It should be able to smoke after a week but it wont taste great without leaving it another week.
Woody fibre dries to a lower moisture content than the bud, it should snap or close to when your bud is dry.
At day six take samples until its bouquet develops. If you finding big branches take too long break them down into smaller ones at the node.
Drying a sample before harvest is as easy as trimming a small bud and placing it on the kitchen table for a week so it can dry.
Drying too fast is bad, drying too slow is mold and hay. In warmer weather its five days - this is not too fast and within a natural drying range. Too much wind or heat can speed dry too fast so under four days to five and your pushing it just as over seven your giving mold enough time to spore off and colonize.
Took me a while to get right, some hit mold rarely did i dry too fast, eventually it all seemed far too easy. Guess some havent got the patience which draws in the other methods, boveda and more emphasis on humidity.
You should be able to apply the principle to any method, also to work out why it might have failed if it did. None of it involves jarring just how to prepare your crop and get the best tasting smoke, if you need a jarcfor that your messing up somewhere probably jarring at day six and not waiting for it to be properly ready at day 14.
So what you think I'm looking at about 7 to 10 day dry time stems are thick I mainlined these plants??
