TMoney69
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Buds was beautiful before I place them to dry. Humidity stays 60-70% and temp around 70 degrees. After drying they shrink bad! Any suggestions ?
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TreeFarmerCharlie
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It's normal. We all lose 75% - 80% of the bud weight from drying.
PURPLEB3RRYKUSH
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Harvest 5 weeks early, enjoy the hay.
TMoney69
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It actually had a pretty good kick. The trichomes was mostly milky. But that was only a few off the tree. She is still pumping .
Thundercat
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Looks early to me too, which can directly impact bud density. All buds shrink and loose weight when they dry, but early harvested buds do it worse because they don’t have the density to retain weight and size.
JoeBlow5823
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Cut to early. All bud loses a ton of weight and shrinks.... That is just how it works.
TMoney69
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It was actually a hard hitting head high.
JoeBlow5823
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Could have been so much better and so much more of it.....
TMoney69
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The rest of tree. Waited till I had some orange trichomes before started final harvest on rest of tree
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TMoney69
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I thought about letting buds stay on tree and final stage of budding stop watering and let the buds dry a tad bit then mason jar then put in freezer. Any thoughts ?
JoeBlow5823
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Why would you freeze wet bud? Why would you freeze dry bud? Dry it properly and put it in a jar with a humidity pack.
TMoney69
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Cause I don’t have a proper place to dry bud. Not with “proper” humidity and temp. It was suppose to be harvested weeks ago but went over due date. Now I am battling hot temps
JoeBlow5823
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So you are going to keep it in the freezer and smoke it frozen? I dont understand your plan. You gotta dry it man. As long as you have plenty of air movement it should dry. Anything is better than freezing it wet.
TheDifferenceX
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Sounds like you got a lot of issues going on right now. I'd make sure you have all the things you need for a successful grow. That INCLUDES a place to properly dry and cure your weed. If you don't have that, there is no point in growing marijuana.
Drying and curing is the most important thing. I'd say harvesting at the right time is a close second. Which you also didn't do too well with, by the looks of those pictures you harvested with a lot of white pistils.
Enjoy the smoke, good job finishing (a lot of people don't make it that far).
Drying and curing is the most important thing. I'd say harvesting at the right time is a close second. Which you also didn't do too well with, by the looks of those pictures you harvested with a lot of white pistils.
Enjoy the smoke, good job finishing (a lot of people don't make it that far).
TMoney69
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Ur right! I should have read up before growing. But I grew 6 for a learning moment. So far I have lost 1 tree. My father was a photo grower and grew some fine bud. I guess he made it look to easy and I believed it.
TheDifferenceX
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Once you catch on, it is super easy and becomes a routine.
Getting there is a struggle at times. Just keep your head up, do research on here. Look at some grow journals, read read read. A lot of things you learn as you go but some things you learn by research.
Getting there is a struggle at times. Just keep your head up, do research on here. Look at some grow journals, read read read. A lot of things you learn as you go but some things you learn by research.
TheDifferenceX
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A lot of people don't even make it to harvest. So you're doing a lot of things right, just need to fine tune and dial everything in.
TMoney69
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It’s just so damn $$$$ expensive where I live. And u don’t get to choose ur strain or no the history behind what u buy. I usually pay 145-180.00 per oz. some times it’s fire other times it’s weed. Lol. So I decided to find me a honest, yeah honest guy to buy my seed from. Guy introduce me to Auto growing. He sent me samples off of the side I bought. GSC & B.B Cush So here I am. Fast producing and bigger yield in most cases. I have a few Alien OG to plant but not going to till I have some knowledge under my belt to grow successful and high yielding grow.
TMoney69
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Exactly what I been doing. Thanks for up lift.
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