harvesting early and THC continent?

[Ben-Do]

Quick question if anyone has any idea. This year I had to harvest about a week and a half too soon because of incoming rain here in the south. I feel my granddaddy part was almost done but it didn't really purple up all the way. Portions of the plants did but most did not so I feel they were just about to. Also the smell of the traditional purple was not there but the peppery taste and all the good high seems to be there. Does anyone know if harvested a week and a half heck maybe even two weeks early how much deterioration or how much less THC content will there be? considering there were no sicknesses and no hiccups and grown on hydroponics until early October.

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Quick question if anyone has any idea. This year I had to harvest about a week and a half too soon because of incoming rain here in the south. I feel my granddaddy part was almost done but it didn't really purple up all the way. Portions of the plants did but most did not so I feel they were just about to. Also the smell of the traditional purple was not there but the peppery taste and all the good high seems to be there. Does anyone know if harvested a week and a half heck maybe even two weeks early how much deterioration or how much less THC content will there be? considering there were no sicknesses and no hiccups and grown on hydroponics until early October.

The only way to know what is actually in your harvest is to send it out to a lab. There is no answer to your question. Plants put on substantial weight in the last two weeks and you missed that. Terpene (smell) profile can change as well. If you get high on it mission accomplished!

 

[Arthur]

Last 2 weeks is the make it or break it portion of the grow as far as weight goes.
And I'll add, I have yet to meet an auto that hits the "advertised" harvest time. Most go an additional 10 days to 2 weeks longer. In that case you could be closer to 3 weeks early.

As to turps, temps while growing, genetics, soil or hudro and even what the makeup of the soil is can affect flavor and smell. The handling of the plant thru dry and cure play a major part in smell and taste too. Honestly, the dry and cure can be the difference in a marketable product and having to make hash out of the entire batch.

 

[Ben-Do]

OK. Thank you for your responses. I think what I need to do is break my indicas up into Smaller pieces, maybe even start from the bottom of the stem and just cut each branch that is a bud. Meaning instead of big buds you wouldn't let anything hang and you would cut everything down to those smaller bud-let size portions. i'm talking more about saving them from bud rot here but I think bud rot is also a player in robbing them of their true smell