Hydroponic Marijuana Growing – Harvesting

Once your marijuana plants have gone through the flowering stage for around eight to twelve weeks you will move on to harvesting them. You have to make sure that you harvest your dope plants at the right time and this would be when the THC produced is at the most it can be.

Harvesting

You should wait until the marijuana plants have at least fifty to eighty percent of the white hairs (pistils) turned to dark red or brown in color. A more useful method of harvesting the marijuana plants would be to harvest them when specific trichomes reach a maturity level.

The trichomes found on female marijuana plants create a resin gland which is located near the top and contains a high amount of THC. Watching this will help you in being able to make a good judgment in when it is time for you to harvest the marijuana plants. Harvesting your marijuana plants correctly is very important. You don’t want to damage the marijuana plants at all so you will need to be careful when you do it. Read about how to properly harvest your marijuana plants and you won’t have to worry about anything accidental happening.