Thanks MS!
Its been tough trying to get through all this harvesting with everything that has happened recently. What would normally be a very happy time for us as we harvest all of our various crops, has felt more like a wake without our little buddy to "help" us bring in all the tomatoes, peppers and Cannabis bud.
Our tomato harvest was spectacular this year! We ended up with 65 pounds of ACE, about 30 pounds of Early Girl Cherries, and 20 pounds of Heirloom. There are still a lot of green ones on all the vines, so in addition to a lot of fried green tomatos for the next few weeks, we are going to try our hand at pickling them! Never done that before with green tomatoes, so it should prove interesting! The Jalapeno harvest is still ongoing, but so far I have logged just under 20 pounds of peppers.
In terms of weather... So far so good! It only got down to 49.7 F this morning and the dewpoint and humidity levels were much drier than a few days ago. This warm weather should go a long way to helping everything along and minimizing the chances for bud rot and PM.
I just got done trimming up all the buds from GDP #3 this morning and putting it all into jars to cure. I ended up tossing the bulk of the lower branch buds cause they were pretty light and airy which I don't personally care for. What was left filled 4 quart jars to the top, so it still looks like it will be close to 6 ounces of just the rock hard dense stuff.
My hands were black by the time I got done from all the resin, and I ended up using two pairs of trimmers so that I could be soaking one in alcohol while I was using the other. They would start getting gunked up pretty fast. This stuff is so sticky! Its like trying to trim honey coated Broccoli!
I'm still having a tough time dealing with the loss of Kimba, so I don't have the energy to try and utilize all aspects of the harvest like I have in the past. Its just easier right now to focus on the choice stuff and compost the rest.
Sure wish I had an outlet to
donate those trimmings to someone for hash making or something though. I probably tossed well over an ounce of the sticky resin coated trimmings just now. I don't care for edibles, so Cannabutter is not something I am ever interested in unfortunately.
As far as the quality of the 5-star bud in the jars... I can already tell that GDP #3's buds are going to be the Creme Del La Creme of my GDP harvest this year! Between the three original plants I ended up with just under a pound of dried bud total.
Man! If I could only sell that stuff, I would be rolling in the green!
The collective down the mountain is asking $550.00 an ounce for their GDP, and mine is 10 times better quality than the tiny little nugs they offer from the same clone source. They grow their's indoors only though, so that really shows what a difference outdoor growing makes!
please.. 
