Selective harvest only the top half

[ajpapenfuss]

Has anyone done a harvest where u only take top half and let the rest go for a little longer

 

[Gmix]

many have I’m sure I tried it once

 

[Oldchucky]

Has anyone done a harvest where u only take top half and let the rest go for a little longer

A lot more common outdoors! I seldom take the entire plant at once!

 

[Galgrows]

Yep i do it indoor and outdoor

 

[ajpapenfuss]

Perfect thank you it just looks like the flower on the bottom could use a little more time

 

[Jimmie]

Outdoors , always. This year I kept most for myself, was,is excellent!

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

Has anyone done a harvest where u only take top half and let the rest go for a little longer

Every grower, pretty much since forever it's fine to do but after a few you'll learn to wait and chop the whole plant and hang it up to dry. Once you've been growing a while you'll have plenty to smoke while waiting for the next plants. Any small branches I have to remove from the bottoms I will sometimes hang on the shaded patio and try in a few days but it's always disappointing. Keep at it and you'll see

 

[mancorn]

Think Lady Gaga said it best

'Cause you're giving me a million reasons
Give me a million reasons
Giving me a million reasons
About a million reasons

Shit I have a small grow and even if I could cut it all at once, hang it on the tobacco sticks in the barn, I still wouldn’t have the manpower to keep the charcoal fires going all night. And don’t get me started on opening and closing the vents every day to keep the humidity in check. Then you put up with Phish music all day from the Rainbow Family trimmers. Try playing just one Sabrina Carpenter song and it’s bedlam. No thank you!! I know the dry trim is smoother (or so they say), but I rather just buy weed than dry trim. Plus I really do need to inspect every bud for worms and rot, or it’s all going to be a mush pile by day 3.

So yeah a million reasons you might want to harvest over time. No problem.

 

[GhostRR]

I wanted to do this but was thinking it would dry much faster as individual branches or parts rather than the preferred slow dry of having a whole plant chopped that was watered recently...

I am about to harvest a plant but there are a few nuggets that have a lot more white hairs than i like but 90% of it is good to go.

Besides, that one particular branch with white hairs still was damaged from supercropping so it probably affected the growth speed. There was a tiny split in the stem... lesson learned

 

[mancorn]

wanted to do this but was thinking it would dry much faster as individual branches or parts rather than the preferred slow dry of having a whole plant chopped

Depends on the size of individual branch, your humidity & temps. If you can keep the humidity and temps low (50/60) then your colas should still take ~10 days. And you can also bring them into a tote or breathable container to keep stuff packed together.

I’m normally around this size, but do even smaller. (I have humidity in the 90s at night and in Oct/Nov rot and worms are an issue. So I don’t keep show buds as inevitably there’ll be some rot that I don’t want to find weeks later.)

 

[ajpapenfuss]

Well I went and did it Chopped some of the bigger top half buds on 1 fruit by the foot and 1 full plant

 

[ajpapenfuss]

That's the after with the rope to hold them up

 

[ajpapenfuss]

Has anybody ever dried their Bud like this

 

[PlumberSoCal2]

These are still hanging from last year's harvest

All seeded and obviously I haven't made time to deal with them. Most were 6+ feet tall. I took care of all the unseeded and enjoying the smoke but I'm married and have a Honey Do list to deal with before I can do what I want so something like this that will take me a full day or more to deal with is not something I've been able to get to. Soon (I keep telling myself) as I want to grow some of these crosses (Granddaddy Purple x Blueberry Hash Plant) and give away some of the seeds. I gotta get to it!

 

[ajpapenfuss]

In the brown bag

 

[Oldchucky]

In the brown bag

I think it shows a lot of ingenuity! It might be helpful under certain circumstances!

 

[LoveGrowingIt]

Has anyone done a harvest where u only take top half and let the rest go for a little longer

I do it sometimes. It seems to go well. I try not to prune off so much that it shocks the plant.

My approach to solving the uneven ripening problem, however, has been to find ways to help the plant ripen evenly. Certainly, I believe, it evolved to grow as many seeds as possible, and buds exist to create seeds, so the plant's best survival strategy would be to grow as many seeds as it can.