Early Harvest

[JACK HERER]

Wondering What The Best Way Of Flushing Drying And Curing Buds Is If You Harvest A Week Early. Can You Still Ripen Them To A Sweet Smoke If You Take Your Time With The Curing Process.

[Teddy Trout]

Wondering What The Best Way Of Flushing Drying And Curing Buds Is If You Harvest A Week Early. Can You Still Ripen Them To A Sweet Smoke If You Take Your Time With The Curing Process. I a new grower and harvested a week early (49-53 days), the smoke is still excellent I used a large window screen in hung up in my flower room and left them to dry, they took about 3-4 days to throughly dry with 38-43% RH and good ventalation in the flower room. I took 1.2 LT of buds and tryed this water cure method to cure them and it worked exceptionally well. They have a very clean taste and the ash burns white. I have found that both air cured and water cured get better with age and proper storage. This time I have the same strain and will let it mature longer, 56-60 days

[JACK HERER]

I cut them at 51 days, buds nice fat and tight with tones of crystals. about 50% or maybe a bit less of the pistals are orange/lightbrown.
One strian I started from seed. Its definately a beautiful indica, short, stocky thick stems/leaves fat buds stinky and sticky itky itky, not sure what kind it is but its amazing looking, Indica dominant plants usually have a little shorter flowering time anyway ???? dont they?? the other two kinds white rino and purple kush from clone, the white rino I think is 60 days and the kush 50 to 60
I'm I right on that ??? does anybody know the exact flowering time for these strains??

[Teddy Trout]

I cut them at 51 days, buds nice fat and tight with tones of crystals. about 50% or maybe a bit less of the pistals are orange/lightbrown.
One strian I started from seed. Its definately a beautiful indica, short, stocky thick stems/leaves fat buds stinky and sticky itky itky, not sure what kind it is but its amazing looking, Indica dominant plants usually have a little shorter flowering time anyway ???? dont they?? the other two kinds white rino and purple kush from clone, the white rino I think is 60 days and the kush 50 to 60
I'm I right on that ??? does anybody know the exact flowering time for these strains??
yes thats sounds about right. I have a Black Domina strain and I havested at 49-53 but my friend that gave it to me says let it go 58 days.
I have a indica Black Star from Calaforina that takes 70 days, I'm told.
. I think the major factor is your envirment, tempature and RH, feeding and lighting and most important is your Ventalation. I been trying to find a microscope 30x-60x to check the Tricomes. What takes me 54 days may take you 48-70 days depending on strain and methods. Rule of thumb seems to be 70 % red hairs.

[Area_Man]

Any strain grown by two or more growers will probably have slightly different harvesting times depending on any and all growing factors.

I harvested my first grow early due to security issues. While the smoke was immature and the buds were relatively loose compared to fully matured nugs of the same strain; with proper drying and curing, they recovered well and ended up tasting great.

So to pose an answer - Yes harvest early if you must and don't skimp on the curing process to get good tasting early buds

:)

[pflover]

Good tasting early buds are easy, IMP experience. effective early meds for most conditions is not. ADD and a few others that require more of a stimulent effect are the exception to this, IMPE.

[Teddy Trout]

Good tasting early buds are easy, IMP experience. effective early meds for most conditions is not. ADD and a few others that require more of a stimulent effect are the exception to this, IMPE.

This is day 50 for my crop. I don't have any yellowing leaves to speak of, should I wait for yellow leaves? The Tricomes seem clear to some cloudly and some are redish.(Could be lighting)
On half the plants I cut off all the large fan leaves today and will leave them. The other half I will leave alone with large fan leaves on till day 56. The hairs seem orange and not really red/brown yet. What would you suggest on fan leaves? on or off?