Harvest Update: CBD Critical Cure
Doesn’t the top cola look gorgeous in the morning sunlight...?
This was still an early harvest - I can see that now. It was time though, for many other reasons than ripeness and I’m going to have some lovely meds of this one, no doubt about it!
Let’s start with a couple of final shots - the first thing I did was get on there and take out all the garden tie holding her up (which was to stop her crowding out the others so much). Her skirts are very heavy, no?
Actually the first thing I did was prepare the wash buckets...
So let the chop begin! The first cut...
I thought it looked very elegant at this stage...
I’m so happy I stuck to my guns to get the lovely top cola I was after - I’ll employ the technique again I think!
And here, I realise what little space she was growing in. Next year I’ll have one plant alone in there I think. (A nice big Panama sounds about right)
I’m thinking this GTxNL pot might get placed in that spot for better light. I’ll bury the pot a bit so she can get her toes into the garden bed. She’s looking lovely don’t you agree?
SO this is the haul
Let the wash begin!
And this is
why we wash!
Hangdrying... I moved them around a bit once the sun got full on, but they hung dried for 3hours or so (while I collapsed!
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Leftover leaf. I know I ought to have done something useful with it but what it contributed to the compost bin will be useful too. The worms will love it and they and the microbes in there will turn it into goodness for the garden. I was too exhausted to deal with it - I have plenty of buds!
After line drying for a few hours I collected it and took a wet weight
There’s a bit of stalk still but that’s 1lb and about 12oz. I figure somewhere around 5-6ounces dry. That’s a lot of oil making material. This is great because I’m planning to try vaping it as well. And I want to make tincture too. So I’ve plenty to experiment with.
Next comes the dry. My little SweetSue inspired DIY TIny Closet is still actually in my room - which has turned out to be a boon because I have an aircon in there and can control the temp a bit. I rigged up some garden fencing across teh top to hang the branches off.
Phew! It’s still hanging - looking good. My bedroom smells amazing! (Well, it’s my everything room. I pretty much live in here and take occasional excursions into the main house for a movie night, or if I’m up to watching sports on the big screen.) I’m really enjoying noticing how the smells temper and change. Yesterday was a bit grassy, but today has settled into some nice Pineapple tones again, which she was displaying in the last weeks of her life in the soil.
At the end of the harvest day, I went back out to the plot to tidy up. I chopped the main stem down to the ground and then got in there and tidies up the professor chaos understory the was Ive even wanting to - I just couldn’t mange getting n there before. This is much better...
I also rearranged her branches a bit to give everything more space. I’m happy about that.
We have this lovely phenomena here that during the afternoon there’s a lot of intermittent shade from the forest canopy - then, very late in the afternoon the sun gets below that canopy again and the rays come burstin through the lower branches of the huge eucalypts and hit the garden again
The light moved quickly at this time, hitting one cola at a time in the space of about 10 minutes
Also cinched up the little bonsai GTxNL that had been leaning forward in the presence of the CBDCC
ANf finally - just to make it so that no-one gets left out... I knew that after a day like that I wouldn’t be getting up for a few days and the Pod hasn’t had a feed for while so I steeled myself to do that before getting out of the garden in gear. I suspect a bit of rot developing on that back cola but I wasn’t up to getting in there to cut it out ...
This is the same cola from the side
It’s now been raining on & off for about 48 hours! Nothing for it but to sit and wait till the rain stops and then go out and deal what it. This plant will mostly be used to make oil for pain cream (and the odd friend who likes indica) so I’m not too fussed. It was always at risk - doesn’t get the sun teh others do and this time of year can do humid and cold for a while so the chances of rot are fairly high. Cest la vie!
Well folks, that’s my first harvest in this version of my career as a cultivator - an era marked by making my own soil and growingin league with you, my fabulous 420 family. I’m pretty stoked. ANd looking forward to the next one. I’m going to be happy to let the professor go to full ripeness (man I hope the weather holds out!), she is looking better every day
I can’t help it - I have to post that first pic again because I love it so much... call it a bookend
Take your time getting the strength levels back up. Pictures can come later. 
Perfect!