Well, atmospheric river on the way tonight, so I thought I'd do an early harvest, 42 tops in total! Even though it's a few weeks early, the buds are a really good size and very frosty. I also wanted to open the canopy up for the remaining buds and also check out how bad the rot was, and to my surprise really good! None of the main tops had rot, I spotted a half dozen smaller nugs during harvest.
All bud was washed, 3 buckets, baking soda and lemon juice in 1, then 2 clean cold rinse buckets. Snip top, snip off fan leaves only, wash in bucket 1,2 3, hang to dry outside for 15 min, then bring into basement for drying. Will hang dry for 7 days, sweat in paper for a day or 2, then light trim and into grove bags. Bucket 1 after wash was NASTY, grey, couldnt even see the bottom, please wash your outdoor!
After harvest I took some more pics, still TONS left to "hopefully" ripen over another 2-3 weeks.
Even being this early, the trichomes were looking good. I mostly do Rosin and Edibles, so I don't need max swollen buds. We have 98% humidity over nights, and there's no way to fully ripen in that kind of weather.
This is my new favorite strain so far, this was the earliest harvest I've had in a while, buds are great, uniform, almost no budrot so far.
I bought bubble bags to try out some hash washing. I fresh froze some small stuff from another plant. If it works out and the rest of this doesn't rot out I'll fresh freeze a ton. I have a small Rosin press to so I finally get to try out some Live Rosin!