Very Nice man, You're kicking ass for your first time. Way better then mine with way more plants
I'm sure you're going to have some kick ass smoke.
Drying racks like that work awesome, I'm a cheapo I just use a laundry bag made of a similar material, same results though. Nicely dried buds. What I do is hang my buds on the stems until the outside feels crispy, not dry, more like the external moisture has evaporated but the buds are still really spongy and obviously filled with moisture, then I take them off the stems(usually 4 day from chop in my environment) and jar overnight usually. When the buds come out the surfaces will be re-hydrated and moist. I then set them on the drying rack nice and gently, honestly I usually dumb the jar over the rack and spread them out super gently. This method seems to A) not let the buds dry out to fast B) avoids some of the "Squaring off" of the buds on the drying rack. When I was putting fresh buds right on the material surface I was ending up with squared off buds, if you know what I mean I don't have a picture of one there was nothing wrong with it obviously but aesthetically wasn't the nicest looking, I could have built a nugcabin with the AK's buds from my first attempt using this rack
. Just something to think about.
Also make sure you rotate the buds once a day on that rack. I haven't and everything was fine, but safety first
I woke up before my alarm went off wondering if I was going to open my drying cabinet to a bad site
With the cola splitting you're basically seeing what happens when you top a plant, the lower sites under the damaged area take over and start becoming the dominant shoots. You're going to end up with a neat looking "devil horned" bud if that thing doesn't fill in between
Check out their Big Bud sometime. This one Pheno, it was more sativa of the 2 BB plants, is pretty good. Gets me rambling on this forum all the time (this post is prime example)
. Though I imagine you're going to have 1 or 2 in there that shine above the rest as well