So I am going to harvest this weekend - it's been about 3 months since I put my one female (Orange Bud) into 12/12 - I thought she would be done before now, but I think she is about perfect now. I will include photos from harvest, but today will put up some from a few weeks back, heading to the end, but not quite there. She is so heavy headed she is drooping over a bit.
I harvested one small bud early - I was not satisfied by the high - it was strong enough but didn't have that really high load I was going for, the sort of instant connection to the universe I like. Some of what I read suggests the older harvested buds will be even less that way, but I won't really know until I get there - picking and drying yet to come.
My next batch are smaller plants, having been grown not in a bucket but an 8 unit ebb and flow. I had to literally hack them off to keep them from stretching so badly they would be burning themselves even with my light as high as it would go. They responded by making a lot more buds fast. The Skunk #1, however, is really slow - I only got 1 female from seven seeds, and she is thin and wispy and slow to develop. I assume it's the specific breed. It will take her some months to fully produce, I would guess.
It's been hard fighting serious medical problems and doing all this, too, but the plants are so beautiful. I just hope what I get is actually going to work well for my medical use. It's certainly very sticky and also a good thing we have actual skunks in our area - they smell (great to me) even with the charcoal filtered exhaust. I have my card so don't actually worry.
This would have been close to impossible without help from the list! Thanks so much to all.