Late September is an exciting time of the season. On one hand, your girls should be flowering, forming up colas. They probably both look and smell good. However there are punks and thieves looking to steal your pot plants. From where I sit, the anxiety level is up there in the red.
When to begin a selective harvest? Well each plant is different. First of all, you can probably find mature buds and not-ready- to-go -yet buds on the same branch. So be thoughtful and selective and do have patience. If you reckon that a few outer buds are ready…try to wait 2 or 3 or 4 more days and nights before you clip them off. Unless the weather forces the issue, or if you think that thieves have your garden in their sights…have patience, and let your plants’ colas plump and swell. After several years of growing your own pot, you’ll get a feel about when it is time to begin a harvest.
young bud
Here you see a bud that, in my opinion, is not ready to be clipped. Let it grow more miniature leaves, trichomes and pistils. As the pistils grow old, they die off and turn a red tan or brown color. As those pistils age-out, they get krinckled because they dry out. You’ll see many pistils have died and dried…they are krinckled. But look at all those newer, viable pistils. Those cream-white pistils are still trying to snag some male marijuana pollen out of the air. It only takes a few granules of pollen dust to get onto one of those viable pistils, where it is transported down that shaft into the female (ovary) bract where it forms a seed. Since it takes at least 2 1/2 weeks to get a viable seed( 4 or five weeks to get for sure ready to go germinants)…now is not the time to be pollinating your females. You’re going to be harvesting sooner than it’ll take to grow a viable seed. Probably.
If the weather permits, we would like to allow the sativa dominant plants to go to full maturity…another 3 or 4 weeks. A more sophisticated grower might hand-pollinate their girls in early August. Look at that picture again. It shows me that that bud has the potential to plump-and-swell, adding both weight and sugary trichomes. This flower bud is growing, is energetic and is just getting better and better. All those sugar spots are pollen-grabbers…the more frustrated the plant is, the more trichomes it will grow.
We are past the full moon by a couple days. These next 15 nights will be dark. These plants react to the length of light/dark. I like it when the projected harvest falls in a dark moonless night period.
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nice purple kush bud
Here is a flower bud that you could clip it off now, trim it and dry it. Or you could let it ripen for another few days. It is the experienced farmer’s perogative. Generally the thinking is that when you clip the bud a little early, while it still has a lot of creamy white pistils, then that pot will be more of a cerebral, head high. If you wait to clip it ’till all the pistils are colored, then it’ll be more of a body high. You will have to learn this for yourself and through a few years experience…you’ll do what’s best for yourself. This and the plants’ specific genetics are two areas where you the grower has power. Some plants put you down at night. Some plants help you to feel good enough to tackle the new day. Some plants ease your pain while other plants help your creativity. You’ll hafta figure this out for yourself, as to which kind of pot you like and need to use.
Generally…I am not using any fertilizers on the girls. I did use some molasses on them 2 or 3 days ago…sugar for energy. I do not want to over-water any of the plants…but they do need to be kept hydrated. I’m giving them about 1/2 a gallon in the morning and 1/2 gallon in mid afternoon. I prefer to harvest during dark moonless periods… in the evening at the end of sunny dry days. I like to selectively cut off branches when they are good and ready. I like to clip on a plant (selectively) over a period of up to two weeks, since an entire plant doesn’t usually mature-up all at the same time.
When the weather turns bad, you may have to cut down an entire plant, bring it inside and maybe hang it upside down from your shower-curtain rod.
The trimming operation is one of reduction. Clip the branches from the main stems. Clip the twigs from the branches. Clip off all of the large sun leaves…try to uncover the flower buds. I don’t like to dry the twigs so I cut the flowers off. More on all of this later. Harvest, trim, dry, cure…this is the most important 1/2 of this pot-growing operation. More later.