Lemon skunk harvest #1 !

Hi all. Just like to share my first ever harvest and have a couple of questions regarding curing.

The strain is lemon skunk from greenhouse and was growin under a 250w, heres a pic took not long before harvest.. .

I chopped the plant in different stages, starting off with the bigger sidebranches. {they 'dried' in 3 days} Then the main colas and the lower popcorn buds. I think it all dried a little too fast though, as after 3-4 days the buds were quite crispy to the touch but the stems were still quite bendable. But i thought it would be best to get them into jars rather than have them dry out even more. They were dried in a diy drybox attached to my tent, with a pc fan extracting but was getting very low humidity in there.

I weighed this semi dry bud before i jarred them and got 46g. So now theyve been in there for a 4 days now. been burping 3 times a day, all looks ok and smells great. The larger main colas have darkened more already than the popcornd bud from lower down. Buds do feel a little hard/crispy around the edges still.
Feel quite compact/dense when i squeeze them a little. Stems are drying up, but still not getting the snap. Weighed again today and have 38g.

So, i really dont know if my bud is curing the way it should. I know its early doors as far as curing time goes but i just wanna make sure the bud isnt gonna dry out too fast still and if i should maybe add a wet q-tip to the jars every now and again?
Theres not a huge amount of bud there so i dont think im in any real danger of mold.

How should bud feel when its been cured properly? I want to get a good idea on what im trying to achieve here. Should it be like soft, but not moist soft? A little bit crispy or brittle on the outside?
If i drive a pair of scissors through a mature bud, what should it be like, would it crumble into fine dust or lumpy bits ? Fluffy or coarse {the reason i ask is thats how i smoke my bud, i just roll j's and cut through the bud into powder and sprinkle in}.

Also when curing, if stems are still bendable, should i burp more, or leave it open for a longer period of time at each burp ? Will that help any ?

I know those questions can be tricky to answer as there is alot of different varibles to take into account. But any input at all is welcomed.




Thanks for looking.

congrats on your first harvest, looking very nice!

i'm a newb so cannot answer any of your questions

well done your first harvest,

plant looks ok what way did u dry it? very small plant for leomn skunk

Thanks guys. Much apprieciated.

I dried it in a homemade dry box m8... .

Dried pretty fast in there, not sure if using a bigger box would have slowed it down.

It was vegged for two weeks under a 250mh, topped {as im growing in a dr60}, then 9weeks flowering. But had a really bad start as a seedling, was growing all mutated leaves n shit, but it grew out it nicely, still a few retared leaves here and there, suprised it got anything at all from it in the end, to think i nearly killed it too .

Messed up seedling pic and pic at 12/12 switch...

Good job!
Cant to harvest. It to will be my first harvest.

Yah go on newbud123 thread. he has postd a video/link of how to dry and cure buds.
It shoulld answer ur questions.

Check out my grow.

i think u shud of veged it for alot longer. i done a lemon skunk veged for 8 weeks then flowering 8 to 9 weeks 400w hps was six foot tall. mybe i left it in veg to long but wasnt complaining as it payed off

Cant to harvest. It to will be my first harvest.

Yah go on newbud123 thread. he has postd a video/link of how to dry and cure buds.
It shoulld answer ur questions.

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Best of luck with that mate. Il be sure to check newbuds thread. Cheers.

i think u shud of veged it for alot longer. i done a lemon skunk veged for 8 weeks then flowering 8 to 9 weeks 400w hps was six foot tall. mybe i left it in veg to long but wasnt complaining as it payed off

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Perhaps mate yeah. But as im growing in a dr60, plant height/width has always been an issue. Would love a 6 ft monster. Did you weigh/what did you yield of that m8 ?

Id love to have vegged until sex was shown, but like i say, i had to watch what i was doin. Also have a sativa growing in there in a 15litre pot which has went a bit haywire and is taking up alot of the space too.. Cant wait til this harvest, goin to have mega sticky fingers trimming this one though.

But yeah m8, the way that lemon skunk turned out was ideal for me, plant height etc and yeild. That good oz will last me a whille. Me love it long time!
But who wouldnt want more bud if possible right? Goin to get a small clip on fan for my reflector for my next grow to get the light closer. but prob just veg the same {maybe go mental and veg for an extra week}.. and top in the same fashion as the lemon skunk... depending on the strains i choose ofc.... Which is gonna take me a while to decide...

I think maybe you got some kind of unusual pheno there as my lemon skunk looks nothing like that either...Mine grew between 3 and 4 feet in veg under 1000W MH for 2 months it is much more lanky looking then yours with less foilage. Especially going into flower urs looked like a different strain all togather, perhaps just difference in conditions..