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

Honestly, after years and years of hands-on experience, the absolute best gauge of when to harvest is your nose! Yes! Just smell it! After you get a nose to when the terpenes are at peak, you can 100% smell when they are ripe just like fruit. Works perfectly every time. there is no need to even check trichomes. You're welcome.
The same thing goes for how to properly make compost or teas. Nothing fancy needed, just smell it.

fuck people who grow for profit. i aim to grow the most FLAVORFUL stuff i possibly can. they go for weight i go for taste.

It depends on the weather if it's outdoors, inside you can have trichomes that take forever to switch over to amber. In the real world it's hard it's difficult you just got to make a call

With my indoor plants, I turn the lights off for about 10 to 14 days at the end of the plants life, and the drying cycle is in the dark as well!! The results are great 👍 👌

So the leaves protect outdoor plants? Wouldn’t leaves promote mold in areas that have cold fall weather?

Outdoors you have to watch out for the cursed rot

If the trichomes haven't turn milky or light amber in 5 minutes.... Just wait longer😮

I harvested my plant in April and I left the little buds on the planet and I kept watering my plant and it started all over and I will be harvesting my plant for the second time! 😅😂

I am glad I dont listen to so many claimed experts lol...some say watch the hairs...when they turn brown harvest..BS! My trichromes still looked clear so I took the chance and let them grow,,all those buds have doubled in size and still have no look of dying ..although I know it is soon I live in the north east. My branches look like that stick 3" in diameter and 2 feet long lol (bruce banner Sativa

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Has about 2 weeks left imo.

Did that last year, threw down some fine alfalfa hay to mulch and just harvested the large buds, left the rest till December, harvested that, leaving some lower growth. Around February I started to get seed sprouts coming up through the hay (that I had watered a little daily). They were all self pollinated guaranteed females. I dug them up and brought them inside till March, no direct sunlight. One plant gave 12 sprouts, I gave six to neighbors and got laid for it. Gas, grass, ass is still alive and well, thank you Jesus.

What's weird is that my crop was completely seedless when I cured and cleaned it and I looked carefully at the buds that I left on the plant and never saw seeds, but there they were sprouting. I was using Bergman's Gold Leaf, shout out to them, they've replaced any order I had trouble with, sometimes twice!

I have a secure outdoor grow of less than 6 plants, yearly, invisible from outside the property, locked, surrounded by cactus and cattle dogs in the Palm Springs area. Did I mention, two 300 pound, ornery (except to me), black mini pigs - if you go down in the back yard, all trace of you will disappear by dawn. Even the big bones.


Also, I water cure and process to an amber resin for a couple of reasons. Vaping what amounts to shatter reduces the amount you have to smoke - You're not smoking sticks and stems. There is absolutely no pot smell whatsoever, and,...if you harvest everything at once you will have an illegal amount temporarily. So, harvesting over November into January allows you to never have an uncomfortable amount stinky, fat beautiful buds advertising their presence. I can Bubble Bag everything into a small jar that doesn't really even require refrigeration. And I could put that in a safety deposit box in case of a zombie apocalypse.

Watch out for bud rot…

5 pound plants for years!! Nothing but good seed (ordered from High Times in the 80.s) and this is how I've done it too!! I make GREAT soil, pinch every third set, train them flat with mesh (for pouring concrete) and the product has sent MANY stoners to bed early!! Dont listen to all the garbage out there now!! This guy has it right!!

Good things come to those who wait. That definitely applies to flowering. Patience weedhopper.

Just watched this one video, but already I can say, I'm a fan!

Can the top half of the plant be cut to dry and let the button go for another week or two for the slow pokes?

If it sucks tell us damn it fuck them

I have a 9 foot tall Shokie in a 5 gallon bucket. She ate all of the soil and turned the dirt into one giant root ball. I was really afraid because bottom leaves yellowed overnight. But I started treating her as a hydro grow. I dug a moat around the rim of the bucket and I water 5 times a day. I put 15-30-15 bloom fertilizer in the first water of each day. I have never seen a happier girl.

It's my first outdoor try, and im probably a week or so away.The only problem is we are having an occasional 45 ° temp drop early morning. But on average, lows 55 to 60. Im a little worried it might stop them from finishing?

Question, should I begin the flush when I see the amber trichomes ? Or should I have flushed before then? I'm basically wonder when to flush.

For context: Its my first time. I did a window grow here in Ireland (summer time) but we had questionable weather as always. That been said the 2 plants are huge. I'm in week 6 of flower but the bud sites at the top are much bigger than the bottom and no signs of amber trichomes anywhere. I feel the overcast weather has elongated the flowering period as some of the bud sites are just very small still. Thoughts welcome.

