Harvest time?

[Token LaRoche]

This should be pretty cool & dry. Still running 3 full air exchanges / minute, but it's all in the dark now. Stir the bud once a day. It's shrunk a lot in 6 days already -- leaves are about dry, but the buds are still a little mushy & sticky. I am also surprised at how much LESS it smells. Just today, I thought of an idea to tag one bud so I can track its weight through the drying and curing. Wish I thought of that when I harvested.

My trivia question for the day: What is the weight ratio of "just cut" and "fully cured?" That is, how much weight do you expect to lose between harvest and ready-to-use? I didn't even think of getting a harvest-time weight. My bad.

[Shovelhandle]

For sincemilla about 25% of good bud. wet/dry

[Token LaRoche]

Cool. I don't think I'm hitting that, but will do a more controlled experiment next time.

[Shovelhandle]

maybe you didn't get what I was trying to say. for each ounce of wet harvested herb you'll get a quarter ounce of dry bud.

[Token LaRoche]

Nah, I understood. I'm guessing I lost more than 75% in the drying is all -- I should have weighed it right after harvesting.

Into the mason jars today. The bud weighed out at 4 and an eighth ounces for the two plants.

[Shovelhandle]

mine just when in the jars today. I didn't weigh anything yet. two of the smaller bags were overly dry so they have a fresh pot leave in the jar until tomorrow am. I'm off to work for a week first thing in the am. So I'm glad the jars are dry enough to leave for a week. OL can 'burp' 'em once while I'm gone.

And you feel bad about the high water weight. Most of mine is loaded with seed. :wtf:

[Token LaRoche]

I found one seed in the drying rack. How the hellz that even possible? Fem seeds, fem plants. Got another 46 grams of leaves out of the deal (guaranteed smokable), so the total was about 5.7 ounces with all the stems removed.

All in all this first grow went well but took a little longer than expected. Was figuring a bit over 3 months and we're at about 4.5.

Got your next crop going yet, Shov? Got some Pineapple Chunk seeds here that are looking for water, but I might look into strains some more. This White Rhino is pretty good, but a bit heavy in the couchlock department. Would like to find something a bit more energizing.

Hope your work week is better than mine!