Northern Light

I'm a little surprised at how big this girl got, but I ain't complaining. Structurally she was plenty strong enough to take care of herself under windy conditions, which seem to be getting worse every year. Mother Nature threw a little water at her this week and that prompted some of the buds to roll over but no problems. She also ripened a little quicker than I expected. It will probably be another week or so before this baby dries out enough to further process and weigh. Harvest was completed on Friday morning September 20. She will be de-budded and hung in my circular hanger later this afternoon September 24 to make room to harvest Amnesia 7 tomorrow morning. I haven't been having great success with the dry trimming using TrimBag so I want to let this stuff dry a little more... but each strain is different. We'll see. September 27 > I'm somewhat amazed at how much better the Trimbag performed on this girl than other attempts so far (two exactly). In the end, the amount of trim created by the bag was roughly equal to the amount of trim created by hand afterward for Northern Lights. When I processed Cream & Cheese last week, the Trimbag only generated 1/4 of what I ended up doing by hand. Part of that may be drying conditions - NL had two 100 degree days during drying and C&C had two days of near rain (very unusual). The buds on NL are larger and denser too so it's easier to bang them around inside the bag for the friction trimming - so part of it is plant structure. I feel I probably would have started hand manicuring the NL about two days sooner in the past but I wanted to give the Trimbag another chance because it clearly needs dry product - glad I did. I was done trimming Northern Lights COMPLETELY in less than 4 hours - and generated over 11 ounces of buds. I easily spent more than 6 hours trimming C&C for a few ounces less buds. Those 2+ hours NOT spent in 90+ degree heat while your brain is melting is worth a few buckeroos on my planet. I just hope the Amnesia I've got hanging up will dry as quick and process as easily, but things are cooling off. Final weights came in as: Trim from Trimbag - 144 g Trim by hand - 162 g Final bud weight - 319 g