I think I'm going to wait a week now before I pull

There’s so Many other factors involved besides yield and $$$!

I’ve always gone by the “window of harvest” approach.

By taking your plants with +15% ambers you are getting a product that gives you a more uplifting head high.
The greater the concentration of amber tricholms the more couch lock your high becomes. I find that to be true no matter what the strain, sativa or indica.

If you are dealing with pests or molds, bud rot etc… some of these factors force the issue of harvest.

Location also might force the issue. Areas of the PNW can count on steady rains starting around the 2nd week of October. I intentionally grow 7-9 week finishers and hope that they finish before I need to “tent”my plants. Tenting 10-12’ plants isn’t easy to do. So sometimes I’ll have to take a plant at the 15% amber because I can’t tent a monster plant and steady rain is coming.

The other thing I think is a hood practice is to harvest the top half of the plant, for me that’s clipping and harvesting 18-24” branches and leaving the larf underneath to mature another week or two.

Great video, flushing dilutes the nutrients in your soil only. You dont flush synthetic fertilizers out of the plant material. Drinking water doesnt offset the affects of chemotherapy, it doesnt work in plants either. Don't believe that lie told to growers by people selling bottles of anything.
Peace farmerlion

If your suing salt based nutes you have to flush 10 days. I've tried not to flush and ruined crops. It will taste like chemicals if you don't flush.

❤🎉Thanks a bunch Colorado Silverback777 Stay Healthy keep Stacking.

I know you would increase weight but many talk about their plants producing a couch lock effect if left to mature to the end ? Not sure?!? I’m growing sativas so I don’t know if I left them grow more they would lose their sativa high and I would be asleep on the couch !

Man your videos are F'n awesome. Im new. Ive been checking out different sites trying to learn as i get my feet wet with my first grow. I am also a doctor and I appreciate your approach to explaining things and going over anatomy in detail. Thanks to all those who choose positivity and a helpful hand to those getting started like myself.

subbed. just found the channel thx to garden talks w/ mr grow it.

Where can it get a good scoop

Been reusing my coco for 5yrs. Amending with organic dry ammendments and recharge. Buying soil from big box stores that store bags outside may lead to unwanted pest in your garden. Reusing coco (as long as you dont have any pest) gets better over time.

Great video man, sometimes I get a little antsy and harvest while the trichomes are just milky vs Amber because I’ve had some issues with bud rot

You lost me at lavender plants

In parts of India they let there plants dry in the ground. They Shake the plant. And based on the SOUND is when the harvest. To each there own

Last year I was adviced to wait 14 days before harvesting, the plants turned from sticky to barely sticky + mold in some of the buds. Due to the size and shape, I guess it's different varieties of primarily indica (some of them smell like Bubble gum), so this year I'll harvest a bit sooner...

Gonna extend my harvest time around 10 weeks I’m on week 7

Very informative, and great, that you go the extra-mile, and actually provide reasoning about the DOs and DONTs - I feel like there is a lot of misinformation circling around and being echo-chambered. Thank you for the Vid!
And you have a great voice ;)

Hey! I am growing my first plant in Virginia and about 75 percent of the white hairs have turned orange but all the white crystals on the leaves still look clear maybe some have a milky look but it’s not a big plant so it’s hard to see if the crystals are still clear or if they are a little milky. I have 2 more seeds I’m waiting to sprout but I have learned a lot from my first plant and made a lot of mistakes but I smoke everyday well vape and I’m allowed to grow 4 plants at a time and this has always been a dream of mine and it will save us a lot of money from the medical marijuana pharmacy. Can you give me any advice on when I should harvest my plant?

lavender = cotton candy kush lol

The only problem with using the biggest plant as a frame of reference is that ut may just be a different phenotype and that sometomes isnt visually evident

Always flush

Like this

To much amber will give you couch lock. 10% amber is more than enough.

This video would have been more helpful if he had actually told when to harvest. Everyone seems to have their own idea of when to harvest, so advice to harvest one week later than you think you should is pretty useless. 👎

Can’t even speak freely anywhere anymore.. if you got the dollar, they can’t holler! 😂 NOT!

I’m 7 weeks 55 days into flower. I swear some look ready but I see them still growing.

Awesome awesome 😎 and awesome information thank you

I had a friend that ran a kush style in a closet and I he wanted to let it go gold. He had to get them evicted for squatting for so long. Who knows when it would have ended.

rather than lavender call them "Celosia" because the plant grows in the same conditions as the plant we know we are speaking about and it kinda looks like it.