The very few that I have i had the opportunity to harvest, were very sticky and smelled wonderful. Is there more to the science than just the sticky bud? Can it go longer without hurting its potency? what happens if it goes to long?
One thing here I dont see mentioned is a drying method. Can anyone discuss drying methods? and items listed above.
If you flower is too long the thc starts to degrade and convert to cbn and lose potency. But premature bud just isnt potent at all and will never taste or smell right even cured. And i believe drying and curing properly is very important
Drying and curing is very tricky and im barely getting it down. The time span it takes to dry all vaties on bud size, density and ofcourse environment and space. I try to keep it around at 70 highest and 50 to 60% humidity and atleast dry 7 days with 2 small fans on low and facing away from the plant. When the smaller stem snaps i start dry trimming and jarring. This was a recent harvest of goldleaf still currently curing. Along with superskunk that was chopped a week and half later
Thank you I have a separate tent set up with PVC racks I made to do exactly this. I’m just not sure when to cut and hang them in my tent set up. Everyone here uses all these technical terms, Don’t need all the big names just show me a picture of what a mature plant looks like i’ll cut it and I’m good. lol
Well old school way other than checking the trichomes is when 90% of the pistils aka white hairs turned red already then its about close to harvest. If u see alot of white hairs still its more than likely too soon and wont be happy in the end
The hairs turning color is a good start but I was taught that waiting till it looks like the hairs are retracting is best as that is when the bract is filling or fattening up with resin.
Just what I had learned.
Yes as the plant gets close the buds will swell and the hairs look to recede once a good portion of hairs are orange is imo a good indicator that you need to start paying attention to youre tricombs and checking then every few days once she has all cloudy tricombs the high will be racey and not last as long the more amber the tricombs the more of a sedated couch lock high you will get at that point its all personal preference
Thank you
Racer2037:
I have used two methods of drying. The first is the paper bag method - I put my harvest in a brown paper bag, recorded the date and weight in grams of the harvest inside, then hung it under a ceiling fan in a dark room. Re-checked the weight every day until about 60 - 70% of the initial weight dried. Oh, before I started I put the paper bag in my oven (set on LOW temp 160f) to be sure the bag itself was dry.
The second method (the one I use now) I put my harvest in a dark room for 48 hours, then cut and hang from a closet hanger. Monitor the temp & relative humidity each day. Try to keep temp around 70f, relative humidity between 45% - 55%.
This is a picture of the Girl Scout Cookies auto I am putting into the darkroom tonight.
Nice surfer dude. thank you of the tips and your process!
Wow!!! Nice!!!
Thank you! 
Nice Apple! Finally turning warmer!! Everything finally out in my tent! Like sickkid said in one of my posts. They got pretty long and lanky… some look good some look long and lanky! lol
I still see alot of clear. More clear than milky. Still has a bit longer in my opinion
Thank you! I was assuming the same. Just that this is my first time harvesting. Day 64 of what again I’m assuming, 91 days. Thanks again!
Kikolio:
Your probably within a week.
Check every morning until you see more cloudy trichomes. They look GREAT.
I gotta ask. How did you get such great pictures? My god. I’m struggling to see mine and I’m using my dads old jeweler magnifying thingy. I couldnt imagine being able to take pics like that and see better detail. But thank you for posting them. I’m growing Bruce Banner auto and this is my 2nd round (first attempt ended in a munchkin plant that started flowering at like 7 inches.) but I’m close to harvest on this one and was wondering if my tri’s were cloudy enough however they look much just like yours. So thanks again.
I tried using the loupe (the jeweler thingy) but could never see that clearly. So I got a digital microscope from Amazon: Amazon.com I had to play around with the magnification but it does take great photos!
