You definitely don't want to have any clear trichs but you will get some down low on the popcorn buds. The clear isn't mature chemicals yet so is not what we want. The ideal THC level is at "milky", "cloudy" looking trichomes for the heady high. but if you like more body stone (and the strain allows for the CBD development) then allowing the trichs to go toward amber allows more CBD to develop. If you are wanting a sleeping med then 50% or more amber is what you want. Iff you like a blend of heady high and some body stone that is good for pain relief or relaxing, meditative high, then let them go until you get about 10-30% depending on the strain.
When I harvested the first crop of my '150' bag seed, I was looking for amber trics which never ambered. I suspect the strain was a sativa dominant hybrid, but I let it go to '86 days' and with no amber trics, I just harvested.
The last crop of the '150' I didn't expect amber trics and just harvested when they were cloudy, 'as soon' as they were 95% cloudy, 'on day 73'.
The second crop was much better than the first which I had let go too long. When almost all trics are cloudy, when the plant looks 'autumn-ly', leaves turning yellow, calyxes swollen, the plant is done enough, 'pull it'!
the Poet
Yellow leaves means that it is running out of nitrogen. This normally occurs with the maturing of the flowers if you are using nutes for flowering. While a marijuana plant is normally an annual it does not necessarily die when the flowers are ready. The bud does need to be harvested when it is ready, regardless of what the rest of the plant is doing.
Part of when to harvest depends on whether you want a couch-lock high or a more up high. Why not take a test bud if you are not sure and see how you like the high.
Again, the beautiful and knowledgeable Hemp Goddess has spoken.
Harvest {or start smoking on it} when it is 95% cloudy and smoke on it till it is amber {if it gets amber} 10% 20% 30% ???
Some people including the Goddess prefers early, just basically cloudy.
Me too as I liked the '150' 'pulled' at 73 days rather than 86. But others...
{Including the guy from Hampsterdam} much prefer to harvest when the trics are 50% amber.
Like a steak...
I prefer my steaks cooked on the grille with a nice black, burnt, crunchy crust on the outside but just not dried out inside.
Others, on the other hand like to see blood running out of their steak when they cut it. To each his own I recon.
Thank you...
The Poet...
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