New Grower When to harvest? Photos included

[Little]

I have a Berry Ryder auto I have grown up the past few weeks. It is about 8 weeks old as of this coming week. Looking to see opinions on when to harvest. None of the leaves are yellowed yet. Haven't begun to flush yet either, so thinking I should start now? Any/all advice is welcome!

Thanks guys

 

[Trapper]

My personal opinion, give it a week then start the flush.

 

[Little]

Thanks for the reply. How long do you think I should flush for? I've heard anywhere between 7 - 14 days. Only stuff I have used is Fox Farms Big Bloom and Tiger Bloom.

Saw your Dark Devil thread. Those are my next babies to grow up!

 

[Trapper]

Well, obviously I can't speak from experience...seems the common practice is 14 days to get the nutes out of the plant so they don't disrupt the intended flavor.

So many great reviews of Sweets gear. I'm really looking forward to completing this first grow.

 

[az2000]

I'm not too experienced, but based on the lack of yellowing fan leaves I'd say you have 2-3 weeks before starting the 2-week cleanse.

I've done two autoflowers and started cleanse around 82 days and chopped at 100. The buds fattened up a lot during that time.

Yours are already quite impressive. If they fatten like mine did, you may need some scaffolding to hold them up.

EDIT: I have an album with pictures showing what my two plants looked like when when I began cleanse, and chopped. See: https://www.autoflower.org/members/az2000-albums-cleanse-chop.html

If you hover over the image it will tell you whether it was grow 1 or 2, whether the photo is of the start of cleanse or chop, and the number of days when the photo was taken.

Might help you assess what your plant's condition. Also see the "lifecycle" and "when to harvest? your leaves will tell you" stickies in the New Grower's forum. I based my timing on that info.

 

[Muddy]

Looks like about another 3 weeks to me. Start the final 14 day cleanse when your big fan leaves are about half yellow. Usually about 2 weeks left at that point.

 

[Little]

Awesome, thanks for those who have replied. I will definitely keep this up to date the next few weeks with photos. It turned out better than I had hoped for a first autoflower!

A little more about the grow:
CLOSET GROW! (2 fans, a light, mylar and a temp/humidity reader, nothing else fancy)
Brand new California Lightworks LED 220W - Full Cycle (This light is awesome so far, giving me great auto results and my outdoor photoperiods I started took off in another closet like crazy.)
5 - gallon Airpot
Fox Farms Ocean Forest Soil
Big Bloom/Grow Big - been using since a week after the first buds sprung up
Feed her as needed when she is dry - she's been drinking about 4 gallons/week.

Glad you guys were so great to offer some quick advice.

 

[Little]

Update 5-22

So here is an update on the Berry Ryder I asked about on the 11th being ready, she was far from it! Thanks guys.

What do you think of her now? I started her cleanse as of Sunday, was planning on cutting her down around the 28th.

If you look closely you can see her leaves have started to develop these brown dry spots by the buds, they aren't on the fan leaves and just started as soon as I stopped feeding the Tiger/Big Bloom

Any advice would be great!

 

[az2000]

I would have waited another week or so. But, you have some massive buds. They'll continue to fatten during the cleanse. You might end up doing the cleanse longer than 2 weeks because she'll draw nutes out of the leaves. If you started cleanse too soon (too many green leaves?) that just means there's more leaves to draw from.