Harvest time? Help please

Yardie-boy

Yardie-boy

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hello. A question about harvest time. It was week 9 yesterday on my Mephisto Sour Crack ladies. They are lovely and frosty and smell great. The trichomes were mostly all cloudy but literally only one or two I’ve spotted are amber.
I got a bit eager and though as they should be ready in a day or two, I would trim off all of the fan leaves and larger leaves in preparation to hanging them upside down.
Will this make any difference to them over the next couple of days? Will they be likely to dry out or die? I’ve given them a good watering so they don’t dry out over the next couple of days and turned the lights down to 400w to keep temps around 25.
Cheers all
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Budzbuddha

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If a large amount of triches are READY - cloudy then commence to chopping.

Forget looking for Amber ... It's like cooking and looking for burnt pieces.
If the cloudiness is there you are golden. There is no need to wait for a percentage of Amber ( degrade ) unless you want more couch lock. Some strains don't even Amber or show as much as others.

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Budzbuddha

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You can also do a PRE-TRIM on her .... Cut the sugar leaves and keeper parts of leaves ( triches ) and let her go dry in pot til harvest , then cut her down before lights on.

I usually do this at end game of harvest ... I let her go dry in pot ( in a space by itself ) , till I get to cutting her at stalk. I do not do the " days in the dark " nonsense before cut , it just ALLOWS me to harvest her on MY TIME .... Meaning I can go to work , come home , pull her out of separate space and harvest .... Instead of waking up early and harvesting conventionally.

She is pre-trimmed and drying out in pot .... Then I hang her as usual .
 
chemphlegm

chemphlegm

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removing leaves in preparation for a future harvest wont help anything, likely wont hurt either.
I prefer 100% of the photosynthesis my plant can produce right to the end as nature intended.

harvest now
 
chemphlegm

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I've let my plant dry in the pot before too just to see, I thought the process of leaving dying roots in soil connected to my buds was not a good thing, even thought I tasted some off flavors but that might be because the container wasnt drying in my controlled drying space.
 
Budzbuddha

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i only meant WITHIN a day or two of actual harvest , one can cut on their own time and not have to stay with normal " before " lights on routine.

I personally never had any taste shifts when a plant ACTUALLY goes completely dry in soil ... It just doesn't really pull anything more from it. Some have done this to kick start drying while still rooted. Sometimes I have 2-3 plants to harvest and just don't want to sit there all day trimming , so if they are nice and safe in pot , no fuss. Everybody does it different , I just like it when I'm ready , not because it's gotta be right now.

Thousand ways to skin a cat ... Mephisto is ALWAYS A WINNER .
Got a Few to pop myself ... Yours looks very tasty .

Auto papaya done a few months back. Drying in pot 3 days , then chopped.

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Green crack cut after 4 days in pot - hung for 3 , then finished trimming for jars.
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Yardie-boy

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Budzbuddha said:
i only meant WITHIN a day or two of actual harvest , one can cut on their own time and not have to stay with normal " before " lights on routine.

I personally never had any taste shifts when a plant ACTUALLY goes completely dry in soil ... It just doesn't really pull anything more from it. Some have done this to kick start drying while still rooted. Sometimes I have 2-3 plants to harvest and just don't want to sit there all day trimming , so if they are nice and safe in pot , no fuss. Everybody does it different , I just like it when I'm ready , not because it's gotta be right now.

Thousand ways to skin a cat ... Mephisto is ALWAYS A WINNER .
Got a Few to pop myself ... Yours looks very tasty .

Auto papaya done a few months back. Drying in pot 3 days , then chopped.

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Green crack cut after 4 days in pot - hung for 3 , then finished trimming for jars.
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Cheers, makes a lot of sense to keep in pots until ready. I agree, Mephisto are impressive, especially when it comes to smell and taste. Got a load of Mephisto Toof Decay beans arriving tomorrow so they should be in by next weekend
 
Budzbuddha

Budzbuddha

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Il Ike the way she looks , if you post a journal on your next one , I will sub it .
@chemphlegm is one of the good guys here on RIU too , I follow his posts and he has fantastic info on growing.

Remember it's your grow and you made this far with some fire looking bud , time get her nice and cured for the win.

Good luck on all your grows ...

Peace.
 
Yardie-boy

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Budzbuddha said:
What's the strain like in smell , she is hella frosty ?
Thinking about bean shopping.
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Thank you for the kindness comments.
She smells great, the most citrus lemon smell I’ve ever smelled, with a lovey light colour to the buds and covered in crystals.
She looks almost white under the camera flash
 
chemphlegm

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Yardie-boy said:
Cheers, makes a lot of sense to keep in pots until ready. I agree, Mephisto are impressive, especially when it comes to smell and taste. Got a load of Mephisto Toof Decay beans arriving tomorrow so they should be in by next weekend
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whoa, wait a minute...Toof Decay ?
from the U.S. ?
have you ever sampled the Toof Decay? do tell?
 
dtl420

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Budzbuddha said:
You can also do a PRE-TRIM on her .... Cut the sugar leaves and keeper parts of leaves ( triches ) and let her go dry in pot til harvest , then cut her down before lights on.

