SlimShimey

@Stick, hahah, you can call me either! I'll post a big update later but I harvested little over a week ago! The trichomes were mostly cloudy, some milky and little over half of the pistils were brown and curled in. So they could have gone a week or two more but my landlord scheduled an inspection and I had nowhere to put the plants, nor have it dry in that location. I thought let's harvest them 3 days before he came in, so the smell would fade away haha. I also decided to harvest at night, as I live above a telecom shop, bakery and clothing retail store. I'm so lucky I did that, holy hell that smell was pungent. I have never ever smelled something that intense. Sad thing is that I very underestimated the workload hahah, the first plant took me little less than an hour, the fourth and last plant I harvested took 30 minutes. The fifth plant was nowhere near done and I got a very big suitcase and gave that to a friend. I did a wet trim and put all the buds on a layer of wire mesh in shoe boxes. Those boxes I transported by car for 45 min to my hometown (rip, my car smelled of weed for 4 days). There I put them in a little toolshed, with the top off and not in direct sunlight (but it wasn't dark). To make my stress even worse, the Dutch weather gods decided to make the outside temperature 30+ degrees Celcius (86+ degrees F). So while the neighbours were chilling in their back-garden, adjacent to mine, I had to open the shed from time to time to check on my buds. Whilst my family had a good laugh about it, I hope to not have bothered them with my hobby. After 5 days of that intense heat my buds were almost overly dry. I jarred them and the dry weight came to a measly 20gram for 4 plants. To my defence: the buds look f'ing amazing. They are now curing for almost four days. The first days the smell seemed to have gone away, but now it is coming back. The weed smelled like tea at first, but my family still swears by a heavy cannabis smell coming from the shed when I go out to burp them. Thanks for your extensive reply, I will try to do that my next grow! Keep around for pictures!

Hello @SlimShimey, or should I say MacGyver? 😂 You better not postpone the harvest, you will highly increase the risk of mold / late pollination / various issues...Plus, you will get a couch-locking weed, probably full of seeds. In this situation I would find a way to slowly dry the buds. I think I would harvest on time when the trichomes are almost all milky and let the whole plant upside-down for 3 weeks, without trimming it all but just removing the main fan leaves. This way, the plant will dry really slowly, and you should have a nice product in the end. Hope this will help, let us know how this goes, and happy growing! 👊

@SlimShimey, that wouln’t be ideal.. rather harvest to soon than no harvest at all.

@CoastGrower, I problem could find someone but I don’t want to put that burden on anyone. It also means I’d have to move it all out of my house halfway the drying period probably

@CoastGrower, it took 5 days for me, although I potted them in germination pots instead of between papers. Have patience :)

@Mrs_Larimar, I’ll probably try that for an eventual second grow! Thanks for the response :)

Iam using windowfilm for stealth reasons, its great, plants get light, but noone discovers whats behind, your goal is to give them as much light as possible. so i just would go with one row. And there is no need for leavetucking atm...maybe later.... happy growing

@flowxman, thanks man!

Nice, good luck!

@Jesse7319, thanks for the extensive reply! Quite enlightening haha. I’ll hold off on supplementing it for now :)

@SlimShimey, Hi! Thanks for viewing my diary! I noticed the deficiency when my leaves started to show little orange spots that turned brown, which usually means a calcium deficiency. When growing in soil the soil naturally has nutrients for the plants so it’s not completely necessary to add any nutrients to soil. However with hydro there are no nutrients in the water so it is a must to add your own. Calcium deficiencies are super common in hydro.. so I added a little cal-mag and the brown spots are slowing down. If your plants had a cal-mag deficiency you would definitely know it, the leaves make it very obvious. :)