Almost time to Harvest! Thoughts?

[Hossgrows]

I am all for sortition/aleatoric democracy

I'm estimating somewhere between 20-30 ounces this year, after eyeballing it.

Congrats on a great return.! I've yet to harvest mine. One is in order for harvest, later today. The other I'm going to push a little longer. She's almost there, but coming weather dictates how much longer she'll take. It changes all the time in NE Ohio, it's our toughest month for outdoor growers.

U had some really nice looking plants, by the way. Loved the swaying colas , I caged mine in anticipation of the storms/tornadoes we typically get here, and aftermath of hurricanes running up the east Coast.

Don't get too high, trying to smoke that all yasef, now. . Enjoy, brother...ya earned it.

 

[Hossgrows]

Congrats on a great return.! I've yet to harvest mine. One is in order for harvest, later today. The other I'm going to push a little longer. She's almost there, but coming weather dictates how much longer she'll take. It changes all the time in NE Ohio, it's our toughest month for outdoor growers.

U had some really nice looking plants, by the way. Loved the swaying colas , I caged mine in anticipation of the storms/tornadoes we typically get here, and aftermath of hurricanes running up the east Coast.

Don't get too high, trying to smoke that all yasef, now. . Enjoy, brother...ya earned it.

And keep it dark....as possible. Maybe that has to do with sunlight, just what I've always understood and done, same as curing and storage.

 

[backyard_brewster147]

It helps to have some air circulation in your drying area with a fan! I don’t know what you have set up there! Getting closer to the end! don’t want to screw it up now!

I got a fan, humidifier, and hygrometer in the dry/cure room, currently at 67F/54%RH (its hard to get RH high in CO). Also complete dark in there... just did a quick trim of any yellow leaves and I'm going to leave that room be for a couple days. Here's the remains of the big one!

 

[floweryaca]

Just chopped the 3 main stems of the big one... and the small one. I had to do it a bit earlier than expected, still pretty late at night. I think it happened right at the height of the (almost) full moon. Currently drying in a converted bathroom at 65F/50-60%RH. Still have a number of lower sections of the big one still maturing too

hellllllll yeahh!!!

 

[backyard_brewster147]

Stopped hang drying some today! RH is hard to get up here, I might have to add some boveda pack to the jars. So far about 6-8OZ harvested. I think i should get about 18-24OZ from the first 3 chops of the big one, and 3-4OZ from the small one. And that's not counting what is still in the ground

 

[backyard_brewster147]

Alright... initial harvest is done. By the sizes I've previously alloted i have about 19 ounces from the big one and 3 ounces from the small one (and still have some weighty branches growing). So far so good. RH in jars is right at about 55-60%. Any more advice is appreciated

Dry trimming total time has been about 14-16 hours so far. In addition to all the flower the trim amount was significant- i only kept bigger nugs (~22OZ). I'll make bubble hash another day though, i spent like 8 hours trimming today

 

[backyard_brewster147]

Alright... so I think I have to harvest the remainder fairly soon. I was gone for a couple days and when I came back a couple pieces of the buds were dying. That being said its developed a nice purple tinge on most of it. I'm going to estimate about 2-4 more ounces from what I have left.

I am not sure about trying to turn what I have left into live resin; i might have enough to experiment with though.

 

[Oldchucky]

Alright... so I think I have to harvest the remainder fairly soon. I was gone for a couple days and when I came back a couple pieces of the buds were dying. That being said its developed a nice purple tinge on most of it. I'm going to estimate about 2-4 more ounces from what I have left.

I am not sure about trying to turn what I have left into live resin; i might have enough to experiment with though.

That is mold! So keep your eyes peeled!

 

[MileHiGhost]

Alright... initial harvest is done. By the sizes I've previously alloted i have about 19 ounces from the big one and 3 ounces from the small one (and still have some weighty branches growing). So far so good. RH in jars is right at about 55-60%. Any more advice is appreciated

Dry trimming total time has been about 14-16 hours so far. In addition to all the flower the trim amount was significant- i only kept bigger nugs (~22OZ). I'll make bubble hash another day though, i spent like 8 hours trimming today

There be some hash making in them there hills!!!!

 

[backyard_brewster147]

There be some hash making in them there hills!!!!

Yep... in an effort to avoid any further budrot I took all the affected colas as well as hand picked all the crystallized material off the plant I could see- then promptly vacuum sealed it and tossed it in the freezer.

Tomorrow I'll get a bag of ice and do the deed, hopefully with a better yield then the trimming off my first harvest.

Still i think I'll get like 4 or more ounces from the unaffected buds.

 

[backyard_brewster147]

That is mold! So keep your eyes peeled!

As soon as I noticed that I dropped the idea of harvesting at dawn and just harvested as fast as I could lol.

 

[backyard_brewster147]

One thing I noticed during the curing/drying was that the small one that i chopped whole retained more RH than the huge one that i chopped in parts- after 48hrs in jars (after 5 full days of hang drying in 40-60% RH) the small one had about 70% RH whereas the big one had 50% RH.

I did add some boveda packs which brought the jars up to 60% over 3 days (for the big one). Packs are removed now. The small one i tossed in a paper bag to drop it down a bit, put back in the jar 12 hours later and its at 50% RH and climbing.

So far so good!