I figured I would just give a final update on things. Plants were chopped at 104 days. GSC dropped most people of its nitrogen before chip, as you can tell by the yellowing of the leaves. I had mostly cloudy trichomes with a few amber and a few clear. Since I was only using the one grow tent for grow and then to dry, I chopped the Blue Monster probably a little early. I had about 60-70% cloudy trichomes but the plant was still a very lush green and did not drop off its nitrogen much.
I manicured were, hang dried for three days before I trimmed some buds off the stems to test RH, then rack dried those buds for two days while the rest hung for the same amount of time. Then I manicured again dry and put in jars for the cure. I opened them several times a day for the first week as RH was still around 68-71 and slowly decreased frequency and duration of burping. At this point, they have been curing for 5 weeks and I’m only opening jars for 10 min or thereabouts every week unless I need a nug for myself lol. Potency and flavor has developed, smoke is super smooth.
Final impressions: great smell and smoothness of the GSC. Super potent, but the taste could be better. Nice floral flavor upfront, but could be more refined. BM never developed that citrusy aroma, it’s more of an earthy smell which I think is due to the early chop but still nice, smooth smoke. And also very potent.
Tots harvest was 4.7 oz, not accounting for some trim and popcorn buds I used for hash. Breakdown was about 2.2 BM and 2.5 GSC.
This was fun. Now on to the next grow!