hey man you can always harvest in stages, so you wait until the top bud is ready, chop that down then you wait until the bottom and harvest the rest. you can get 100% perfect weed that way. Your plant will look wierd with its head chopped off, but high stress events like that actually promote trychome and terpene production - what's better than a small nug ? a strong nug ! For the harvest, and the drying what happens is it starts to REALLY smell like someone is drying weed. so you want to keep the drying rack in the closet where the filter and exhaust is. Problem is from the moment you harvest your bud starts to cure, and light is really bad for the cure - damages the terpenes and the taste. So what you want to do is find a box small enough to keep in there with the rest of the plant. Make a hole on the side , put a small exhaust there, and hang the bud inside the box. i never do this but check this video out
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