I just harvested my white widow, 1st time drying and curing

Dank Bongula

Dank Bongula

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If you can get those temps down to 70 or lower (mid 60s) do it asap. Get a cardboard box, cut a few vents in it, and throw some ice or ice packs in a few bowls. You don't have time to freeze some water bottles but you can get them started. Aim a fan towards the box but not directly on it...an oscillating fan works pretty good. If you can get that set up, you will atleast have a solid chance at drying it properly. Your tent may be too large to achieve this. Cardboard box method is rad as fuck. Get on it. The weed was harvested early, nothing to can do about that...don't compound it by fucking up the dry.
 
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DoobieDoobs

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Don't worry Op, you will still get high, I did the same mistake last grow, and harvested too early, I still loved to smoke it. Homegrown is the best, even when you fuck up. Can only imagine what that smoke would have been like if harvested properly. It's a mistake you only do once, next time you'll wait more, first time I harvested at day 56, now I'm at day 70 and I'll wait as much as it's needed. Good luck and I hope you enjoy your results, and don't worry, this ain't a race we will all get there, baby steps.
 
Boreal Curing

Boreal Curing

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A whole plant picture can only tell you you're close to harvest. Get a jewelers loop or a hand held USB microscope and inspect the trichomes.

Don't deep 6 it. It'll still be good. Hell, maybe it'll be exactly what you're looking for. Just dry and cure as slowly as possible. Dank's comment of a cardboard box is good. There are a few examples on YouTube.

Worst case, it won't be as strong as some people want. I like my smoke smooth and weak. I look for smooth ride and effect so my days of getting fucked up after a joint are over.

Trichomes turn amber because they're exposed to oxygen, So they will continue after you harvested. That said, with tight buds, the trichomes inside the bud won't oxidize any where near as much as those on the outside. But chemical processes will continue for quite a while. That means the CGBa (clear trichomes) will continue to convert to THCa, CBDa, CBCa. etc during the dry and curing.
 
NugNewb

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jondamon said:
And the task is that this guy harvested immature flowers.

people need to learn to actually let a plant grow to its potential and stop being eager to harvest and then subsequently be disappointed by the outcome.

If you’d been growing any amount of time you’d know this.

how long you been growing? If it’s less than a year do you even know what a ripe plant looks like?

Most people don’t know what a truly ripe flower actually looks like.

I love simple sentences so here’s one I say quite often.

“It’s easy to harvest too early, it’s hard to harvest too late!”

have you ever heard anyone say “damn it I harvested too late!”??

how many times have you heard someone say “damn I harvested too early”??



In response to just these pics alone, yes you harvested too early!

Everyone gets hung up on trichome development and as such they see amber and think whoohoo I’m within the Harvest window.

but ultimately your plant needs to at least look somewhat “ripe” before you even begin checking trichomes.

once you understand ripe plants and how their appearance over all changes during the flowering to ripening phase, you’ll never need to check a trichome again.
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NugNewb

NugNewb

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Boreal Curing said:
A whole plant picture can only tell you you're close to harvest. Get a jewelers loop or a hand held USB microscope and inspect the trichomes.

Don't deep 6 it. It'll still be good. Hell, maybe it'll be exactly what you're looking for. Just dry and cure as slowly as possible. Dank's comment of a cardboard box is good. There are a few examples on YouTube.

Worst case, it won't be as strong as some people want. I like my smoke smooth and weak. I look for smooth ride and effect so my days of getting fucked up after a joint are over.

Trichomes turn amber because they're exposed to oxygen, So they will continue after you harvested. That said, with tight buds, the trichomes inside the bud won't oxidize any where near as much as those on the outside. But chemical processes will continue for quite a while. That means the CGBa (clear trichomes) will continue to convert to THCa, CBDa, CBCa. etc during the dry and curing.
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Thanks for the advice.... I am going to grow two more, they are called strawberry diesel. I WILL NOT early harvest those.. This was a hard lesson to learn. Live and learn.. thanks for the advice buddy. and for the pic...
 
Boreal Curing

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NugNewb said:
Thanks for the advice.... I am going to grow two more, they are called strawberry diesel. I WILL NOT early harvest those.. This was a hard lesson to learn. Live and learn.. thanks for the advice buddy. and for the pic...
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There may be a few more. Some we need to learn over and over. In my case it was loving them to death by drowning them. lol. I still have that issue indoor. But I'm getting better and letting them go for 4-5 days when i notice it.
 
Dank Bongula

Dank Bongula

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Boreal Curing said:
Notice the plant starting to take up nutrients from the leaves.

Beautiful example. Nicely grown and without necrosis.
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It doesn't have to be that way...better growers than I can keep their shit green through harvest.

*Edit- not that plant specifically. I was referring to yellowed out shit and plants looking half dead at harvest.
 
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Dank Bongula

Dank Bongula

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Driver733 said:
My current effort is a white widow, here a couple days ago at ten weeks into flower:

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I'm thinking at least another week.
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I'm thinking you haven't been paying attention in this thread at all. You're literally a week further than the guy that started this thread...And popandson wonders why people here give harsh responses to the same questions.
 
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