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Curly Beaver
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The pistols are all dark and the buds are fat (at least for my grow room but the lower leaves are still green. There are 3 larger colas nearly the length of a Coke can.All info I could find said 62 to 69 days in flower. I see mostly brown pistils. Is she canabilizing her lower leaves? Do the buds look like they have fattened? I can't tell from the top views. It's always a crap shoot the first time or two you harvest a strain until you gain the experience and knowledge of the plant and how it is developing. I'd take a small sample, quick dry and test run it through the bong. That should give you an idea of how ripe she is.
Thank you for weighting in on this one Emilya. So far I have been chopping them at this point but I' would like to push this one a little harder.You can't always go by the calendar. I have one in my tents that was just harvested early yesterday, my Green Crack. She was ready, although officially the harvest window did not open for another week. Why? This plant was always in the center of my room, directly under the hood and in the path of the best airflow through the tent.
I tried to resist the urge to harvest early, but all the signs were there. The buds had chunked out and were now foxtailing a bit, all the pistils had turned dark, even at the tip top of all the buds, and looking with the jewelers loupe, it was obvious that amber was showing at a 25% rate, even at the very top. Knowing that the trichomes keep maturing up till curing has started, I convinced myself to pull a few days early, just on this one plant. It happens. Trust your eyes, not the calendar.
I never looked at the lower leaves before, but these are all still green.....should I assume (I hate that word) that the lower leaves will turn when I get closer? Somewhere I read that the harvest period AFTER reaching peak is longer and more forgiving that if you chop too soon. I think the point was you could wait 5-7 days past the prime and it wouldn't matter that much but chopping 1 or 2 days before peak was not forgiving, you got what you got at that point. If that's true I can afford to wait it out a little longer and I really would like to see the results first hand if I can do it without screwing it up.