Pineapple Chunk Help

[SlowBurnToker]

So today is day 1 of week 8 of my pineapple Chunk grow . 1 plant 5 gallon smart pot . Advanced nutrients 3 part . 600w hps 3x3

Need help on when to harvest without a microscope
What do you guys and gals think ?

 

[Weaselcracker]

I like to leave my plants a little later than most. I do not have any pineapple chunk phenos that I harvest earlier than 10 weeks. Personally I would stop feeding now, or at least reduce the feeding to about 1/4 - 1/3 of full strength, and leave her for at least another couple weeks. That’s just how I do it. Some would harvest now. To me that would be too early.
Another option if you have the time is to harvest some now, some in a week, and some in two weeks. That way you’ll have learned what you like.

 

[SlowBurnToker]

I stopped feeding about a week ago bc I ran out of bloom for my 3 part so I flushed with 10 gallons and have been watering 2 gallons every other day as scheduled. She’s 10 weeks so to say from flip but 8 weeks from first flower formation. I don’t have the means to stagger my harvest bc my grow tent is my drying tent as well for now

 

[Weaselcracker]

So it sounds from your first post like maybe 9 weeks have passed and seven since first flowers formed?
Try leaving her another week and you’ll see an increase in stickiness and general ripeness. In another two weeks she’ll definitely be starving and showing some fancy colours but that may be longer than most prefer.
Watering every two days like that sounds like too often. They don’t normally drink much in late flowering. Unless your medium is drying that fast I would just water when needed.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Here’s a PC I left around 10-11weeks. Looks like a simila pheno to the one you are growing.

I think the simplest answer is that you’re around the beginning of the harvest window and anytime between now and 2+ weeks from now is good depending on personal preference.

PC3

• Weaselcracker
• Jun 23, 2019

 

[Emilya Green]

Look carefully at the picture Weezle supplied... Note the almost complete lack of white pistils at the top of this plant. Yours is not there yet. When all of the pistils have changed and no new white ones are coming out at the top, she is usually ready. Even without a scope, with a good eye you can see the slight color change on the frost on the leaves too.

 

[SlowBurnToker]

Both of you thanks for the tip . That’s some gooey dank rite there . Ok so I’ll just keep on doing what I’ve been doing and keep my patience in check . Weasel my ventilation stays on 24/7 and with those smart pots mid day every other day she’s pretty dry and stinky but will pushing an extra day into the dry cycle benefit Lucy ? It’s just a lack of patience I’m having it’s like being a kid in a candy store

 

[SlowBurnToker]

@Weaselcracker is that indoor or outdoor grown? Nvm beautiful plant .but does outdoor and indoor grown make a difference in harvest time and what about different phenos that pop under different conditions ? Just trying to get a complete handle of things

 

[Weaselcracker]

@Weaselcracker is that indoor or outdoor grown? Nvm beautiful plant .but does outdoor and indoor grown make a difference in harvest time and what about different phenos that pop under different conditions ? Just trying to get a complete handle of things

Thanks Toker
Indoor. I just dragged her outside for better lighting for the photo. I don’t grow outdoors much anymore but yes different environment conditions and different phenotypes definitely affect flowering time.
My original PC pheno that I’ve been growing for for five years now takes a long time to fully develop - takes about 90 days minimum but I have left her up to 105 days before. More recently I sprouted two new PCs and they are both completely different phenotypes as well. So far one seems to finish well around 10 weeks and the other one around 11+ weeks. I count from the time of flip. There are a lot of variables and there’s also a lot to wiggle room re personal preference. For me when I read ‘eight weeks flowering’ I assume at least 10.

 

[Weaselcracker]

will pushing an extra day into the dry cycle benefit ?

No probably not as long as you’re not drowning her. Watering every two days for me would mean drowning my plants completely

 

[StoneOtter]

Hey Slowburn. You did a great job growing that one! She's going to smoke so nice. Emilya has it right. A little more fattening up to do still.

 

[SlowBurnToker]

Ok cool . Yea she dries out pretty fast I must say kinda wish I used 7 gallon instead. Im gonna go ahead and fatten her up for a little bit . It’s only my 2nd grow so I still have quite a bit to learn . This was my 2x3 ghetto scrog in a 3x3 . I got temps at 69 during lights off and hovering around 75-78 during lights on . She’s quite a heavy feeder and from reading around I heard their light feeders and she loved calmag . How were you feeding @Weaselcracker

 

[Weaselcracker]

All of my pineapple chunks have been in the the ‘heavy feeder’ category, so I’d question that info but results vary. I am growing in soilless feeding once a week

 

[SlowBurnToker]

I do have another pc bean and plan on running it with my next batch. I plan on going all organic for that plant to check the difference between chem and organic . This is my second time growing pc and I hear thirds a charm .

 

[SlowBurnToker]

Sorry for the yellow

 

[SlowBurnToker]

Whole plant

 

[Weaselcracker]

Looking good. Looks exactly like that pheno I posted the pic of- the one I call PC3. So, I’m not you, but if I was you I would wait till yours looks like mine...

 

[SlowBurnToker]

Any tips for the last few weeks ? Did you tweak anything like light hours or temps or anything ?

 

[Marzbadrock]

If you have a pair of binoculars or a rifle scope laying around you can use those to check trichomes. Just look through them backwards n put the eyepiece right up to the plant.....voila .....microscope

 

[Weaselcracker]

Any tips for the last few weeks ? Did you tweak anything like light hours or temps or anything ?

Nope. I’d just ignore her for a couple weeks