Harvest & Curing Harvesting, yellowing leaves question..

[wingchun]

I harvested my first bubble grow on week 13 . Non of my fan leaves were yellowing , but the trichs were a good mix of amber and cloudy . The potency is insane..Love it . I have 2 right now, one is week 12 and the other is on week 13 . Week 13 mostly cloudy trich with some amber more towards the top . The week 12 does'nt even seem close..That one might go 100 days , we'll see .

So I've been looking at other bubblelicious grows on here and it seems like they're all done at around 70 days or so, are most of those guys pulling it too early or what? it seems like mines taking a lot longer then everyone else... Day 75 today and still have a week and a half before my scheduled date.

 

[tyler5370]

Ya maybe it just depends on the strain I guess with the yellowing of the flowers, we'll see, I think in going to chop em then no matter what and hopefully they'll be good enough... I did notice that they got super crystally in the last couple days so I'm honestly glad I waited.

 

[Porky]

I could be wrong but now you will see your buds getting a lot bigger. In my experience, I noticed lots of crystal then a week I noticed bigger cola

 

[tyler5370]

I think I have seen the buds get they're big push but I'll definitely be looking closer as this last week and a half goes and let that determine when I chop it down

 

[tyler5370]

I was gone for a couple days on a business trip and just got back last night and They still seem to be getting fatter!! They have by far exceeded my expectations, it'll be interesting to see what they'll look like here in a week or so... I'm thinking about cutting the top off of 1 of them and seeing where it's at, unless someone tells me different. The hairs have, for the most part, all receeded inwards and about 90-95% of them have changed color so to me it looks about done. I'm also in need of some smoke so that's another reason why I want to chop a little earlier then expected... I have flushed them with plain ph water twice and looking to do it again tonight on the rest of them... I'll take pictures of the jock tonight as well and see what u all think about starting a flush on those ones as well.

 

[tyler5370]

Btw, these guys are stinking my place up! since I wasn't around it for a couple days I could smell them before I even opened my front door which is kind of scary, I didn't think that they would stink that bad lol definitely thinking I'm going to be getting a tent when I grow em again, whenever that may be. Any suggestions? Preferably something that's got everything included( fans, filter, etc. is there a place where I can tell them what I want in the tent and they install everything for me? I already have a light so I wouldn't need another one necessarily but it's not a deal breaker if I had to get a tent with a light already installed. Thanks

 

[tyler5370]

Ok so I chopped everything down this weekend... I chopped one of the bubbles a week earlier and it's now dried and I came out with 3 ounces just on that one plant! I did notice that the bubbles nugs ate very fluffy compared to the jock which was really quite compact, did something happen that the bubbles arent as compact or is that maybe just a strain thing? It's consistant thru both plants, as well as both jocks are have pretty compact buds thru out...
I can't wait to get these things into jars so it'll stop stinking up the whole neighborhood!
I plan to do a smoke report when everything has cured for a while, but the bubbles is some pretty good shit, both of them smell kind of funky but potency is definitely there... I haven't tried the jocks yet and they're more resin covered then the bubblelicious by far, gonna wait til it's good and cured before I even try it...
I'm thinking that I ended up pulling about 10 Oz off of these 4 plants, maybe more, which by far exceeded my expectations. Does that seem reasonable? It's seems to be more then the average grower which is starting to make me think that I did something wrong lol.

 

[tyler5370]

I almost forgot, thank you all for your help, it was definitely needed and appreciated, I don't think that I could have done it without ya or at least not as easy as u guys ended up making it... All in all a pretty scary but awesome experience this last 3 months have been and a definitely look forward to doing it again, but better planning this time!! Again thank you everyone that helped me out!

 

[tyler5370]

Question to all........
I've been doing everything pretty much by "feel" the whole time so I haven't bought a hygrometer as of yet and I have a question about curing....
For one I don't think that I let em hang dry long enough, I only hung em for about 3 days. Now they are in jars and I feel that they are too wet cuz they are clumping up really bad, it almost looks like its one big bud in the jars... Is this normal? I didn't think so, so I've been taking them out and letting them lay for a couple of hours on a paper plate before putting them back into the jars... It's been about a week since they've been on the jars and I don't feel like they're as dry as the should be, am I being impatient or will it take a couple of weeks before they r dry enough to smoke? They won't even grind properly in a grinder... Also they smell like hay really bad, not a bud smell at all... No signs of mold yet but am I doing this right? Will the smell go away or did I so something wrong and now stuck with this nasty smelling ganj? Help please!!

 

[Muddy]

The hay smell is an indication that they are still curing. If cured properly that will go away as all the chlorophyll is dissipated. Three days may not have been enough time, especially if the humidity in the drying area was high. I hang my plants in my garage and when the humidity is high I've had to leave them as long as 7-8 days sometimes. If they still feel too moist, lay them out for a day or two then back into the jars. Keep burping them daily to release the gasses they give off as they cure.