Hi, new here and first time grower. Could someone with more experience let me know if these look ready? TIA!
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Hi, and welcome.
Someone better able to will surely help with some advice. Do you know the variety it is, and what the âbreederâs suggestedâ harvest time is (in days or whatever)?
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Doesnât look done to me. I see fresh calyx growth still!
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Jack Herer auto flower from Sensible Seeds, growing in Fox Farms Ocean Forest soil. Plastic 4 gallon pot. Just over 12 weeks old today. This plant has had a beautiful structure from the start but it has been a battle keeping it green and healthy looking. I think my soil pH was off early in the grow and fought it the whole way. The fan leaves started yellowing and shedding a few weeks ago.
Here are some pics from today with and without flash of the full plant, buds (dense, a tad crisp on leaf tips) and trichomes. It looks to me like almost all trichomes are cloudy and have been for quite a while. Still hard pressed to find much amber as I scope around though.
Iâve had some people say that I have another 3-4 weeks to go and others say itâs in the harvest window now. Iâm feeling like maybe another week myself. Please let me know what you think based on the picsâŚ
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The advice I was given that proved perfectly correct, was that autos donât amber quite like photos, and to take them at the âmostly cloudyâ phase.
Got stoned as hell on that grow.
I vote to chop eta: maybe one more week. Maybe.
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@RainToday @Carty @LoveDaAutos come check out my new friends huge plant
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I donât want to overdo it with pictures, but those seem kind of blurry for some reason. Sorry about that. Here are a couple that look a little clearer, at least on my phone, from a couple days ago. Please let me know if I need to delete some of these for clogging up too much space.
Trichomes have been cloudy for quite a while, maybe 2 weeks. Every time I look at it and think that 80% or more of the pistils are red and receding it seems to throw out a fresh batch of whites the next morning. The pictures donât really represent the plant well in my eye, it looks thicker and denser in person. The pics kind of make the buds look hairy as hell and fluffy but theyâre not.
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I think youâve got yourself a beautiful plant. I donât worry about the color of the pistils on a plant photo or auto I just make my harvest decision upon the trichromes. I remove a small bud from 1/3 to 1/2 way down the plant and trim it really closely and then use the scope on it to check the trichromes. With the strain being a sative dom one and you enjoy the more upbeat high then this plant for me is in the harvest window. If youâre wanting a more narcotic high leaning a bit towards the indica side of the fence going another week or so would be better.
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Yeah sheâs done
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Thanks! It really is a beautifully structured plant. Iâm sure thereâs been much better, but I havenât seen too many autos with buds stacked on 8-10 different branches as densely as this one. Itâs almost like it has 8 âmainâ colas, but I didnât train it at all.
As far as effects, I feel like Jack Herer is bred for energy, motivation and an upbeat, positive feeling, so thatâs what I want from it. Iâll probably grow a more sedating strain next to have something better suited to relaxation and sleep. The one thing I definitely donât want is that racy, paranoid buzz that I can be prone to. Itâs my understanding that this may be the result of buds that are harvested too early, so I definitely want to avoid that.
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I sayâŚâŚ send it.
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Yep. Done. Fresh pistils can keep coming for months in some autos. Canât go by that.
Gorgeous big plant, I agree thatâs really nice multi-cola and lower bud development 
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Thanks for the kind words and advice so far, I appreciate it!
Sheâs dry today, and I just donât think sheâs quite done yet, so I think Iâm going to water one more time with just rainwater and a little molasses, give her at least a couple more days and a proper photo session prior to harvest. It might be a long time before I see another plant built like this and I donât want to look back and wonder if I chopped too soon or realize that I didnât get any great photos of such a beautiful (to me) plant.
If anybody thinks this might be a bad idea due to potentially going too long, please let me know. Aside from some crispy leaf tips I donât see any signs of potential decay yet.
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I wouldnât feed anything, because it could promote a flush of juicy new growth in your buds which is a fast track to bud rot. Even though molasses doesnât have more than a trace of N, it could boost the soil activity and make some available.
Seems fine to leave it a couple more days otherwise.
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I donât understand soil, but I donât think it would be wrong to water and schedule a photo op.
If your weather is anything like mine, Iâd want to bring her down before the summer humidity gets at her
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Wow that plant looks incredible!
Absolutely crazy bud coverage
hard to believe its only 3month from seed
Well done!
id do the same as you,
water only and a few days of drying out id chop her
again, well done!
im looking at the originalsensibleseeds.us site now for some of those beans lol
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Speaking of beansâŚI was just inspecting her nether regions for a nice little bud to clip off and trim down for a closeup trichome investigation with my impossible-to-focus usb magnifier and found a mini coconut tree!
Evidently either her or one of her sisters that got moved out of the tent a little over a month ago decided that the dating scene was looking bleak and decided to self pollinate. I have searched this plant high and low almost daily and never noticed any bananas dangling but evidently I missed something. I donât see any sign of seediness in the big buds and theyâre still throwing pistils like a mofo looking for some pollen so maybe itâs a blessing in disguise, free seeds.
As I understand it, seeds that come from a situation like this are feminized and tend to be pretty stable and not excessively prone to hermie early or excessively. Iâm obviously not well versed on the topic however so maybe this isnât a good thing. Either way, whatever pollination took place doesnât seem to have hampered her bud development as far as I can tell.
A great plant that also gives you a few seeds in the larfy bottom buds might be the ideal plant for a personal, small tent grow 
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I spent a little extra time today focusing that fiddly usb magnifier to check trichomes. I feel pretty comfortable letting this gal go a little longerâŚ
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Lowering your light intensity could slow the new pistil growth.
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Good idea! I did just that a couple days ago. Being itâs only a 2000 Spider Farmer I didnât think it was all that powerful at full power but it is actually pretty intense. Iâve cut the power to about 60% now, and it still looks plenty bright while dropping my max temps by a good 10 degrees as well, which should also help her finish up. I thinkâŚ
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