I have been reading this section and am still unsure as to what is should look like. Here is a photo of a Northernights with closeups.
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well my eyes don’t see any amber so she is not at full potential…but maybe at the place you want her…
hope this chart helps you to decide
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Need to get more pics of the flowers and not the sugar leaves, but from the whole plant shot, I’d say just a couple weeks.
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Thank you for the response.
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I am looking to make gummies and want to have a relaxing experience. After a long day at work my old chronic military injuries tend to cause discomfort.
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then you should go for more amber but not too much because it does start to go down the more amber you get…
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Thank you both! I will do a new batch of water today and give it another week!
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Look cloudy if pics are of buds. But like @Retiredoldguy said, wait for some amber. Happy Harvest 
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I’d say based on the white pistils I see here. you have 3-4 weeks left.
Some pics of bud would be helpful, and I think the trich shots are mostly from sugar leaves, based on what I think I see.
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Agree with all above, definitely still have some time left. My 2 cents take off some of those large fan leaves for the last few weeks it will help concentrate bud production and bud growth. I just chopped yesterday pic of what my tricomes look like, I’m going for a mid day smoke not very much couch lock. Have 2 more going I’ll let them Amber up more so I have a variety
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I grew northern light quite a while ago.
This photo taken at harvest, 84 days from flip
Notice how the pistils are brown and contracted or laying down
Hope this helps
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woah nice lookin buds!..lookn fat and mean! 
…clear = not good , cloudy = more euphoric high, amber = couch lock …i shoot for a 50/50 but be careful when they atrt to turn amber the THC is turning into cannibinol (CBN) …its the degradation of THC content …full brown past amber not good and if you plant goes full amber you might not be so happy with the result, but it all depends on what you are looking for on a personal level …some people only check there plants trichomes once a day for maturity but reality is you need to check 3 times a day this is one of the most important phases of harvesting, but from experinece 50/50 will usually net you the highest potency of any strain, also a lot of growers make the mistake of confusing pistils in the center of buds with trichomes …and pistils also change color. also just a quick lesson in the different types of trichomes …there are 3 and they all play a vastly different role …bulbous trichomes secrete resin, capitate trichs contain cannibinoids and are usually found on the bottom of leaves and lastly you have stalked trichomes which are found on the buds not leaves and they create the terpenes and cannibinoids but those are what people usually look at to determine if its time to harvest …hope this helps 
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hey fellow grower in the hydro i just want to add …leaves are to help promote photosynthesis …really important throughout veg …not so much in flower …you are done growing you now want to bloom the flowers …i would remove a lot of those huge leaves they will just suck up nutes and take energy away from bud production …youre in hydro you really dont need those giant water leaves…its a diff story in soil but i would remove about 50% of those leaves …one other thing in the 1st and 3rd weeks of flowering i usually remove 80% of all leaves …what happens is just like training a bonzai tree the leaves grow back smaller each time you remove them …and they will grow back!!
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