Thank you AP2K. Hope your g.f. hasn't found your plant yet buddy. I'm not going to lie.... I plucked a couple of small buds off the bottom that looked pretty close to done. After a couple of days sitting out, I took my first taste of her. The smoke has a very nice RICH, full-bodied, earthy/musky, definitely-grown-in-soil kind of taste. I don't like to "toot my own horn" but it was fucking delicious. On the down-side, there wasn't much of a buzz to accompany it. I'm pretty sure that's because it was still premature, and hadn't been dried properly. After anywhere between 3-6 days she will hopefully be ready for the chop. I went out and got 2 new pairs of snips, and 2 new glass pipes for harvest day. I will have a virgin pipe packed and burning, and one on standby the entire time I'm working.
After around a week of hang drying, it's going into jars and getting stashed in the dark room to cure for 180 days. The only reason it will be disturbed is to burp the bottles. At least that is the plan.... I'm not the best at the whole "impulse control" thing, so it would be easy to smoke the whole plant up with my wife in a couple of days, LOL (just kidding).