Ready for harvest? or wait a little while?

[x00m]

Can anyone have a look at these buds and the whole plant.. and kind of give me a time estimation on when to start harvest? some trichomes look cloudy to me.. but it might be just the way my camera is picking it up.. its a macro lens however.. so id imagine it being pretty accurate..

any suggestions will be much helpful!

 

[Couch_Lock]

Not seeing any amber trichs quite yet, but you won't need to wait long. I know photos fairly well, new to autos. But trichomes are trichomes. Within a week I'd chop that mofo down (if it was a photo, autos are faster so maybe 3-4 more days?)

 

[x00m]

Not seeing any amber trichs quite yet, but you won't need to wait long. I know photos fairly well, new to autos. But trichomes are trichomes. Within a week I'd chop that mofo down (if it was a photo, autos are faster so maybe 3-4 more days?)

thanks for the reply!

this was a kind of a messed up seed. i bought it as "auto speed bud" but it didnt auto flower for 2 and a half months.. but it started when i swapped to 12/12 lights. Someone here told me bad genetics can happen even though i bought auto seed sometimes breeders get it wrong too. So technically... this might be a photo? since it never actually automatically flowered... this is its 4th month!

 

[Couch_Lock]

ya, its a photo then. The longer u wait for more amber colored trichs the more sedative (couchlocked) the weed will become. If you prefer a more cerebral buzz, an "uppity high" chop it when 20% or so is amber.

 

[x00m]

Update on trichomes... still cant see any cloudiness in these trichomes? or am i just being blind??

the images are quite large so you should be able to zoom in to see better detail.

 

[Duceduck]

I'm still seeing some clears in there so maybe another 1-2 week out

 

[JSH1973]

Not easy to tell from the pics but the way the light reflects indicates to me that there's to many clear trichomes still, I only just completed my own very first harvest yesterday so I feel your pain
Mine went about two weeks over the 13 weeks expected as well

 

[Tom Bombadil]

Some parts of the plant are ready others are not.. At this point its preference. I see amber on some photos and none on others... Ide wait till the large fan leaves coming from the tops start to fade.. You will probably gain a little more weight as well if you have patience.
GL

 

[automan2]

Use this op as a learning exercise....harvest a nug that appears more done, wait a week and harvest another....etc...Use your normal dry method on each....with a log of course...you will determine your preference in harvest time...and how to play with it. I keep a jar of wake up, a jar of keep going, and one to knock my ass out. Old stoners have their habits.

 

[EP3]

I was in a similar situation and i would say i chopped it a little early, but i needed smoke and i was excited to get on with the next one.
If i still had something to smoke I would have waited, but I am struggling the now with this Corona bullshit and at a £10 a gram from my cash rich dealer I simply needed to harvest it. I will never pay for weed again, if I can help it.
Good luck bro and to me it looks like it could do with more, (on a scale of 1-10 I am about a 2 on the knowledge level BTW) Just your pics look like mine and I cut a little too early as when I got the bud out and into proper sunlight and looked at it the trichomes were easier to see as still needing more, but I am getting high off it and it's a reasonable smoke, had better, but that was my first successful one and now I have enough to see me through to the next harvest I could wait another 1-2 maybe more weeks next time.
I think take a bud off and look at it under normal sunlight instead of under the grow light or camera flash. I got a much truer colour indication under sunlight.