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AliceGG
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Hey there!
Yesterday I thought I would cut down the AK, she's had enough. I should have done a bit more preparation...
Harvesting of Jack took me about 4 hours, but I wasn't in hurry then, I took some pics, inspected the plant, did the trimming calmly. To be honest, the leaf to calyx ratio was so low on Jack that I really only had to remove the fan leaves and a few larger sugar leaves from the buds, and I was done. I didn't remove the tiny, sticky ones because I couldn't reach them between the buds, and anyways they were so sticky, that, for me, they qualify as smokeable parts. I pinched the tips of the leaves though, so what's left are buds and small leaves completely covered in resin.
Now it's a different story with the AK. The plant is insane, full of sugar leaves, most of them tucked deep into the buds. Apart from the main cola, she had 4 quite long and 2 shorter branches. Working on it for almost 3 hours yesterday, I finished with one long and one of the shorter colas. I can't help but literally, phisically hurt the buds if I want to reach the stems of some of her sugar leaves. I'm not talking about the tiny ones, I don't even try to trim them, it's only the longer leaves that I try to remove. So I ended up pausing it because the night came on me, but I will finish it up tonight. Being in the office again, I don't have pics, but the longer cola that I already harvested was about 35cm long, mostly full of buds. I've cut down each bud separately, and hung them that way. I know it would be optimal to hang whole branches, not buds, but I'm a bit scared of mould. In fact, many of her buds had totally brown, "dead" sugar leaves on their inner side. Not inside the buds, but rather on the side which touched other buds and the stem. I'm not sure if I'm describing it clearly, so where separate buds (grown from opposite side leaves of the same set) touched each other, in those areas I found these brown leaves. What does that mean? I didn't find anything like it on Jack, though she was a completely different plant in every possible ways.
Temps are around 24-28°C and rh is mostly below 50%. Should I be concerned about mould or bud rot? I have to mention that I already saw and removed a lot of these dead sugar leaves in the last 2 weeks, while the plant was still alive.
While I was writing this post, my boveda packs arrived. Finally. I'll put them into the jars of Jack when I get home, then I'll continue harvesting the AK. Hopefully, I can finish it tonight. Pics later!
Until then, have a great day everyone!
Yesterday I thought I would cut down the AK, she's had enough. I should have done a bit more preparation...
Harvesting of Jack took me about 4 hours, but I wasn't in hurry then, I took some pics, inspected the plant, did the trimming calmly. To be honest, the leaf to calyx ratio was so low on Jack that I really only had to remove the fan leaves and a few larger sugar leaves from the buds, and I was done. I didn't remove the tiny, sticky ones because I couldn't reach them between the buds, and anyways they were so sticky, that, for me, they qualify as smokeable parts. I pinched the tips of the leaves though, so what's left are buds and small leaves completely covered in resin.
Now it's a different story with the AK. The plant is insane, full of sugar leaves, most of them tucked deep into the buds. Apart from the main cola, she had 4 quite long and 2 shorter branches. Working on it for almost 3 hours yesterday, I finished with one long and one of the shorter colas. I can't help but literally, phisically hurt the buds if I want to reach the stems of some of her sugar leaves. I'm not talking about the tiny ones, I don't even try to trim them, it's only the longer leaves that I try to remove. So I ended up pausing it because the night came on me, but I will finish it up tonight. Being in the office again, I don't have pics, but the longer cola that I already harvested was about 35cm long, mostly full of buds. I've cut down each bud separately, and hung them that way. I know it would be optimal to hang whole branches, not buds, but I'm a bit scared of mould. In fact, many of her buds had totally brown, "dead" sugar leaves on their inner side. Not inside the buds, but rather on the side which touched other buds and the stem. I'm not sure if I'm describing it clearly, so where separate buds (grown from opposite side leaves of the same set) touched each other, in those areas I found these brown leaves. What does that mean? I didn't find anything like it on Jack, though she was a completely different plant in every possible ways.
Temps are around 24-28°C and rh is mostly below 50%. Should I be concerned about mould or bud rot? I have to mention that I already saw and removed a lot of these dead sugar leaves in the last 2 weeks, while the plant was still alive.
While I was writing this post, my boveda packs arrived. Finally. I'll put them into the jars of Jack when I get home, then I'll continue harvesting the AK. Hopefully, I can finish it tonight. Pics later!
Until then, have a great day everyone!