First Grow

First grow in the books but man I have ALOT of learning to do. Ya know they always say growing is half of it, drying is curing is the half and that is so true This grow diary is kinda weird as I have 3 dif plants so I will do 3 dif pages but Im going to summarize here Being a new grower is exciting!! Everything is new. New brings challenges that I urge for in everything I do. I picked these 3 strains just because they had nostalgia for me. I didnt research the breeders, didnt pay attention to flower time or any notes really from the breeder. I only knew the flower time that came with the beans. This grow was so fun, I built my own soil and wrote everything down everyday, temp of water, ph of water, how much water, when I top dressed and what my par and vdi was everyday. I worked hard and this was like therapy for me to get to harvest. Chop day was both exciting and abit weird at the same time. These plants that Ive invested so much time in with. I spoke to these plants each morning lol. So I chopped them down and realized I wont be able to keep them whole, I chopped them down by larger branches and hung. They hung in the same tent but I was able to get temps to 60-65 F, and RH was 55-65% at all times. I had my exhaust running 24/7 on low and a oscillating fan at the bottom of the tent just blowing air at the walls I was trying to go by the Snap test. I tested every other day and would test branches the size of toothpicks. I was at day 11 and still no snap so I was like what gives?? I took a whole branch down and trimmed to get an idea of how the buds felt. They were abit crunchy on the outside and still alittle spungy when squeezed so I thought ok theses are done. I then grabbed all of them and trimmed and bagged up in oz bags, Grove bags. I let sit for 48hrs and tyen peeked at them......To my surprise they were all under 55% most were at 50%. My NL smelled like cut grass, My GDP smelled like cut grass with gas on it BUT my Sour Diesel was an absolute gem SD smelled like orange peels backed with famous sour diesel smell to it I was excited. BUT WTF happened to my NL and GDP. They are huge buds and are covered in frost and sticky as hell but fuck they smell like grass, im so pissed. I feel I over dryed them and killed all terps and it pisses me off. I will never trust the snap method again. I tried several branches all were just bending no snap. Im really hoping that curing these buds will help get rid of that grass smell if not I will be converting these beautiful buds into cannabutter. All in all my goal was to just get to harvest and i achieved that, little did I know the hard part is drying and curing. Heres to the next grow! I will be satrting another diary soon, my current plants have been not so good but I will get another one up soon. Thanks to all who watched me grow, followed me and commented I appreciate it!