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First timer here, is she ready yet?

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Hey guys, first time growing. Just after some advice on how much longer i should wait befire i chop. I think its about week 9 flowering
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It looks ready or darn close to it, but the buds are still throwing fresh pistils in a way we call "foxtailing," and what that does is stacks new bud over older bud and making it difficult when to decide to harvest. So what you'll want to do is get some loupes, a magnifying glass or digital handheld microscope that allows you to zoom in by 60x and check how the trichomes look under the newer foxtailing stuff. When they stop looking like clear dewdrops and start looking milky, swirly or cloudy, you're there. They dont rien uniformly across the plant so you're picking the moment when you think you've got the most amount of cloudy/milky trichomes. Clear is underdone and amber or honey colored is overdone, so you want to watch those two outliers at the RATE at which they're turning and what you're picking up on a net gain. If your ripe trichomes are going amber at a faster rate than clear ones are clouding up, rits time to chop because you're losing potency waiting any longer. Hope this helps. Good luck with the harvest!

Oh - one more important thought. Since you are dealing with some minor foxtailing, you can just snip the immature stuff off when you trim.
 
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