trichome pictures. so hard for me to tell, appears mainly milky, so unless she starts looking worse I’ll maybe cut her this Saturday on week 9.
From my experience, if you want a high that’s more stoney and heavy, the guideline I follow is: if you think it’s ready, wait 1 more week
But if you want a more cerebral, mellow and uplifting high; harvest when 90-95% of the pistils have turned.
Every strain will be different obviously, and there’s definitely more science out there to follow these days. But after almost 2 decades of growing, those 2 philosophies have generally worked for me more often than not.
Pistils don’t tell you anything, a plant can be throwing out new pistils and be 90% amber. you have to look at the trichomes.
Trichome coloring is the best indicator, I agree. I was just offering a very simplified suggestion.
However, if one were to see new, white pistils that late in the flowering cycle, that means there’s also new calyxes forming too. New calyxes forming means new, clear trichomes forming with them.
And if new pistils are forming at a time when the original trichomes are 90% amber then those plants are most likely severely overfed. That results in a waste of resources, time, and money.
Pistils can in fact tell you things tho. The timing of their turning in color can indicate how long that strain typically takes to finish it’s flowering cycle. And if the conditions for botrytis are present, as an early indicator, you can see the pistils turn a darker almost blackish color on the inner sides of the flowers where airflow is restricted. Just to name a couple…
Every cultivar is different, I’ve seen strains that throw new pistils out right up until you chop them. They mean nothing by themselves.
