Well I could have waited a little longer but I needed room for the SBA clone to move into the flowering tent so I pulled the original SBA down finally. Boiled the roots (
@RM3 ) on Wed. morning, let it sit in the tent a bit more until Friday night n then chopped her down on day 56 of flower. I'll take the sba clone down at around 65-70 days and compare the 2 to see what I prefer smoke wise. I'm not a big fan of quick dried samples so it'll be a while before I get a chance to try her out.
She had her fair share of popcorn buds down lower that all went into the trim bin. Kept only the decent nugs (well a couple small ones made it into the 'quality' bin, but most got removed).
I'm playing around w/ the drying / curing this round. I chopped down one cola into small individual nugs, n only dried them for 2 days (got low humidity :X), then jarred w/ boveda. Been watching that jar closely, gonna get it to stabilize around 62% before I feel comfortable leaving it for longer durations without rotating the buds and burping the jars. The rest of the SBA got left as bigger chunks n will be dried much slower. Trying to dial it in between speed / still getting a smooth smoke. Maybe rm3's boiling method will help n that department
Gonna have to go back through and manicure more thoroughly. Lookin' at these pics I see a couple leaves tht could be snipped out better. I'm not doing this for profit, so I have been trimming a little closer than I probably would if weight was a concern. IDK tho, those sugar leaves were caked w/ trichs so maybe I shouldn't be removing as much??