Help with Trichome ID
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MerryJizzRain
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Haters gonna hate, but you had me at with the George Carlin quote! And you say you don't flush your plants!?! The logic on flushing has never made sense to me, but I haven't read Marijuana Chemistry or Botany yet, so it figures.
hogbud
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MerryJizzRain
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Here's a bit of closure for everyone:
I picked one little top at 55 days, dried it for a week. Frantically smoked it: It was garbage.
I picked one stem at 60 days, it has been curing for 16 days now. I have been pulling dry bits off for a couple days and they are better. A light head high with decent longevity, but the bud is still a little fresh on the inside and the smoke is harsh (but endurable). I would say a 6/10. It works, but it's nothing to brag about.
The rest of the plant got picked at 64 days (sorry to the 70 day hold-outs I had to clear out the room for a visit from the non-weed friendly in-laws. Due to the need to remain incognito during the crucial first stages of drying my plant was closed in a closet and I lost the top two inches of what would have been the main cola to mold. So, instead of the slow, steady cure I am trying the alternating paper & plastic bag to dry/ sweat the bud cure. I have divided the stems up into about 6 groups of 2-3 stems so that if there are any more mold spores that want to act up they will be in isolation from most of the other stems. As you can see in the close up of the bud this 64 day old stuff has mostly cloudy white trichs, a few ambers hints to the coming change that could have been!
As per hogbud's post about flushing you can see that I did not have it dialed in at all in the final stages and the leaves of my plant where probably providing liuttle power to production in the final weeks. I didn't give it enough nutes before I started to flush, then it got hurting on some obvious ways and I overcompensated too late in the game. I have a long list of `For-Next-Time` by now! Still waiting on the end of the cure and the final trim, but I suspect I will come out of this with just under an ounce, at least 7-10gs of which will be fluffy lower buds of varying quality. As a first time experience though it has been quite rewarding!
I picked one little top at 55 days, dried it for a week. Frantically smoked it: It was garbage.
I picked one stem at 60 days, it has been curing for 16 days now. I have been pulling dry bits off for a couple days and they are better. A light head high with decent longevity, but the bud is still a little fresh on the inside and the smoke is harsh (but endurable). I would say a 6/10. It works, but it's nothing to brag about.
The rest of the plant got picked at 64 days (sorry to the 70 day hold-outs I had to clear out the room for a visit from the non-weed friendly in-laws. Due to the need to remain incognito during the crucial first stages of drying my plant was closed in a closet and I lost the top two inches of what would have been the main cola to mold. So, instead of the slow, steady cure I am trying the alternating paper & plastic bag to dry/ sweat the bud cure. I have divided the stems up into about 6 groups of 2-3 stems so that if there are any more mold spores that want to act up they will be in isolation from most of the other stems. As you can see in the close up of the bud this 64 day old stuff has mostly cloudy white trichs, a few ambers hints to the coming change that could have been!
As per hogbud's post about flushing you can see that I did not have it dialed in at all in the final stages and the leaves of my plant where probably providing liuttle power to production in the final weeks. I didn't give it enough nutes before I started to flush, then it got hurting on some obvious ways and I overcompensated too late in the game. I have a long list of `For-Next-Time` by now! Still waiting on the end of the cure and the final trim, but I suspect I will come out of this with just under an ounce, at least 7-10gs of which will be fluffy lower buds of varying quality. As a first time experience though it has been quite rewarding!
