Early harvested stuff, that is dried quickly as a test is not gonna be enjoyable. It will smell like quickly dried plant clippings, or this grass smell that you have after you cut your yard and pile the stuff. When you cut the plant and dry it normally and slowly it continues to live and create new compounds which act to "finish off" the flowers, also the terpines are allowed to develop and take over the remaining moisture properly creating that nice smell with the left over moisture. Once your stuff gets too dry, you'll probably be lacking the smell of the bud but you will still taste it when smoked because you wont be able to catch moist smelly air off your bag, but they taste similar burned. Although stuff that is too dry becomes harsher, if cured properly dry buds are still okay.
Furthermore, any early harvested pot will not have enough developed terpines/THC to really carry the smells you smelled growing and will end up being crappy anyways. Grow it out till its done and dry it long and slow for the best smoke. Failing to do this will leave you with the crummier weed that even street weed rivals.
Somebody correct me if I was wrong. This was all IME.
NewbGrower89 said:
so what your saying is when it comes time to flush (which is a wk away for me 5-29) right after i do the flush i put it into darkness for 5 days?!? that will not make it like hermie? (to be honest idk how hermies come about but i heard people putting into darkness for 24hr for the first flowering day to sex it faster and people said they came out with hermies cause of it)
As to flushing in darkness, NO! Don't cut your light out from your grow right at flush you will interrupt the metabolism of the plant and it wont fully use up the last of its goodies which gives you the most potent pot. I put mine in flush for 7-10 days and leave the lights on. Perhaps after that I would experiment with dark periods, but
I know my clone right now.
I know it finishes in 55 days. The problem is when you drop your lights off your buds cant pack on any more weight, no more photosynthesis. If the point is to make more bud, killing the light killed that idea IMMEDIATELY. I laugh at that advice because it does not take into the factor the genetics, of which
every plant from seed will be different. I'd be pretty cautious about cutting the lights at all at the end of plant life, and i've never heard of cutting the lights right at flush. The idea is stemming from a strain specific idea (for adding extra white to white widow clones) and it doesn't seem to work for every strain.
