Harvesting For the Highest R.O.I.

Tried it this year with the outdoor crop and it is definitly worth waiting when you can. Indoor gave substantial result in yield and felt potency/effect. Thank you

I started growing in the early 1980’s long before the talk of amber trichomes. My education came from hippie growers who grew since the 60’s and they always told me to harvest outdoors a week after all the hairs Turn brown and curled in. If you still see white hairs let it go longer. I was also told to harvest in sections. Harvest the top of the plant, wait a week or week and a half harvest the middle and then another week or week and half harvest the bottoms. I have harvested bottoms well into November. Those bottoms that were tiny little buds when I harvested the tops were now fat frosty nugs loaded with resin and a deep purple.

Every time I'm 1 month into flower I start watching these 'when to harvest' videos. They help me sit on my hands and refrain from chopping the plants too soon.

Grew my first 4 plants last summer. I have not smoked weed in over 40 years. I harvested with only a few ambers showing. 1 or 2 puffs and i am wack. No need for me to fuss over plants any longer. I got enuf stash to last me for years. I added a slice of apple to a tupperware bowl with my flowers to keep them soft and tender

Finally, OMG, finally a good video educating ripe flowers. I have noticed more experience growers get huge buds but don't explain to much. If always "you r choice or you will know". Buds really start bulking up when hairs slow down, you see them shrivel and turn. This happens in bulking, trike's continue to form. Some clear, some cloudy and a few amber. As you keep monitoring which seems forever, the change is gradual over 1 to 2 weeks regarding trike's but the size of the buds keep getting larger. So yes, with practice and time forms confidence. I now start doing my flush when I see 10 to 15 percent clear, 70 percent ish cloudy and about 5 to 10 percent amber. At this point I know I have a good 7 days of flush, checking every other day the trike's. When I see things progress and leafs get used up, I determine when my 48 hours of darkness will be done. Huge tip: this put plant into autumn panic mode and you will get a good amount of trike's. I also keep it cool and that help preserve trike's longer (67 F roughly). Don't boughter watering during this time either. These are my personal finishing touches that works well....most of my friends love the advice and enjoying their grows much better. I hope this helps you too 😉

The kid who taught me how to grow eight years ago, had two words for me about harvesting. "Not yet". At 4100 feet, I leave them in the ground until the hard freezes come or Haloween--whichever comes first. This year I might have to pull some of my indicas before that so I don't plug up my drying area. Ended up growing twice as many plants as I needed because the runts kept growing after their replacements took over, and i just couldn't kill them. Now the runts are two feet taller than me.

I’m 40 and did this experiment outdoors years ago with just 1 big plant…and you wouldn’t believe the resins and oils, some were almost black they were so prevalent…it ended up being my most potent plant I’ve ever grown…I let it go til the night before I first actually frost…I’m in Buffalo/Western New York area…so yes do NOT be afraid to experiment and try things outside the box! Great video @Mark! ✊🏾❤️💯💯💯

Great video! I have gotten patient and don’t rush any of my grows anymore. People can wait and the product will be there when it’s ready. I refuse to rush cutting down my plants because I used to be in that position all the time. People would bug the hell out of me asking me at least every couple of days “is it ready, I need blah blah this and I need blah blah that”. I don’t care what they need because all they want is to be the first to get my bud and sell it so they can move on and forget about whether or not if it was fully ready or not. Be patient and wait!!! Don’t let anyone start pushing you to cut everything down they can go to the next one and pester them.

Growing for almost 50 years for personal use, I leave as long as I can, makes buds denser and more narcotic effect.

IMO if your looking for max yield, and you let your flowers amber, the buds will get fatter and heavier but not more potent. I pick at the first sign of tricomes turning amber. If you let 25 percent amber up you have reduced the potency of the bud because THC, CBD etc are turned into CBN. Also you will notice the amber heads will begin to deteriorate. Personally I would rather have my flowers at max potency and a little less couch feeling than max yield. I also grow different strains for different effects. Just my unprofessional opinion as a successful home grower.

kept the leafs on half of my in's this last time. it took a bit longer to dry but i can tell the difference on the press. the flower even looks better. long time wet trimmer changed now. thanks mark for sharing all the great info. i also only flush for a few days. happy growing everyone

Thanks for describing this process, appreciate you passing it on, and your commenters are gold for their knowledge also.

I've been growing outdoors for about 40 years and I still always question whether I'm pulling them out at the right time.

😉I could tell by the leaf texture as well, my lavender plants have been growing for some time but my key indicator was its leaves. They went from this silky smooth texture to a almost lizard rough quality. Yet they are still green and healthy looking. I'm pulling my lavender pedals this weekend.

I've been a prisoner of the trichome trap and harvested way too early for so long. Not that I'm impatient but listened to the wrong information. This is GREAT!!! Makes sense, next plant will be a proper plant!! Thanks for the videos!!

THANKS for the info. Growing two different strains for the first time and one strain Ambered up at week 5 of flower, week 10 total. Tri comes were mostly clear but in a matter of days went amber without really clouding up. I waited a week and then it clouded up with the Amber and therefore put it to sleep. Cutting it down tomorrow evening! Video gave me confidence I made the correct decision.

Dude thank you for this video, I have been watching so much videos to try and understand when I should harvest, I'm so close about 1 and half weeks away from harvest... But this helps put things into perspective

I am going to pass along advice I heard from an old timer... "I've never met a strain that wouldn't benefit from a good 9 week flower". 63

Great trichome talk, man. I just pulled one plant from my tent, it was showing plenty of red/brown trichomes, I'm giving it 48 hours of darkness, then snipping and drying. I probably could of waited another week, but it's my first grow, and I'm still getting sensitized to the cues. Thank you!

I have one plant set to pick on the 9th (full moon). The rest are set to get picked on the new moon (Oct 23rd). Cut waterings from the 9th. Now water on 11, 14, 18, and harvest on the 23rd.