Results 1 to 10 of 29
Threaded View
-
10-05-2006, 05:17 PM #22
Member
How bout now, is it ready now? pics
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.
Advertisements
Similar Threads
-
ready for 12/12 flower? pics
By mrluckysk8er in forum Indoor GrowingReplies: 8Last Post: 09-30-2007, 05:08 PM -
bout 2 weeks old and cleaned the growroom *pics*
By junkboxer in forum Basic GrowingReplies: 4Last Post: 03-12-2007, 12:35 AM -
Ready to Dry? with pics.
By jhova in forum Basic GrowingReplies: 5Last Post: 11-08-2006, 10:47 PM -
does she look about ready? [pics]
By stewie420 in forum Basic GrowingReplies: 19Last Post: 01-22-2006, 10:27 PM -
are they ready for harvest? what do you think? pics
By cool in forum Indoor GrowingReplies: 5Last Post: 02-01-2005, 03:58 AM










Register To Reply
Staff Online