Good to know so i can have realistic expectations. I only know of one person that has grown it and they had great things to say about. Hopefully i get a more flavorful pheno with the bean i select.
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Harvested Tropicana cookies ff and purple lemonade ff. They both seem amazing and both ended up purple. Cut all the small buds and froze em for some live resin
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Harvest congratulations Sir @appleyardjr267 
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@kaptain3d thanks. Pretty excited to try em cause Iām new to fastbuds and so far it seems really good. I harvested this tiny strawberry gorilla auto. It ended up being more bud than I thought after cutting fan leaves haha
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Congratulations on your harvest. Looks like straight 
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Thanks. I canāt wait to try em out. I have to use frozen cat litter jugs and gallon jugs to help lower the temp and have the humidity in a decent spot. Any tips on exactly how dry they should be before curing in a grove bag? I still havenāt had the perfect cure. Iām getting better but always been my biggest struggle. @Dman1969
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I try to keep it 60 degrees and 60% humidity for 5 to 7 days. But it can take up to ten days. If your plants are drying too slow you can put them in paper bags for a Couple of days and put a hydrometer in there to help monitor it. I try to keep my weed between 58-63 % humidity In the jars. And I try to dry it slowly as I can. Donāt have a fan blowing directly on your weed have it circulating air around the weed 
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Yea unfortunately I already knew all that information and already do all that as a process but itās just knowing exactly how dry is dry enough for curing especially in a grove bag that u donāt burp. The whole stem crack part is where it gets hairy larry and I donāt have a wood moisture meter or anything. I need some tips on the stem crack part n whatnot. I always point fans at the wall. And itās says 67 rh in this pic but itās usually around 61 rh it just goes up real fast when I open the door. I monitor closely. @Dman1969
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If you fold a stem, itāll fold or snap. I would trim off the main stems two about 2 inches. Then check that 2" for fold or snap about once a day. I ended up getting a wood meter. Theyāre fairly cheap and least give a baseline.
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@SausageMahoney thereās like a lot of conflicting info which I get it, everyoneās method will vary based on climate n environment but the whole once the small stems snap n whatnot. For me it either ends up too dry or too wet still and the too dry part is recent days since in the past it was always too wet when I jar and ruined a few harvests over it some years back and multiple ounces at that so Iām paranoid. Also Iām new to grove bags so thatās a whole other situation with the fact u supposedly donāt burp. Does the moisture meter actually help that much that itās worth getting?
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I think it does and youre correct to observe the differences in regions. Hadnāt even thought of that. I use mine to check buds from a @Growdoc Drydoc. It reads fairly consistent as they decrease and I can compare it to how much water I see being extracted. Whats the conditions of your drying area? I know @Growmoredank app Hortus, has a tool to help dial in drying conditions.
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My region is very humid by the way. Are you in a drier climate?
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I never used the Grove Bags sorry I use old school mason jars.
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@SausageMahoney Iām in a very hot and humid region too. The deep south thats why I have to constantly switch out frozen cat litter jugs and gallon jugs to keep temps low and the rh usually ends up around 61 to 65 but raises when I open the door but goes back to that range once shut as Iāve examined. Cause as Iāve researched it also gets hairy larry when it comes to the whole moisture meter too because of a whole other process happening as far as moisture that I canāt remember that basically can consider that reading from the meter not sufficient
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Well even tips for the ol classis jars is accepted too because honestly been thinking about doing half of each to do a test @Dman1969
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I live in the Deep South too Mississippi pretty much on the Mississippi river only mabee a 1/2 mile away. I jar mine when the bud has a slight crunch on the outside edges. When you jar it the moisture inside the bud will moistin the outside back. I never did the stem snap. Because I thought it was too dry by the time stem snaps.
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When you put them in the jars put a hydrometer in each jar. If itās above 63 I open the lid for a few hours. Or place in a paper bag a few hours. If itās too dry i simply place a damp paper towel between the lid and the jar (donāt want the wet towel touching weed) till it gets back in range. Once itās set it stays that way. It may shift 1 or 2% but seldom more.
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My dry environment conditions are:
60F
60%rh
Check daily or more with moisture probe to chart the readings in the appā¦ Can give you an estimate of when youāll reach the sweet spot of drying to 58-62%
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Id grind some up and roll a joint and see how it burns. If it doesnāt burn right then itās not dry enough
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At 60/60, you will need about ten days to dry to 60 %. I went by looks and feel, then to a meter, now, I just leave them in the DryDoc set at 68 degrees and 60 percent humidity for 4-5 days, the moisture stabilizes for me in 5, then I drop to 60 degrees and 60 percent for another 5-6 to start curing, then in jars. Hygrometer usually says 60-62 percent when they first go in. I still burp them to make sure all chlorophyll comes out. A few weeks in jars really brings the terps out.
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