Couple more weeks before harvest?

[Markyb]

Hi! This is my 3rd grow. Can you help me with the harvest decision. It has 2 more weeks to go, right? It is auto, and 12 weeks old to the day.
I tried my best to get the pictures of trichomes, they are kinda blurry but a trained eye can analyze them better than mine.

 

[compostmike]

I'd give it a little longer. Two weeks is a fair guess from those pics.

The trich shots are blurry, but what I can see looks mostly clear to cloudy with very little amber. The plant is fading and the pistils are mostly turned, so she's close, just not screaming chop yet. Check the trichs on the calyx/bract, not the sugar leaves, and wait until they're mostly cloudy with a little amber if you want that fuller finish.

At this point I wouldn't push feed or start changing much. Keep the drybacks steady, keep the environment calm, and let her finish. Autos can look tired at 12 weeks and still put on a bit of density in the last stretch.

 

[Markyb]

I noticed an unexpected effect when I took a sample out of one of the buds. The amount was only maybe two or three calyx, I put them in to the chamber of my vaper and dired them first with low heat before vaping. The amount of vapor was low which was totally expected but the effects were something I did not expect.

I expected little to no effect, but the effect was counter-intuitively heavily couch-locking and relaxing. And the amount was miniscule, maybe half a pod in my Xmax v3 pro. I dont understand?