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Destroyer of chairs

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ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:
Looks great!
Ready for harvest!
Holy Molly is thats fricken full!!
I have trouble believing the center of that is getting much light!

Have you considered a staged harvest? That is what I am doing since my canopy is so thick (not as thick as yours)
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Great to hear, thx! It is full and no, light didn't reach center. However now late when branches got heavy and fell over, it did open up a bit on some. But yes, larf incoming :'D doing things different next run.

If I had the room for it, I would do stages. But it's a shortage here so my flower room is my drying room.
Got green work lights so I also plan on trimming in there while they dry.
I'm a one man operation so it can be hard to do all this work before it dries up 2 much.

ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:
What size room is that? What kind of medium? Light?
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My room is 3000L 1200W 2300H. Two grow areas, 4x4feet each(1200x1200)

3x 3500k 240w uv+ir,
3x 3000/5000k 240w uv+Ir (uv switch off on this side though)

5L hempy buckets, bottom filled with perlite and rest is 40/60 with coco.
I ran 50% recc dose on both veg and flower nutes all the way through except early veg. No adjusting except raising calmag up from 25% to 33% when they showed some def.
 
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Thank you all, 2 kind. Next run I will keep em up!

Just mixed the last batch which will be gone in about 24 hours then choppy chop! If anyone think its early, now is the time 2 speak up :D taking sample of each to have a closer look before they go bat mode. Tbh I think I'm late this round.
 
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ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

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All of your trichome pics show maybe 5% amber, that plus your whole plant looks well developed, I think you are set.
Of course there will be many people who recommend another week. Wouldn't hurt, but you are also possibly dancing with mold in that dense canopy. Cutting down now could prevent an outbreak, who knows.
 
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ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:
All of your trichome pics show maybe 5% amber, that plus your whole plant looks well developed, I think you are set.
Of course there will be many people who recommend another week. Wouldn't hurt, but you are also possibly dancing with mold in that dense canopy. Cutting down now could prevent an outbreak, who knows.
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I think so also, but always nice to get second opinion :)
 
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ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:
Whats the plan for the trim??
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Roughly:
Jarring what I can of Small stuff that dries fast early, decreasing the work load later on.
Keeping temp at around 18c and humidity around 60% maybe? Not sure on all details open for suggestions.

Scared ill take too long and product will be brittle and suck balls. What if my dry room is perfect humidity(58?) at 18c, do I in theory have all the time in the world?
Mind that I have to extract air at 10% to keep smells from escaping.
 
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ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

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Destroyer of chairs said:
Roughly:
Jarring what I can of Small stuff that dries fast early, decreasing the work load later on.
Keeping temp at around 18c and humidity around 60% maybe? Not sure on all details open for suggestions.

Scared ill take too long and product will be brittle and suck balls. What if my dry room is perfect humidity(58?) at 18c, do I in theory have all the time in the world?
Mind that I have to extract air at 10% to keep smells from escaping.
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Same boat here bud
I just harvested (hopefully) close to 2-3lb and have to process by myself.
My plan is to first off, do a staged harvest, cutting down only the top half of the plants. This allows the popcorn at the bottom to mature, and also gives me a chance to trim half the product, while the other half keeps rolling in the tent. (I know you said you don't have room for that part, sorry)

Then if I still can't trim everything before the product drys, I will either just throw it in some turkey bags, or they sell some 2 gallon size bud storage bags over at my local hydro store.
In addition, I am curing in food grade 5g buckets with gamma lids. (Should fit a half lb each). If I can't trim all my product before it's dry, I could always throw the buds in the bucket with the sugar leafs and all. Then trim as I have time.

I also wondered about RH in the dry room.
I hypothesized too that if the humidity sat at 60% or better in the room, the buds shouldn't over dry?
I haven't found any information on this yet, but I suspect if that were the case, everyone would cure in a humid room rather than jars. Idk
 
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Destroyer of chairs

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ÒÒlegilizeitÒÒ said:
Same boat here bud
I just harvested (hopefully) close to 2-3lb and have to process by myself.
My plan is to first off, do a staged harvest, cutting down only the top half of the plants. This allows the popcorn at the bottom to mature, and also gives me a chance to trim half the product, while the other half keeps rolling in the tent. (I know you said you don't have room for that part, sorry)

Then if I still can't trim everything before the product drys, I will either just throw it in some turkey bags, or they sell some 2 gallon size bud storage bags over at my local hydro store.
In addition, I am curing in food grade 5g buckets with gamma lids. (Should fit a half lb each). If I can't trim all my product before it's dry, I could always throw the buds in the bucket with the sugar leafs and all. Then trim as I have time.

I also wondered about RH in the dry room.
I hypothesized too that if the humidity sat at 60% or better in the room, the buds shouldn't over dry?
I haven't found any information on this yet, but I suspect if that were the case, everyone would cure in a humid room rather than jars. Idk
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Congrats man! Sounds like u have alot of options if u run out of time. How do u pull off the bucket drying/curing? Would love that plan b Airpump, bucket and timer?
 
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ҖҗlegilizeitҗҖ

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Destroyer of chairs said:
Congrats man! Sounds like u have alot of options if u run out of time. How do u pull off the bucket drying/curing? Would love that plan b Airpump, bucket and timer?
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I am drying on a drying rack, inside a small grow tent with a inline fan and carbon filter set up. Keeps the house from smelling lol

Fortunately It's a bit chilly right now so I can open the window and the room sits around 55-65° f, good for preserving terps.

The 5g buckets are for curing, the gamma lids seal them up well. This way I have a very large mouth to help burp, it's easy to turn the buds, and it's all in one place.
I have seen a set up where someone hooks an air pump to a device that reads the RH and turns the power on and off according to that. They ran the air pump hose lines to the 5g buckets, and stuck them in a small hole on the bottom. There was a small one way valve at the top, it opened when the air pump pushed air in.
The air pump would then turn on, adding fresh air when humidity got too high (63%), then would turn off when it got dry enough.(58%)
 
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