Sweet Crystal Candy Auto XL

👉This plant probably wasnt the typical plant that this strain can produce. The plant is supposed to be an XL and it stopped stretching at 19". It was a solid dome of leaves and flowers. Solid trunk and sturdy branches that didnt need any help supporting solid, plump, pine cone shaped buds. It was very leafy. While the plants over-all size wasnt XL, the buds definitely are. I hate trimming green leaves, but this plant had so many leaves I took handfuls of them from the plant weekly towards the end. Even though I took more than normal as far as total number of leaves there was still plenty of leaves left at the end. There was also minimal 'larf' on the plant due to selective pruning during first weeks of flower. 👉To harvest I started at the bottom and snipped the lowest branch first and worked my way up the plant with the Queen cola last. I kept the main cola of each branch in-tact, trimmed and weighed each one. Then hung each cola on a numbered clothes pin that corresponded to the colas weight on the weight log. I have a tall oscillating floor fan and ran it at its lowest speed. I would rotate the colas so it would get even drying on each side. The few buds on the dry rack got turned as well. After a day and a half I placed the colas in paper bags with the tops open. then after a day of that I began taking test weights of different colas to determine how much has dried out. I was trying to make the dry take a long as I dared. I put the first colas in jars after 5 days when they were at least down to 25% of the wet weight. All colas were in jar b y day 6. I placed a hygrometer in each jar to monitor the humidity levels and would open the jars for various lengths of time to allow the humidity to escape. The final humidity target was a stable 62% . Again the large buds were the last to meet that mark. The humidity stabilized in the Queen bud jar after about 10 days. I believe this slow dry helped the plant miss the 6 week cure mark. Tasted pretty bland at 6 weeks. But but 8 weeks the flavors started showing improvement. I think it may not be at the equivalent of typical plants 6 week cure till as long as 12 weeks. 👉When I did the close wet trim I did it over a "Trim-Tray". I had to scrape my scissors multiple times and got a nice little ball of scissor hash. The plant was sooo frosty I got a nice ball of pure resin, no green matter. I collected this and formed a small disk with my fingers. I let the trim get bone dry, then ground it with my hands and sifted it over the screen. This produced the most trim kief Ive collected from a plant! 9g of kief pucks! This kief didn't have any of the bland taste the buds did. It was sweet candy from day one. By 6 weeks it was getting sweeter and is superb tasty candy hash! The pure kief and the scissor hash is incredible!