Ready to harvest??

[FidelCa$hflow]

You know I thought that too. When I was newer in this I overfed a lot. I also didn't put much into curing. Later as I started actually curing turned out that even when I'd overfed the cure worked it out. I feed a lot less today but the cure seems to be something we underestimate the most.

My anecdotal experience only, ymmv.

I wanna know how people get those rock hard congealed nugs where the sugar leaves and flowers round off into a ovular or spherical shape. Is there some sort of compression used or is it just the nature of some strains to harden? Im definitely getting a jar hydrometer because careful monitoring of the humidity of your jar is apparently key to a quality cure.

 

[curious2garden]

I wanna know how people get those rock hard congealed nugs where the sugar leaves and flowers round off into a ovular or spherical shape. Is there some sort of compression used or is it just the nature of some strains to harden? Im definitely getting a jar hydrometer because careful monitoring of the humidity of your jar is apparently key to a quality cure.

I don't get those. My buds are denser during the cold months of the year and lighter (more open) during the hot. I grow in a high heat, low humidity environment. I grow outside the VPD parameters because I don't sell and my bud works for what I use it for but it isn't cosmetically beautiful.

To be fair what I call curing is different than months in jars. In my environment within roughly 24 hours my buds have to be jarred or they will be dust when ground. As soon as my stems snap but don't break I jar.

Then I burp the jars until they have a strong, good scent. If the buds start to feel a bit soft I dump them into a brown paper bag for a day or so. Then back into jars. In about a week, or so, I have good smelling, smokable bud that doesn't turn into dust when ground.

Then I consider if it ticks the boxes, such as pain relief et cetera that I'm looking for. I can't justify adding a mini-split etc... which I'm sure would make my bud much more attractive. During the winter with higher humidity and low temps my bud looks lovely but its' high profile, physical effects and smokability doesn't change

The TL;DR answer is I've wondered about those too!

 

[FidelCa$hflow]

I don't get those. My buds are denser during the cold months of the year and lighter (more open) during the hot. I grow in a high heat, low humidity environment. I grow outside the VPD parameters because I don't sell and my bud works for what I use it for but it isn't cosmetically beautiful.

To be fair what I call curing is different than months in jars. In my environment within roughly 24 hours my buds have to be jarred or they will be dust when ground. As soon as my stems snap but don't break I jar.

Then I burp the jars until they have a strong, good scent. If the buds start to feel a bit soft I dump them into a brown paper bag for a day or so. Then back into jars. In about a week, or so, I have good smelling, smokable bud that doesn't turn into dust when ground.

Then I consider if it ticks the boxes, such as pain relief et cetera that I'm looking for. I can't justify adding a mini-split etc... which I'm sure would make my bud much more attractive. During the winter with higher humidity and low temps my bud looks lovely but its' high profile, physical effects and smokability doesn't change

The TL;DR answer is I've wondered about those too!

I use the brown bag also. I read the Mel Frank/Rosenthal growers guide several times and that was what it taught me so its SOP for me. I have a feeling there is a plastic bag element to the rock nugget technique. Ive taken partially to mostly dried buds and bagged them to try it and i started to see a similar result. I just bagged them in the morning and opened the bags in the evening after the plastic bags did their work. Then i jarred them again when they had the aesthetics i was looking for. Good stuff!

 

[Lordhooha]

Thanks for all the input, much appreciated. I still think I’m going to flush the plant maybes just for a week, I have on all previous grows with no problems. I know someone who had to throw weed away because he did not flush it and it tasted horrible apparently.

Most likely that someone wasa full blown idiot.

 

[Lordhooha]

Beautiful buds. Swollen bracts… its up to you. Usually waiting a bit can pay off, but those buds are certainly harvestable. I always thought the flush thing was a little silly but i use Plain rain water from a catchment tank that i have for the last couple of weeks anyways so technically thats flushing because im not feeding. I also use a trick whereby i water with ice water right before the dark period to simulate cold winter soil temps, which supposedly engages a defense mechanism in the plant and boosts last minute trichrome production but theres no scientific evidence behind it, strictly anecdotal. I also water with club soda once a week for the last two weeks(there is science behind this).
anyway enjoy this happy time and those are just some little gimmicky things that ive picked up over the years. Feel free to take that with a grain of salt.

Salt grains taken and tossed. Waiting for the root boiling to come up.

 

[Lordhooha]

I wanna know how people get those rock hard congealed nugs where the sugar leaves and flowers round off into a ovular or spherical shape. Is there some sort of compression used or is it just the nature of some strains to harden? Im definitely getting a jar hydrometer because careful monitoring of the humidity of your jar is apparently key to a quality cure.

Properly fed and cared for plants and genetics are where dense buds come from.

 

[Jjgrow420]

Keep dem temps down too

 

[insomnia65]

I've heard if you wish upon a falling star, your acne disappears,.