Is it time to harvest?

[Spordax]

Speedy Chili grown in a hoop-house. I’m struggling a bit with determining if it’s time. Trichomes are looking a little milky, but I don’t know about pistil/stigma color. The bottom picture is also Speedy Chili, but it’s outdoors. Thanks, Dan

 

[Galgrows]

Neither look ready hard to determine without a loupe. Picture of each plant, the whole plant.

 

[Spordax]

 

[Spordax]

Tried taking pictures through the loupe. Not sure if it helped or made it worse to see.

 

[closettrapper217]

No

 

[Spordax]

No

Didn’t make it better or not ready?

 

[7munkee]

Let them go as long as you can. You would be surprised how much weight they will pack on with another week or two. This is the ripening phase.

 

[THCosmic]

Tried taking pictures through the loupe. Not sure if it helped or made it worse to see.
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You got some decent images with the jewelers loupe. Definitely want to wait longer. From the areas in focus, you can see it is probably 50/50 clear/cloudy. Notice how the heads of the trichomes have white outlines with a dark dot in the center. That indicates it is clear, the dark spot is actually you seeing the leaf/bud through the trichome head.

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

There are very few photoperiod plants that would be ready mid September in my hemisphere. I'm in the USA where regardless of where you're at, photos don't start flowering until at the very earliest, early August. Even fast flowering F1's don't move that time window by much ... that means at most a cultivar has been flowering for 6 weeks in this neck of the woods. I'm in Michigan where that means 4 weeks of flower. Almost nothing finishes flowering in 4 weeks and few finish in 6. Most outdoor grows will mature during the month of October. There are a few outliers finishing both slightly sooner and some later ... What this means is almost every question regarding an outdoor grown photo period in N. America being done in the middle of September is premature. Almost none will be ready at this time.


What I see suggests you'll be harvesting around the middle of October. As long as your weather holds out and your plants are healthy, don't try to harvest sooner. The extra time means extra weight and potency.

 

[Bigalmoby]

Roadkill is 100 right unless your growing autos
This is the patience will pay off stage keep checking with loupe but I don’t even start looking till October some seed companies like to say there stuff finishes in late September I have yet to find one strain I will have some early October but most will be mid to late October specifically the sativas the ripen slower imo

 

[closettrapper217]

Didn’t make it better or not ready?

Not ready


Patience young grasshoppa

 

[Spordax]

I’m having to pull it. Heartbroken. Next week is forecast to be sunshine every day but this morning I discovered what looks like mold. I don’t understand it. 10’ long hoophouse with completely open ends, only one day of rain in the last two weeks, Sandy, fast draining soil, and I’ve watered at an absolute minimum, mornings only.

 

[Spordax]

There are very few photoperiod plants that would be ready mid September in my hemisphere. I'm in the USA where regardless of where you're at, photos don't start flowering until at the very earliest, early August. Even fast flowering F1's don't move that time window by much ... that means at most a cultivar has been flowering for 6 weeks in this neck of the woods. I'm in Michigan where that means 4 weeks of flower. Almost nothing finishes flowering in 4 weeks and few finish in 6. Most outdoor grows will mature during the month of October. There are a few outliers finishing both slightly sooner and some later ... What this means is almost every question regarding an outdoor grown photo period in N. America being done in the middle of September is premature. Almost none will be ready at this time.


What I see suggests you'll be harvesting around the middle of October. As long as your weather holds out and your plants are healthy, don't try to harvest sooner. The extra time means extra weight and potency.

I’m in upstate NY - cool temp area - but I’m growing in a hoophouse. Does the hoophouse impact that the timeline? I do have several plants adjacent to the hoophouse and planted directly in the garden with no cover and they’re way behind in maturity.

 

[RoadKillSkunkHunt]

I’m in upstate NY - cool temp area - but I’m growing in a hoophouse. Does the hoophouse impact that the timeline? I do have several plants adjacent to the hoophouse and planted directly in the garden with no cover and they’re way behind in maturity.

The hoop house has a more controlled environment. Timeline to finish is 100% genetic whether you're growing autos or photos. There's a number of reasons the plants outside the hoop house are further behind. You can slow down the finish of a photoperiod plant in less than ideal grow conditions. Autos are different. You don't really slow them down. When problems occur, it stunts their growth and not really their finish time.