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@pleased420 I'm super tempted to harvest a nug like you suggest. I've usually let my plants amber up a bit, and I've often found that I miss the window for flavor. Indeed, this girl was much louder a week ago. She has actually been cloudy on her top nugs, for about two weeks. She clouds up early. SSH#8 is the girl who kept leaning to the side, she has a PERFECT nug in the middle of her canopy that had no shade because of the stem above, leaning away. It would be the perfect test nug. I just wonder if I have enough self-control to refrain from plucking off nugs here and there, once I start. She may be bare come harvest time!
If I did decide to take a test nug. How would one go about drying and curing such a small sample in a way that lets me appreciate if she has any flavor and what type of high? I would mainly want to harvest earlier to maintain terps and "volume" of flavor. But, without a decent dry and cure.... flavor tends to not shine through.
If you could give me any tips you use for a quality test, I'd appreciate it. This would save me having to wait until I re-run her as a SOG and harvesting plants at different stages to find out what her ideal window is. At the rate she is swelling and frosting up, I'm concerned that her last feeding should have been the first day of her flush.
I can't help but imagine what kind of squat, NLD, frosted goodness I would reap should I make f2's with #8 and my male I showed earlier in the thread and in
@Swifty Stud thread. She is quick, not too tall, frosted, smells AMAZING, and has perfect buds for a sativa dom. Plus, she handled the stress I put the girls through MARVELOUSLY. Combine that with my male's short stature, extremely long and narrow leaves. Some choice f2's could pop up from that mating.
Thanks again for the advice and kind words. I hope you have a hazy day!
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Edit: Except for 2 small golden nugs of three-year-old CBG buds I found squirreled away in the back of my closet, I'm out of bud. I've been taking 2-3 hits a night with it to try and ease my back before bed. You have me wondering if I should just chop half the plant as a tester. I could let the bottom half ripen up further. The middle nug I mentioned, has the same level of cloudy trichomes as the top nug. I could chop directly above it, and still have a good sample to allow ripening. Hmm....
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This would give me a few grams of bud.