Ophelia stomped one of my Gorilla berries, so I had to chop her a bit early. Gave her a three stage wash: water+h2o2, water + lemon juice and baking soda, and a rinse.
Found some bud rot too that I did not see while she was in the garden. I will have to pay extra close attention to the remaining girls. Two of which are slow slow slow sativas. I do not have great hope those will make it to the end.
Also, I need a new place to dry. My wife hates the smell of this hobby 
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This is the above early harvested girl, now curing after a 2 week dry. She was a little over dry, but okay. I didn’t trim the sugar leaves. I got 5 oz of mostly larfy bud, all of which will go in edibles, QWISO, or bubble hash.
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5oz is nice 
Budge rot sucks 
One Gorilla Berry left? Or did you harvest both now?
Acapulco Gold’s still running?
This is the next (2 of 2) Gorilla berry females. She sat for 2 more weeks than the other one before harvest. Did not find bud rot in this one, and could have gone maybe a week more, but MUCH denser nugs. Here she is drying right after wash a week ago. She is now bucked down to individual nugs and in the hanging drying rack behind. She should be ready for cure next week. I may try my new bowl trimmer on her.
After this I have two Acupulco golds to harvest, but if they make it, I don’t think they will be ‘ripe’ until early november at the earliest. Damn long season sativas.
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Fantastic news! Glad to hear at least one of them turned out the way you wanted. Week early isn’t bad. Outdoor throws some hoops to jump through. Happy for you that looks great
Out of curiosity why did you pick AG? I looked high and low for the closest thing I could find to NLD that would have a chance of finishing up outside here. Wound up with Ace Panama x Malawi. Purple Satellite and Oaxaca are popular for their early finish/cerebral effects FWIW
I got it for a few reasons.
The breeder I get beans from had it and I got a discount for a multiple order. I am not a huge sativa fan (too much anxiety), but I like them sometimes and have friends that do. I like older and classic strains, my last grow was White Widow. Also, I wanted to see how different it was to grow a sativa.
With this one I got to see all sorts of environmental differences as well. I first grew it indoors and struggled with conditions. The plants were almost dwarfed with tiny leaves etc from stress. but cloned it and put it outside where they took off with real sun. And got damaged by mites and storms.
Out of all the plants I have grown, she has been the most difficult by far, but I LOVE the lemon/citrus terp profile.
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If you drop a fan leaf in each of the jars, it will bring the humidity back up in the buds.
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Damn acupulco golds won’t mature. Still no amber. Going to have frost soon.
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They probably needed more time, but the plants were looking sad and we will get a pretty hard freeze this week, so the two AGs got chopped, washed and hung.
I barely had enough space for them to hang!
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I’m sorry you ran out of time. Did they provide any amber for you before chop? I’m also in central va and was thinking of running a sativa outdoors but figured they wouldn’t finish.