Harvesting immature buds.. how does it smoke?

[greentomatoes2025]

Hi all,
(First time grower)

Just wondering if the bud pictured would be worth smoking. This guy has lived a bit of a short sheltered life and my guess is hasn't seen much light.

Trich's are still glassy on this so would probably offer a different high than the rest which by my guess more energetic/psychoactive?

Worth keeping or tossing? I'll be harvesting at the end of next week as the rest look ready. I'll expose to light and see what happened in the next week..

 

[greentomatoes2025]

Bump.

 

[Oldchucky]

Hi all,
(First time grower)

Just wondering if the bud pictured would be worth smoking. This guy has lived a bit of a short sheltered life and my guess is hasn't seen much light.

Trich's are still glassy on this so would probably offer a different high than the rest which by my guess more energetic/psychoactive?

Worth keeping or tossing? I'll be harvesting at the end of next week as the rest look ready. I'll expose to light and see what happened in the next week..

When I harvest outdoors, I started at the top and work my way down the outside and take what is ripe, but leave a lot to ripen in a bit more! They kind of ripen from the outside in! I don’t know how you can do it indoors! I don’t think it’s worth the time for that amount to worry too much about it! I always partial harvest! Just two cents! it smokes, just like any other bud if it is ripe! I usually collect the popcorn and then sift it! But I leave it on the plant till it gets ripe! Cut them off, dry them, and twist one up and find out!

 

[closettrapper217]

Why don’t you leave that a little longer and harvest your other stuff when it’s ready. It will be well worth it. Take it from this guy that harvest his first two grows way too early and missed out

Are you using your tent do dry? Is that why you wanna do it all at once or what do you got going on?

 

[closettrapper217]

Also yes it would be worth smoking. But would be much better to smoke if you let it finish haha you’ve come this far! lol

You could even get crazy and harvest the top bigger buds blocking the light from the ones that aren’t as far along and let them finish.

 

[greentomatoes2025]

When I harvest outdoors, I started at the top and work my way down the outside and take what is ripe, but leave a lot to ripen in a bit more! They kind of ripen from the outside in! I don’t know how you can do it indoors! I don’t think it’s worth the time for that amount to worry too much about it! I always partial harvest! Just two cents! it smokes, just like any other bud if it is ripe! I usually collect the popcorn and then sift it! But I leave it on the plant till it gets ripe! Cut them off, dry them, and twist one up and find out!

Ok thanks! I still have a week to go so hopefully with a bit of exposure it will only mature a little more (probably not too much I imagine though!).

I am short on available time in the near future so a partial harvest is not on the cards for me :(

 

[greentomatoes2025]

Why don’t you leave that a little longer and harvest your other stuff when it’s ready. It will be well worth it. Take it from this guy that harvest his first two grows way too early and missed out

Are you using your tent do dry? Is that why you wanna do it all at once or what do you got going on?

Yeah you got it right haha. My circumstances require it to dry in the tent and have a window of roughly 2-3 weeks to complete harvest/drying due to availability. But thanks for the clarification on still being smokable!

 

[Oldchucky]

Ok thanks! I still have a week to go so hopefully with a bit of exposure it will only mature a little more (probably not too much I imagine though!).

I am short on available time in the near future so a partial harvest is not on the cards for me :(

And make sure you understand the Tricom stuff! Clear heads on the bud indicate little cannabinoids! In other words, weak! Fully cloudy heads, indicate the most cannabinoids hit the plant has to offer. And then you get into the amber! But the difference between clear and cloudy is huge! So if you harvest that popcorn with clear heads, it’s gonna be weak! Good luck with it!

 

[greentomatoes2025]

And make sure you understand the Tricom stuff! Clear heads on the bud indicate little cannabinoids! In other words, weak! Fully cloudy heads, indicate the most cannabinoids hit the plant has to offer. And then you get into the amber! But the difference between clear and cloudy is huge! So if you harvest that popcorn with clear heads, it’s gonna be weak! Good luck with it!

This pic is about a week old from the main colas.. which i believe is cloudy? No amber trichs yet. The immature bud in question is definitely still glassy from last night's inspection

 

[closettrapper217]

Yeah you got it right haha. My circumstances require it to dry in the tent and have a window of roughly 2-3 weeks to complete harvest/drying due to availability. But thanks for the clarification on still being smokable!

Maybe it will be a good way to compare some bud that’s a little clearer trichome an and some that are more milky/amber. Regardless man you killed it for your first grow you did a great fuckin job pat yourself on the back or somethin!

 

[Oldchucky]

This pic is about a week old from the main colas.. which i believe is cloudy? No amber trichs yet. The immature bud in question is definitely still glassy from last night's inspection

Pictures are deceptive! You are there, you know what you’re looking for and you make the call! That is a call for the grower only! And whether to screw around with the unripe stuff is another call!

 

[greentomatoes2025]

Maybe it will be a good way to compare some bud that’s a little clearer trichome an and some that are more milky/amber. Regardless man you killed it for your first grow you did a great fuckin job pat yourself on the back or somethin!

Absolutely! Good idea. Thank you bro been a huge learning experience and owe a lot to the community here and my local hydro shop hahaha. Looking forward to the next one already

 

[greentomatoes2025]

Pictures are deceptive! You are there, you know what you’re looking for and you make the call! That is a call for the grower only! And whether to screw around with the unripe stuff is another call!

They are! and also not the best quality with my not so steady hand haha. I definitely plan to be more decisive on removing potential popcorn sites next time round.