Dense vs. fluffy nugs

Please excuse my inexperience/stupidity. I just chopped my first nug today as sort of a test run... on a test plant lol. I'm growing a bagseed plant on week 6 of flowering and chopped just one of the colas (wasn't quite ready but has maybe 50% cloudy trichs) to practice trimming/drying/curing before I chop the rest of the plant down.

When I was trimming I noticed a pretty high leaf to calyx ratio and after trimming, it was pretty damn fluffy... but is still very sticky and smells super skunky. I'd say about 70% of the pistils on this bud had turned brown but it still wasn't quite ready. It also foxtailed quite a bit.

Will it stay fluffy or will it get more dense as it dries/cures? Because I've bought bad quality mids (much lower than what I grew) that were SUPER dense. But I haven't really had really fluffy bud that was great, either.

eventually it will get really dense depending on how you store it

basically what it comes down to is the fluffy-er the more it will shrink those dense swag buds you got was probably flat am i right? a trick is look at how big the stem is and you can kind of judge how big the bud was so when you see a nug the size of a quarter with a giant stem in it you can kind of picture ho big the bud was also dense buds keep their shape while fluffy buds just flatten out

The guy above me doesn't know what he's talking about. Dense buds aren't squashed fluffy buds or whatever the fuck he's saying. Dense buds come from dense buds. You chopped at 6 weeks. Basically no weed is going to be done at 6 weeks. I normally go 9 min. I would consider 8 very short. Your buds are leafy because the plant is just now starting to swell more than likely. Let the calyxes swell for 3 weeks or so.

It also depends on the strain. Some strains are crap until the last few weeks. Heat stress, environment, lighting etc plays a part. There are also additives that commercial guys use to bulk on weight but draws away from quality.

Like hornedfrog said its not ready yet it will get more dense. And also if its sativa or sativa dominant the buds tend to be more fluffy anyways.

hornedfrog2000 said:

The guy above me doesn't know what he's talking about. Dense buds aren't squashed fluffy buds or whatever the fuck he's saying. Dense buds come from dense buds. You chopped at 6 weeks. Basically no weed is going to be done at 6 weeks. I normally go 9 min. I would consider 8 very short. Your buds are leafy because the plant is just now starting to swell more than likely. Let the calyxes swell for 3 weeks or so.

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instead of saying hes wrong try to read what is written it may be hard you might have to backup and start again obviously you aren't too bright but its okay i'll elaborate for you

he was trying to make a comparison to his home grown, and street swag i was pointing out that it was fluffy at one point it being dense is just because it flattened out making it seem dense.

you can chop your 6 week ladies put them in a bag and in a month later you'll have something similar to your street swag typically thats how it works premature bud clipped and dried put on the street so they can get the next crop in and so on and so forth or you can let it go for another 4 weeks and have headies quality

or you can do what hornyfrog does and grow shit weed

ive had fluffy diesel that smoked great, still think about her occasionally... :'(

the skunk i grow is fluffy sticky and smelly

Light intensity and strain can cause this issue but 6 weeks is a little early. When was the last time you changed your bulb?

If you're new to growing; you'll NEVER grow weed as dense as what has been packaged and shipped accross the country (commercial weed) that shit is literally a big ass nug that's been compacted to what most non-medical folks recognize as a cannabis nugget. If you want to grow NATURALLY dense buds you need good light penetration, good genetics/nutrient-intake/light-schedule, weeks in flower, and air circulation through your plants. It'll take a while to get naturally dense buds; keeping your plants small and concentrating growth to a lower number of colas will definitely help. And some buds are just naturally wicked fluffy; Jerry Berry for example haha.

Sir.Ganga said:

Light intensity and strain can cause this issue but 6 weeks is a little early. When was the last time you changed your bulb?

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Amazing what a new quality bulb can do.

i love fluffy buds, and i hate grinder dense weed the perfect weed packs a bowl with no need to grind or break up. i actually choose strains that are not rock hard

Thanks guys. Yeah, I chopped much too early... after drying that one little bud for a day, it literally has NO smell other than fresh cut grass/hay. Probably not even gonna be worth smoking but it was one of the smaller buds on the plant.

I'm using CFL's and they'll all relatively new bulbs. Might just be that I don't have enough light.

BygonEra said:

Thanks guys. Yeah, I chopped much too early... after drying that one little bud for a day, it literally has NO smell other than fresh cut grass/hay. Probably not even gonna be worth smoking but it was one of the smaller buds on the plant.

I'm using CFL's and they'll all relatively new bulbs. Might just be that I don't have enough light.

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thats how it smells sometimes when you quick dry a few weeks in jars you'll get that typical weed smell

Its not about it being fluffy or dense its how it smokes and gets you high. Northern lights is kind of fluffy. Gets you high as hell. Alot of sativas are fluffy and done right will also gey you high. How was the sample?

Really.. 1oz of fluff is the same as 1oz of dense nugs. Grow your own... be happy..

I like the dense ones, they burn right. They can get too hard, but fluffy, never, burns too fast and hot. Kush strains tend to be more dense. Light distance, spectrum, intensity, CO2, Ph, lots of factors.

La Azulrubi said:

Really.. 1oz of fluff is the same as 1oz of dense nugs. Grow your own... be happy..

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Hahaha No.




not unless youre doing that Newtons gravity law thingy but that would be drug abuse.

La Azulrubi said:

Really.. 1oz of fluff is the same as 1oz of dense nugs. Grow your own... be happy..

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be that as it may. dense just means the bud is fuller means there's more per nug i like more weed then less weed

same plant same bud sites one fluffy ones dense the dense one will weigh twice maybe 3 times as much as the fluffly one

if you prefer fluffy over dense its just because you've never grow anything but

Usual ignorance