kryptoniteglo
Well-Known Member
Hey All,
Today would have marked 8 weeks of flowering for my two Jillybean plants. As of Wednesday my trichs were mostly cloudy, with some clear, but the amber hadn't started yet. 90% of pistils had changed color and were receding. My intention was to cut when they were 10% amber, which probably would have been this weekend or sometime this week.
Well, a note under my apartment door on Friday night saying my landlord needed to talk to me put me in "better safe than sorry" mode and I spent Friday night dismantling my illegal grow. Equipment down, cleaned, packed and stored. Plants cut and hung while I dealt with the equipment.
Not knowing what would happen next with my landlord (I'm in an old apartment, and the pipes have leaked a lot in the past so I was expecting him to come by) I decided I needed to cut the crop into pieces small enough to throw in a fedex box and seal up on 30-minutes notice if need be, but keep them big enough to slow the dry as much as possible. So while I had initially intended to do a 10-14 day hang dry, I went ahead and cut into 10" lengths and did a good trim on the buds.
They are now lying in my bathroom on drying racks so there is plenty of air circulation. I'm trying to strike a balance between drying the outsides enough to prevent mold but not so quickly that this ends up being a total fuck up in terms of the smoke. I figure if I can do this and get them at least a week like this before going into jars, it won't be too bad. Not as good as 1) making sure I had some amber and 2) hanging dry for 2 weeks -- but much better than getting evicted and possibly arrested!
My bathroom is about 55 F. Humidity in there right now is about 65%, all coming from the plants -- the humidity in the rest of the apartment is 30%. I do have a small humidifier standing by.
For now I'm going to leave them alone, just turning the big colas over a couple of times a day. My research on mold says the temperature won't make that much of a difference, though cooler is better for slowing mold growth. The humidity level does make a difference, and anything over 70% is major mold territory.
When the humidity drops naturally as the branches dry, I will use the humidifier to keep it at 55%. And then just wait. I'll test the pliability of the branches daily just to see how long it takes for them to get bendy without snapping. If I can actually prolong that for a week or 10 days, then to me that's pretty close to the effect of hanging dry.
Thoughts? Is this a decent plan considering what I have to work with?
And in the end, the reason my landlord wanted to talk to me is that he couldn't find my December rent check and needed me to cancel the first one and reissue. So no need to cut them down at all, but who knew? If only he had said so in his note!!! Still, I'm so happy I got these girls to the point where I did. One of them was about a week behind the other, and I would have kept her by herself another week. But again, better safe than sorry. I'll just label the jars really well and use the less mature plant for light-smoke situations and the more mature plant for when I want a more standard smoke.
KG
Today would have marked 8 weeks of flowering for my two Jillybean plants. As of Wednesday my trichs were mostly cloudy, with some clear, but the amber hadn't started yet. 90% of pistils had changed color and were receding. My intention was to cut when they were 10% amber, which probably would have been this weekend or sometime this week.
Well, a note under my apartment door on Friday night saying my landlord needed to talk to me put me in "better safe than sorry" mode and I spent Friday night dismantling my illegal grow. Equipment down, cleaned, packed and stored. Plants cut and hung while I dealt with the equipment.
Not knowing what would happen next with my landlord (I'm in an old apartment, and the pipes have leaked a lot in the past so I was expecting him to come by) I decided I needed to cut the crop into pieces small enough to throw in a fedex box and seal up on 30-minutes notice if need be, but keep them big enough to slow the dry as much as possible. So while I had initially intended to do a 10-14 day hang dry, I went ahead and cut into 10" lengths and did a good trim on the buds.
They are now lying in my bathroom on drying racks so there is plenty of air circulation. I'm trying to strike a balance between drying the outsides enough to prevent mold but not so quickly that this ends up being a total fuck up in terms of the smoke. I figure if I can do this and get them at least a week like this before going into jars, it won't be too bad. Not as good as 1) making sure I had some amber and 2) hanging dry for 2 weeks -- but much better than getting evicted and possibly arrested!
My bathroom is about 55 F. Humidity in there right now is about 65%, all coming from the plants -- the humidity in the rest of the apartment is 30%. I do have a small humidifier standing by.
For now I'm going to leave them alone, just turning the big colas over a couple of times a day. My research on mold says the temperature won't make that much of a difference, though cooler is better for slowing mold growth. The humidity level does make a difference, and anything over 70% is major mold territory.
When the humidity drops naturally as the branches dry, I will use the humidifier to keep it at 55%. And then just wait. I'll test the pliability of the branches daily just to see how long it takes for them to get bendy without snapping. If I can actually prolong that for a week or 10 days, then to me that's pretty close to the effect of hanging dry.
Thoughts? Is this a decent plan considering what I have to work with?
And in the end, the reason my landlord wanted to talk to me is that he couldn't find my December rent check and needed me to cancel the first one and reissue. So no need to cut them down at all, but who knew? If only he had said so in his note!!! Still, I'm so happy I got these girls to the point where I did. One of them was about a week behind the other, and I would have kept her by herself another week. But again, better safe than sorry. I'll just label the jars really well and use the less mature plant for light-smoke situations and the more mature plant for when I want a more standard smoke.
KG
