Reply To: What signs are you looking for to know when the right time to harvest is?

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I watch the relationship between how long the plant is expressing lots of new, fresh, white stigmas (usually called pistils but that properly applies to the whole flower composed of the ova and fused stigma and style) compared to how long it’s dying back showing red/orange/pink, dry stigmas.  In early flower it’s all new and there’s no die off, by mid flower you’ll notice a pattern of new growth for a couple days followed by dying back, at peak growth it’s closer to equal and then as the plant reaches the end of flowering there’s longer periods of dying back vs fresh growth.  Depending on the desired effect and the variety grown I’d usually harvest mid to late flowre, although lots of people who grow for extracts prefer an early harvest to get that pale/whitish colour.