Hi,
Just finished drying and curing for about 1-2 week now. I'm a bit worried and hope someone can give me their honest opinion no matter how bad it is.
But first let me give you some background on the mistakes I think I made during this first grow so you can better identify the problem, and if it turns out that this batch of medicine is gone, at least others could learn from it as well.
1. I went to late in to flowering and kept my seedlings in the germination trays to long. Humidity and temp was ok, but I gave them to little light and some of the seedlings grew really tall in this period - I assume trying to reach the light. Gave me some root and stem stability issues later on in the flowering.
2. These first 2-3 weeks of flowering I didn't have any fans running during dark period in my grow tent (night time). I dont know why I did that, but I thought that everything should be off during sleeping hours.
3. I didnt use oscillating fans, but I had i fairly powerful intake (engine) from my window hitting the tent wall (with fresh air) and then a small fan pointing up in the ceiling and not pointed directly on the plants. I thought this was enough to create airflow. Exhaust engine was working great, so no problem there.
4. I may have lacked nutrients, though I was running everything organic (in coco) I only used BioThrive for grow and bloom, but will throw in some root and bud plus next time.
5. I only used collected and filtered rain water (mixed with nutes) and always had a ph around 6, which i'm sure was good, so will do that next time as well. Only used PH down occasionally. As far as temperature and humidity I was pretty spot during the whole grow (except from the drying period which may be the whole cause to my problem - coming up below and thank you for reading this far)
6. Flowering period went pretty well I think, and following my schedule I was checking trichomes every day in the last stage, awaiting THC peak with slightly amber for CBD, but I know for sure now that I harvested to late, which also led me to flush to early, leaving pretty much all my plants (20) sucking up plain water for 3-4 weeks before I finally made my 'cuts' though trichomes hadn't reached to the level I wanted yet, I had to chop them because pretty much everything was turning yellow. Waterleaves, bud leaves, stems etc.
Though I know I made many mistakes during this grow, smell and looks was really nice up until then. After that I didn't really enjoy sticking my head into the tent - something was definitely not right, and started to get tint smell of a garbage bin. I suspect that the rot had already begun, maybe I was to late to identify it.
But I did what I could at this point. Harvested it quickly, and put it on mesh drying rack (didnt hang the plants first - will do that next time for sure) to avoid further mold or rot development, hoping to dry a little faster before curing.
Ok - to be honest - at this point it was not all that bad, smell was good after harvest, and buds looked pretty good on the outside, I still had hopes for some potent medicine though I knew it wouldn't be perfect.
So moving on to mistake number 7, though I will for sure be drying in my tent again. But the humidity and air circulation was f* up. I tried to fix it, but I live in a very humid area, and of course the exact day I started drying, It was raining non-stop for 4 days. With some dehumidifying tools I managed to keep room humidity around 60%. Finished drying after 10 days, jared up my buds started the curing, and have been curing for almost 2 weeks now, burping them a few times per day.
But I think I have bud rot! Broke most of them apart yesterday, and checked them, because the smell from jars when burping was not what I expected. Still smells a little ammoniac and decomposing, but I don't think I can dry them further as the outsides was almost crumpling when starting the curing.
Anyone, help and comments are greatly appreciated, but honest opinions and experiences only please, as I made this grow for a family member with terminal cancer, and I was suppose to make it into Rick Simpson Oil. A friend of mine (grower) told me that it was not that bad, and that he had seen a lot worse than this, but i don't want to use it if it's bad.
Thank you
Just finished drying and curing for about 1-2 week now. I'm a bit worried and hope someone can give me their honest opinion no matter how bad it is.
But first let me give you some background on the mistakes I think I made during this first grow so you can better identify the problem, and if it turns out that this batch of medicine is gone, at least others could learn from it as well.
1. I went to late in to flowering and kept my seedlings in the germination trays to long. Humidity and temp was ok, but I gave them to little light and some of the seedlings grew really tall in this period - I assume trying to reach the light. Gave me some root and stem stability issues later on in the flowering.
2. These first 2-3 weeks of flowering I didn't have any fans running during dark period in my grow tent (night time). I dont know why I did that, but I thought that everything should be off during sleeping hours.
3. I didnt use oscillating fans, but I had i fairly powerful intake (engine) from my window hitting the tent wall (with fresh air) and then a small fan pointing up in the ceiling and not pointed directly on the plants. I thought this was enough to create airflow. Exhaust engine was working great, so no problem there.
4. I may have lacked nutrients, though I was running everything organic (in coco) I only used BioThrive for grow and bloom, but will throw in some root and bud plus next time.
5. I only used collected and filtered rain water (mixed with nutes) and always had a ph around 6, which i'm sure was good, so will do that next time as well. Only used PH down occasionally. As far as temperature and humidity I was pretty spot during the whole grow (except from the drying period which may be the whole cause to my problem - coming up below and thank you for reading this far)
6. Flowering period went pretty well I think, and following my schedule I was checking trichomes every day in the last stage, awaiting THC peak with slightly amber for CBD, but I know for sure now that I harvested to late, which also led me to flush to early, leaving pretty much all my plants (20) sucking up plain water for 3-4 weeks before I finally made my 'cuts' though trichomes hadn't reached to the level I wanted yet, I had to chop them because pretty much everything was turning yellow. Waterleaves, bud leaves, stems etc.
Though I know I made many mistakes during this grow, smell and looks was really nice up until then. After that I didn't really enjoy sticking my head into the tent - something was definitely not right, and started to get tint smell of a garbage bin. I suspect that the rot had already begun, maybe I was to late to identify it.
But I did what I could at this point. Harvested it quickly, and put it on mesh drying rack (didnt hang the plants first - will do that next time for sure) to avoid further mold or rot development, hoping to dry a little faster before curing.
Ok - to be honest - at this point it was not all that bad, smell was good after harvest, and buds looked pretty good on the outside, I still had hopes for some potent medicine though I knew it wouldn't be perfect.
So moving on to mistake number 7, though I will for sure be drying in my tent again. But the humidity and air circulation was f* up. I tried to fix it, but I live in a very humid area, and of course the exact day I started drying, It was raining non-stop for 4 days. With some dehumidifying tools I managed to keep room humidity around 60%. Finished drying after 10 days, jared up my buds started the curing, and have been curing for almost 2 weeks now, burping them a few times per day.
But I think I have bud rot! Broke most of them apart yesterday, and checked them, because the smell from jars when burping was not what I expected. Still smells a little ammoniac and decomposing, but I don't think I can dry them further as the outsides was almost crumpling when starting the curing.
Anyone, help and comments are greatly appreciated, but honest opinions and experiences only please, as I made this grow for a family member with terminal cancer, and I was suppose to make it into Rick Simpson Oil. A friend of mine (grower) told me that it was not that bad, and that he had seen a lot worse than this, but i don't want to use it if it's bad.
Thank you
