That’s up to you 
but since your an open-minded learner I’d say experiment & take one whole plant if you can & just the ripest or maybe top half of another. Then you can compare. 
As far as humidity, think Afghanistan. 
I was growing in Sacramento outdoors, def not AZ or NV, but it got to 9%RH some days in summer. Flower was GREAT!
Personally I’d say ideal VPD is great for vegetative & early flower but would let it get dry after week 3. 
But I sympathize on the watering 
Looks like light torched trichomes to me.
The bug appears to be a thrip.
I looked at it last night and didn’t see any of that weird fuzz anymore after the light H2o2 spritz. I probably should have done it right before the light cycle vs the middle. So I did it light as a test. This morning before the light turned off I did more throughly so nothing will develop. Some leaves got white due to H2o2 though. This will likely be the last treatment though. I’ll harvest over the weekend and check things out at that point.
Yea, I was thinking of taking it in pieces. Does that slow down plwyn development during Flowering though? I felt like doing any trimming of any kind may slow things down at this late stage.
Dang, you grew it in summer? Over here it gets 120f and the RH I was talking about was indoors… Outdoors it’s probably down at those levels. I grew up in socal, but just moved here 2 years ago and most plants it doors are always dying and coming back to life… But I don’t know if bud would be so lucky.
Hmm, I’m sure the strain matters when it comes to that. But I’ll definitely take that into consideration. I did dial back my vpd 0.1 which is like ~8%. But my truffle monkey dried out in days… Actually drying buds always takes 3-4days in the tent… It’s supposed to take 7days isn’t it? I wonder why it’s so fast…
Yea watering is tough to pin point, especially with clumped up roots… It looks like they were about to root rot and then suddenly got well and have a mix of semi dead roots and alive ones in a bundle… Lol so watering is hard.
As far as Flower being great, that’s interesting. My flower doesn’t have a taste. It has a good smell though… Would you know why that is? I use boveda for a week… I’m thinking it added a water layer during that time that many day neutralize the terpene flavors and minimize scent… So even though I switched to another brand that doesn’t have this effect… It might be long term.?
So torched trichomes look like white hairs or fuzz? I thought they just looked like headless mushrooms. As I have a few photos of dried out buds I took micro pics of and they liked liked that. But not hairy.
Yea I figured it was a thrip. They’re rare now. So I think I’ll be fine once I harvest and dry the herb they should be gone. Thrips don’t stick around once the plant is being dried do they?
Looks like they are ripe for the most part, I’d harvest.
It shouldn’t – if anything the remaining material gets more delivery from the same root mass.
Mostly. The one time I did a light dep April harvest was the best quality because it never got hot enough to flash off the lighter volatile flavors/smells.
It’s more about temperature than arid-ness; freeze driers preserve flavor but dry things quick. they’re expensive. 2 weeks is my normal target, but definitely seen it dry in a day or two 
The supposed holy grail is 60 deg. F and 60%RH but I’ve never had access to that.
Could be the strain, could be the temps, hard to say.
I’ve been growing in promix with synthetics in Hawaii for 2 years & have to say my soil grown CA bud was a million times better, even with too-high temps for drying.
When I get back to the mainland I’ll definitely do a side-by-side comparison with a clone just to confirm this.
I gave up on bovedas & the other ones seem to take away flavor.
For drying I use 75-85f (have a ac but the thermostat is in the wall so it’s hard to really make it activate better than that.
60f would be nuts to try… I’d need a ac 24/7 n can’t afford that lol. 60rh I can do but that sounds like mold may be a risk. For curing I do 62 rh and 68-70f though.
I’m trying Integra I think it’s called. But it’s not as accurate or consistent.
75+ makes “hay” smell 
That’s what ruined my recent harvest.
Totally understand about the a/c & power- not many of us can get perfect temps.
I have it in a tent. It’s with my never ending final plant that is over due lol. It grows… Stops… Then grows then stops… Most of the buds are barely starting off and have a set of large leaves and pistils and I’m waiting on then to grow. I am keeping an eye on trichomes with my microscope and so far only the top buds have maybe 15% amber and the rest are getting milky… So I’m waiting until 30% amber and I’ll harvest any bud that’s ready… One at a time and hang then to dry in a net basket 2 tier thingy I have above the light and out of the way of the fans and ac and humidity sprayer etc. Avg wait tike is 3-4 days.
Day Temps are 72-75f (their night) and night Temps (their day) is 82-84f
Vpd is set to 1.6-1.2. But try to keep it 1.5 for as long as I can. But I haven’t found a pair of metal 0.1mm nozzles with ptc fittings that don’t clog every week or two even with RO water and a filter…
I don’t have a hay smell thankfully. They smell great… But once harvested… The jar smells amazing but smoking them… They don’t taste how they smell… Hardly any flavor 
but I can’t complain they were my first crop and it’d a miracle they even survived at all!
@Divine_n_Demonic You need to change your dry method. You say it’s in the tent above the light, and your temps are way too high. You’re killing the terpenes with temps that high. You need to get your dry into a cooler area, then you’ll retain the taste that your smelling.
Interesting. Yea it was not meant to be a permanent thing. I was supposed to harvest all the plants at once and then convert the tend into dry mode with no light at all. But Jealousy had other plans.
I figured out that the nutrients in my tap water were low so I cycled in some new water and they started growing again. I’m going to cycle the rest Friday and it should bring back to full speed, I also dropped Temps 3-5f to boost Terpenes and they’re loving it. I’ll likely harvest next week depending on the speed and the terpene colors.
As far as moving the dry area rack, I can’t really do that. If I remove them from the tent it would be worse as far as dryness, heat would be better though as we keep Temps 75-79, but it’s no different now that I dropped Temps in the tent. If I had room I’d buy another tent just for drying. I’ll likely do that next time though.
I just re measured and adjusted the lighting back to 18-21" as well as dropped Temps 3-5f for Terpenes this last week and put new evaped tap water with benes.
My question is what causes sugar leaves to brown? I was getting a lot of brown leaves. Was it the fact the water was likely full of salt accumulation and low nutrients along with daytemps of 82-84f?
I’m sure all of those could have contributed…thinking about it.
I am starting to see the leaves turn snowy white after these changes :3 definitely not looking like mold now.
