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@TheMachinist, Thanks for answering the questions. So that's what that question form is for! I'll be sure to use that next time I have one so people can get proper credit where it is due. Used your suggestion for loosening up the strings and moving them more toward the middle and it worked great for the second harvest, which had more plant mass to deal with but dried more quickly. Kudos to you!

Just did my first harvest a month ago, congrats! let me answer a few of your questions. **For future not if create an official grow question other members can get credit towards the grower of the month contest by answering and then being selected by you as the correct answer.)** I decided to trim off my sugar leaves and freeze them to make fresh frozen dry ice shake. If interested, I posted a video on my diary of me trimming a branch, (lots of other examples on youtube). I think your hanging technique is great. What helped me was to leave the lines a bit loose so the branches could hang down far enough not to interfere with the ceiling of the tent. If you just move the string line to the center of the ceiling supports instead of near the edges would maybe get better air circulation. Anywho, great diary and nice first grow. Those buds look smokelicious!

With the color change my guess is a week or two. I had a plant turn purple, and it was finished when the purpling made it to the sugar leaves, at that point the fan leaves sticking outta the buds on mine were starting to crisp up. when I checked the trichomes at this point I had maybe 5-10% amber on the calyx's. Just my experience.

@bobo420, Great, thanks for the reply! I was worried that if I cut a couple stems off the plant would all of a sudden decide to go back to a growth phase or something. Going to cut the two bits off tonight. It really is a jungle though, you're right. It is hard to get any sense of scale in the photos and I tried to add a ruler but it just gets lost in there. Just one plant taking up 30x30x30" of space.

those fan leaves in the middle pointing up to try to reach the sun are some of the number one perpetrators of shading and blocking air to nodes, causing them to lose the airflow light and space they need to bulk right. going well overall and glad to see it -- looking forward to your harvest in this setup!

Great job, nice and healthy plants! They are starting to put on some serious weight ;)

@noodle, Leaving more sugar/energy producing leaves nearest light source is always best. Look up some YouTube videos on Lollipopping.

@BudKingsGrow, will do, thanks for the tip!

@BudKingsGrow, huh I was thinking about going the other direction from the top down to get more light penetration. Is removing the lower leaves beneficial in reducing humidity than the upper?