Hey everyone. Hoping to get some feedback on when to harvest my plants finally. This is my first grow and it's been going pretty well for the most part. A couple minor issues along the way but mostly external to the plants themselves.
Currently running two autoflowers: one from RQS (yes I know better now) which is Northern Lights and the other is Turtle Taffy from Atlas. Northern Lights is about day 100 now and Turtle Taffy is ~day 85. I'm using 5-gallon fabric pots, been growing in FFOF with 2-8-4 bloom top feed (two spaced out individual doses per plant) and I pH my water every time. Photos should make it obvious but it's an indoor grow, roughly 650-700ppfd per plant. In retrospect I would have lollipopped more aggressively on Northern Lights quite a bit but oh well.
Northern Lights kinda grew way bigger than I expected and seemed to suck up all the nutrients in the soil really fast and then started mobilizing nitrogen from leaves, hence the widespread yellowing. Unfortunately it's been taking its time to reach the finish line meanwhile Turtle Taffy is already definitively within the harvest window. My tent is the only place I can realistically use to dry, given my living situation, so I need to harvest both plants at roughly the same time which thankfully the timing is lining up relatively well to do that. But I'm having a hard time deciding if Northern Lights is actually ready or not, I would appreciate some feedback on whether to go ahead this weekend or give it some more time. I've tried to be very patient with this plant but 100 days is way longer than I hoped it would go for and I'm about ready to just call it to be done with it.
If I've forgotten to include anything important please let me know, I'm happy to provide more details. Try to bear with me on the trichome photos, I've got shaky hands but hopefully those are clear enough and there's not too many sugar leaves in the way to get a good view.
I added a few pictures of Turtle Taffy too, they're the last 3 in the post.
Thanks.