It doesn’t matter if you are in indoor grower or an outdoor grower. One of the most important parts of growing high quality medical marijuana is knowing when to harvest. As the pot plant grows and matures, the THC crystals grow in size, change in shape, and turn from a clear color to cloudy, and eventually golden amber. The ideal harvesting time is somewhere between these stages, before all of the trichromes have turned completely amber. By that point the pot has degraded, and won’t be as potent as it would be if harvested when the buds crystals have turned from clear to a nice milky cloud color.
Most strains take 60 days to reach maturity indoors, outdoors plants reach maturity at different times depending on what part of the world you live in. Some areas require a heated greenhouse to reach the harvest date because of freezing temperatures. A loupe or 25x power microscope will be handy for telling when to harvest. Look for your buds to look like this picture a few days before harvest time.
For more information on growing high quality pot, check out our friends at the 420 Kind Zone. They have a lot of really great links and resources to help you grow all the marijuana you can smoke!
