Good day fellow gardeners and cannabis enthusiasts. Taking the time to share my 4½ months growing 2 Northern Lights from seeds in Coco perlite using Canna Coco and 600w hps. Special thanks to afriendindeed, tboneshuffle, trojangrower, bill from ILGM, and everyone who supported me and answered my newbie questions. Thanks to the community. Nuff said
My grow is So Calif and between the temps and the very low humidity it's very easy to over dry.. Even a single day to long on the line can ruin it all.. To keep the wife happy all my work is restricted to the garage so I get to be inventive at times.. If you search long enough you'll come across the 777 of curing .. This being the 7 days @ 70 degrees @ 70% humidity.. Works well if you have a temp and humidity controlled room.. We don't so we use jars to achieve the same ends.. While I started in jars this soon proved impractical trying to unscrew all the jars over and over.. Some trial and error later I worked out a method to limit exposure to our stone dry air and still get things done in a timely way.. I take the plant a branch at a time and trim close while seconds off the living plant.. All the leafs are standing tall and you don't get a better shot at trimming.. Hang.. http://forum.grasscity.com/uploads/m...1393031894.jpg Depending on temp and humidity this stage can take from 24 hours to a week.. just hung bud is dead limp to the touch after 12 hours or so.... When the buds start to stiffen when slightly compressed I remove from the branches.. http://forum.grasscity.com/uploads/m...1393031909.jpg And the buds get placed in cut down paper shopping bags about 3 inches tall.. http://forum.grasscity.com/uploads/m...1393031922.jpg Next I place the bags in a air snug-tight container.. Mostly I use either an Ice Chest or a New unused Trash Can.. I try and size the container to the load.. You don't want 1 bag of buds in a trash can.. While I did use several hygrometers early on for this stage I've since found I can do it all just by feel now.. Leave bags in can till limp to the touch again.. This first day that won't take very long. a couple of hours... Once limp remove from container and set bags out till stiff when compressed slightly.. I'll flip the contents of the bags to a third bag to get the lowest buds up on top.. I'll continue this rotation of the bags into and out of the container gradually spending less and less time exposed.. the last few days the bags will only be out an hour or so.. This takes me about 7 days.. This is where I do use the Hygrometers.. The can is now acting like a large jar.. Your best readings come in the morning after the can has had 12 hours or more to stabilize and will tell you how much exposure your product will need that day.. Combined with a hygrometer telling me what is outside helps.. http://forum.grasscity.com/uploads/m...1381192804.jpg A full can requiring a single meter as well as being able to get the product in and out rapidly made this a much more practical way at least in the extremely dry SW USA.. Once the can has reached 65% and 7 to 10 days have elapsed It gets jarred in Half Gallon mason jars with a 62% Boveda 60 gram and I'm done.. 60 days minimum cure time for me.. Longer is better but you'll have a very respectable smoke in 2 months.. http://forum.grasscity.com/uploads/m...1393296931.jpg Caution this may get you a large container of mold in a less dry area.. Just what I've worked out in my smoking hot and extremely dry garage.. ============================================================================= Pasted from elsewhere. While this may not apply in your zone with higher humidity it's something to watch for and be aware of. Treat drying and curing Cannabis like cooking a fine steak. To done is just that. You can't un-cook meat and you can't un-dry cannabis. BNW
12 jars. Just finished breaking down last cola. Buds have kept drying and pistols have curled back into them. Looks better than the other day. No official weight but I guess I'm close 3/4pound to a pound. From left: half first jar and two small ones are bottom of plant. Still good fo smoking or cooking! 2 other on the left are from my smaller plant, definitely indicia. All 9 others are packed with some heavy resin coated cola buds, mostly hybrid indica. Thanks again to everyone who helped me. 4 months to grow some more means 18 weeks. So I can smoke 2/3 of a jar a week lol fml I'll green out gotta have to share!!!!
