I amharvesting in three weeks more or less. I have a microscope , so I am paying close attention to the trichones. I will turn lights off for 48 hours then pull the babies and I have a room in meh garage to hang them and regulate the temp and humidity etc. Then they will go int a brown papare bag and then into glass jars.
Now I have one that is like a week and a half ahead of the others,. Well yesterday I had a hour drive to work and I had no buds for the drive home! So I decided I would do an experiment. I cut a nice top bud from this plant( her name is bertha by the way) I have those silica gel crystal paks from work. Anyone know what I mean? They also come in like beef jerky packs. Well silica removes moisture and humidity so I read up on it and I took a brown paper bag and placed two sillica packets in it and the 5 gram bad ass bud.
I left it in my car and went in and worked. 8 hours later I am ready for the drive home! I looked in the bag and the bud had gained a nice smell, still a bit chlorophily , and like grassy smelling but the true essence of the bud was coming through. And it was dry enough to smoke.
So I placed a nice piece in meh pipe and started for home. I got LOADED! Damn that was a good idea. The one bowl kept me high all the way home. The remaining bud stayed in the bag with the silica. Now I know curing the hang and dry and move to jars way is ideal , but fuck, I got some fresh bud dry within 9 hours! And the remaining bud is nice and dry but not too dry. The silica also helps with mold I hear.
So when I hang all my babies I willl place some silica around the room as well.