Yeah, I can personally vouch for the "it gets better the longer you cure" mantra. I finished up my first two plants a couple of weeks ago, was inpatient and starting smoking one of them within about 7 days after harvest, keeping them in curing jars the whole time, post drying of course. Initially they had anywhere from no taste whatsoever to a bit of a grassy taste...and by the time I got to the last gram or so of the second plant, the taste was really starting to come out...nice fresh stinky and great tasting - and they were just bagseed from some mids I got in december. I grew two little bonsai plants no more than 8-9 inches tall (FIMed one, topped the other), each yielded about 7 grams dried (and thats being generous) but I didn't care. I was learning the grow cycle, the smell cycle (my grow is completely stealth - a PC case and a cabinet in my closet) and just watching the girls develop. My next grow will be more about yield...I have four plants 16 days into veg...all four looking even better than the first two did at this juncture. Same bagseed too, but my goal is higher yield.
Anyways, the high was so awesome...and family members I shared some with they thought so too. Nothing like knowing where and how your stash came to be...
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