scrubbed off using a metal-type cleaning pad. Keep this in mind when you are harvesting your crop.
At the end of the flowering stage, examine your bud to see if it is ripe and ready for harvest. Here are some indicators to help you identify that it's harvest time; however, please note that not all of these indicators will appear on every strain.
- 50 percent to 70 percent of the pistils change color
- Plants stop producing crystals
- Plants stop producing resin
- The fan leaves and lower leaves have turned yellow and are starting to drop off
- The smell has reached a peak
- Bud mass has not increased in the past few days
Another good way to determine when to harvest is to create multiple tasters of the same bud. You can do this by harvesting plants from the same strain at different times. If you do not have enough plants to do this you can take selections of bud from a single plant.These samples can be tested to gauge the optimal harvest time for the strain.The next time you grow this strain you will know exactly when to harvest. It must be said however that breeders' flowering times are generally pretty accurate. The experience of growing a strain more than once will also undoubtedly result in a more accurate timing of your harvest.
First of all, you should know that harvesting is smelly and dirty work. It stinks up the place extremely quickly, so keep this in mind. Also, resin rubs off on nearly everything. Your fingers will be covered in a mass of resin and this will stain everything from metal to plastic, clothes, furniture, paper, books, equipment and even other pieces of bud. Resin is sticky stuff that is very hard to wash off. It must be scrubbed off using a metal-type cleaning pad. Keep this in mind when you are harvesting your crop.
At the end of the flowering stage, examine your bud to see if it is ripe and ready for harvest. Here are some indicators to help you identify that it's harvest time; however, please note that not all of these indicators will appear on every strain.
- 50 percent to 70 percent of the pistils change color
- Plants stop producing crystals
- Plants stop producing resin
- The fan leaves and lower leaves have turned yellow and are starting to drop off
- The smell has reached a peak
- Bud mass has not increased in the past few days
Another good way to determine when to harvest is to create multiple tasters of the same bud. You can do this by harvesting plants from the same strain at different times. If you do not have enough plants to do this you can take selections of bud from a single plant.These samples can be tested to gauge the optimal harvest time for the strain.The next time you grow this strain you will know exactly when to harvest. It must be said however that breeders' flowering times are generally pretty accurate. The experience of growing a strain more than once will also undoubtedly result in a more accurate timing of your harvest.
