🗓️ WEEK 8 (flo) - HARVEST WEEK (56° FLO)
💧 Midway through this final week of flowering, I performed a complete DWC reservoir change. I replaced the nutrient solution with plain tap water, EC 0.4 - pH 5.8. This flushing solution was maintained for 4 days, right up until the moment of harvest.
🌱 On the 56° day of flowering (day 84 from the dry seed), the plant appeared perfectly ready for harvest. The buds are dense and glistening with resin, nearly all pistils have browned and retracted, and the trichomes show a beautiful mix of milky and enough amber. Immediately after chopping her down, I removed all the large fan leaves and I've decided to dry these too as they are remarkably full of resin.
✅ DRYING PHASE
The entire plant was hung to dry inside the grow box, which was kept completely dark with constant, gentle air circulation for 8 days.
The average VPD during this period was maintained around 1.2 (approximately 20°C and 50% RH). Once this drying period was complete, I trimmed off all the sugar leaves. These resinous sugar leaves will be combined with the already dried fan leaves and larf buds, and I plan to use them to make cannabutter for edibles.
⚖️ DRY WEIGHT
After the 8-day drying period, and once all the remaining small leaves and branches were removed from the buds, I weighed the final product:
The harvest yielded:
- 150 grams of dense buds.
- 5 grams of finger hash collected during handling.
For edibles:
- 30 grams of larf.
- A large amount of fan and sugar leaves.
⚠️ In the next coming days I'll update the harvest week with info about curing stage and a smoke review.