Beautiful plants and view! Your whole concept there is awesome. You posted a link to the bird camera a couple of months back and I turned it on, set my phone next to me and smoked a couple bowls just listening to all the birds. I can imagine how peaceful that is in person. Truly enjoy following your posts
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Anytime any forum people are going to be in Tucson, send a note and come visit!
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The anticipation!!
Would you post pictures of the tricomes when you cut? Lots of people ask when to harvest.
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Sure! I want to note that I am far from an expert.
People have different opinions about how much color should be there before harvest.
I am trying to kill pain AND get a nice feeling when I can. I, personally have found that ‘all clear’, while it can be motivational, did not do it for me from a pain relief aspect. In my limited experience, I have yet to see ANY bud mature uniformly, so the “when all x or y” response was never valid to me.
If NOT a hermie thing/ out too early thing, BUT, an actual harvest due to maturation, my personal approach is a combination of maybe a third amber (or a bit more) and the rest milky/translucent. Occasionally, I let a couple buds go longer to more than 50% amber for a ‘knock-out’ sleepy bud. This time around, I have a waiting turnover for the space, so all will go at once.
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I’ll take the selfish road here, and rephrase the question. Would you mind taking a picture when you harvest, because I like the knock you an your ass smoke, and the pictures you just posted look like when I’d usually harvest. The waiting game kills me! So I was hoping to go more amber this round, and since you’re about there, and those pictures are super clear I’d love to see when you do harvest.
I agree with a plant being uniform, I sure can’t pull it off. I’ve grown myself into a corner literally this round, so harvest time will be a complete shit show trying to get stuff out.
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Outside - Break time
Defoliation is important now as plants really switch to flowering. Deep interior bud sites will grow, but will be inferior bud. Unless you’re making hash or have a press, they are kind of useless. Even then, you have to take the space to cure them properly. I find it better to remove the interior larf (lousy ass reject flower, my own definition for the word/acronym) and make the plant concentrate on the areas that get exposure.
These plants are re-vegged!
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Nice Tree’s you have growing in the desert!
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Super Silver Haze, 2021 harvest, organically grown, solvent-less rosin, dawn pressing , now testing, sipping tea with canna honey.
I infused a huge amount of decarboxylated kief into commercial honey, before and after here. Because I heated it for a while, and heat destroys some properties of honey, I used commercial honey as a concentrated base to mix into other honey.
The concentrate was incorporated it into some local honey from my neighbor.
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Cutting tomorrow!
First caveat - this bud had a cracked stem that I supported with wire for a month and it was “more mature” than the others. I just cut the bud to make it easier for photos. With that said, the others look perfect, just slightly less amber than the following photos (a lot harder to balance ipad, get camera focused in fan wind and take the pic, so none of the others)
I did a quick wet trim of the bud so the camera could have better access. Normally, I dry trim.
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Looking good. 
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Thank you so much! Looks great!
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I am going to press the bud first thing tomorrow morning. It will be soon enough to call it “live rosin”
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Drying
Humidifier is set in the corner to 60% and I have the thermometer/hygrometer set in similar parameters so I can check it with the phone. It is one of those cheap $12 Amazon specials, but they are just excellent. The white cord goes to a fan, just out of the picture on the right, to keep the air circulating.
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I run the same humidifier when I dry! Great little thing
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wow, impressed with your plants…always look excellent…in a DESERT GROW??..exceptional!!!
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Thank you, from someone with your knowledge base, I take that as a very true compliment.
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