2nd attempt. 4 clones from seed. 64 days of flower

They are looking good my friend

 

SSH is 80% Sativa 11-13 weeks in flower.
10 is enough and I've run it a few times. 50 odd days is just getting started. 64 days you have a ways to go IME if it is SSH.
A USB microscope 40x and up is what you need. No such thing as to "Done" to me. They just get stronger and longer lasting the older they get. Eventually the plant starts to physically die and now it is my kind of done.

I don't flush. Never have, Never will.
Slow dry is critical to good smoke. If dried to fast or to deep it won't cure ever.
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BrassNwood, Nov 18, 2015
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< blockquote class="ipsBlockquote built" data-author="leagalAlaska" data-time="1447776815" data-cid="22166544"><cite class="ipb" style="display: none;" contenteditable="false">leagalAlaska, on 17 Nov 2015 - 08:13 AM, said:</cite>Over the last year or so I've had few successful harvests. I'm really working on my cure. It's really dry where I live in Alaska. The moisture just isn't in the air. I purchased a small humidifier to try to raise humidity in my drying room. I read that a dry should take 7-10 days. Usually mine are crispy with stems snapping in as low as 3-5. Then I move to mason jars, I burp them regularly about once a day for 5-10 minutes. No one has ever complained about my buds, most say it's the smoothest they have had and great flavor. I think I still need to get it better though. Is it drying too fast? And is it affecting the cure?

Also I always do a wet trim because I fine it to be the best way to trim. Down side to that is it dries faster, the more materiel I have the slower it dries. Any advice welcome!

< /blockquote> Your up against the same wall I was here in Southern California.. We get a local wind condition called a Santa Ana that blasts super dry desert air over the basin and out to sea.. The humidity drops into the single numbers and it was turning all my great smelling harvests to grassy smelling shit for the most part.. Even extended time in jars wasn't helping.. It took me a while but I did figure it out and your on the right track.. Slow dry was the key I needed..
I wet trim as it's the best way to get all the crap off with every leaf standing tall.. Even a few minutes wait and they wilt more then I like.. So keep on trimming just seconds off the living plant.. It's the hang you have to shorten to just a day or 2.. I hang till the pop corn stiffens up.. Not the stem the Buds.. Play squeeze the Charmin with it and do NOT let it get to dry..
Think of it like cooking meat.. To done is just that and you can't un-cook that lovely steak.. Can't un-dry that cannabis either.. Below 55 % humidity all curing process stop and won't restart.. It's a one time deal with no do-overs..

My dirty hippy trim as my friend TTS calls it.. I'm old and don't have the hand for endless trimming and I'll hash 90% of it anyhow..

hot dry garage hang only until the small stuff stiffens up.. 1 or 2 days most of the time but it can go longer if the humidity is high..

While it's still on the very wet side I'll either glove and yank strip or snip off all the buds with grape scissors..
It all gets placed in cut down paper shopping bags.. This lets me move it rapidly back and forth between the cans I use to slow the dry and the top of the washer and dryer I use during the day..
The humidity jumped back up and this group spent about a day on the screen to firm up..

After just about 6 hours it went back in the bags and in the can for the night.. I bought a couple of new trash cans for this and I try and size the can to the load.. I have an Ice Chest I use for smaller runs..


I use several humidity gauges as they tend to be wildly off .. 2 or 3 of them and average the read..
I'll either dig in and fluff the buds up by hand or dump them into another bag to keep things stirred up and drying evenly

Your target is 65% after about 7 days.. Then I pack in 1/2 gallon mason jars with a 60 gram size.. 62 % humidity.. Boveda pack..
And your done.. It's perfectly dried to the exactly cure range and the Boveda packs insure it stays on the mark.. No need to play the open and burp game with the jars..

Just what I've worked out here on the Brass Pharm.. Your local conditions may need to tweak this as no two zones dry alike.. Shopping bags and Trash cans FTMFW.. Sorry but it did take a while and I plain ruined a ton of smoke figuring it out..
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I still do it exactly like this. Squeeze the Charmin. Don't let it get to dry to fast.


BNW

 

I usually take them when the amber looks like streaks and swirls more then a few dots.
No need to S&M the plant. she will get there all the same.
Normal end of life fade can range wildly. Some strains never loose a single fan nor hardly change fan colors. Other strains drop everything and finish as buds on sticks side by side in the same ground, same organic soils. Same patch of sun. Strain A looks great. Strain B looks all but dead.
LOL strain B kicked more ass for all it's raggedy appearance.

BNW