with no further delay, here we go. I started the process sunday evening.
The northern lights was first. I like to just chop a branch, trim it, and hang it in my little cardboard drying box. I never have to lay a bunch down, and its easy to take breaks.
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by the time i was done trimming the northern lights it was pretty late. So i decided to chop the pineapple chunks at the base and hang the whole thing upside down in my grow box. Ive never trimmed this way, and just wanted to give it a shot. Ive always just cut a branch while the plant was still upright and trimmed immediately, it wasnt really any harder, just required a bit different technique, all the leaves kinda droop over the buds.
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I got back to it monday evening, and finished trimming up all the pineapple chunk. I hung all these on coat hangers, and just dryed em in the grow box. Temps and humidity worked in my favor, it was pretty dry and warm the first few days, 75-80* and 40-50% RH. and Then temps started dropping and we got some rain, so humidity started rising up again. Then it got cool and dry the last few days.
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By Wednesday night the northern lights in my cardboard drying box were ready for jars. I go through and cut everything off the stems and drop them on a cutting board to get a weight before jarring. I started to cut some of the smaller buds off the PC and felt it was still a little too wet, so i waited another day to finish cutting off the rest. I seemed to have gotten everything just right. My hygrometers in the jars were reading 65-70% after 12 hours, and after a few days of opening and shaking around, they've hit the sweet spot between 60-65%. I threw in some boveda packs and just keeping an eye on the process.
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I separated my trim by plant, so ive got 3 good piles to make butter and such with. I just decarbed my first batch, gonna make some butter this afternoon.
After that first 12 of hours in the jar, opening them released some of the best smelling shit ive ever produced. I gotta say im pretty excited to try this stuff out. Ill wait at least another week before smoking any of the 'good shit' Ive smoked a few of the popcorn buds, the taste/flavor isnt really there yet, so i can only imagine at this point. But it sure do get you high tho!! lol
And then there is the weight. I took these numbers directly after trimming the buds off the stem.
57g off the northern lights and 43g off the smaller PC. Then there was the last one, my large PC put out 97g! Which comes to a grand total of 197g or 6.95 ounces. I aint complainin
These lights friggin rock, i just want to do a few more tweaks to enhance the corner lighting with either strip LEDS or just a better way to use my light bulb style LEDs. I introduced the UVB light, thanks to fishdeth, and id like to have one on each side. I just ran one this last time, and i feel like only half the cab was able to use the light. Which was my much larger pineapple chunk, and then half of the NL buds. Im not sure if the UVB light was the real reason that plant had more/larger buds or not. But i will continue to use them after watching that vid. lol Time to reboot!
Im trying to avoid throwing any other additives in the mix, just maintain fresh water, keep it cold and aerated. after 24 hours now, pH nor ppm has fluctuated much at all. 
