Unless you want to make hash then freeze them. Best when done right after harvest, and make the hash quickly also before the trim gets freezer burn.
If that was for me, Thank YOU!
For the sake of testingI pulled a test branchlet. It was one that was in the way when I was checking the Single Plant LST in the tent. The training is suffering being in there. I can't do as much with it as I want to because moving it around now messes up the trusses. Here it is in the corner getting bushy:
So I pulled a branchlet:
It weighs 7.4 Grams wet. I will weigh it each day until I smoke it. I will not be saving the test samples. I think 4 days between pulls is to long, you got me going with testing and I have plenty of popcorn sites like this. I will do one each morning now until the harvest. I will put together a detailed study each day with close ups of the buds. OK here is Day 1 Bud 1 Morning just before Night. I will pull another tonight just after lights on, I think that one will be cleaner.
Here is a better look at the main bud:
If I overload you on pictures the next two weeks, don't say I didn't warn you. Since this is what I consider my first complete grow, I have learned a lot and I hope my updates have given newbies the info I have gleaned from this wonderful forum. OK so I promised you closeups and here they are. I consider my Trichomes to still be some what clear, starting to cloud up.
These first three I used a medium magnification, it sort of looks like what I see in my 30X scope. You get a greater depth of field with lower mag. You can see the trichomes but they look cloudy, but I don't think they are. The higher mag one later show that.
I went as far as I could on these. You can see the Trichomes clearly. They are still clear.
Here is the bud in its new resting home for drying in the rack. You should like that DC it has torture innuendo.
So I think that is a sufficient response to your posts. Next post update on new veg station Fill and Drain system.
Keep checking each day as we will see a detailed progress towards harvest.
that looks like it will be primo smoke. There's a chance she could some more filling & swelling, maybe consider a partial harvest, I know how hard it is to wait. You still have fresh growth coming out of those tops, last year I had a plant make a big second effort, it started bursting w new bud nodules, all over my colas. It's in my 12 page journal from 2013. That journal finished with a 1/3 of the love you have over here. great job
nice pics Trys I'm jealous
LMK if you want this pic out of your yard, NP I'll yank it. Pic shows the late "bursts" popping out of bud I thought was done, it finished about a week later. Grown in my ghetto tent under jumbo CFL from China, I think the Home Depot cfls are brighter than the jumbo. Wasted 50 bux on that. I'm hoping to go LED this winter. I hope they act as heaters in my cold shed. Cfl's keep the temp ideal at night when cold.
I used to do ebb/flow, never fed in the dark. Am I late? lol, great detail on your 1st post, Trys, my zoo has slowed down thank goodness, I need to hang with all my contributors & visitors more often. I just can't keep up with this stuff sometimes. I love your set-up, looks like what I did to my pad in HB , 20 yrs ago.!
5 stars given up top for your sweet yard.
nice pics Trys I'm jealous
LMK if you want this pic out of your yard, NP I'll yank it. Pic shows the late "bursts" popping out of bud I thought was done, it finished about a week later. Grown in my ghetto tent under jumbo CFL from China, I think the Home Depot cfls are brighter than the jumbo. Wasted 50 bux on that. I'm hoping to go LED this winter. I hope they act as heaters in my cold shed. Cfl's keep the temp ideal at night when cold.
I used to do ebb/flow, never fed in the dark. Am I late? lol, great detail on your 1st post, Trys, my zoo has slowed down thank goodness, I need to hang with all my contributors & visitors more often. I just can't keep up with this stuff sometimes. I love your set-up, looks like what I did to my pad in HB , 20 yrs ago.!
5 stars given up top for your sweet yard.
Those look kind of big to pinch, if he changed his lights and they suddenly got more energy I could see some more growth, but my ladies have been under a 1000W HPS for 8 weeks now.
How about that.
Closeups of a cola in the tent.
Cloudy trichomes 100%
Cloudy Trichomes and amber ones circled
More Amber
OK so I did a few captions off to bed, its 3AM.
My Journal has reached twenty five pages!
Ok I was going to do this in the morning but it was hot work on the plants tonight and I had a Coke and now I can't sleep so a quick update. I did a major defoliation tonight and moved the buds around to get more exposure to them. It was amazing there were these long strings of popcorn buds and at the end would be a bud that found its way to light. The branch was more like a vine and I was able to untangle them and moved them so not only the big bud on the end had light but most of the smaller buds were now getting direct sunlight. In short I was able to expose a lot of buds that I didn't even know I had. Also I found that in the last day they had fallen over and I had to tie many of them up. In the overview picture you see some still lying down. I did them last and tied them up also. By doing this I exposed many many more buds. In the middle after pulling it apart and taking out big fan leaves it exposed dozens of buds, I gently pulled them apart, they were all tangled. I will need a new trellis for the next grow. The nice thing about this one is that it was cheap and easy to move around and I cut when needed. I also broke a fairly large branch, but one of the smaller ones. It weighed 47.6 grams, after taking out the big branch. I also weighed the biggest bud and it weighed 20.4. Tired so there will be no captions on the pictures tonight. Oh almost forgot, DC look at the close ups. 100% cloudy and I circled some that were turning amber, I am going to flush when I get up in the morning. I might let it go one more feeding and then do the change out for the first daylight feeding. Ok now I am way to tired and I still have to finish the pictures. Here they are I will try to display them in the order I discussed them above. I'll try.
See the Popcorn string, I dug it out of there and:
Moved it here it is the larger bud on the right. I used to be down low and now has direct light.
Here is the broken branch though it looks substantial and it is, it is one of the smallest branches.
These are the buds from that branch weighed 47.6 G
The main bud 20.4G
Tip of main bud
Closeups of a cola in the tent.
Cloudy trichomes 100%
Cloudy Trichomes and amber ones circled
More Amber
OK so I did a few captions off to bed, its 3AM.
