First harvest!

stonedcold89

stonedcold89

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all these months of waiting are about to pay off.. for the past 36 hours my plant has been in the dark cycle, and not watered. (heard it dries easier that way??)

I'll have pics here in just a bit after its cut down and trimmed. wish me luck!! :D
 
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Kreyonic

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doitinthewoods said:
nice, you're looking at in the area of an OZ. It will be the best OZ you've ever smoked.
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An Oz. is 24grams. Im pretty sure you wont lose 84grams from drying. Some say you lose 20% some say you lose 50% but on average of my yields ive only lost 40% of weight after drying/proper curing. Guess depends on your method
 
doitinthewoods

doitinthewoods

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Kreyonic said:
An Oz. is 24grams. Im pretty sure you wont lose 84grams from drying. Some say you lose 20% some say you lose 50% but on average of my yields ive only lost 40% of weight after drying/proper curing. Guess depends on your method
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since when is an OZ 24 grams? Get back with me on that. Maybe 28.3? I don't know. Just maybe.

He'll do pretty good to get 40 grams dry out of that. Have fun buying 24 gram oz. hahaha.
 
doitinthewoods

doitinthewoods

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Kreyonic said:
An Oz. is 24grams. Im pretty sure you wont lose 84grams from drying. Some say you lose 20% some say you lose 50% but on average of my yields ive only lost 40% of weight after drying/proper curing. Guess depends on your method
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I've never heard of somebody only loosing 20% of their wet weight. If they have, I'd be very interested in their drying methods.
 
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Kreyonic

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Yeah sorry, 28grams would be an ounce, my bad. (Blazing with bad math equal odd equations). And as for the 20%, read the post. "Some say you lose 20% some say you lose 50% but on average of my yields ive only lost 40% of weight after drying/proper curing. Guess depends on your method " -quoted. What some people say, and what I have seen from experience were 2 diff numbers. Sorry for sharing experienced info, not so friendly poster in here i guess.
 
doitinthewoods

doitinthewoods

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Kreyonic said:
Yeah sorry, 28grams would be an ounce, my bad. (Blazing with bad math equal odd equations). And as for the 20%, read the post. "Some say you lose 20% some say you lose 50% but on average of my yields ive only lost 40% of weight after drying/proper curing. Guess depends on your method " -quoted. What some people say, and what I have seen from experience were 2 diff numbers. Sorry for sharing experienced info, not so friendly poster in here i guess.
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Hahaha, what? "not so friendly"? You posted false info to start with. Secondly, I've never heard of a method with a 20% weight loss from wet to smoking. I'm really having a hard time believing you at all. Find me this info. After all, you posted it.

"experienced info" find me an experienced grower that only loses 20% of his wet weight. Hell, find me one that usually only loses 40 on average. Good luck with that. Ciao
 
stonedcold89

stonedcold89

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yep im familiar with 28 gram ounces :) and yea I had figured on at least one, maybe one and half ounces. Gonna be the best smoke around after i get it cured!! haha maybe not, but either way my investment has pretty much paid off! put maybe five or six hundred into the grow room, and should be lookin at around 400 worth of free smoke!!
 
stonedcold89

stonedcold89

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oh, and whats a good drying method. I'm tryin to rig somethin up right now, just have em on a plate off to the side of the fan, maybe gettin some moving air on em will help, but dont want em to dry too fast..
 
doitinthewoods

doitinthewoods

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There are many different methods you can try but here I will only talk about a few of them that are more old school and accepted methods then the rest.

First thing it’s a myth to think hanging a plant upside down will increase THC percent. That is an old hippy tale told around the trimming can at harvest time while you pass a fat J back and forth.
Hanging them upside down is only easy and that’s about it. You can cut the plant at the bottom, trim off all the fan leaves (that’s if you have not already done so the last week before harvest to increase light and air flow). The fan leaves don’t have enough trichomes to even add them to the trim for hash. Just trash them way to much chlorophyll in those leaves.

Once you have cut down your plant at the base and the fan leaves are gone you can clip your trim leaves as well just store those in a paper grocery bag for drying. The trim leaves are the larger leaves around your flowers (buds) just cut those as close as you can to the flower with out cutting the flower. Those have trichomes on them so keep them as your hash trim.

By now you should have just sticks with flowers showing.

