I just realized that I sort of abandoned this thread when I started worrying about the final days of my grow, which actually ended up being weeks when I created this thread: Question for the experts (aka. I don’t want to mess this up now). The completion of this grow is now on that thread.
Now I’ve got everything into jars and am finishing the curing process. I learned several things from this grow that will hopefully help me with future grows.
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Pruning is more important than I thought. When this grow finished up and it was trim time, I got very frustrated with the number of small buds on lower branches that I did not trim. So much, in fact, that I decided that it was not worth my time to trim all that up and i will now just use it for water hash. I got a lot of good bud from the top half of the plants o all is good.
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Keep a closer eye on drying during the last part before jarring everything up. Although I had almost perfect humidity (48-52%) throughout, I let the process go just a little too long and let things get a little too dry. I had some shake falling off the buds as I clipped them from the stems to put into jars. next time I will not let them dry this much. Hopefully things will even out a little in the jars and the buds will not crumble.
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Have several trimmers on hand so I won’t have to scrape the shears so often. These buds were packed with trichomes and were very sticky. I was constantly taking a razor blade to them to keep them trimming instead of sticking.
So, in the end I had 10 quart jars halfway full to completely full and 4 - 1/2 gallon jars mostly full of bud. two more 1/2 gallon jars got stuffed with the lower small branches that I was just too lazy to trim.
Third grow complete, more clones have now gone from starter cups into Gallon containers and are starting to take off. I am trying some led bulbs with the domes pulled off for the first couple weeks and will change to 600W MH fixture for the remainder of veg cycle. Will see how this works. Hopefully after I have finished all the different methods I want to try, I can get down to the business of putting together some really good controlled grows. For now the experiments continue.
Grow on,
SkyDog
