Are they ready?

[ACitizenofColorado]

These two plants started as bag seeds of king's kush and black domina (maybe) from botanico, in Denver.

Do you think it's ready to chop? If not, how long?

3rd generation no-till in 5 gallon smart pots. I went through a few issues with bugs. Please share your thoughts about what I could do better.

Thanks.

 

[ACitizenofColorado]

bump....

 

[RM3]

Your harvest window is open

 

[YodaHazeMaster]

Give em a couple days dark then give the axe

 

[ACitizenofColorado]

Thank you both! Should I do a root boil and wait a few days, or just cut?

 

[YodaHazeMaster]

Hmm I've never boiled the roots usually by this point my plants are flushed and I'm just waiting on the trichs.
Correct me if im wrong, but boiling the roots is similar to cutting them off because it kills them.
I'd give them a day or two of darkness just to really let things ripen. But that's just me. Good luck and good looking plant there buddy. Enjoy

 

[chemphlegm]

lol @ "root boil"

 

[RM3]

lol @ flush and darkness

 

[ACitizenofColorado]

@yodamaster, thanks for the kind words! This feels like a victory against the odds.

@RM3, are you in agreement about the flush and darkness? Or just the darkness?

 

[RM3]

@yodamaster, thanks for the kind words! This feels like a victory against the odds.

@RM3, are you in agreement about the flush and darkness? Or just the darkness?

neither, both are myths

at least there is actual science with the boil

 

[YodaHazeMaster]

Is it a myth that terpenes are higher in the morning than at night when your plants have been under a warm light all day? Or was I reading false information? Thats why I give an extra dark period before chop. But to each their own. Peace

 

[andlund0930]

Boil baby boil!!!! It's the shit, been testing it out. Boiling and then taking a branch every two days and compare/contrast. Results are extremely noticeable . And for someone like me who can't ever really seem to keep up and have enough being able to enjoy it right when dry is quite a treat .

 

[ACitizenofColorado]

@andlund0930, I'll try that out next cycle.

 

[ACitizenofColorado]

I wanted to update those who helped.

The two plants made three strings of drying plant, plus an approximately half a turkey roaster (pics to follow).

The picture of roots is a revegged clone of the sativa dominate female from late run; I didn't clone in veg because I didn't think to. Two clones from the sativa dominate female revegged, and were potted. Both plants are being revegged (monstercropped?).

Of note, the revegged plants received coconut water, powered aloe and agsil 16-H (potassium silicate); I recall giving them a single dose of enzymes from a SST, which may have included corn, alfalfa and (probably not) barley.

I have no explanation for why those two clones rooted so successfully; two other clones: one black domina and one of the sativa dominate strain, successfully revegged. One failed to push roots into the rock wool cube, though it did reveg; the other both revegged and developed a root system, though the root system is not yet visible, as in the picture above.

My plan on curing is to get boveda packs.

This is my first smokeable harvest, so regarding storage, can anyone give me an approximation of what would be best to use for storage/curing? Glass mason jars? Some large plastic tote?

Thank you all for the help!

 

[YodaHazeMaster]

Look at that harvest! You got a lot of trimming ahead of you haha
I like the big glass Mason jars and the convenient thing about them is they come in a pack of like 20 or something.
Only have a little boveda jar and in my opinion its nice if you have buds that are over dried but you won't need the boveda if you give them a nice slow cure in the jars.
Interesting about the clones. You going to keep the one that didn't root for a while? Sometimes they are slower, sounds like it isn't dead yet if it's reveggin
Anyways good luck and enjoy the fruits of your labors

 

[YodaHazeMaster]

I should add there's always more than one way to skin a cat. As some folks prefers to dry in paper bags or so on instead. I'm not well taught on some of the other methods. I just do what seems to work for me and that's to hang for 8-9 days and then go into jars. But everyones climate and scenario may be different.

 

[Rooster802]

Hey, I'm a new grower and therefore don't know not to try new things, so I was intrigued with RM3's boiling roots method. So I had a little strawberry cheesecake clone I had stuck in a one gallon fabric pot with "super" soil just to see what it would do and put it in my flower tent. Anyway, little plant was cute but too small to ever really do much, but had a really uneventful healthy grow. So I watered her with a kettle of boiling water 6 days ago, today I cut her down. 10.5 grams of ready to smoke bud that seems to be the most potent I've grow yet (only a few plants so far so not saying much), jarred it and the humidity in the jar is sitting right at 60%. That's right off the plant. The trim is ready to be processed. There may be better ways to harvest, but its far superior for me. I've tried harvesting in the dark as well as just cutting the plants when they were mature. I'm a believer, and I will be boiling roots from now on. I'm thinking for a slower cure I should have taken her down one or two days ago. You can just watch the plant left under the grow lights continue to mature despite having lost the roots. Its a beautiful thing. Anyway, thanks for those on this site willing to share their idea even if its not popular.

 

[YodaHazeMaster]

Awesome, thank you for sharing your experience with us. Sounds like a root boil cuts down a lot of the curing time. I think we could all learn a thing or two from these old heads and their techniques, me included. Enjoy that smoke. Thanks bud

 

[ACitizenofColorado]

@rooster, thanks for the report. I didn't pour boiled water this time, but will in the future.

The harvest is complete, though I forgot to weigh it. The two plants yielded approximately 1.5-2 quart ball jars of good bud each, with another 2 jars each of good larf/less developed. I forgot to weigh the buds throughout the entire trimming process; I intended to but didn't. The last jar had about 10 finger fulls of this blond/light-colored kief covering the bottom of my tray; I can't think about putting it in a bag just to weigh it.

For instance, the entire top canopy for the black domina turned purpleish-red, while the lower canopy struggle to express those genes; my operating theory is that full anthocyanin expression (turning purple) requires adequate to good light. Many of the lower larf buds were bright green with anywhere from one to numerous calyxes, existing on a spectrum of lite-purple/pink to darker purple.

I'm just learning. The three crops prior to this were all chopped for various reasons at some point in flower.

Now to find some low THC, high CBD strains for the next grow.

Pics to follow. Thank you @RM3, @YodaHazeMaster, @andlund0930.

Peace

 

[YodaHazeMaster]

I like to chop all the lowest bud sites, so the plant can focus on the top colas and doesn't waste energy on larfy nugs.
Different growing styles also help to minimize larf, such as low stress training for multiple tops. Also, if you don't train the plant and the lowers look a little behind... harvest the top and leave the bottom to mature for longer.
Let us know how that black domina smokes! Always a strain I've been interested in
We all gotta start somewhere, I've made a lot of mistakes and some grows never made it to harvest. It's all part of learning