Hang the plant as an easy way to store them for the drying. You keep them in a dry, dark and warm place for about 7-14 day’s depending on how big your plant is. If it’s too big just cut the branches off and hang them separately. You want air to be able to move around the plant freely to dry evenly but not directly on the flowers.

The next option is to cut the buds off the branches once you have trimmed them. You then use a metal window screen to set the flowers on the dry. You want air movement around in the dry area but you don’t want direct air moving across the flowers just passive air. Like a bounce airflow where it bounces off one side and then crosses the flowers works.

Slow drying is preferred but not required (here is where many people will get pissed)

Drying is only part of the process and you can speed up the drying process by about a week or better if you have a cabinet to use. A good dry cabinet is one made with cedar lined walls and door. The cedar will draw out the moisture and keep bugs away. You can use a very small heater and small fan as well just to move the air around. You want to dry the flowers at a temperature around 85f that will dry them slowly but faster then if you just hang them in a closet. You get a evenly dry flower ready to cure in about 3-5 day’s in a cabinet and if you are drying 5 pounds or more that is fast.

Once you have dry buds (the stems snap) you use glass mason jars like the ones your grandmother used to store preserves when you were a kid. Fill the jars with flowers but don’t pack them in you want airflow around them so they cure evenly on all sides.
Check them every day and look for moisture forming on the glass if you see moisture open it up and let them breath for a few hours then close it back up and check it again the next day. Most of the time if they are dry going in you will not have moisture build up but you may so keep an eye on them.

If you have no moisture forming you still need to let the jars breath for about a hour every 3-5 day’s so the gas escapes.

The idea at this point is to get rid of the ammonia odor. That is the chlorophyll being used by the flower, one last-ditch stand to keep alive. You need to rid the flower of the chlorophyll to improve the taste.

Curing takes anywhere from 10 day’s to 30 day’s or more depending on several factors and you can’t speed up this process at this point. If you stopped feeding them (N) the last 10-day’s before flushed this process should not take as long.

If you over dry them you can just add a fresh picked leaf from one of your other plants and that will bring just a small bit of moisture back into them and that’s all you want a small amount.

That’s about it for trimming and harvesting the real hard part is the waiting for them to cure, you can smoke some after it is dry but it improves with age.
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this is from another thread on another site. Have fun.
 
stonedcold89

stonedcold89

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awesome, thanks! so i trimmed a few lower buds off last week, and they were almost dry enough to start curing so I took some bong rips, and am actually considerably baked..haha, cant wait til its done! and just got some blue mystic and new purple power seeds from nirvana!!
 
farmer#1

farmer#1

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doitinthewoods said:
Hahaha, what? "not so friendly"? You posted false info to start with. Secondly, I've never heard of a method with a 20% weight loss from wet to smoking. I'm really having a hard time believing you at all. Find me this info. After all, you posted it.

"experienced info" find me an experienced grower that only loses 20% of his wet weight. Hell, find me one that usually only loses 40 on average. Good luck with that. Ciao
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man you need to chill out.
get some pussy!
 
stonedcold89

stonedcold89

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ah, the herbs been dryin a couple days and i've been doin taste tests here and there. gave some bong rips to some friends, and they all loved how fresh and clear it tasted, so i musta done somethin right!

I'm smokin on a spliff of it right now, and actually feelin pretty stoned off it. the moment i've been waiting for lol, smokin on some shit that'll get me high, and I dont gotta buy.

The smells kinda dissapointing, after I cure for a few weeks should it smell and smoke a lot better? peace
 
customcloset

customcloset

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Looks great bro! I'm right behind you, i just started my 5th week of flowering today! Question, what was your routine for the last couple weeks? when did you lay off the nutes? i know some say 2 weeks but i have this cha ching that came in a 3 pack for 100$ and im not letting that shit go to waist!!! do you think 6-7 days after the last feeding will be good to cut? sorry to blow up your spot... getting antsy over here!!!!

Hell of a yield!!
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stonedcold89

stonedcold89

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dude! i bummed some of that cha ching from a friend who has some, and i'm pretty sure it helped frost those nugs nice and white. But yea I used nutes up til maybe a week, then just used regular water with a bit of molasses. Thats the other thing, I grew that under shitty CFLS for pretty much the whole grow, and I think molasses definitely helped bulk up the nugs, so will be usin it again. And yea it tastes fresh as hell, really..."green" is what everyones said lol.
 
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