Chopped her down, trying a dry trim technique. Hung all branches to dry in my homemade dry box. Have the box in my grow tent to control the temps in the tent and around the room where the tent is. Due to the fact its winter and heat is on, so humdity is low. She I drying with a fan, no pointed directly towards the plants, she is drying at a 70F. At 50% humidity. Will follow through on smoke report after drying and then another after each week of cure will update with a smoke report. Her smell is strong, still strong after chop. She still came out with pretty dense colas, being that we got her flowering early, think we did pretty well on the overall outcome. I like to experiment with light schedules and water feeding, this girl at the beginning was feeding nothing but pure clean rain water. She didn't need much nutes besides flowering nutes. She grew really well. I'm gonna miss watching her groooooow!
Drying update: I chopped her last night after lights out. I got her in grow tent in a cardboard box, with the lid slightly open, 2 fans above the box and humidifier. The room is 70 degrees f. The tent is 70 and the box is hitting at 67 degrees f and 55-60% humdity. She is drying at good temps. Because of gave her a lil push and an early chop, will take time with drying and curing her, for her danky smoke. Will be trimming her day 3 of drying and then setting her back up to dry another 3 or 4 more days. Will update once trimmed.
Day 2 of drying, busy on day 3, so I trimmed a day early then I wanted to, but they look good, smell nice, after trimming, I really smell the chlorophyll, but she is still drying at 60% humidity and 68-67 degrees. F, so that smell should go away in a day or two and her nice aroma should kick in. I kept the trimmings from all defoil of this plant and harvest trims, I put them in the freezer for storage to make some bubble hash. After the temps went down further to 68 and humidity at 60% the chlorophyll smell decreased, not so heavy. Been reading, bumping up humidity around 65% and also pumping the air to 70 degrees f.
Day 3 drying, after I trimmed at the same temps for another night, they felt dry to touch, squeezed, they bounce back, stem bendy, not snap. I cut them and put them jars with 62% Intergraph boost humdity packs for a few hours and final batch went into Grove Bags in the cardboard box with a temp 68 degrees. And bags are at 58% to 62% according to bag. All the smell is trapped in the bag. I trust grove bags so need to monitor. Will let cure for a week, then report, then for another week for another smoke report. Weighed at 52g. They are not quite dry, dry yet. So will weigh again after a week to see if anything was lost. Separated the big buds and small buds and put them in separate bags. Was able to stable the humdity.
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