I usually do this at end game of harvest ... I let her go dry in pot ( in a space by itself ) , till I get to cutting her at stalk. I do not do the " days in the dark " nonsense before cut , it just ALLOWS me to harvest her on MY TIME .... Meaning I can go to work , come home , pull her out of separate space and harvest .... Instead of waking up early and harvesting conventionally.

She is pre-trimmed and drying out in pot .... Then I hang her as usual .
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I actually just did that for the first time on an outdoor sour d. It was way easier manicuring with the buds still on the plant. Loaded a bowl, grabbed a lawn chair, and went straight Edward scissorhands on her.
 
dtl420

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chemphlegm said:
I've let my plant dry in the pot before too just to see, I thought the process of leaving dying roots in soil connected to my buds was not a good thing, even thought I tasted some off flavors but that might be because the container wasnt drying in my controlled drying space.
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I imagine you'll have some degradation in flavor but the bud would likely be a little smoother. Tobacco growers harvest the leaves once they've turned yellow, or reddish brown depending on the strain of tobacco. I've heard old-timers talk about picking green tobacco leafs from the field and getting sick from smoking them.

One of these days I'm going to get around to actually curing some bud, African style in corn husks under ground.
 
chemphlegm

chemphlegm

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dtl420 said:
I imagine you'll have some degradation in flavor but the bud would likely be a little smoother. Tobacco growers harvest the leaves once they've turned yellow, or reddish brown depending on the strain of tobacco. I've heard old-timers talk about picking green tobacco leafs from the field and getting sick from smoking them.

One of these days I'm going to get around to actually curing some bud, African style in corn husks under ground.
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funny, I wait till my buds are turning those colors too before I harvest
and feel sick if i smoke green ones too.
Tobacco-this is why we good growers decrease fertilizers towards the end of finishing tobacco, and see some colored leaves, while commercial growers will feed heavy to the end for lush heavy green harvests...for the cash weight.
thing is...those pretty bright green over fed leaves are useless until fermented like crazy, just to remove those overfed nutrients in the bacterial breakdown....then they smoke and hack it.
key is....dont worry of commercial profits, allow plants to grow as intended, dry slowly, and enjoy a few weeks of the dirt.

shit works awesome growing tomatoes, basil, cannabis, apples, pears, peaches, tobacco, grapes, berries, peppers, saffron, and every fruit/veggie on the farm here that ripens to a perfect finish and taste.

If I overfeed my basil leaves are heavier but you cannot happily consume the leaves until well dried(fermented), but normal feeding produces the same herb leaves delicious the day of harvest....go figure mates/

whenever I dry somewhere other than my controlled dry space my weed is funky. the grow room is the worst place to dry, next to the crawl space I hear.
 
dtl420

dtl420

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chemphlegm said:
funny, I wait till my buds are turning those colors too before I harvest
and feel sick if i smoke green ones too.
Tobacco-this is why we good growers decrease fertilizers towards the end of finishing tobacco, and see some colored leaves, while commercial growers will feed heavy to the end for lush heavy green harvests...for the cash weight.
thing is...those pretty bright green over fed leaves are useless until fermented like crazy, just to remove those overfed nutrients in the bacterial breakdown....then they smoke and hack it.
key is....dont worry of commercial profits, allow plants to grow as intended, dry slowly, and enjoy a few weeks of the dirt.

shit works awesome growing tomatoes, basil, cannabis, apples, pears, peaches, tobacco, grapes, berries, peppers, saffron, and every fruit/veggie on the farm here that ripens to a perfect finish and taste.

If I overfeed my basil leaves are heavier but you cannot happily consume the leaves until well dried(fermented), but normal feeding produces the same herb leaves delicious the day of harvest....go figure mates/

whenever I dry somewhere other than my controlled dry space my weed is funky. the grow room is the worst place to dry, next to the crawl space I hear.
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We definitely owe the mystique that surrounds cannabis to prohibition. It's like the modern practice of growing indoor weed is a hybrid of indoor vegetable and tobacco techniques. Thankfully, cannabis becoming more globally excepted, as we come out of prohibition we're learning a lot about the plant and how to properly grow it as cannabis rather than just winging it by trial and error.

The times, they are a changing.

Unfortunately cannabis, like every other plant cultivated indoors commercially, will be subject to the same neglect in the name of profit. The same way that greenhouse tomato growers harvest the fruit green and let it ripen in shipping. That's why you'll never find a store bought tomato that tastes better than one from my garden. Also why I always tell my buddies that I'd rather smoke the stuff I grow than some Colorado dispensary bud any day.
 
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