Buds Indoor Grow - White Widow

[McBudz]

Beautiful crystals.

 

[Buds]

Close up crystal madness

took some close ups - you can tell that they could have gone a bit longer, but I certainly do have some funk NASTY to look forward to!

 

[Buds]

Sooo...the smell of this stuff drying was way* more powerful than anticipated...I went ahead and trimmed all buds of excess leaf material after 48 hrs aggressive drying in the closet, broke out my new jars, and got it organized/graded etc. one way or the other, i have to be able to put a lid on this stuff's odor due to living in an apartment, and closing the closet door is just not enough, so into the jars it goes...i have the next week off and will be around the house 90% of that time, so I can devote as much attention as needed to the harvest, the big question is: do i leave the tops off the jars a few more days to let it air dry, or can i burp the closed jars every few hours?
I really don't want mold, but I just couldn't air dry this for a week without getting v& lol is there something i can put in the jars with the harvest to aid in drying it out, like paper towels, or would leaving the tops not-all-the-way-on be ok, or should i bite the bullet, and spread this out over wax paper and let it air dry a little longer? oh yea, yield so far is ~ 4oz. with expectations to end up around 1.5-2oz dried.

 

[McBudz]

I air dry about 3 days max. At least this time of year when humidity is low. The buds felt dry and crumbly but the stems still fold in half as oppose to snapping. I put them in the jars over night. The moisture leaves the stems and goes back into the buds making them a little more spongy. Then I dump them into a cardboard box lined with newspaper loosely covered. Every few hours I stir up the buds. let it go over night in the loosely covered box. Then to the jars for long term curing. I check / open the jars periodically for the next week or so to smell for ammonia and anything like that. If all is good I leave them be until I need to smoke it. Something you'll get the "feel" for as you go. I over dried my buds once and had to make hash out of the whole plant. So now I'm paranoid about that.

You may want to combine some of those jars. If you leave too much airspace in the jar they may dry out too much in the jar.

 

[Buds]

I air dry about 3 days max. At least this time of year when humidity is low. The buds felt dry and crumbly but the stems still fold in half as oppose to snapping. I put them in the jars over night. The moisture leaves the stems and goes back into the buds making them a little more spongy. Then I dump them into a cardboard box lined with newspaper loosely covered. Every few hours I stir up the buds. let it go over night in the loosely covered box. Then to the jars for long term curing. I check / open the jars periodically for the next week or so to smell for ammonia and anything like that. If all is good I leave them be until I need to smoke it. Something you'll get the "feel" for as you go. I over dried my buds once and had to make hash out of the whole plant. So now I'm paranoid about that.

You may want to combine some of those jars. If you leave too much airspace in the jar they may dry out too much in the jar.

oh good! I was a little panicky thinking I was sposed to dry for at least a week, if not more - I guess since I didn't get massive buds that 2-3 days is fine then. here's another pic for ya, it all looks just like this! btw + rep for the reply!

 

[McBudz]

Thanks very pretty buds. Which breeder are they from?

 

[Buds]

Thanks very pretty buds. Which breeder are they from?

these plants came from random seeds given to me from friends/saved from bags...complete blind luck the majority is WW.

 

[pan4gold49]

Good golly

I wish I something like that to smoke the last time I had something that nice was in Amsterdam.

Good work

Pan4

 

[Buds]

 

[420 Girl]

Thanks for sharing your grow with us!

I’m moving this to completed journals now.

Hope all is well in your world.

Love and respect from all of us here at 420 Magazine!

 

[koff]

that was amazing

 

[Buds]

that was amazing

thank you kindly

 

[darkstarr]

the big question is: do i leave the tops off the jars a few more days to let it air dry, or can i burp the closed jars every few hours?
I really don't want mold, but I just couldn't air dry this for a week without getting v& lol is there something i can put in the jars with the harvest to aid in drying it out, like paper towels, or would leaving the tops not-all-the-way-on be ok, or should i bite the bullet, and spread this out over wax paper and let it air dry a little longer?

paper grocery bags would've worked good for that situation..

 

[Buds]

perhaps i just didn't want them to become tainted with that 'cardboardy' smell/taste. i should have left it hanging a bit longer, but trimmed more of the little leaves off first to get a better taste. even still it was the best smoke i have had in years...even better than the bag the seeds came from!

 

[pan4gold49]

XSVBuds Congrats on your smoke.
I bet its all worth it now.

Man this waiting stuff is hard.

Pan4

 

[Buds]

XSVBuds Congrats on your smoke.
I bet its all worth it now.

Man this waiting stuff is hard.

Pan4

hell yea this waiting stuff sucks - imagine finding pockets of time dilation, like in star trek: tng s6...you could stick the plants in and it would make them grow at 50x times normal - you'd have to have fire hose attached to the hydro setup but imagine harvesting every 15 minutes lol

 

[pan4gold49]

A time warp in a grow room I like that idea.

Pan4

 

[JustInterest]

The best part of these pictures is the dirty magazines placed under the pots to prevent drainage.