So, major fail on my part. I procrastinated trellising the plants and paid the price. Can't chalk this up to a rookie mistake. I knew better and just didn't get it done. Got home from work and checked on the plants about an hour before dark. We had some pretty heavy rain and some wind. I found varying amounts of damage to the plants.
I gathered up the broken limbs and taped some up, that looked like they might make it, hoping to buy some time. I also jammed in some stakes and ran some garden twine around to provide some support against further damage. I just did as much as I could until dark and the rain starting back up shut me down.
Next I pulled
Butter Waves out of the dry tent to make room for incoming casualties. Luckily she'd been in there for 9 days and was ready for cure. I knocked the buds off the stems, weighed her and put her in grove bags. I decarboxylated the dried trim from
Butter Waves and put that in a grove bag while trimming the damaged limbs I had collected. 15.1oz flower plus 5.3oz of trim. Everything was in a rush and I'm a noob, so not claiming I did a great job. I know I didn't. Here are some photos:
A high tolerance buddy who only smokes concentrates dropped by and sampled
Butter Waves. I love feedback, good or bad, from others. He made a couple comments that were encouraging. "Are you saying this can actually improve with some cure time?" and "Whoa, I think I hit that [bong] too hard!"
I set about a rushed and loose trim job of the busted branches. I consoled myself by saying I'll try the bowl trim when it's done drying. Wrapped up the night close to 2:00am. Hung the new stuff in the dry tent.
My original plan was to chop
Slurty3 and
Sour Diesel this weekend. They are both ahead of the Indica-leaning
Jet Fuel Odder Popz. I didn't take photos, but I did look at her under the wifi microscope. She is just barely showing some amber. It's supposed to clear up Saturday. I hope to chop whatever is necessary before daylight and before the rain resumes Sunday. I wish I had bought a 4X4 to dry in. No way I'll get it all in this 2X4. With luck I'll be able to save what is left of
Jet Fuel until
Slurty and
Diesel are finished drying. A positive is there's no sign of bud rot or pm (that I can see), so far.
No matter how it pans out, I've already exceeded my expectations from when I started. I was imagining 3' plants that I hoped would produce a few ounces of smokeable weed. There's so much bad shit happening in the world that I won't whimper too much. I'm having a blast, looking forward to a first indoor grow over the Winter and I have learned a lot to improve outdoors next year
Just today I learned that I oughta be washing this stuff
PS-
Slurty and
Sour D look like they have higher yield than Butter. Hard for me to guess on
Jet Fuel. She's shorter and a lot wider with smaller buds.
