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Appreciate it irie, finally getting a cannabis smell too it rather than the plant/vegetative smell. Sweet and spicy with a lemon/ pine bud smell
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Appreciate it irie, finally getting a cannabis smell too it rather than the plant/vegetative smell. Sweet and spicy with a lemon/ pine bud smell
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Beautiful colors coming through there, what’s your evening temps like?
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Thanks! And we've had crazy weather here lately, some times lows of 68 and sometimes the lows are 78
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Fan leaves yellowing and falling off now
Here's some more of the purple coming through
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Hey Barillaro what medium and pot size are they in? They should be fine for 2 days if you give them a heavy watering
get a plastic pop bottle turn it up side down , it will soak slowly to water when your gone , or you can do a wick system
some examples for you
also if you can add bowls under the plants to catch run off , if they dry it will suck that up also , wont do any harm once or twice
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I've got them in a 5 gallon fabric pot with Coco/perlite. Seems heavy on the perlite as it doesn't hold a lot of water
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Would leaving it in the drip tray be fine? The one that collects run off
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yes a small hole or two just want a nice drip to keep the soil damp . your soil might have been a tad dry this is why it went so quick , try stuffing as sponge inside were the neck is , i would think that would slow it down a bit
No need to break out the loupe yet. I'd say you have a good week or two looking at the pistils alone.
In terms of dry, I chop, wash, wet trim, and dry in a cardboard box with holes cut top and bottom for ventilation. Your method will depend entirely on the RH in the area you are hanging your harvest.
In terms of dry, I chop, wash, wet trim, and dry in a cardboard box with holes cut top and bottom for ventilation. Your method will depend entirely on the RH in the area you are hanging your harvest.
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What do you mean by wash? Just run water over them? And I'll likely be drying in the tent as well. I think the rh in my garage sits at about 50%, would this be sufficient?
Bud washing is a thing! After chopping you swish them around (don't bump the sides or bottom) in a bucket (or three) of water mixed with H2O2 or lemon juice and baking soda, and then one bucket for rinsing, and hung in front of a fan to drip dry. Then you can wet trim and hang, or hang and dry trim just before you jar.
50% RH is fine. You need a small amount of airflow (not on the plants themselves, but through the tent), but not the speed of circulation you do when they're growing. Just enough to remove some of the moisture from the air in the tent as they dry.
Ideally you want to have more airflow early on to get the buds out of the mold-zone and then slow the dry down to allow the chlorophyll to dissipate over time. The less chlorophyll when you jar for the burping period the better. I try to get the hanging part to at least 4 days, but a week is better. It's not easy but I play with fan speed and the like.
When the stems will bend with a snapping feel but not break, that's usually the time to cut the buds off the stems and jar them, with a hygrometer in each jar. You can get them pretty cheaply now and they will save your harvest time and time again. If the jars read about 70% or lower overnight, you start the burping process. If they're higher than 70%, you put the buds back out again (I just put them in a cardboard paperbox lid) for another day to continue drying.
Once it's burping time, you want to go with twice a day for about 10 minutes each time for a week, and then once a day for another week. Hopefully at that point you will have the jars down to 62% RH and you can seal them for the curing stage, which I consider at least another 3-4 weeks.
Keep in mind that how long you burp for will be dictated by the RH in the burping environment, so there's no hard and fast rule about how long to keep the jars open. If your RH was 20% there would be no way to leave them open for long without them getting over-dry, so keep that in mind as you burp.
50% RH is fine. You need a small amount of airflow (not on the plants themselves, but through the tent), but not the speed of circulation you do when they're growing. Just enough to remove some of the moisture from the air in the tent as they dry.
Ideally you want to have more airflow early on to get the buds out of the mold-zone and then slow the dry down to allow the chlorophyll to dissipate over time. The less chlorophyll when you jar for the burping period the better. I try to get the hanging part to at least 4 days, but a week is better. It's not easy but I play with fan speed and the like.
When the stems will bend with a snapping feel but not break, that's usually the time to cut the buds off the stems and jar them, with a hygrometer in each jar. You can get them pretty cheaply now and they will save your harvest time and time again. If the jars read about 70% or lower overnight, you start the burping process. If they're higher than 70%, you put the buds back out again (I just put them in a cardboard paperbox lid) for another day to continue drying.
Once it's burping time, you want to go with twice a day for about 10 minutes each time for a week, and then once a day for another week. Hopefully at that point you will have the jars down to 62% RH and you can seal them for the curing stage, which I consider at least another 3-4 weeks.
Keep in mind that how long you burp for will be dictated by the RH in the burping environment, so there's no hard and fast rule about how long to keep the jars open. If your RH was 20% there would be no way to leave them open for long without them getting over-dry, so keep that in mind as you burp.
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Getting bigger is all they do from here on!
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