Open Show & Tell , Outdoors 2014

treemansbuds said:
Good morning Sam-
I don't think it matters what time of day you harvest. I choose the morning/day time just because I can see better. I set up my "EZ-UP" in the garden and spend all day out there during harvest. I like mornings best, the leaves/plant seems stiffer when cooler and easier to trim. I suggest not taking the whole plant at once, just a branch or two at a time. If you take the whole plant and it sits around the leaves droop and it's a pain in the ass to trim.
Some (maybe most) take the whole plant, hang until mostly dry, or all the way dry, then trim. I choose to trim when wet, I WANT THAT JOB DONE!
Keep us posted on the progress.
TMB-
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I just trimmed one side cola, tedious, now it is hanging to dry. I'm going back and forth as to whether to chop the whole plant knowing I'll spend most of day, trimming. Or..... just the side branches... I hate making decisions. :-)
 
S'Manta said:
I just trimmed one side cola, tedious, now it is hanging to dry. I'm going back and forth as to whether to chop the whole plant knowing I'll spend most of day, trimming. Or..... just the side branches... I hate making decisions. :-)
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I normally like choppi g the main ones off and sometimes I just leave the bottom third for another few days to see if they harden up a bit .....then again there has been times ive just pulled a whole plant cos the quality wasnt gd, it was like good riddance thats finished
 
Just to throw in my $0.02, during the night, starches drain from the leaves into the root system, and during the day the starches are brought back up into the leaves, so if you harvest after night time, before daylight when the starches come back up, the end result may be a less harsh smoke, as starches in leaves contribute to the harshness. So yeah, during the day = starch and sugars accumulated in leaves, night = starch and sugars accumulated in roots. There is a thing you can do to test it called an iodine test, where you stain the leaves with iodine, as it will turn the starches black so you can see how much starch is in them. This is a picture of an iodine test done on Geranium leaves, the leaf on the left was harvested during a light period and is dark because the starch is stained by the iodine, the leaf on the right was harvested after an extended dark period without being exposed to light, and it light green because there is no starch for the iodine to stain. Personally, I wouldn't want to be smoking all that starch, so my advice would be harvest before the sun comes up if at all possible
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I like to harvest after my morning chores. I pluck off all the fan leaves and throw them in a bucket. I basically pluck off any foliage without trichs. Those go to the compost. Then I chop down the whole plant strategically into sectons for hanging. I trim while every things hang drying. One branch at a time, so as not to have buds getting flattened while laying around waiting to get sliced up. Start curing when outsides of buds feel brittle.
 
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