Harvest Time: A Tutorial

im a little confused. this is my first time and my plants real close to ready. i have a 50-100x magnifier to measure it but i have encountered something in which i dont know what to do. i took a leaf from the top and the trichomes up there are almost half amber and half clear. but when i tried a leaf that was one of the middle nugs there were only a couple amber trichromes and most of the others were cloudy. i took one from the nug on the most bottom part and their was no amber but plenty of cloudy trichs. should i wait till its half amber through and through? or is it gonn be different to a degree from top to bottom. its a straight indica

as well for curing it i was gonna string it up in a dark ventilated place, but somewhere i heard that leaving it in the dark for two days before you harvest will increase the yield, is that true?

that is normal buds getting more light are ready first the lower ones take longer so harvest the buds that are ready and harvest the smaller ones later on no big deal. besides when you harvest the ripe ones the lower ones receive more light speeding the process.

Ok i doing this right now i been checking my bud for the last few weeks i going to put up a pic tomorrow and was wounding if you would help me to do it right

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MY SHIT LOOK KIND OF LIKE IS WHAT DOES IT LOOK LIKE I DID WRONG DID I HANG DRY TO LONG

that doesn't look bad.

thanks i learned!

Wow.. OK.. I made it to page 51 and then skipped here. Great tutorial and a entertaining thread..expect for the few times poeple highjack your thread for a minute. That orange guy just kept comming back lol Thanks for taking the time 2 years ago to put this together.

+ REP

i tried your method of hanging until bud is crispy on the outside and put it in a a little tuperwear container and left it over night and wen i opened it in the morning the bud was wet and mold was forming on it already so is tuperwear a bad idea or didnt i put it in there to quick cause the stem even snapped so i thought it was dry

u may of had a pre existing mold problem...

i dont think so i check it before hand but the bud was wet as hell that morning

yeah thats a good thing.. then u rehang dry and repeat

i did that yesterday and i just put it back in the container for the night, also the bud smelled good on the plant but since i dried it the smell is gone smells like some grass now , so dissapointing and a waste of time if the smell doesnt come back

research curing...all your questions and concerns will b answered

i have and most people say use a orange peel when curing but is that after the buds have the moisture out of them or during because you would think theres moisture in the peel so it would affect the bud moisture so idk

after the bud gets too dry u can throw some stems orange peels or bread back in just to give em a lil moisture back

well ima see what they look like in the morning hopefully there are not wet again

did u re hang dry for a day or two after last tupperware session?

yes and i opened it this morning and its not wet so thats good but still no real smell, smells more like some reg

what are you guys doing to my thread?