Atulip
I hear you on buying cheap and extra!!
I actually started off with some cheap-o stones, but was unhappy with them. Hence I tried the 4" disks. These new stones I ordered (mentioned earlier) aren't that pricey really -- 6 of them for 30$ and again they have a 2 yr warranty + are USA made.
Camo
Hey man, good to hear from you!
Drying is coming along; see update below
Yeah I hear you on drying process; it's def a step you don't want to mess up (badly) on after all the months of work
It's extra fun here in CO since the RH is always so low.
Update
Yesterday I took the colas down from their drying, trimmed the buds up and got them into containers for a few days of sweating. I did weigh after trimming and the result was 10.85oz + a bunch of nice trim (didn't weight it, but probably ~2 oz). Obviously a good bit of that is still water weight so I'll do another weigh-in after I sweat them... Thinking around 5oz dry?
None of the buds are "huge", but none of them are larfy -- nice and chunky and sticky as all hell!
Now that the colas are not occupying my cab, I've got that torn apart and am working on my "upgrades" for my next grow. Thinking I can start it next week and I will start another journal once I get that grow booted. It'll be 2 strains from Nirvana, but still deciding which...
A few pics
I'll post an update once I finish sweating these buds with a final weight and smoke report.
Peace!