Ive also noticed when the plant is harvested to early even a couple weeks the flavors are just not there no matter what you do . i dry in 5 to 7 days and even without a cure its still very tasty. Than a few weeks later it just becomes delicious
I agree with previous posters do a slurry test run off ph testing in soil is a fools errand everything breaks down at different times. I never test runoff ph and my plants always make it to harvest lol
I would wait on all of them trichomes are only part of what to look for. I feel most people harvest early because there only looking at trichomes i always wait till the pistils are oranged off snd the calyxes have swelled around them. The whole harvest early for sativa like high or later for...
Everytime tge power goes out i just hang a few flashlights in so they get a little light have never had a hermie from a power outage. A little extra darkness wont hurt anything its lights on during dark period in flower thats goimg to herm ur crop