Harvest & Curing Trichs are Clear or Amber, no clouding

[Beerhunter CDN]

So I’m watching my plants for harvest as they are on day 79 today. With a cheap microscope I can see the trichs well and all I see are clear trichs and Amber trichs, I see hardly any cloudy trichs. I’ve tried getting a pic of them but it just won’t work with this scope.

I’ve been looking for the natural progression from clear to cloudy and on to Amber but I don’t know what to make of this. Any advice would be appreciated to give me an idea of when to flush before harvest.

 

[Recycled]

I can’t help with your question but let’s get the post back up top. Good luck man.


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[MR magoo]

it comes down to percentages, what percent is amber, if it is a small % then wait until clear is cloudy. if it is a large % amber, something is wonky.amber is a sign of degradation.when they turn amber its the end stage. hope they milk up for you.

 

[Beerhunter CDN]

Thanks for the help. I took a sample from each of four plants and I can see some cloudy, some clear, and some amber on 3 of the 4 but one just looks like clear and amber. I am going to leave them for another week and then check again. If they have ripened up a bit further and I see more milky and amber at that point then I’ll begin to flush for another week. The other indicator I guess I have is fading leaves. I left some fan leaves on to help me in the event of a deficiency but I’m thinking they will begin to fade as the plant matures. At this point there is no fading on any of them.

 

[Tommy Bahama]

Are you sure you are looking at the right part of the plant? You should be inspecting the trichomes on the buds, not on the sugar leaves.

 

[Beerhunter CDN]

Are you sure you are looking at the right part of the plant? You should be inspecting the trichomes on the buds, not on the sugar leaves.

Well, I’ve just learned something new today. Thanks Tommy! I was just snipping a sugar leaf and checking as I had a hard time holding a bud still enough to see the trichs clearly under my scope. Now I’m kind of afraid to look. Lol. They’re coming down tomorrow anyway so I’ll chalk this one up to a First grow newb mistake.

 

[Tommy Bahama]

Take a look before you chop it down. You can clip off small piece of bud and put it under the microscope.
You said above you were at day 79, but didn't say if that was day 79 of complete growth, or day 79 of flowering. If the former, you may be way too early to cut it down.

On a related note, I found the same issue with using a microscope - it's just impossible to hold it still enough to look directly at the plant. What I've finally settled on as my go-to loupe for inspecting plants is this thing. It clips on to my cell phone. I don't bother with the built-in LED light - it makes the image worse. I just shove this thing in right up against a bud and it takes pretty good photos. Afterward, I load the image on my computer and enlarge it about 4 times.

Amazon product ASIN B07BJBG7NV
With that cheap little thing, I wind up with pictures like this. I don't even bother with the microscope anymore.

 

[Tommy Bahama]

Odd. My link to the cell phone adapter isn't showing up in my post above. Well, you can just go to Amazon and search for this to see what I am talking about:

Wesley's 60X Clip-On Type Cell Phone Mini Microscope

 

[Beerhunter CDN]

Odd. My link to the cell phone adapter isn't showing up in my post above. Well, you can just go to Amazon and search for this to see what I am talking about:

Wesley's 60X Clip-On Type Cell Phone Mini Microscope

Thanks @Tommy Bahama

I just snipped a couple small pieces of bud off and checked trichs. The plants are done and ambered pretty good which was actually what I planned on for harvest. Today is Day 93 above ground and I’ve been flushing for about a week now. I had stunted the plants at about 2 weeks old (unintentionally) and I think it buggered up their timeline so they’ve run a bit longer than they might normally.

I’ll check on the cell microscope, thanks for that also. I can’t take pics using the scope I have now although I can see trichs quite clearly if the sample is still.

 

[Recycled]

Well, I’ve just learned something new today. Thanks Tommy! I was just snipping a sugar leaf and checking as I had a hard time holding a bud still enough to see the trichs clearly under my scope. Now I’m kind of afraid to look. Lol. They’re coming down tomorrow anyway so I’ll chalk this one up to a First grow newb mistake.

Good luck with patience. It’s tough for most of us!!! Posted a puzzling question on my journal yesterday about red trichs on sugar leaves but sparse on flowers. I said screw it and harvested one sour crack last night. The rest will get another week. Screw patience...for at least one girl!! Scissor hash knocked me down though. Wow.


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