Not the best trichome photo but it’s harvest day!! Gelato #33 at 8 weeks of flowering
and she’s coming down today!
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She’s a nice looking plant, Mike! Have fun fondling her wares today. 
Whats your plan for dry and cure?
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Looks awesome bro.
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6-10 days dry time hanging after wet trim until stems snap clean, room kept at 65 degrees and no light just a oscillation fan. Then they will hit the jars and be burped 2 times daily for about 2 weeks then vacuum sealed for a minimum of 4 weeks so they get nice n stinky n sticky!
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Sounds like what I started with. The dry and cure is the most important thing to get right.
Take or leave this advice. It made all the difference for me. I hope you don’t mind being offered advice without being asked if you want it first.
If the buds are too dry when they go into the jar, it will already be too late at that point to pull off a successful cure. The cure is dead at 55% or below. No amount of rehumidifying later will help.
Don’t wait for the stems to snap. The buds will be too dry by then. Let them be bendy still. The entire point of the cure is to dry them as slowly as possible until they can maintain 70% RH inside of the jar when you first put them into it.
You’ll need a reliable hygrometer that can go into a jar with them.
When the buds feel dry on the outside and the stems are still bendy, they’re ready to start testing them in a jar. Fill a quart jar and put the hygrometer inside. If they rise to 70% slowly inside of an hour and the RH settles there, they’re perfect to start the cure. If they jump quickly beyond 70%, hang them for some more hours/days and try again.
The point will be to take them down from 70% to 62 to 65% as slowly as possible before storing them long term.
When they are at the 70% starting point, burp them a couple times of day for 15 min to half hour increments for the first week. They should reduce RH gradually over this first week. Burp once a day during week two. When they level out between 62 to 65, burp once a week for just a few minutes at a time for a few weeks. You can close them up air tight for long term after that.
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Wow, that’s a lot of burping and sounds tedious, but I’m sure it will be worth it.
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@StickyBudHound sounds like you’ve gotten the curing process down pretty well! I don’t have any rh meters for the jars but I’m sure I’m only going to fill up 2-3 large jars so I’ll try to get ahold of some before it’s time to jar em up. It came out really well considering it’s my first actual indoor, I’ve always done outdoor crops and had wayyy too much to try the method you mentioned but with a higher value smaller crop I think I’m gonna take a swing at what you suggest. I believe I’m only looking at about a quarter pound in dry weight but it should be fire as long as it gets a good cure! Thanks bro, with me luck!
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She’s purdy
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Thanks @Outdoorman, they came out really solid and frosty, hopefully the smoke as well as they look lol
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@209MIKE and @Outdoorman, it does add a little work during the test phase when you’re trying to chase down the elusive 70% target starting point. And of course the number of jars you have to work with can make it tedious, but as you said Mike with a higher value smaller crop the extra effort works in your favor.
One other thing, when you get to the point of jarring, stems can add quite a bit of humidity in the jar. If the buds feel right and the RH continues to quickly rise above 70%, the stems could be the problem. Until this point they’ve been helping the buds to dry slower, but they could make you miss the window. So, if the jar levels off at 80% in an hour, you might just need to remove the stems from the equation and then try again.
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Jolie frère💪 @209MIKE je suis également en phase de curing et je suis complètement d’accord avec @StickyBudHound c’est vraiment primordial d’effectuer le curing c’est la cerise sur le gâteau.
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