I want to pick individual buds early

definitely pull a bud off and put it on a heater so it dries out overnight and smoke it. what's the big deal? do you need permission from us?

Wutang101 said:

I hear ya purple - I kinda need yield, but this is my first time growing, and I'll probably sample a small amount probably around 6 weeks or so - just to see. I'm a patient cat, but still, curiousity may get the best of me...good luck growing dude!

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Thanks man, I was thinking of trying late in 5th week, one of my plants is looking like a 7 week-ish harvest (really fast flowering), good luck to you also!

Stickerbushman - you are right man, and that's what I've decided to do, seeing that its pretty much split 50/50 on this matter (picking buds earlier than harvest), I'm just gonna "play it by ear" and pick a bud when it is blatantly smokeable (in accordance with the law of you can't even smoke until every nug is cloudy)

Thank you everyone on this thread for giving your input, it is much appreciated

If you want to do it then go ahead and do it. I agree with stickerbushman, you don't need permission from us.

Alittle info for everyone. Some people get headaces when they don't take out the stems and seeds before they smoke and some people don't.... I don't get headaces when I take a little off my plant before its ready and it does get me high. I'm not saying that its the best weed or thats its the smartest thing to do but this guy is growing so he doesn't have to buy it no more and he either takes some off his plant or go buy some.... I think he should go ahead and do it.... I mean,,, who really gives a fuck if he does it or not. Damn...

ablazed...
Peace to everyone..... Didn't mean anything......

people smoke stems and seeds
??

polypterus said:

people smoke stems and seeds
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What are you referring to? This thread was making reference to my SENSIMILLIA plants, no seeds in that

ablazed blunt said:

If you want to do it then go ahead and do it. I agree with stickerbushman, you don't need permission from us.

<b>Alittle info for everyone. Some people get headaces when they don't take out the stems and seeds before they smoke and some people don't.... <b>I don't get headaces when I take a little off my plant before its ready and it does get me high. I'm not saying that its the best weed or thats its the smartest thing to do but this guy is growing so he doesn't have to buy it no more and he either takes some off his plant or go buy some.... I think he should go ahead and do it.... I mean,,, who really gives a fuck if he does it or not. Damn...

ablazed...
Peace to everyone..... Didn't mean anything......

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i didnt realize people would actually smoke seeds or stems?

I dunno poly, I thought you were saying something irrelevant cause i didn't see ablazed say that until now. I don't anymore, but when in high school people would always once in-awhile get "schwag", bad weed, and it ALWAYS had seeds in it. But then again, good bud can sometimes get seeds without even being a hermaphrodite, thats how people get bagseed. As to smoking stems, that just doesn't do anything, I tried once. Might as well smoke some parsley

This will sound dumb but some of the lower leaves were dying so I decided to dry them out a little bit and smoke them. This is like 1 week into flowering and the leaves were dirty and old. It tasted horrible. Reeked of just cut lawn. I got a little buzzed and just like whoever said it, it left just as fast as it came. Although it wasn't as harsh as a lot of people said it would be, I smoked like 6 bowls and just got a mild buzz. Then I felt stupid. This is my first grow but I'm gonna wait for the buds to be completely mature.

if its got you thinkin about it this much you would have been better just pickin and smokin it than askin. Next time you think about something this much just do it, get it over with, and get results.

i once trimmed an early bud. i manicured it all pretty. hung it and watched it shrivel up. got all excited to smoke it. not much resin so it burnt shitty. waiting for this awesome high. buzz.....headache. damn, my weed sucks.

well folks, I did it. On day 29 of flower I picked a small bud that had more red hairs for some reason i dunno. It got me a slight buzz and was very pleasant. I mean ya its nothing close to smoking weed, but I didn't get a headache whatsoever. I also crudely dried it in a microwave, to be honest I was surprised that it had an effect on me. I think I'm gonna have some great weed, it is masterkush after all.

lol i'd never put weed in a microwave or on a heater. heat DECREASES thc content, also light! i'd rather wait to be honest. we have all done it tho!

MRbudsmoker said:

lol i'd never put weed in a microwave or on a heater. heat DECREASES thc content, also light! i'd rather wait to be honest. we have all done it tho!

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haha yeah i read that AFTER smoking it, but still, it was ok. But now that I've "learned my lesson," would anyone mind letting me know what the quickest way (and how long it takes) is to get decent bud once I harvest? I read in the FAQ and they were talking about 4 weeks of drying... I dont care about high quality taste but I do care about it's potency, just wondering if I could maybe just dry for 4-7 days before I have dried/cured ENOUGH to be able to smoke something that truly looks and smells like pot and gets me stoned? Thanks

P.S. I'm just talking about something to smoke while waiting for the rest of my then-harvested bud to dry and cure

after 7 days you should have plenty of good buds to smoke.

fdd2blk said:

after 7 days you should have plenty of good buds to smoke.

