Thanks everybody. Whew, it's been a busy couple of days and today is no exception either. Been trimming for the last two days, finally got all the Super Skunks cut. I wanted to do the chop the other way around, HashBerrys first and then Super Skunks last, but I ran into a problem...
Two nights ago on Wednesday I decided to start chopping as they were totally ready, and I had a couple of plants picked out that I wanted to start with as they looked like they were done a bit more than the rest. Of course as luck would have it the plants I wanted to start with were in the back row and I had to move the plants in the front out of the way to get to them. So I start moving a couple of plants to get to the ones I want and branches just started flopping down everywhere from the weight of the buds! Two branches just snapped. I tried to prop them up a bit to make it a few more days but they just weren't having it. I would have had to do a total tie-up, and I'm not doing that for only a few more days.
I guess I should have tied them up at the beginning (which I almost did), but both the SS and the HB have really stocky stems and stalks and last time I tied them all up so perfectly and at the end I undid em and they could have just supported themselves apparently. But this time I think the density of the buds is way up over last time and after 8 weeks of budding they just couldn't support themselves anymore. The new bulb seems to have paid off.
So Long story short, I had to cut the 3 that I moved to get to the ones in the back instead. After that I just started making the rounds and the ones that were the most accessible happened to be the other Super Skunks so they got the chop first (plus one of them was leaning way over). Last night we finished trimming the last 3 SS's (6 plants total), and tonight it's going to be the last 3 which are the HB's.
I didn't really get to take pics of the plants individually this time as time didn't permit, but I did manage to snap a few pics along the way which I'll put up as soon as the trimming is done. I'll also post an itemized total dry weight by plant type once the buds are dry and they've had about a week to cure up and release the rest of the moisture in them. I gradually get my buds really dry, because this way I can store them longer with less degradation. This works out really well for the people that buy off me, because instead of getting 12-15% water weight when they buy their herb they are probably getting about 6% which equals more bud for their money. I just like the fact that I can store buds in the dark for 6 months easily with no degradation in flavor or high or appearance.
I'm HOPING to end up with 10 ounces this time with the new bulb. 2 plants were in tiny pots that restricted their yield considerably, so that held me back a good bit. But everything is is yielding really good so let's cross our fingers and hope for just 10 ounces! Whatever the yield is, it's definitely some primo crucial ass herb that's for sure. I checked the trics, and the plants and leaves looked great before I even trimmed them, so after being manicured and cured this stuff is going to be disgusting. The buds look like they'd squirt if you squeezed them they have so many trichomes all over them, and the density is really good this time too. I also got a pretty good flush pulled off before I cut em down.