When to pick my lovely Buds

[buddy.g]

Tricomes are turning milky, only 4 days to go till harvest , Hydroponics system has reduced to 700ppm for last 10 days and will flush fresh water to the end.

When is the best time of day or night to pick them?

 

Thanks in advance,

Buddy.g

Edited May 25, 2007 by buddy.g

[WantDaChronic]

i have read that giving a plant 3 days of darkness at the end of the flowering period forces them to go for an all out burst to the finish line so to speak, i have also heard hippies go on about how harvesting by a full moon gives the buds spiritual and mystical properties, etc.

 

in reality the best time to harvest depends on the type of stone you like...if you want a racey buzz, harvest when the tricomes are clear, milky if you like a head buzz with some body to it, milky/amber to get an all over buzz and mostly amber with a few milky tricomes to get a really deep stone. thats generally speaking though, genetics plays a major part apart from that though, you can harvest morning, noon or night, it doesnt matter one bit

[loylty gets u nothing]

ive asked this myself

the answer i got was 1/2 way threw the night period

ideally the sugars and stuff are in the roots

aposed to wen lights are on and the plants in full swing

im sure some1 will come along with a more precise answer

all the best

bil

[buddy.g]

Thanks for crushing my hopes.

Has anyone else had different experiances?

One thing i have noticed is when the light turns on the stalks of the tricomes are long

and at the end of the light cycle they are much shorter.

The heads dont seem to change.

This may be like you say "doesnt matter one bit "

Any ideas???

Cheers,

Buddy.g

 

 

Thanks Bill

Edited May 25, 2007 by buddy.g

[SukonmiSkunk]

exactly billo...

 

but seriously id be getting those ppms a lot lower than 700ppm... i guess that depends on the water reading before you run it through...

i use rainwater that reads around 50ppm.. so when i harvest i make sure the ppms are around 50-100 for at least 3 days before chop... basically you want all the leaves looking like they are dying with spots and all sorts of deficiencies.. this also ensures that the plant has used pretty much all the available nutrients with in the plant itself... definitely makes for a tastier bud

 

getting back to the darkness thing.. it really doesnt matter a hell of a lot... but the plant has mobile and immobile nutrients/starches and sugars... harvesting half way through the dark period ensures that all these sugars and starches have returned to the roots... makes for a better cure and more tastier, smoother smoke...

leaving for a few days in darkness probably doesnt make all the difference... probably minimal.. if youre a lazy trimmer it certainly wouldnt hurt just leave the plants in darkness over a few days while you trim.. much longer and the plant will start its reveging process..

[buddy.g]

She has straight water in there now and is sitting on 140ppm will wait and see tommorrow how it looks.

Will give new fresh water every day from now.

[SukonmiSkunk]

check it after each watering.. change it if you need too... but that should read around 350-450ppm in the morning..

 

might pay to change it after a few cycles get it down to around 200ppm by the morning...

[Budman2012]

Hey guyz , thats interesting ..

 

I learned early on (for outdoors) .. to pick in the middle of the light cycle (or hottest part of the day) .. as this is when the Calyx's are the most swollen ..

I just adapted that for indoors ..

 

SO your saying the sugars and starchs revert back to the roots when the lights are off?? ..

I never thought the roots held much of anything at all and were mostly for transfer of moisture and nutrients? ..

The flowers still seem to develop overnight .. and certainly branching will stretch , is the plant not working just as hard (if not harder) at nighttime as daytime? .. then would it not need the normal flow of nutrient? etc ..

Would anyone say their plants "shutdown" in the night cycle?? .. coz mine don't seem to ..

 

Anyway , I'm just curious now

Cheerz

 

Budman

[buddy.g]

Thanks I am allready getting the next lot of water ready, will only have time for one more change tonight and will do another before work tommorrow. It will be interesting to see what is is tomorrow night.

Cheers

Buddy.g

 

Just saw you budman thanks for the reply.

Edited May 24, 2007 by buddy.g

[SukonmiSkunk]

no of course not bman.. its just the plant is doing a totally different thing during the day than at night time... both parts of the cycle are just as important as the each other.. you need to understand how the plant works.. trying to put this in a way I can understand it... .... the leaves feed from the roots... the flowers feed from the leaves... you have mobile nutrients and immobile nutrients... immobile nutrients are held through out the plant structure in the leaves and stalks... the mobile nutrients are stored with in the root system.. and are only active during the light cycle.. these nutrients help the plant to absorb the energy from the sun, i guess they go through some transformation which changes the sugars and starches to nutrients held with in the leaves .. some how.. .... then at night.. when the buds are feeding from the leaves.. they can use these nutrients created during the day from the starches and sugars...

or something like that...