Thanks bro, you've been really helpful
I can't tell if I'm ready to harvest or not (pics)
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Ok so I did a rough trim, cut it and hung it whole in my pc case. There's two fans blowing it it from different angles. The humidity inside the case ranges from 52-58% and the temperature is about room temperature, is that good? I will keep checking until the surface of the buds feel dry and until the stem almost snaps to jar them (how long does that take more or less?). Am I missing anything?
Third pic shows some root bound lol
Third pic shows some root bound lol
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TwistItUp
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That thing looks pretty good man. I would recommend some 62% Bodeva humidity packs to help make the curing process fool proof. You might not need it but they are nice. They will basically turn a jar into a miniature humidor. Hard to say for sure how long it will take to dry or cure, might take a week each, or maybe 5 days to dry, two week cure, haha. Sorry hard to tell for sure. I generally just hang or set the buds on a drying rack and check them each day towards the better part of the end of one week or so. Then I generally plan that a decent cure might take two weeks. But it could be less time curing and you could still start smoking some while the rest cures longer. Some times I hang dry with the leaves on while other times I trim everything right when I harvest. I kind of just do different things as I go depending what I'm feeling up to doing. Trimming can be so tedious and when I grow in bulk, geez trimming can be a chore, I don't always feel up to it to trim everything I grow all at once. I've even be so burned out on trimming that I have stuffed buds with leaves and stems into jars with the boveda humidity packs and just let it start to do its cure like that then trimmed a jar or so at a time later. You wouldn't believe what a chore it is haha. Once I started growing in bulk and trimming a lot. It dawned on me that the average smoker probably doesn't have a clue what really goes into growing dope. I appreciate a good looking nug more after having grown and trimmed for hours and the such.
Thanks... Ya, a couple months ago I was that average smoker and had no clue how much attention the whole growing and harvesting thing needs. I actually thought I could plant a seed in a pot, leave it by the window, water every now and then and get a shitload of weed lol... how naive.
Also I already have the 62% boveda packs, got them along with a tightvac jar. Should I just throw them in there as soon as I jar it or only when the humidity gets close to 62%?
TwistItUp
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I honestly don't know whats best I've only used them for I think two harvests now. I just waited till the bud was dry after hanging and tossed it in a jar with a humidity pack. I keeped an eye on it and still burped the first time using them. The second harvest I was feeling pretty confident about how well they worked the first time, so I just tossed trimmed bud and un trimmed bud right in the jar with a pack and did more of the trimming about a week later. I didn't have any issue's but that's not to say this was the best or right thing to do. Also this being the winter that effects humidity too. and you might have a totally different humidity environment than me so what I do might not work for you. If your humidity is real high people say to run a space heater to bring humidity down, it will dry the air. Do this down to like 65% RH I think is what was said, and then put the bud in the jars.
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