This season is winding down for me, 5-6 days of rain on the horizon. It's kind of windy so its hard to get a non-blurry pic. The DC needs about a week or two more, but it's uncovered and at least 70% will come down before the next rain, which means tomorrow. Anything that is so far from mature that it is totally unsmokeable will stay up, I might as well give it a shot at making it to the next sunny days (hopefully we have a few more on the other side of this rain). So far, no PM and no bud rot, and it was drenched by 4 days of rain last week.
Since it's been a concern that the ripper(s) might revisit for the rest of the AH, I already took any remaining main colas and anything where the hairs had mostly turned darker. I'll probably take another batch in the next day or two, and then since it's covered and has not shown any signs of PM or bud rot, I might leave the rest and see if it makes it to the next sunny stretch (assuming we have one?). One pic is of what's left on the plant, the other is what I have hanging.
I've been grumbling about how the OGS seeds did not finish as early as I had hoped, but I will say they have avoided PM and bud rot so far, and I'm reading a lot of others have been hit by them. That's no small thing!
Some of this will get jarred and cured, some might get fresh frozen for bubble hash. Since it's an early harvest I'll mix it with mature bud and the larfy Indica-dominant autos I grew this summer, hopefully that will take the edge off the high. I think its a common experience that if you let them go too long (all or mostly amber trichomes), it becomes a couch-lock high, but I've also found that inversely if you take them too early, it's an edgy unpleasant high. Hopefully the mix of calming body indica high and edgy sativa taken-down-too-early high will net something enjoyable.
@Joe Buddens - in the second pic it looks like some of the leaves are a little bent where they touching the plastic? Be careful with that, you can get condensation on the inside of the plastic and then PM where the moisture gets trapped between the leaf and the plastic.
So my girls are looking pretty ugly...ive lost the majority of my fan leaves over the past few weeks. Gave them some nutrients about a week ago but the yellowing continues. Yield will be down but the positives so far: max air flow, no pm, no bugs! Basically just stems with buds. Humanrob, sorry to hear that some aholes visited you.
