Hello everyone ! My best plant is now 5-6 feet tall, the first 3 feet have formed buds and more than 75% brown pistils. These don't look like their'e gonna grow more. There's no significant frost, but hey, this plant came from seeds on a bag which gave me a good one. So, should i cut all the plant and hang it up ? ore should i wait till the upper half finishes and flowers all its way? on the middle thirth of the plant there are some still growing white looking flowers (white or clear pistils) they look young. But i've heard it's better to hang the whole plant to help it vure better. What should i do? Harvest now. Harvest in two or even three parts? That's: Bud by bud... only the ripe ones? Or .....wait..... and let the ripe buds there till the whole plant is ready? Another thing: What could i do tho get rid of those ugly lookig white insects. Theyre like butter colored .5 milimiters bugs. One of my plants is kindof infested. Cheers !
not sure to be honest, sounds like it would be better to leave it, although you wanna sort that bug problem out. how longs it been in flower? do you know the strain? check www.overgrow.com loads of experts over there, i've only just started my first grow probably best not to listen to me i've just got this from a weed forum i'm on that might help; When around 50 - 70 % of the hairs have turned brown (this percentage varies from strain to strain) this is a good, if not basic way of telling that your plant is about ready. If you want a more accurate way - get a 30-100X magnifier and look at the resin glands, as these mature, they will stain from clear to milky, then to amber, then brown. As they become milky, they have reached around there peak potency, so this is the time to harvest. If you prefer a mongier, more sedative high, leave the plant for another week or two after this stage - although be aware of increasing mould risks!! When to harvest is a tricky decision, mainly because the individual flowers on the plant may be at slightly different stages of maturity from eachother - therefore the trick is to crop when most of the flowers are of the correct maturity (hence 50 - 70%). If you wait too long for certain buds to fill out, the others may be starting to degrade. So i suppose basically you should harvest just before the point of diminishing returns.
From the way I see it, it's like picking tomatoes off a tomato plant; you pick the ones that are ripe, and you let the ones that aren't ripen. Now, I guess the defintion of "ripe" depends on what you want. I'd probably determine ripeness by pistil color on induvidual buds, or resin glands (if present).
Know my buds. Remember they come from a pot bag from a friend. These are not gen-mod monsters. I may try that sometime. The top of the plant liiks as if was still VEG. No flowers and maybe still growing a bit. The midde of the plant has white coloured hairs packed in 1 inch minibuds. The bottom buds, which are the brown ones are the size of a finger, like 2-3 inches long and 3/4 inch thick. Not award winning buds but hey. For what i've read from you, it's not wise to harvest bud by bud, right? Whatr would happen if i did this. Cut the ripe branches with the good and ready looking buds and leave the rest untouched. ¿?¿? Love to all ! Cervixgirl
