Harvest Time: A Tutorial

cant wait to get my first harvest to trim them and cure them.

me neither i think i only got a couple more days for 2 of them then a week or so then another week or so

You sir are a god
Those buds are text book mate, big fat crystal covard porn mate.
A nice read aswell, thanks for sharing

Hazer Blazer

great thread

really informative

yeah got about a few more weeks and i'll be doing this......can't wait

Great tutorial man

Thanks for the thread ..

Thanx, Great thread. I really needed the first 2 pages of posts. your instructions with pics was unbeatable. By your fisrt pics I know now I'm not ready yet.

Looks amazing freind... Can we share???? HAHA Keep up the good work.

JN811 said:

hey fdd and everyone else. I have a few questions. Ive been curing one of my plants for over a week now and have noticed it still hasnt got its smell back, it smells like hay. It also has turned kind of brown which is disappointing because it looked amazing before I cured it. I have a couple other plants that are pretty close to harvest and I want to make sure that this time it goes better. All and any advice is appreciated! Btw i was wondering if you could tell me how close I am from the attatched pics. Thanks!!!

Btw the first pic is of my plant I harvested that turned brown and smells like hay.The rest of them were taken about a week ago. I dont have a microscope but do have some good peepers and from what I can see Id say the trichs are mainly milky, with some amber and some clear. They still have white pistils on the lower buds. I was thinking about doing a staggered harvest, if anyone could throw out some pointers it would be appreciated! They are on day 60 something grown under a 400 watt hps and about 4 feet tall so the light only penetrates about 1 foot into the canopy, if that.
Thanks again!

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Ik im late for your harvest but i wanted to post this for other people to see... im the kinda guy that has what my friends call BUD ADD, meaning i cant just grow it i have to experiment with different grow methods.

in my one experiment i did then end result had my beautiful buds smelling like "hay".

the experiment purpose was to answer the question "If the bud is better after letting it grow longer... how much better is it? and how much longer would i have to wait?"

what i learned after the experiment (i did this with 3 different genecits. ak47, orange kush, and blue widow) was over is that: IF YOU LET THE PLANT GROW LONGER, AFTER THE TRIES ARE BROWNISH COLOR-> THEY WILL START TO DECAY WHEN CURING! this is where the "hay" smell comes from. This will also happen if you harvest too early! this leaves a rather small window for harvesting the bud in comparison to the whole grow. I concluded and now go by a 10day rule. if i dont harvest within ten days of first site of browning i am risking the evil "hay smell"
In response to a step harvest. This is a great idea and works wonders. a few warnings tho: 1 clip from high to low. if your top bud is not ready before any of your bottoms something went wrong way before and your top will not be the same strength or flavor as ur bottoms. 2 after you clip ur tops you might have to adjust your light. this is b/c u are suddenly introducing alot more light to ur bottom buds. it may lead to bud burn.
Hope this helps for future grows!

hey sorry but i dont have time to go through the whole 113 pages but im a noob and i wanted to no when the chloroplasty smell goes away and the skunkyness comes. They smelled great before i cut but its been almost 2 weeks since i started curing and they still smell like chloroform. I flushed for 2 weeks prior and hung for 3 days anyideas thanks i am also using a 90 watt ufo led and 3 clfs

I have a question, My girls are 7 weeks into flower on 8-9 week strains and ive not yet began to flush, the thing is all of my fan leaves are yellow and falling off. The hairs are only half red but the buds seem to be filling in very well, will these babies finish ok without the help of fan leaves ? im beginning to flush today..Any help would help greatly..Peace

The plant is using its sugars from the fan leaves to fatten up those buds, when they turn brown and wilt just tug them gently off. It's part of the natural finishing process... If you've got some amber trichs id go ahead and start the flush now, but without any pics it's hard to say for both questions

thanks to you all! peace

Katatawnic said:

This is not part of the natural growth process. Most "bloom" plant foods are extremely low in N, which is the cause of the leaves yellowing and dying before the plants have completed their growth cycle. Check out the Uncle Ben's gardening tweeks and pointers thread. There's a lot in there about this very issue. The never ending abuse of Phosphorous (Bloom foods) to enhance flowering is another one that is chalk full of nutrient dos & do nots. UB isn't the only one who will tell you this; the vast majority of "old school" growers (i.e., who've been cultivating for years or even decades) will tell you the same thing.

Since I started ignoring the "your plant will look like it's dying because it is" forum paradigm and started feeding what my plants need instead of what we're told we're "supposed" to feed them according to cannabis-aimed fertilizers (which amazingly have supplements to sell that will "cure" the problems that wouldn't exist in the first place if their "basic" nutrients were actually complete), I haven't had prematurely yellowing/dying leaves... and my buds have nearly doubled in size!

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Yes, Kat, I concur. After a few years of nothing but "putting out fires", I, too, opted for simplicity. I recently flushed and re-potted my whole grow because figuring out the problems got too complicated. Now I watch the pH very carefully and don't feed unless there is a very obvious need. The plants are green and healthy- dare I say Happy?!- and I can stop tearing my hair out. I used to grow outdoors and never did more than water. I grew beautiful, huge plants in less than quality soil. The stuff I buy in the bags for indoor growing is probably twice as nutritious and shouldn't require a lot of additions.

yummmmmmm...

I'm harvesting myself today and tomorrow, was wondering if there if a rough estimate i can use to gauge how much weight will be left after drying. For instance my top cola bud weighs 82 grams, what can i expext when dry

So once bud is jars how dry does it have to be to cure with out molding? Also when curing do you have to open the jars ever or just leave them until a desired time? Thanks.

You usually lose around 75-80% of weight going from wet to dry.

That was very informative. Thanks!