SHOWTIME!
So excited! I really want to thank everybody here, this forum and everyone on it has helped me more than any book or reddit post could ever have. This was my second grow, first successful one, and all thanks to you guys. Your patience with me and my million little questions has been extraordinary. I really appreciate it.
So, I present to you the harvest. I think I could've left it for another week, but unfortunately, time does not allow and I wanted to have enough time for proper drying as well.
Total weight now came out to around 100 grams, I assume once it's properly dried it will drop to something like 30?
I trimmed the main cola-bud (on the pic, that thing is massive!), but it took way too long, so I just superficially trimmed the rest, and will do the final trimming before putting it to jars.
It looks amazing, a beautiful purple shade, sticky as hell. And from the inside, it's actually very bright pink-red. I accidentally snapped off a bud or two and it looked like it's bleeding
It smells amazing as well, not your usual weed smell, it literally smells like cotton candy.
So here it is, Afghan Purple Kush Autoflower, 12 weeks and 2 days from seed to harvest, went through some stress due to nutrient deficiency at around week 4-5. The buds, if developed, are super tightly packed and have a magical smell and color.
I have taken two or three small samples in the past week, and I can tell you, it hits like a very pleasant and gentle truck. And that's without any proper drying or curing.
BTW, I have found an absolute king of quick-drying methods, obviously not recommended, but for those times when you really need to take a bit from your live plant and smoke it ASAP, this works a million times better than microwave, oven, or anything else.
Air fryer. Put the bud(s) in something so that they don't jump around - I used a little metal tea infuser. Put it on ~50-60 degrees Celsius, between 6 to 12 minutes in total. Open every 2 minutes, let it cool down a bit. If it's small enough, 6 min should be enough, but you just check it every 2 min and see for yourself if it's ready for grinding. Of course taste and smell are not great, but vastly improved from other methods. Trichomes do not explode or die. Can't speak for potency, because I have not tried the final dried and cured product, but like I said, hits like a truck.
Obviously still accepting any tips or advice you have for me for drying and curing. Right now the plant is sitting in the grow tent at 60% RH and 21C, exhaust fan is on, it moves the top buds around a little bit, but I don't think that's a problem, it's a really light breeze, almost unnoticeable.
Oh yea and... don't ask me why I hung it the way I did.
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