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good to know, I hear you. I don't want to pick anything until I can put my nose up to a bud and say "that smells like WEED!" thanks for the info

Hey Purple: Yeah, everyone I know that grows has done the same thing on the first go round. If you're not checking them everyday (or more like a few times a day) you're not doing your job. At one point all of us went from spending way too much on little bags of herb to standing in the presence of some massive buzz bush. I had a talk with some folks on this topic before and we concluded that a good comparison in this area would be comparing going to a nudey bar with going on a hot date with someone that REALLY wants to make you feel good. The stripper may look hot but you really don't get much satisfaction. The hot date took a lot more time and effort but the payoff is way worth it. I also made that microwave mistake years ago and regreted wasting a nice little bud to get a brief puff of crackly dry smoke. Also consider that when you clip that little bud you're depriving yourself of a much bigger and more satisfying bud in the future. But seriously, they're your plants. If you want a taste go for it. The concept of a forum has always been based on sharing ideas, not forcing them on people. (I mean, like, since the Greeks came up with the concept!) The important thing is you can look forward to sitting on a stash such that you'll be smoking the kind bud while watching your next plants mature instead of putting the moves on them when they're barely legal. (and, uh... you DID remember to get some clones going somewhere back there down the trail, right?) Good Luck!

here's a little tip. When you harvest, take a few small buds and put them on the back of your CRT where the heat rises. They'll be smokable after 3-4 days.

You can water cure it which I think takes about 7 days. Look it up to be sure but I think you put them all in water and weigh them down with something so they stay submerged and change the water every day. After that you can dry them off for a few hours or something and they'll be a good smoke but I never did it and this is just from memory but there are topics on it within this site.

water will make all you tricombs sink to the bottom of the container therfore loosing most of your thc in the buds... i would highly suggest NOT trying this method.

monstercatambush said:

Hey Purple: Yeah, everyone I know that grows has done the same thing on the first go round. If you're not checking them everyday (or more like a few times a day) you're not doing your job. At one point all of us went from spending way too much on little bags of herb to standing in the presence of some massive buzz bush. I had a talk with some folks on this topic before and we concluded that a good comparison in this area would be comparing going to a nudey bar with going on a hot date with someone that REALLY wants to make you feel good. The stripper may look hot but you really don't get much satisfaction. The hot date took a lot more time and effort but the payoff is way worth it. I also made that microwave mistake years ago and regreted wasting a nice little bud to get a brief puff of crackly dry smoke. Also consider that when you clip that little bud you're depriving yourself of a much bigger and more satisfying bud in the future. But seriously, they're your plants. If you want a taste go for it. The concept of a forum has always been based on sharing ideas, not forcing them on people. (I mean, like, since the Greeks came up with the concept!) The important thing is you can look forward to sitting on a stash such that you'll be smoking the kind bud while watching your next plants mature instead of putting the moves on them when they're barely legal. (and, uh... you DID remember to get some clones going somewhere back there down the trail, right?) Good Luck!

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Thank you for a sensible overlook on this topic. I totally hear you on being patient; I picked 1 small bud just to see for myself (like ya said, everyone's been there). I think I'm gonna do it only one more time before harvest, maybe week 6 or 7 just to see the difference, and I wouldn't put it in the microwave this time hehe... but seriously, every single day of the grow i'm looking at my plants all day, they were stretched but I tied down the colas early in flowering, as a result alot of shoots are getting more light then they woulda.
As for clones for after, I don't have any clones, but I have two other MasterKush plants in soil outside (they've now been in vegetation for over a month). Next week, I'm gonna buy or make a second tent, and get some CFL wattage to either continue vegging and then flowering the outdoor ladies AND, at the same time, re-vegging my currently-flowering 2 MK's once they've been completely harvested, and then taking clones once they've got enough cuttings' worth!
The other idea I have is to use the two outdoor MK plants, bring them inside with CFL's in a couple weeks, and then just strip them bare and start vegging them. If I do this, I'll have my clones ready before my first harvest as well.
Thanks to my two plants vegging outside, I've got a couple options, either to rape it of it's leaves and start a SoG when I get them CFL's, or, let them flower and re-vegetate the currently-flowering plants and take clones from that, I believe the first idea I mentioned would probably work out better because I wouldn't have to wait for a harvest before starting.
Thanks again for the helpful post!