How bout now, is it ready now? pics

[weedhopper]

Not bad for a couple of amateurs, huh? :stoned: :rasta: :thumbsup: :dance:

[houdini]

Very nice cola ! Well done sweetheart. A few tips on harvesting since I noticed you hung the complete plant up. You can do that, but its much easier to chop and trim immediately after pulling your girls because the plant is still turgid. Once the plant wilts its much more work to do a nice trim of the colas. Hang the branches on a string line or similar in a dark aerated spot with temp around 20 deg. C. They should dry sufficiently in about 10 days to strip the buds off the branches and store them in an airtight container. How do you know when the plants are dry enough ? Try snapping a stem. If it snaps with a 'crackle' then the buds are dry enough. If you try to snap the stem and it simply bends or there is no snap sound then continue drying. Curing : Open your airtight containers every day for about 15 minutes and let air get at the buds. Do this for about 3 weeks and you will have very nice, well-cured buds. The buds will keep curing for a couple of months, after which they are 'done', so to speak.
There were a couple of posts criticizing me for saying that buds are ready when pistils turn brown. I only said this because in a previous thread I'm sure you said you had no magnifying glass to check the trichomes. You CAN use pistil color as a rough guide, but as the posters said, trichome color is the precise way to do it using a 30x or greater loupe.

[weedhopper]

Thank you, Houdini!! Yea, I definitely did this plant the hard way, my hands got pretty tired!! I'll know better on the next one we pull!! Also, we did get a 30X handheld microscope but we both think it's a piece of crap! We'll get a 30X magnifying(sp?)glass. Weedhopper

[m.g.]

if you're planning of curing your bud you don't want to let it dry too long on the line. a few days will do or as soon as the exterior feels dry, then put them in your curing bin.
and letting them hang for a few hours before beginning the trim will make it easier to get at the base of the leaf stems for a cleaner trim. they get limp and are easier to maneuver...

nice job...!

[weedhopper]

I can't believe it! From what I've sampled, I don't even get high. How could a plant look so good and not get you high?

[phillykid]

how does the bud smell??

[weedhopper]

Hey phillykid, I think the buds smell kinda piney. We have only smoked the lower buds, could that be it? Will the top buds be better maybe?

[MastaChronic]

you need to let your plants dry out more, a lot of the THC hasnt lost its moisture and therefore is not psychoactive. you also need to cure the buds to get rid of that chlorophyl taste, nice plant btw

[m.g.]

the tops will be better if they were allowed to ripen longer. judging from that middle pic, it was picked a few weeks too soon. it might be just a lower potency strain too. it does look nice but looks have nothing to do with potency, neither does moisture have anything to do with psychoactive properties.

you also need a pair or small, pointy scissors (i use mustache trimmers or small hem removing sewing scissors) to get in close with the trimming. once more of that greenery gets removed it'll be tastier.