Some Harvesting Tips for Marijuana Production You may have taken care of everything while marijuana production & growing cannabis buds like water supply, lights, and their nutrient levels. You need to give them the right attention and create the best environment.
You need to pay lots of attention to your harvesting strategy to ensure the proper growth of your plants. Good harvesting is all about good timing. You need to choose the right timings to cut your plants, and it will improve your yield dramatically. Depending on the strains and the effects you want, harvesting will be done after 8 to 10 weeks.
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Timing is the most important thing in good harvesting. This is because it determines the cannabinoid levels in the buds. You may need to maximize your CBD or THC levels depending on your goals. On harvesting too early or too late can result in missing the good stuff. Doing it too early can result in missing potency and yield while doing it too late can cause a highly sedative product.
There are many professional growers who flush their plants in the last week before they start harvesting. This means that they only use plain water to wash out the nutrients that can negatively affect the taste or smell. You need to take care of these things while cannabis production.
When you are optimizing marijuana with higher levels of THC, you can wait until THC crystals have coated the buds in the latest phase of the flowering stage. But make sure that you don’t wait for too long as the THC will start to degrade into CBN.
CBD is mainly used for medical effects and it does not degrade over time. If you wait for the THC so that it can degrade into CBN, then you can get bigger benefits of CBD.
Here are some signs that will tell you if your buds are ready for harvesting:
● Ovaries get swelled up ● Flowers gets merged into heavy kolas ● Flowers gets sticky ● The pistils turn its color from white to dark brown/red ● Tiny crystals start appearing around the flowers ● Some larger leaves will turn yellow Trichomes or resin glands are the parts of the plants carrying the THC. They are tiny in size and is white in color. The color will make you know if the right time for harvesting has arrived.