Ready or not? How do you check for ripening?

[Jaybird3383]

Hey y’all it’s pretty cool to be able to be posting in such a positive environment again

When I’m midway through flowering an indoor crop, I will pay attention to the swelling of calyxes and start to plan my final steps within the stages. I tend to notice when there is a final push the sensimillia has trying to push additional pistils and surface area to attract pollen for production of seed to preserve the following generation. By this point most of the diet should be winding down, signaling the end of season. Once the plant stops swelling for 3-4 full days she seems to signal stresses from being infertile, that’s when I tend to take them down.
Remember, when you give your girlfriend flowers they stay alive for a little bit, this is more of a bush. So, when you take it down, the healthier she is the larger, the bush will still send ripening signals through to the system. As it’s hanging upside down. Not deterioration per se but I believe is natural ripening.

If you haven’t enough experience with your strain of choice, the old school standard to my knowledge was about 30% amber 50%cloudy factor.

Hope that helps y’all

[HydroPower]

There was time that I took it really seriously and watched for the trichome’s color using 30x magnifier. However there are always more and less ripe parts of the plant (tops are more ripe) so I had to approximate it… Magnifier just helped me to realize that if I know the strain from past grows I’m ok using just easily hairs (say 70% brown) to check.

The only problem with this are sativas which produce many more “waves” of fresh hairs (probably indefinitelly ). But I’m avoiding sativa-dominant strains anyway …

[MiG]

@Jaybird3383

I will pay attention to the swelling of calyxes and start to plan my final steps within the stages. I tend to notice when there is a final push the sensimillia has trying to push additional pistils and surface area to attract pollen for production of seed to preserve the following generation.

Yeah, I pays special atention to calixes SWELLING as ya said. It’s why I trayed to explain with my “Calyxes health&size&form…”

Btw, is usual in sativa strains the aparition of new fresh clear pistils, when the first pistils borned are brown…
PD: I see right now @HydroPower have mentioned it too…

@HydroPower

The only problem with this are sativas which produce many more “waves” of fresh hairs (probably indefinitelly ).

[Spyslab]

I used a loupe for a while then misplaced it - i resorted to my phone’s camera and its zoom -

[Dannabis]

I look for mostly cloudy trichomes, like 60%+ cloudy to 40% or less amber.

Very strain specific, depending on when the plant starts to senesce or feel over ripe and want to make seeds/push pollen.

Also if CBD strain, the trichomes are yellow/amber the whole time, so look for cloudy on those

[Dannabis]

With practice you dont need a scope, the trichomes cloudy/amber/clear

[oleskool830]

[quote=“Muleskinner, post:8, topic:2866”]
Usually the plant lets you know in a bunch of ways that it’s done.

Whoop! There it is! I think your methodology is right on point. This is the most important thing I have learned lately. Thanks!

[cannabissequoia]

the ripening of females? usually the ass first.