First grow

Today is the day, 4 days over 8 weeks of flower🌹 ! I cut the plants, and begin the harvesting process. I spoke with people more experienced than me in growing, some suggested that I cut two weeks ago, or at least a 5 days flushing and then cut, others suggested that I go through a 2 week flushing period, in the end I went with the two week flushing period given that it had only been six week’s worth of flowering and the tris looked pretty clear to me, at least to my novice eye, and a 2 week flush couldn’t hurt I guessed. I tried my best to drown those plants in two weeks, giving them double the volume of water every day as much as I could, it was suggested to me that I give them triple the volume but I don’t know how anyone can give their plants 3L each per day, the saucers fill up quick and with a scrog net its not the easiest to remove them to drain. Noticeable self cannibalization on the plants as pink stems emerged and purple under the leaves appearing as well, with some leaves turning yellow and drying up, but I did a trim 6 weeks into flower so I didn’t really notice too many yellow leaves, I suspect if I hadn’t trimmed there would of been more. The plants smell strongly like ginger and citrusy, very pleasant. Also strong sour/dank smell that is pungent and lingers, I couldn’t dry these plants without a carbon filter. I found a humidifier on special and picked one up the other day, hopefully I wont have too many issues maintaining 60% humidity. Now I let the plants dry in the dark for 3 days straight in the tent with the carbon filter on and a humidifier on. I weighed them wet, I’ve got about 720 grams wet, I’m not sure how that will translate into dry flower, maybe 1/3 the content, so at most half pound maybe... It was a little stressful to try to figure out when to chop the plants down as I’m looking at the trichomes with a jeweller’s loupe, and I still wasn’t sure if today was the right day to cut or not, but I figured 8 weeks was the ticket, and I gave the trichomes another look at the end of the day and I thought I spotted one little amber trichome, which was what I was looking for, so that was reassuring :) Happy growing 🌱