Live Stoner Chat when to harvest autopounder

[blueballs1]

Hello i may have overlooked posts about this but i was wondering if anyone could help me with timing my harvest. Ive been growing for years but this is my first auto grow. I have an autopounder around day 80. No amber trichomes yet. Still have some clear ones and the fan leaves are starting to bleach out.

 

[Eekman]

Not all auto's get amber or they will only get a few. I myself, harvest when they are all cloudy. But that is me, other's will have thier ways, and they are valid as well

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Peace

Eek

 

[blueballs1]

Thanks for the input. I know thats when i harvest my regular ones with them just starting to amber but wasnt sure on autos. Is there any special pre-harvest steps to take like putting in dark for a couple days?

 

[cocolopez]

I've read you want to watch the leaves. They're better indicators of when the plant is reaching the end of its life cycle than trichomes. Have no experience with a harvest yet myself.

 

[SoDank]

Out the 6 autos I've grow only one was cut at day 75. I've not once had one finish according to the advertised time.

I had good temps, decent nutes (dyna gro) and was running 400 watt HPS for two plants at a time in hydro.

The 75 day plant was kind of a weak high, needed more time.

The good stuff I've grown has been on average of 90-120 days.

I agree with the guy above, the leaves seem to tell more than the trics. I harvested an auto plant earlier this week that was over 100 days and only had a few partially amber, it was hard to find them.