Harvest Time ...

[maxsteel69]

Afternoon!

First time grower and i reckon a couple of my girls are nearly ready for the chop, they are roughly 30% brown hairs now, i don't have a microscope so i'm going purely on the amount of brown hairs, is this good enough?

Second dilemma is drying them, i've made 2 boxes with string going across and found out they need to be in a dark place at room temperature for a week, the only dark place i have in my house is the cellar which is quite cold and damp.

Can i put them in an upstairs bedroom and just close the boxes?
Maybe cut some biggish holes in the box for air to get in?

Cheers

 

[massah]

Hard to go on hair color alone...just look closely to make sure its not all clear looking, and wait for your calyxes to swell up well...that will give you a better indication of when its time to chop...if you are running an indica dominant strain you can also go about 10-12 weeks from when you flip to 12/12 in general...so you know approximately when to start looking to harvest

You can use brown paper bags to dry in if you cant find a suitable space to hang in...the idea is to have the plants take a good week to dry.

 

[MISSPHOEBE]

More like 70% of brown hairs... are the fan leaves turning yellow and dropping off?... I agree with the Paper Bag... I dried my latest grow in paper bags and works wonders!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[massah]

And if you don't have any paper bags...just ask for them the next few times you go grocery shopping and save them

 

[maxsteel69]

I'm in the UK so we dont get brown bags, we get plastic bags!
It's a sativa strain (big bud)
It's been in flower for 14 weeks!!!
Yes the leaves are turning yellow and falling off....
So can i put them in brown paper bags and just leave them in there for a week?
Keep them in a dark room at room temp?

 

[rollinbud]

You can probably still buy some or many stores have them to put certain items in just ask.
I have just started a Big Bud seedling, let me know how it turns out.

 

[Endur0xX]

I have never done the paper bag but I am about to try it, I assume you gotta open it up daily and shake things up? are u suppose to change the bag at some point

 

[rollinbud]

Maybe this helps
http://www.420magazine.com/forums/how-grow-marijuana/71987-drying-curing-storage-paper-bag-method.html

 

[MISSPHOEBE]

I'm in the UK so we dont get brown bags, we get plastic bags!
It's a sativa strain (big bud)
It's been in flower for 14 weeks!!!
Yes the leaves are turning yellow and falling off....
So can i put them in brown paper bags and just leave them in there for a week?
Keep them in a dark room at room temp?

Im in Spain and they don't have any Paper Bags over here either... but I found some in the end!
I just put my ganja in the Paper Bags... not too much in each Bag.... like a quarter full or less... and left the bag standing and Open inside my cupboard... Dried really nicely! I shook the bags a bit every day to move the weed around and that was it! A week or so later ... I had nice dry buds!