The main cola buds have now been water curing for two days. Next Thursday, they will be ready for the final dry! In the meantime, I harvested a few more top branches that seemed done:
Those branches are now hanging upside down to dry, and will be jar cured for as long as I can wait. As I have already harvested like 40% of the plant through "here and there" pickings, trying to figure out the total wet weight of all harvested buds would be meaningless. Instead, I will list the dry weight of all the buds I harvest and let cure officially, just so everyone can get a rough idea as to the potential of whatever strain this was.
I took the time to read up on taking macro pics with ordinary digital cameras, and came up with these pics after playing with the settings, lighting, etc:
Judging by the amount of *apparently* amber trichs, most of those buds were ready to go. For some reason or another, those big, golden looking calyxes on the bottom of the buds (even the green bud in the 7th pic above) looked the most "done" of all. At this rate, the rest of the mid-cola buds and top branches should be done tonight or tomorrow!!!
Here are those smaller buds quick dried using the
microwave steam-dry method:
Looks like most of the trichs are intact, so the drying method cannot be all that bad. Half of that taken as a nice bong rip had me blazed practically all night, and the high was that hard hitting, heart pounding sedating shit I love. It wasn't as strong as the $50/1.8g Sour Diesel I'm used to, but it is frighteningly close. I can only imagine how potent the colas will be once dried and cured properly
its so beautiful. smoke a bowl for me?
. No commercial bud in sight either. Next thursday my water cured cola should be done though!
