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PetFlora · 02-23-2018, 05:25 PM

I put ONE plant outdoors. She's tiny but super healthy.

I pollinated her ~ 6 weeks ago

I see mature dark seeds in her cracked calyxes

Her cousin was harvested on 2/09, Her leaves show no signs of being ready to harvest, though

I am 99% hydro.

When will I know to pull her?

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Bud Green Sr. · 02-23-2018, 05:44 PM

She is tiny!
I guess you're an indoor guy....
Have the trichs turned cloudy yet? At least 75% cloudy and 25% clear? if so chop her...

If the seeds are important to you, and you're not ready to chop yet,
Carefully poke the mature seeds out of their shells, so you don't lose them..
Or place some kind of paper or plastic under her, so the seeds fall out on it and you can collect them...

bsgospel · 02-24-2018, 04:42 AM

Harvest for seeds or harvest for bud?

Chappi · 02-24-2018, 06:33 AM

6 weeks plenty of time for seed development. When you pollinate the plants’s energy goes to making seeds so don’t expect yield. Every calyx matures at it’s own rate so I would sample a few and see if you like what you have now. Happy harvesting.

PetFlora · 02-24-2018, 07:49 PM

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Originally Posted by bsgospel

Harvest for seeds or harvest for bud?

for harvesting the plant/buds

all her leafs are a healthy green, no signs of yellowing or brown pistils

PetFlora · 02-24-2018, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Bud Green Sr.

She is tiny!
I guess you're an indoor guy....
Have the trichs turned cloudy yet? At least 75% cloudy and 25% clear? if so chop her...

If the seeds are important to you, and you're not ready to chop yet,
Carefully poke the mature seeds out of their shells, so you don't lose them..
Or place some kind of paper or plastic under her, so the seeds fall out on it and you can collect them...

Thanks

she's tiny because I pulled her when I saw coconuts some 12 weeks ago. It was grown in a coco pellet that expands to ~ 1.3" x 4". I literally threw it on my tile patio. It got enough water to survive. About 8 weeks ago I noticed pistils at the top, so I planted HER. A testament to how resourceful this plant is to survive

Indeed, he may have flipped to preserve itself

Never saw pistils beyond the top bud, and none there now!

I put one leaf under the scope. Most of the trichs have lost their head, but only ~ 10% cloudy with a few dark amber

AgentPothead · 02-24-2018, 11:47 PM

I could just be really sober and not parsing this right, but why would you pollinate the plant if you were later going to harvest it for buds?

Douglas.Curtis · 02-24-2018, 11:54 PM

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Originally Posted by AgentPothead

I could just be really sober and not parsing this right, but why would you pollinate the plant if you were later going to harvest it for buds?

You wouldn't, unless you like mineral rich flower. Feed for seeds or fine flower, pick one because they're exclusive.

I've been chopping at 5-15% amber for over a decade and it's produced wonderfully ripe cannabis with all the strains I've grown through the years.

Count 20 trichomes on flower only (not sugar leaves), in a few spots to get an average. 1 amber trichome in 20 is 5% amber. 2 is 10%, 3 is 15%. Chop each strain at a few different %'s and label them for later testing.

You're welcome.

AgentPothead · 02-25-2018, 12:56 AM

After re-reading I think it flipped on it's own after he put it out to die and he's just trying to harvest what he can. But yeah, seeds or buds, pick one.

PetFlora · 02-25-2018, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by AgentPothead

I could just be really sober and not parsing this right, but why would you pollinate the plant if you were later going to harvest it for buds?

what genius says you can't have both?

Obviously, you would not sell seeded bud, BUT, once the seeds have been physically removed, the remaining smashed bud is still very smokeable, or make butter with it

02-23-2018, 05:25 PM	#1
PetFlora Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 5,293	Need Help when to Harvest I put ONE plant outdoors. She's tiny but super healthy. I pollinated her ~ 6 weeks ago I see mature dark seeds in her cracked calyxes Her cousin was harvested on 2/09, Her leaves show no signs of being ready to harvest, though I am 99% hydro. When will I know to pull her? __________________ Hail Hydro 2.0: New Beginnings https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=342785 https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=329619 *Just because you weren't taught something doesn't mean it's not true, and vice versa*
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Bud Green Sr. I dig dirt Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: in the hills Posts: 2,633	She is tiny! I guess you're an indoor guy.... Have the trichs turned cloudy yet? At least 75% cloudy and 25% clear? if so chop her... If the seeds are important to you, and you're not ready to chop yet, Carefully poke the mature seeds out of their shells, so you don't lose them.. Or place some kind of paper or plastic under her, so the seeds fall out on it and you can collect them... __________________ ... Isn't Mother Nature grand !
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02-24-2018, 04:42 AM	#3
bsgospel Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Posts: 398	Harvest for seeds or harvest for bud? __________________ It's time for a revolution, but probably not in the terms that people imagine it. The word conjures up images of— a modern day version of peasants going into the street with their pitch forks to go after the bad guy who lives in a big house and we're gonna get that son-of-a-bitch and we'll take all the stuff from him and we'll give it to the workers. That's not the kind of revolution I had in mind. I thought that it might be nice if it was handled a little bit more modern and efficient way, without people getting slaughtered. It's a matter of infiltration…The people who are in control of the media, the government that run the lives of the average person in the street. They aren't doing a good job 'cause they don't really care. The potential is there in the younger generation. Right now they’re not really interested. Their political involvement is on a very superficial basis. They go out for the social aspects of a march or a rally rather than for what it could possibly accomplish. -FZ
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02-24-2018, 06:33 AM	#4
Chappi Member Join Date: Dec 2016 Posts: 273	6 weeks plenty of time for seed development. When you pollinate the plants’s energy goes to making seeds so don’t expect yield. Every calyx matures at it’s own rate so I would sample a few and see if you like what you have now. Happy harvesting.
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02-24-2018, 11:47 PM	#7
AgentPothead Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Grassachusetts Posts: 568	I could just be really sober and not parsing this right, but why would you pollinate the plant if you were later going to harvest it for buds? __________________ You may not vote on any more threads today. Don't sweat the technique.
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02-25-2018, 12:56 AM	#9
AgentPothead Member Join Date: Jun 2017 Location: Grassachusetts Posts: 568	After re-reading I think it flipped on it's own after he put it out to die and he's just trying to harvest what he can. But yeah, seeds or buds, pick one. __________________ You may not vote on any more threads today. Don't sweat the technique.
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