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This is northern lights started from seed. It started to flower inside, and re-vegged when outdoors. It actually did pretty well overall, and is the largest plant that I started from seed.

We're starting to get frost warnings and there was already some bud rot so I decided to do a very rough trim to look for rot and any insects (found a lot of eggs ๐Ÿคฎ) and then bring it in to dry.

Off the plant and into a bowl:

Bud rot:

Some nice buds

Not too shabby

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[โ€“] FrostyTrichs@crazypeople.online 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Always awesome to see a grow harvested. The rot sucks for sure but at least you made it through the season with a harvest! How much longer do you think you'll let the other plants go? Frost warnings aren't the kind of frost I like lol.

They barely have buds at all, let alone mature ones. ๐Ÿ˜ญ

I'm just going to cover them when we are at risk of hard frost and hope for the best.

[โ€“] bizzle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rot totally fucking sucks bro but the stuff you saved looks really good! Do you wash your buds post harvest, to get rid of mold spores and eggs?

[โ€“] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I didn't wash these ones (or harvests from previous years), but I did wash another plant recently to compare. Very little came off, but I suppose mold spores are not visible.

The eggs were very visible on the leaves so i got those off pretty easily in trimming.

Eta: we haven't had any mold show up in our previous harvests after drying and curing, and we end up storing for maybe 18 months at most before we use it all? So I think we do a pretty good job removing a large amount of bud around the mold (mildew?) and avoiding contamination.