[tropicanna]

it went from bright green to olive/brownish green by the 5th day of drying under hot and humid conditions.

[tropicanna]

here…take a look.

[SneakySneaky]

Originally Posted by DodoKing

thanks for the answer,

not all the trichomes are amber just small spots of multiple amber trichs, also some other branches from the same plant dont seem to be affected...I unfortunately dont have any usb-microscopes to take a picture, maybe my macro lens will work, I'll try tmrw.

so my harvesting technique is this:

I chop em at the stem, cut off all the fan leaves, then seperate branches from the trunk, I hang em up after that in a completely dark room, (like I said, every now and then it gets a little ray of light in there since it cant be fully closed with the hose is in the door for the washing machine), with about 70°f/20°c and RH at 45-55%, they're usually ready to be trimmed and jared for curing within 7-12 days depending on bud size...hope that helps

If your having problems with keeping humidity controlled get some cardboard boxes and hang strings thru the middle to hang your plants in, the transpiration rates go down and you can put some of those little reptile humidity/temp combo sticks in each box to monitor the progress. Drying too fast/slow in high temp will brown out your stuff and lead to a major loss of terpenes, so it'll smell hayish grassy and taste harsh. Another thing is to realize what your feeding affects the plants as well. When it's not flushed all the way and the fan leaves are left on that stored nutrient soup inside the leaves gets dispersed thruought the whole stem when drying so that can lead to abnormal curing and flavored as well. Unless u can get a room ac it'll be difficult to do anything to combat the heat without drying in ur grow area (provided it does have ac). Best method for herb is a long low and slow cure, faster u go more problems you'll have in a faster time. Good luck and keep on growing, once u jump down the rabbit hole it's hard to go back hehe.

[LostTribe]

Don't look Amber to me maybe a few ha many days on what strain?

[PoweredByLove]

doesn't look that amber to me either. just based on the sample size in your pic I would say it's less than 5% amber. could just be it looks amber to you in the lighting, only other thing I can think of is its too hot where you're drying which speeds carboxylation. but I doubt it would be enough to make everything amber.

[jesbuds]

You're worrying about the wrong things, smoke it and move on to the next strain/grow.

[aridbud]

pretty sure trichs continue to mature during the drying period..

Exactly.