Candy Cane Lane

@Squirrel_Master, Ideally what you want to do is wait at least 7 - 10 days. I live in a high altitude arid desert. My buds dry extremely fast. Still it takes at the very least 7 days for my buds to all dry perfectly. Some buds dry faster than others, a few of the bigger buds will always take longer. I posted my dry harvest weight after 8 days of drying as none of my buds were too large but if you have larger buds sometimes they'll take up to 10 days to dry and sometimes even longer. The initial moisture will leave the bud at a rapid rate dropping the moisture content down to 30% - 40% within the first 5 days and it may appear and even feel dry but it is not considered completely dry. It still takes time for the moisture in the bud to equalize and be considered actually dry. When bud is called dry it must have a moisture content below 13%. Thats what the labs consider to be acceptable levels of moisture to test for potency and contamination like mold and pests. So dry bud must be below 13% moisture content which relatively will take at the very least around 7 days on average in the most ideal of conditions. It will most likely take more time if you have larger buds. http://cannabissafetyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Microbiological-Safety-Testing-of-Cannabis.pdf On page 10 they explain: Most Cannabis is dried and cured to a final water activity level of Aw 0.30 – 0.60 This corresponds to moisture content values of between 2% and 13%. On page 35: 1. Water activity can be used as a marker for overall microbial levels: Cannabis with water activity levels above Aw 0.65 should be returned to producers. It'd be illegal to sell people bud with a moisture content of above 13% here in my state where it's legal; it wouldn't even be taken by the labs for testing. I hope that helps buddy. Everything looks fantastic with this grow. Great job :D

@Squirrel_Master,Some of the Masters on this site put the buds dry for 10 days, I personally put the buds dry for 4-5 days at 23-26 degrees celsius in the drying room where two fans work, then put the buds in jars without a lid. I do not weigh the dry buds, those who visualize the pictures can approximate them. @CANNASIM can help you more about this, he's a very good guy.👍👌

@Squirrel_Master, yeah man my cheese dried quite quick as well. When I put mine into jars I tried some with 62% packs and some without either way I burp them at least twice a day in the start to make sure there was no moisture build-up I found the ones without the humidity packs cured better I think the humidity packs are better for keeping cured weed at the right humidity rather than to use in curing just my thoughts. I would at least cure for a week before you weigh them and you can tell when you start burping the jars and you stopped feeling the humidity rise you know they're starting to stabilize

@DaGrowQueen, Thanks! This is my first go with Crop King, so far so good. Day 53, 49" tall and starting to fill in nicely.

@Squirrel_Master, haha sucks about the vehicle but you're right if you're at home might as well chopper down

@Bigpun, Thanks man! I hear ya, I think this is where experience really comes into play, and I've still got a lot to learn. I woke up about 60-80% brown pistils and they have tightened up to the buds some more. She is 80 days old today and I'm sure I could have let her go a few more, but my vehicle wouldn't start this morning so I stayed home from work. It seemed like life's way of telling me today is harvest day lol. More pics and the final tally to come.

Thanks @WhiteWidow I gave her lots of love and she paid me back nicely.

Can't wait till it start's smelling like Christmas lol... Thanks!

@BigDaddyK, yeah I think it helped a bit. I started rotating the plant every couple days because one side that was under the small light seemed to shoot up. Now I've got it aimed at the seedlings in the same tent.

@Squirrel_Master,does the smaller panel help build bigger buds or is it too early to tell ?

@BigDaddyK, I'm pretty sure the MarsHydro Reflector 96 pulls just shy of 200w at the wall with both veg and bloom mode activated, and the smaller panel about 36 actual watts. "They" say the Reflector 96 is equivalent to about a 250w MH/HPS.

@scruffbeard, totally possible, you'll find that's the case with most or all breeders. I started two CKS Candy Canes at the same time, one was a mad stretcher like yours and the other one didn't make it past the first week.

@Squirrel_Master, Ive got like two phenotypes I think. One is just a mad stretcher with no real leaf growth, and the other two are staying rather stout.

@scruffbeard, Thanks man, she was a beast, but had her issues too.

@Squirrel_Master, Thanks for the quick reply, I will be following along to your cheese 🧀 dairy to see the results

Thanks @DeepRoot3d, This was my first go with Terpinator and the Candy Cane strain, so I can't really answer that accurately.. also I started using Terpinator pretty late into flowering. I was using 30ml/g and I'm pretty sure 40ml/g for the last week or two. I'll know a little better in 5-6 weeks when my current Cheese is done, it has had Terpinator since week 2-3. I've grown a Cheese plant prior without it so at least I have some kind of reference this time.

Thanks @Wilstang, This was my first auto, and she was a pleasure to smoke!

Thanks @DopeLeaves, They were actually only in there for the day the photograph was taken. I received some similar advice after posting the pic, I put them in because I thought my buds were drying out too quickly. I just left them out and opened the jars for a couple hours a day to slow my drying process. Turns out I didn't even use the Boveda packs at all... They seem good for long term storage, not really a problem I have considering those seven jars are empty now lol.

Thank you @DabCrab, I love doing this lol, I love that the amount of care you put in directly reflects what you get in return... in quality and quantity. I cannot wait to get a year or two behind me and see where we're at then. Thanks for the complements on the pics of the jars. Hahaha, I could take a couple more now, but sadly there would be a couple less jars. I cooked all the trim into budder yesterday and made Shortbread CannaCookies this morning, the edibles from this plant work very nice, Feeling no pain today! Gotta say, I'm really glad I stumbled onto GD! I was searching around for some kind of database template I could download to keep track of my girls when I found this place. I really like the sense of community here, growers helping growers.. with very little BS. Cheers!

@Mindbodycannabis, Thanks! I'm not sure if I have any pics of my girl that early, I'll have a look when I get home and let you know if I do. I can tell you I remember thinking it was off to a slow start, I had made some kind of mistake in the beginning and both seedlings were not doing much. I ended up losing one and the other just started blowing up somewhere around 5-6 weeks. I will be low stress training my next Candy Cane in an effort to keep her low and bushy. I could not raise the lights in my tent anymore with this one lol.