Quote Originally Posted by MOBEONER
The smaller plant was planted later in the summer maybe that's why it never grew much but unlike the big plant this little guy is fuzzy and it stinks like pure bud. I have been watching you tube video on harvesting and it seems like a long process with the curing and all. Is all that necessary?
Any one got tips on harvesting ?
Growing cannabis is a practice in patience. Your little plant never grew much before flowering because cannabis is a "Photo period sensitive" plant meaning, that it flowers when the light cycle lowers to a certain level. Your day/ night cycle hit a point that induced flowering before it grew big.


There's lots of threads here on harvesting and when to do it, I'm in the thralls of a harvest myself.

Part of harvest timing depends on your strain, the rest depends on personal preference. You should use the trichomes as your gauge for judging harvest time tho (they are the microscopic hairs that are both on your flowers and leaves)

As for the curing, Yes it is necessary if you desire smooth good tasting smoke that burns longer and will stay light without having to have fire right on top of it. But it not needed if you don't mind choking your ass off with every hit and only getting 2 hits per bowl. Again,... it comes to personal preference.

Also, proper flushing and trimming effect the finished product, again, there are threads on this site that cover these things if you do some legwork.


Pic 1: Harvest from just a single plant, the side cutters are there for size comparison, and I needed them to take the branches off of the main stem! Note the yellow fan leaves in the pile? I've been flushing this plant for 2 weeks knowing that harvest was near. My Cell phone cant catch it, but the flower calyx's are actually a deep royal purple covered in trichome's that look almost like a misting of honey! imp: Strain is Grandaddy Purple, and this pheno isn't a high yield, but the smoke is impressive, so I'm pretty happy with this harvest.
Pic 2: Just the top trimmed up and ready to start drying,
Pic 3: Trichome info
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