Day 85: The last week! The dark purple fade looks gorgeous. Trichomes are mostly cloudy now with a few clear and an amber here and there. I plan to take her down sometime this week. My smell came back and I can confirm that she still absolutely reeks! Some fan leaves are drying and falling off.
Day 91: I gave her 2L of water with nutrients a day or two ago. I cut off a bunch of fan leaves that were drying out. She looks ready now. The trichomes are mostly cloudy with some amber and a handful of clear. The very bottom buds could use more time, but everything else looks good. My plan is to chop her in 2 days. Tomorrow it's supposed to rain a lot and I don't want to start drying her in overly humid conditions. The temps here are between -1C and 13C so it's already going to be cold and I should be able to have a nice slow dry.
She is a beautiful plant with a strong smell and lots of frost. I'm excited to see how the smell/flavor will be after drying. The buds feel very dense. They look mostly purple now, but I think that might just be on outside. Anyway, I can't wait to be able to try her... She didn't give me any trouble while growing and I would highly recommend her based on the growing experience. The smoke report will have details on the taste and effects.
Happy growing!!!
Harvest: I am writing here so that I can copy and paste it later into the harvest week.
I chopped her on day 93. The bottom buds could have gone longer, but the tops were already showing amber on the buds so I decided it was time. Her smell is straight funk at the moment. I don't pick up the berries that I did earlier, hopefully that will come back. I trimmed off most of the fan leaves and left the sugar leaves on the plant for drying. The plant is hung up whole while drying in my tent. The exhaust fan is on, but the oscillating fans are off. I tied the side branches with separate strings to give them a bit of space and air between them. Starting environmental conditions are 14C and 55% humidity.
Day 2: 12-15C / 57-62%
Day 3: 12-16C / 56-61%
Day 4: 12-16C / 54-60%
Day 5: 12-16C / 59-66% (turned on the oscillating fan at the bottom of the tent for more airflow)
Day 6: 12-16C / 56-66% (fan off when I saw it was down to 60%RH)
Day 7: 12-16C / 59-65% (fan on again most of the day and night)
Day 8: 12-16C / 59-64%
Day 9: 12-16C / 63-71%
Day 10: 12-17C / 63-74%
Day 11: 12-17C / 61-65%
Day 12: 12-17C / 63-70%
Day 13: