Are they ready?

[Mattjones1234]

Dear All,

Not grown polar express before (By Autoseeds). I am growing in soil outdoors, neutral ph and have been using biobizz bloom feed every third feed.
Based on calender days the plant should have been chopped 3 weeks ago but still has majority white pistols, while others are very dark brown.
Any views on if this is a strain thing and if she is ready to harvest. I have taken some pictures so you can see the tricombes. Many thanks.

 

[EZCalyx]

In my opinion she is not ready. Based on your pictures it looks like most of the pistils are still white. Harvests generally tend to happen when about 100% of pistils have turned red. Another way to gauge is based on color of the trichome heads. If you have a magnifier of some type it helps to be able to see those little crystal balls color. I like to harvest when the trichomes start changing from all milky to very few of them being amber.