Mephisto Genetics Trichoms taking too long

[nizmoKush]

I'm not really sure how to do that, never heard of harvesting based on this method

You see how you’re leaves are mostly gone and turned yellow and like curling that. I would honestly harvest any day now but that’s just me personally

 

[420autoflower]

I check trichomes as well, but also go off of how many days in flower, terpenes, density of colas, water intake, etc. Some plants just don’t turn completely cloudy, or show enough amber past week 9 or 10 of flower. That’s when I start judging how mature the plant is without basing it off of the color of trichomes.

 

[420autoflower]

After reading some of the reply’s on this thread, I noticed people are sharing how old there plant is in total. I might be wrong… but wouldn’t it be more relevant to post how many days your plants have been in flower, instead of how old they are from when they sprouted, to be able to figure out a harvesting time issue?

 

[MonteVerde]

After reading some of the reply’s on this thread, I noticed people are sharing how old there plant is in total. I might be wrong… but wouldn’t it be more relevant to post how many days your plants have been in flower, instead of how old they are from when they sprouted, to be able to figure out a harvesting time issue?

I'm using Mephisto seeds and their information provides info on when to harvest, from germination. They dont provide how long in flower till harvest.

 

[420autoflower]

It’s fairly easy determining approximately how far along your plants are in flower. When you start seeing pistils at the nodes you should be close to a week in flower, then when small budlets start forming on the tops you should be in your second week. By the time the little budlets start producing frost they are in the third week going into the fourth

 

[Imagine]

After reading some of the reply’s on this thread, I noticed people are sharing how old there plant is in total. I might be wrong… but wouldn’t it be more relevant to post how many days your plants have been in flower, instead of how old they are from when they sprouted, to be able to figure out a harvesting time issue?

I don't think time in flower is as important with autos as it would be for photos because they are on the clock from the day they sprout and photos start when you switch light timing for flower. With photos, if you leave the lights on 18 hrs a day they will just continue to veg indefinitely.

 

[420autoflower]

I think it’s important. I always want to know how long my plants have been in flower, prior to harvesting. If I am growing autos that are advertised as a 85 day strain and I know that the plant didn’t show signs of flower until day 45, I would definitely want to flower my plant more than the remaining 40 days. I just grew a auto crop that was advertised as a 85 day strain, but the plants didn’t start flowering until around day 35. By day 90 I could tell the colas still needed more time to develop, and knowing they only were flowering for 50 days I gave them a couple extra weeks to fatten up. I ended up harvesting around day 116.

 

[MonteVerde]

I think it’s important. I always want to know how long my plants have been in flower, prior to harvesting. If I am growing autos that are advertised as a 85 day strain and I know that the plant didn’t show signs of flower until day 45, I would definitely want to flower my plant more than the remaining 40 days. I just grew a auto crop that was advertised as a 85 day strain, but the plants didn’t start flowering until around day 35. By day 90 I could tell the colas still needed more time to develop, and knowing they only were flowering for 50 days I gave them a couple extra weeks to fatten up. I ended up harvesting around day 116.

So how long SHOULD an autoflower flower for, if there is no recommendation by the seed bank?

 

[Imagine]

I think it’s important. I always want to know how long my plants have been in flower, prior to harvesting. If I am growing autos that are advertised as a 85 day strain and I know that the plant didn’t show signs of flower until day 45, I would definitely want to flower my plant more than the remaining 40 days. I just grew a auto crop that was advertised as a 85 day strain, but the plants didn’t start flowering until around day 35. By day 90 I could tell the colas still needed more time to develop, and knowing they only were flowering for 50 days I gave them a couple extra weeks to fatten up. I ended up harvesting around day 116.

Keep in mind that breeders come up with times they advertise under their perfect grow conditions and feed schedule. Most of us can't duplicate that so most will go longer than advertised with a few exceptions. That's been my experience anyway, YMMV.

 

[420autoflower]

All depends on what you’re growing. The GG-4 auto crop I just harvested were flowering for over 65 days, and 50% of the trichomes were still clear. Could have let them grow for another week or two if I was going off of trichomes color.