Daveindiego
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I do have the 5th plant that is going to take another week.Not this harvest dude, keep it simple
I need help ‘reading’ my trichomes.
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Kingrow1
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Harvest when they need a water, buds dry faster less chance of mold rot etc. Thats a more solid technique than many others.
Xcoregamerskillz
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Is there a risk of "over drying" or "drying too fast" if you do that, in your experience?Harvest when they need a water, buds dry faster less chance of mold rot etc. Thats a more solid technique than many others.
Roger A. Shrubber
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xtsho
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If you put the plant in 2 days of darkness the plant is in two days of darkness. I have never noticed any difference. I didn't do it because I thought it would do anything. I did it because I had to get plants out of the tent and didn't have time to trim them all right away. Plants were in a room with no light. There was absolutely no difference between the ones trimmed two days after the others.
Lot's of hocus pocus out there. But give it a try and see for yourself. You'll find that trichs don't multiply because you put a plant in 2 days of darkness. Most people using all these myths and claim it makes a difference I just chalk up as being similar to the "placebo effect".
In.Home.Rhizome
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The best way to know when to harvest especially if you plan to run that strain quite a bit is to just harvest parts of the plant at different stages (25% clear 75% milky then 100ish% milky then 25% Amber ect.) keep them seperately and dry them keeping note of which is which so you can tell for next time.
The plant doesn't always mature at the same time and sometimes harvesting in stages can increase the yield by allowing shaded lower buds to get more light maturing more and increasing the consistency of the Amber milky clear ratio which I believe plays a large part in the end high.
It can be a little bit more work than it is worth for someone who pops seeds of different strains but if you work from clone or really love a particular plant you can really find your personal sweet spot as well as it being a really good way for a newer grower to get a bench mark for what they are looking at and developing an preference.
The plant doesn't always mature at the same time and sometimes harvesting in stages can increase the yield by allowing shaded lower buds to get more light maturing more and increasing the consistency of the Amber milky clear ratio which I believe plays a large part in the end high.
It can be a little bit more work than it is worth for someone who pops seeds of different strains but if you work from clone or really love a particular plant you can really find your personal sweet spot as well as it being a really good way for a newer grower to get a bench mark for what they are looking at and developing an preference.
In.Home.Rhizome
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I was told 2 days is unnecessary but its not a bad idea to give the plants a few hours of dark before the chop to allow evaporated terpenes to replenish not sure how true it is but some things are just ritual I guess lol
Roger A. Shrubber
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i used to do that, i'd not give them water the last week or so, and they would dry too fast, was constantly getting the hay smell, no matter how much i tried to slow down the process. when i started watering up to a day or two before chop, the smell went away, because it took them at least a day and a half to two days longer to dry, which allows the chlorophyll enough time to break down before the plant falls below the viable RH level
Roger A. Shrubber
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any terps that evaporate that easily are highly volatile and will just evaporate out of the jars as you burp them, they'll never make it to a bag
In.Home.Rhizome
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I guess looking at it like that the only scenario it could be relevant is harvesting for live solvent extractions....maybe lol
Kingrow1
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Then you have other issues and imperfect cycles.
Your saying if you harvest when they need a watercyou get hay.... bs dude simply not the case
Kingrow1
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No none, your dry time should be long enough either way its just a pro tip for a more tight cycle.
Drying confuses many, its actually very easy to do right
In.Home.Rhizome
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We live in different climates and if your relative humidity is pretty low you can be better off harvesting well watered plants to help slow ur dry down but if you have higher Rh. Letting them dry before so you don't run into dreaded mold!Then you have other issues and imperfect cycles.
Your saying if you harvest when they need a watercyou get hay.... bs dude simply not the case
Its all down to where you are and the time of year..... Unless u have a sealed room and ac n dehumidification then you can eliminate all those variables and really control the whole process from seed to cure ah to dream!
Kingrow1
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Who cares im a pro at making climates as i grow weed, simply apply thecsame brain power and stop giving weak ass exscuses as to why you struggle so much with a simple task like drying bud.
In.Home.Rhizome
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LOL don't struggle personally and I'm glad that you are experienced enough to be successful but when first starting out it helps to avoid problems If you can get an understanding of the process and the variables you need to keep an eye on. I know that back in the day I harvested at a time of high ambient humidity due to weather and location I really wished I'd known to let the plants go a while longer with no water before harvest so I cld have dried quicker and avoided losing a little to mold.Who cares im a pro at making climates as i grow weed, simply apply thecsame brain power and stop giving weak ass exscuses as to why you struggle so much with a simple task like drying bud.
Kingrow1
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Bummer but shit happens when your a noob, theres still no shortcuts just the right way and wrong way...
So far i hear most suffer to dry, not really that hard is it no matter where you live
Dr. Who
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Hence part of the old school advice of. "Harvest right at first light. Not an hr later, not 2 hrs later...."
BTW, you get higher THC counts too. Harvest right as your lights come on......Hell, I'm at the door to water anyway...
Long story as to why but, good old light saturation point plays in here....
bearded.beaver
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Great thread. I had my first harvest in the fall. I had one plant in an Earth box. The last two weeks of September were rain, rain and more rain. So I was bring her indoors to keep the rain off. I was worried about powdery mildew. Then October 2 we had snow. I left her in my back porch with a small heater and lots of windows. I was watching my tricks with a magnifying glass. I watched them go from clear to cloudy and kept waiting for amber. On October 17 Legalization Day I harvested. I barely saw any amber. I wish I would have waited longer.
Flowki
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Drying and curing properly isn't easy at all and can be costly, belittling people who struggle with something that is perfectly acceptable to struggle with shows you up for the ass hole you are. Drying is easy to YOU because you have done it long enough, that doesn't make you a pro. Different climates are a valid obstacle for people to over come, the difference in humidity from a -temp climate to a tropic/sunny climate is huge. Some places under go one or both of those extremes year round.Who cares im a pro at making climates as i grow weed, simply apply thecsame brain power and stop giving weak ass exscuses as to why you struggle so much with a simple task like drying bud.
I'm fairly certain you are from the uk, humidity control is easy for us.. probably the easiest around. Well, with the possible exception to the highland type areas.
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