Wow that is phenomenal to hear awesome thank you
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I just ordered some Durban Poison autos, too (different breeder), I plan to grow start growing one in a month or two.
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No way i ordered them too Iāll be following your grow when you plant them i gotta wait till spring gonna do a few outside only allowed 3 mature plants in Ny
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Just ordered a new microscope to connect to phone this is what i was able to catch on trichome progress with jewelers scope
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You DO have a cat! 
Iām seeing a fair amount of clear trichomes.
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I know one of my friends that grew is saying he thinks itās ready but Iām on the fence, maybe another week?
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Also are there steps before chopping ? I read something like flush with water then 24 hours of darkness? I gave her, her last feeding yesterday.
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I also bought a vivo sun drying rack you think thatās good to layer buds on to dry with a little fan pushing air through the layers?
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If thatās the same girl as above in the trichome shots, sheās not ready at all. The trichomes are all clear.
For maximum TCH, you have to let the trichomes turn all cloudy with just a touch of amber.
Iād say you still have a couple of weeks leftā¦
What do you say, @Covertgrower , @Graysin , @PurpNGold74 , @BobbyDigital , @AfgVet , @Twelve1 (just to tag a few great growers) ?
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Thanks so much yea i keep getting mixed reviews from friends who grew i had a feeling it was early, Iām getting that microscope tonight Iāll put some more trichome pictures tomorrow
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Trust your instincts. People who have grown the same strain arenāt going to be reliable indicators of how long your specific phenotype will take. Theirs may have been done in 8 weeks and yours might take 12 - thatās the roll of the dice with genetics from seed. She definitely looks under-ripe. The shape of the bud isnāt quite āswollenā yet - her pistils have turned but they havenāt receded.
More importantly, though, as others have said, most of the trichomes I saw in your pics are clear clear and more clear. Some cloudy and some amber, but even the sugar leave trichs are mostly clear - and those are the first to turn when trichomes start maturing.
You flatter me, Kap. I donāt belong in that list. 
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Thank you, itās getting down to the 30s here next week at night and i have it in a detached garage so Iām sort of panicking a bit lol
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Can you leave it dark for 24 hrs and then resume lights-on when the sun sets? Let the lights be your nighttime anti-freeze protection.
once I used a cheap oil-filled radiator to keep my garage plant happy and un-frozen. It worked well enough.
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Wow thatās a great idea, maybe Iāll flip the light so it stays warmer at night cause 50s during the day shouldnāt be bad it stays around 60 in the garage if itās 45-50 during the day
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Good plan - yeah, Iād rather have the electricity Iām already using be what helps heat up the space when itās coldest. Theyāll do great, even if they live a bit colder generally, itāll help keep ya from freezing over.
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Agreed with Graysin about the lighting schedule. My grow area is in the house, but I have lights on at 11pm and off at 4pm, it used to be 5pm. That way, the grow area is cooler in the summer, and warmer in the winter.
Agreed also with the others about needing more time. Too many clears and she has more filling out to do. This can be a frustrating phase in the growing process, as plants are starting to look done, but arenāt, and we want the weed and want to start other plants. I harvested my second plant on the earlier side; at the time, it seemed fine and I had my other excuses for harvesting early, lol. But vaping it, itās too racy. Iāve used that weed for a āraw teaā that has some relaxing effects, since thereās no THC to be racy. But otherwise, that harvest isnāt too useful.
I donāt flush, many folks donāt, itās a debatable subject, and often itās a personal matter. Almost the same with the period of darkness. If you have a day or two to spare, then why not, but if you donāt, then no need to make a big deal out of it. Some say the darkness helps plump up the trichomes.
Keep the air moving with the drying room/area. I donāt think that you are saying to layer the buds on top of each other, right, since you donāt want to do that. I think you mean on the drying rack layers?
Yeah. And, being an Afghan, and if you want it for close-to-bedtime meds, then getting even more amber would be good, too, but thatās your preference, CheetoBean. If you still want to be more functional during the daytime, at least not napping on the couch while on the Afghan, then donāt harvest with toooo much amber.
LOL, but yeah. CheetoBean, youāve probably learned by now thatās a kind of a joke around here, but is often true. 
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Thanks so much for your response, yes itās the drying rack layered not on top of each other i switched the light to 12/12 instead of 18/6 like it was the entire time as well as doing the night time light instead of day, i have been so impatient but i trust all you obviously you know more so i just have to be very patient and i hope it turns out to be some potent stuff haha
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Agree with Kap 100% on your tricombs. Youāve got some time.
Switching your light schedule as @Graysin mentioned is ideal to keep them warmer at night. But they can handle some pretty cold conditions, even snow and @kaptain3d has Demonstrated to us all 
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Haha thatās awesome news also thanks for your service ! Did 6 in infantry for nyc guard never deployed though lol
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Thanks for yours as well!
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