The Christmas trees came down!

Well after a whole lot of traveling between family and visiting, Christmas came to an end tonight with the cutting down of my aurora indica. I have a few pics of before and after trimming. I mainly only took off the fan leaves with no crystals on them...my humidity here is just above 30% so I left all the sugar leaves on for drying and will trim afterwards before jarring them i think.

I'm hanging the entire plant whole as well.

Rest of pics giving me trouble I'll post more tomorrow

I think you chopped them a bit early ... I would l have waited for more swell and recede .

My 2¢.

It's possible, i was under cfl though so I'm not sure they would've gown much more. I pretty much just went off the trich's which were all milky white. This was only my 2nd run and the first time i let them go for about 9 1/2 weeks and they never started to turn amber and after sampling i felt they were let go too long... but we shall see after sampling how these turned out.

Here's the rest of the pics

You still had white hairs growing, calyx forming was weeks away yet!

budman111 said:

You still had white hairs growing, calyx forming was weeks away yet!

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Meh...live and learn i guess, i ended up with 3 Oz and it's curing now, i sampled before cure and it was harsh but still very potent so I'm happy with it! Just means next time I'll do better and for this next run i have a cob light on its way to replace my cfl's. As long as i get better and better each run im ecstatic about it since this was only my 2nd run. As i understood it was an 8-10 week strain and could be harvested at either point for different effects, i cut them at 56 days

Buttknuckle said:

Meh...live and learn i guess, i ended up with 3 Oz and it's curing now, i sampled before cure and it was harsh but still very potent so I'm happy with it! Just means next time I'll do better and for this next run i have a cob light on its way to replace my cfl's. As long as i get better and better each run im ecstatic about it since this was only my 2nd run. As i understood it was an 8-10 week strain and could be harvested at either point for different effects, i cut them at 56 days

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cob light is the way to go for sure, I got the old vipar range, not great but my grow skills can get 0.5g/W with a scrog which is good enough for me or i would COB all day long

Yeah my .25g per watt with just lst is hopefully going to get blown out of the water with this next run... also attempting a single cola s.o.g. this time around, 12 plants in 3 sq. Ft

Buttknuckle said:

i cut them at 56 days

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Way too early. Yea they say 8-10 weeks. But to me I let them go 11-13 weeks. The longer you wait the more they swell. Time is not so important. Let the trics tell you when they are ready to harvest. Pretty sure at 56 days your still moslty, if not all clear trics.

Agreed ^^^^ NEVER GO BY BREEDER ESTIMATES ... They are "guidelines " most is marketing " fluff " to sell their strain but plants go as long " as it takes " especially auto strains. I only count actual FLOWER STAGE FROM the time it has setup budsites.

Once it sexes ( hairs ) in a week or so flowers will form .... THEN i begin counting weeks.
At a minimum i let the flowering go 9-10 weeks ( day 63 to 70 from preflower stage ) before even checking triches. Around week 5 to 7 is were swelling happens and weight.
So going to full maturity is where you need to be , not chopping based on seed description.

Agreed, most trichs appeared milky not clear with a few on the amber side but again, I'm still learning haha