SOIL Can you make good butter from a premature hermie harvest?

[Stahlherz420]

Since getting my tent set up I’ve had my best grow to date (4 others prior) but then my tallest plant ever grew what were undeniably balls.

She’s a month into flowering, her pistils are 80% white and while she smells great, the buds on her aren’t completely full yet.

She’s my favorite plant and I really don’t want to cut her down, but I don’t want her to knock up her sister.

Can i harvest her unfinished buds and make somewhat good butter with them? She’s a sativa so I wasn’t looking for a couch lock anyways.

here’s a crappy pic of her topmost colas. I actually didn’t see that many balls on her so she may have a fighting chance if I use a shower liner to keep them separate since I don’t have another grow space. (I was high when I came up with that idea)

 

[Gingerbeard]

Wait. What? Tallest plant grew balls a month into flowering and she might knock up her sister, but she's your favorite plant? The shower liner will not stop pollen from getting to a female. Using any part of the plant will do something to you. 80% white hairs don't mean too much. Check out the GWE website about harvesting. Use the search engine.
Immature buds are... well... immature, a month into flowering. I can't believe you have something to harvest in that amount of time. The pictures show, perhaps, a month left in flowering?
Maybe I'm high. I don't understand your post.

 

[Stahlherz420]

I guess it would be more accurate to say she *was* my favorite plant. Before I was growing in a crappy apartment closet with no ventilation and was still very much a beginner, so those plants never got more than a foot in height. This one is like 3 feet tall so it’s my personal best record. That’s what makes me so sad...

But I think I found a good butter recipe for her.

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Sure go ahead make butter but i would of removed a male plant out of the tent at the first sign of balls. :sweating:

 

[Rwise]

The pollen could be an issue IF you are allergic to it, other than the racy paranoid high of immature bud.

 

[DeadlyFruit]

Maybe post a pic if you can just to confirm those are balls and not something else - given t is your fifth grow that is possibly hopeless optimism. I don’t see any reason why you can’t make butter. I don’t think it is generally understood why immature bud gives a racing buzz, which is the commonly agreed impact, but I don’t know if anyone can say that carry’s through processing into butter (it might). I’d certainly give it a try as an experiment with the understanding I might toss it if it is not the experience I want. I’d also say that bud is always so much smaller after drying than it looked, especially when they a start out puffy with pistils while still being immature, so you may have far less bud than you think. If I have a problem plant with airy popcorn bud it generally all goes into the trim pile rather than spending a bunch of time trying to trim weird little pieces., which I usually make edibles with.