Northern Light, the First

HARVEST What a great day Harvest Day is!! I enjoyed all the steps that brought me to finally taste the fruit of a hard, daily work. Having no experience whatsoever on the matter, I had to struggle to put on practise the advises I read and got from you more experienced growers 😀 And yet, I don't know if I got it right!🙄 I wanted to learn something out of it, so I tried two different methods, starting from one basic decision: trimming the most of the leaves immediately (since I didn't do so for the other plant, the Cheese XXL). TRIMMING&DRYING I cut off (Day 96) and hanged the whole plant to take out all the sun leaves. Once done, I started to cut the branches and trimming them (pics Day 96 - Trimming). I'm happy about how these colas look like. They look much more dense than the others I trimmed last week (from the other plant). Another difference with the other strain I harvested is that I didn't wait before to touch the plant. Once trimmed, I immediately put half of the branches to dry (Day 96 - Unwashed buds) while I washed the rest of them with the three buckets method, basically selecting all the branches that were closet to the point where I found mildew, so they were "fresher" and the water passed better through all the buds. Once washed, I put them to dry. To my surprise, they didn't take much longer compared to the unwashed ones. I left the room ventilated with two small fans pointed in the proximity of the drying rack, humidity around 50-60%, temperature 25°C. After 3 days, I moved all the branches to the final drying closet. (Hum. 55% - 27°C) CURING Another couple of days and they looked ok to be put in the glass jars. I divided between washed and unwashed and I cannot really find a significant difference between each other, at least visually. After one week of burping twice a days for a few hours, I did it again but only three times a week for like half an hour and then the last two weeks only once per week for 15 minutes. I think that I can leave them like they are now. TASTING THIS is absolutely THE BEST part of it all :D I tried only a couple of small bud which felt earlier during the trimming and I loved the taste!! It's rich and intense, fruity and sweet but I cannot say precise what kind of fruit it reminds of 😅 I would definitely need a better vaping session to make a more exhaustive review 😀, and that will be tonight hopefully 😎🔥 So stay tuned, I will update this comment with a final review and a description of the strain 👍🌱 Thanks for reading guys 🙏 Keep it green and enjoy your growing 💚🌱🔥