Harvested some plants last week, two plants I had moved into a closet to finish the last two weeks just to see what difference there might be.
I followed some instructions for flavoring the bud using lemon extract, while this worked great and I could absolutely smell a difference the two plants I had in the closet were too dense and the watering right before picking didn't help.
Damage was minimal but force drying it ruined it's smell/taste factor as well as raised my stress level.
I checked on my plants around 9 p/m the night after harvesting them, decided I should put a fan in the room and noticed a brown spot on one cola bud, my initial reaction was that there were worms because the brown spot looked very similiar to a worm hole I've found in prior harvests. While digging for the worm I saw the first stages of mold inside the bud. Needless to say panic set in, I immediately went through all the other plants in detail, I didn't find any more mold but two other plants were very wet still and I couldn't wait to find out what would happen to them so I dried them out as well.
I was up until like 2 a/m with branches spread out all over the house. I turned on the oven to 170 and started putting the non moldy buds in there for a few minutes at a time. Took the plants that had minor mold, cut the branches down, put them in pillow covers and put them in the dryer for a half hour then put them in the microwave for 30 seconds but only for 5 second bursts, them moved the buds back to the garage, put the dryer exhaust over a container of branches and let them dry for another hour.
Satisfied I had killed the mold I put everything in one room, turned on a 150 W CFL light, put another two 40W fl shop lights under the hanging plants and turnd on two fans. and turned on my ionizer. The next morning I trimmed up all the buds and put them in cardboard shoe boxes to finish drying all the way.
Fortunately I didn't lose anything but about a pound of bud doesn't look or smell as pretty as it should have but it does smoke up just fine.
