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I’m waiting for mine to finish exploding and finishing up. My buddy mentioned that they should be full of yellow pollen(?) before collecting? Does your variety just not produce much?
It’s my first year growing and learning as I go.
It's also my first year. Trust me my hands were yellow and sticky by the time I was finished picking.
What I've read online says you should pick them when they start getting firmer and having a papery feel to them, and outsides start getting sticky from the resin.
You picked them with bare hands?! I wear gloves as the little hairs on the leaves and bines scratch my skin to shreds.
I've got thick skin from 20 years of handling cardboard boxes and metal shavings.
Towards the end I was thinking I should have worn long sleeves but it was 90°F (32°C) and that sounded like that would have been worse.