1st grow - Grandmommy Purple - *Now DWC*

2/11-2/18 Week 8 2/18 - I find I have not been taking as many photos as we round the final corner because I feel like I messed up the 2 plants that don't look as good as the other two. I know, I know it's my first grow and I should be happy I made it here. But it's just hard to see something that you cant really fix easily or at all. Really, it's not that bad. I am considering the option of just not processing the worst looking branches. I think it will greatly depend on what they look like when I harvest them. I think I might be able to cut of a lot of the dead leaves at the stem to remove them. It doesn't look like the bud structure is greatly effected. But it has been effected. At this point, and up to this point, I have tried really hard not to mess with those bad looking branches.. As in I am not taking leaves off or touching them so leaves start breaking. Unfortunately, a lot of those leaves are very sugary and I think I will just have to let it go. Because I don't see many ways of stripping the trichomes off without smashing the dead leaves to bits. We will see. But I do not plan on processing any branches with dead matter on it for bubble hash to press. I am pretty sure that I will be fresh freezing all of the harvest from Plants B and D(the ones with visible issues). I will process all that into hash for various other refining processes. I might save a bud or two off each of these plants, but they have been condemned to bubble hash making. Sawtooth and plant C, however, will be mostly dried and cured. I will be doing a run of bubble for these plants as well, but I will try to only use the amount of material needed for a minimum wash. This way I can keep a good amount of dried flower on hand for flower rosin extraction. I am talking about harvest a lot because we are right there. Today is day 61 of flower and I suspect harvest is going to be in the next few days. Most of the stigmas have darkened. I will be doing a very detailed microscope study of the calyx trichomes to get an idea of amber head count later today. I will be doing a few things to ensure I can get some really good photos. I will update here with those photos later once I get done with it. Pretty sure this will be the last post before harvest. Or at least, I don't think these will go on for another week or two. Not sure how that works here when it comes to post harvest processes. Like if drying takes 14 days and curing takes months... when are you supposed to post final photos? I mean if the next update is just harvest, that's it I'm done with the journal since harvest is the end. I don't know when I will post the harvest. Like I don't know if I will post the harvest when I harvest or if I will post the harvest after I dried and trimmed... Probably when I dried and trimmed because at that point I would have already processed the bubble into something.... ok. So if I do not have another week of flower after this week, my harvest post will come after I dry and can show dried trimmed final result.