Are seeds an indication of harvest time?

[Grayshan]

So I removed a worm damaged
bud and found a ripe seed. Not sure how it got there or how many more I have, but so the seeds generally get ripe when the flower is ready to harvest, or is there any correlation between the seeds being done and harvest time? Here’s a couple pictures. Thanks

 

[Observationist]

Seeds will mature before the fruit.

 

[growsince79]

Seeds will mature before the fruit.

depends lol

 

[Ponky]

Femenized or auto?

 

[Grayshan]

Femenized or auto?

These were just from normal seed. I germinated 12 and ended up with 8 plants. Unfortunately 5 were males, but they were gone along time ago and before they made any pollen.

 

[Madmax]

Its around about.its a little similar to when your top buds are ripe and ready the seeds will b too.then you have the lowers with the odd ripe ones aswell..ive mostly found with indicas they are ready anywhere betwween 8--11 weeks..

 

[Ponky]

These were just from normal seed. I germinated 12 and ended up with 8 plants. Unfortunately 5 were males, but they were gone along time ago and before they made any pollen.

Thats somewhat odd. I only ever get these stray seeds in my femenized seeds. If its just one or two it's fine. But I'm not too familiar with this happening to regs.

 

[Grayshan]

Its around about.its a little similar to when your top buds are ripe and ready the seeds will b too.then you have the lowers with the odd ripe ones aswell..ive mostly found with indicas they are ready anywhere betwween 8--11 weeks..

Thanks. These have been flowering for about 60 days, but I thought they were sativas from the thin leaves. I’m thinking they are pretty close to harvest so I’m trying to figure out if I should water again and spray BT again. I think the trichomes are just starting to show a bit of Amber in them but I’ll be watching tomorrow.

 

[Madmax]

Ive just made some fem seeds and have taken the majority at 74-75 days was finding them on the top buds around your date but seen lots not ready.you will still get the odd green and white ones which the latter are no good.when i had outdoor regs ready many years ago you could see them all ready to drop and others you had to fish for deep inside the buds.some i use to bash in a bathtub lol to collect them

 

[william76]

I'd check if there's seeds through it all what strain?,if we knew the strain we would know how long it should take.sounds to me like uv got a herm in the bunch.too late now.76

 

[Thumbuddy]

Would be a lot easier to just use a jewelers loupe and check trichomes.
I've gotten a stray seed or two off branches that had broken off and those plants were atleast 3-4 wks from harvest.

 

[beluga]

The short answer is, no, they're not indicative of harvest time.
Unless you're harvesting for seeds.

In my experience, there's some correlation. Most of the plants I've seen have their seeds ready a couple weeks before the plant starts its end-of-life cycle to disperse those seeds. Presumably leaving itself ample time to ripen each seed before they swell their buds to lean over and drop them a little further away from the seeded plant.

 

[Grayshan]

Would be a lot easier to just use a jewelers loupe and check trichomes.
I've gotten a stray seed or two off branches that had broken off and those plants were atleast 3-4 wks from harvest.

Thanks, I’ve been using one but it seems like there is a fine line between being ripe or overripe. I’m probably just impatient or maybe wrong. But From my understanding, the thc Starts to decline when the trichomes turn to Amber. Do you know if its best to harvest at the first sign of amber trichs, or is it better to wait till there is a larger amount of the amber color?

 

[Thumbuddy]

It's preferential. Definitely not when clear though.
I like a good speedy head buzz so I go for cloudy or milky with about 30% amber. Some like all cloudy and a few amber and some like mostly amber. I've got a visual guide on my pics. Give me a few and I'll post it to you.

 

[Thumbuddy]

Thanks, I’ve been using one but it seems like there is a fine line between being ripe or overripe. I’m probably just impatient or maybe wrong. But From my understanding, the thc Starts to decline when the trichomes turn to Amber. Do you know if its best to harvest at the first sign of amber trichs, or is it better to wait till there is a larger amount of the amber color?

You can adjust your grow accordingly. Like said...I like milky and some amber. I'm not a glued to the couch smoker. I like to be outside doing stuff so I don't care for the heavier amber and milky. Just don't go clear or totally browned and you find what you like. Have fun!

 

[Thumbuddy]

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You can adjust your grow accordingly. Like said...I like milky and some amber. I'm not a glued to the couch smoker. I like to be outside doing stuff so I don't care for the heavier amber and milky. Just don't go clear or totally browned and you find what you like. Have fun!

In fact,do what I did if growing multiple plants and try a few ways to see what you like. That's an idea to judge it for yourself maybe??

 

[Grayshan]

I'd check if there's seeds through it all what strain?,if we knew the strain we would know how long it should take.sounds to me like uv got a herm in the bunch.too late now.76

The seeds were supposed to be regular sativas, and the leaves had the same characteristics you would expect from a sativa strain.

 

[Madmax]

The short answer is, no, they're not indicative of harvest time.
Unless you're harvesting for seeds.

In my experience, there's some correlation. Most of the plants I've seen have their seeds ready a couple weeks before the plant starts its end-of-life cycle to disperse those seeds. Presumably leaving itself ample time to ripen each seed before they swell their buds to lean over and drop them a little further away from the seeded plant.

Heres a dragonsflame dude your drooling indica varient taken to 11 weeks and you cant even see the seeds in the buds..ive been averaging 30-50 seeds ea bud and as you can see this strain isnt going to drop them till bud is pretty much dead if it was in the wild.,but i do agree with you most of my seeds will drop out of the buds outdoors.. when ive had full blowwn seeded buds there isnt much left of the bud once all seeds have been taken out..they put alot of there energy into making the seeds instead of the bud..

 

[Gmix]

Thanks, I’ve been using one but it seems like there is a fine line between being ripe or overripe. I’m probably just impatient or maybe wrong. But From my understanding, the thc Starts to decline when the trichomes turn to Amber. Do you know if its best to harvest at the first sign of amber trichs, or is it better to wait till there is a larger amount of the amber color?

Once you got your eyes used to when to harvest via a scope ect sorted a tip in one of gorges Cervantes books was to harvest when the lights come on apparently that’s when the thc is at its highest.

I read it but I don’t know the reasons behind his suggestion wish I did tbh so I’m not blindly saying what I’ve read if you kwim.

 

[Gmix]

In fact,do what I did if growing multiple plants and try a few ways to see what you like. That's an idea to judge it for yourself maybe??

Yeah good idea.
I would pull a bud off dry it see what it’s like just don’t go over 25% as to ripe doesn't taste nice let alone loss of thc