Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing

[Listersmeghead]

My wife found this place its like a dream come true. We dont have any utility bills other than internet. In Philly we were paying a lot of money cost me $300+ monthly just for electric not counting water or gas for heat.

Even if/when the grid goes down we will still have lighting (battery backup) and that will run for a day or 2 without grid. The electric company stopped sending me a bill. Which is weird not complaining but I think they owe us money! We generate more than we consume. I still have to figure out how to get a cash credit! lol

They have a local wind turbine company that makes them for residential/farm use. With a large enough solar array you wont need extra but it'd be nice to have backup plan B

Yes the electric company will need to pay you if you're sending power their way.
In the UK people who have solar have a meter recording what they return to the grid, they then recieve a payment.
I think you might want to install your own meter then start sending a bill to the electric company.
How much were they charging you for a kw....

 

[Van Stank]

I don't know about your state Bob, but in Mass we are capped with the size we can have and still get paid the full amount from the electric company.

If we have less than a 15kw system.....it will pay us the max rate for excess energy produced. But if you have a system larger than 15kw for residential they knock down the amount they will pay you less than 10% of what full rate is. I'm sure each state is different with their regulations and requirements.

 

[425jesse]

Woah Hyena, 100 pages. Great journaling brother.

 

[Hyena Merica]

Woah Hyena, 100 pages. Great journaling brother.

Thanks Jesse...I appreciate you, and all who stop in and enjoy the demented rantings of a devoted pothead. I truly do.

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• Hyena Merica
• Jan 23, 2020

Peace, Hyena

 

[Hyena Merica]

It's May! Spring is here!

So here's the latest HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!

Well, this week's visit is juicy...I'm making this look easy. I can't take full credit as Ma Nature is working very hard in these tents...

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

Every cola from wall to wall is chunky and getting chunkier. For a 50-50 Sativa/Indica it has nice overall charcteristics. Good development down the branch, super sweet aroma, very sticky, orange hair, even sprinkling of purple here and there. I'm having such an easy time with these girls.

Here's a few shots:

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020
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Going to give this ten more days because the trichs are all still clear. I think it will be a fat haul by a week from Monday. The humidity is up there so I cranked up the fans, pulled fan leaves for the last time and gave them their last big drink of nutes. We will go to pure water for the final week and that will be more than enough to get them tasting pure danky. This will be a very nice crop!

In tent #2 we are a week into 12/12:

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

And as always, I don't know if I should have waited another week... Still 2-3 weeks to stretch but I'm just saying I hope they do. It seems like I never quite get the canopy height perfect. I'd love them a foot higher, that's all and they will probably do that. I probably removed 250 fan leaves and now all the branches possible are in the light and this hedge should start to strengthen up and flower.

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

Then looked in on their sisters, the clones...

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

Sure thing, they are all looking good and starting to produce roots! This cloning thing is so easy a caveman could do it. The lower temperature I have them at is slowing the process some but it's working fine and that's actually perfect. I want them ready in two weeks, not before. Looks like it will be just right.

As always I clipped a bud from the flower tent to dry for sampling...one frosty nugget!

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

Yes, in 2 weeks this crop will be massive. Not looking forward to three days of intense hell trimming it up but hey, that's part of the deal. Hopefully Florida will open up a bit just in time for us to get down there Thursday. Then back up to the forest of fun for some "shear" enjoyment. It's so lush and thick I don't even know what's in there...

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• Hyena Merica
• May 1, 2020

Never know who you'll meet in the forest.

Have a great weekend!

Peace, Hyena

 

[1ne eye]

Looking great as always Hyena.

 

[DeeCee112]

Hey Hyena I’ve read that defoliating during the flowering stretch can reduce the amount they stretch. For that reason, true or not, I always defoliate a few days before the flip and then wait until it’s done as I also have had trouble getting the height I want.

 

[multiVortex]

It's so lush and thick I don't even know what's in there...

There's weed in there. Just sayin.

 

[Hyena Merica]

Hey Hyena I’ve read that defoliating during the flowering stretch can reduce the amount they stretch. For that reason, true or not, I always defoliate a few days before the flip and then wait until it’s done as I also have had trouble getting the height I want.

Yes I have heard that too but the flip side is, these leaves are SO BIG, every one completely blocks a new branch so my rule has become only pull a fan that obscures a bud site. Hopefully the addition of all those branches to daylight will offset the loss of all those leaves. My guess is anything we do within reason will be just fine...cannabis always grows and grows and grows....you can't stop this shit.

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• Hyena Merica
• Nov 24, 2019

Peace, Hyena

 

[DeeCee112]

Yes I have heard that too but the flip side is, these leaves are SO BIG, every one completely blocks a new branch so my rule has become only pull a fan that obscures a bud site. Hopefully the addition of all those branches to daylight will offset the loss of all those leaves. My guess is anything we do within reason will be just fine...cannabis always grows and grows and grows....you can't stop this shit.

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• Hyena Merica
• Nov 24, 2019

Peace, Hyena

I always find myself popping a couple leaves per plant here and there as well, I just can’t help it!

 

[DonkeyDick]

Congrats on the century! Great journal.
Views across the midwest savannah resplendent as ever.
Nice work

 

[MackMurder]

Yes I have heard that too but the flip side is, these leaves are SO BIG, every one completely blocks a new branch so my rule has become only pull a fan that obscures a bud site. Hopefully the addition of all those branches to daylight will offset the loss of all those leaves. My guess is anything we do within reason will be just fine...cannabis always grows and grows and grows....you can't stop this shit.

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• Hyena Merica
• Nov 24, 2019

Peace, Hyena

I get wild with defoliating myself
Once I start ill usuallyy end up with 1 or 2x5 gallon pails of leaves by the time I'm finished I've got bad OCD tho.

BEFORE
About 3 weeks since flip

AFTER
(Like 5 minutes after defoliation)

This is a few days after defoliation
Seems the stress definately works in my favour
At about 4 weeks into flower.

I spent about 6 hours stripping down 22 plants. If it ain't attached directly to a bud site I strip it.
Plants seem to like it. I get bud sites and fully developed buds all the way down to the stem that way. Id like to try lolipopping next to get buds to the top more tho see what all the fuss is about.

 

[PGA Caddie]

I’m Jonesin for a Hyena update

 

[COgrower]

I’m Jonesin for a Hyena update

It's my weekly serial.

Like sand through an hourglass, so are the Days of our Buds

 

[Hyena Merica]

Okay, here's a belated (but oh so sincere)

HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!

Been out of touch but it's becuz I went to Florida with the wifey last Thursday and we had a GREAT time! Thanks for asking.

So my final visit to the Grow Haus was Wednesday and I liked what I saw!

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

This room of buddage is popping! Yes it's beautiful and the smell, while not skunky (this is a very sweet variety) it still has that rich aroma of pulsating cannabis colas tightly packed in a small space. Delicious!

Here's a few snaps of these buds...

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

You can see a singular banana on that last bud, I have snipped about a half-dozen in the past couple weeks...I am under no illusion that a plant whose parent resulted from a hermie flower would still have a little of that trait so as they say in Mexico, no surpriso. And it's also unrealistic to think there isn't a small undetected banana somewhere I haven't noticed. Oh well...Having made the decision to let it go another 9 days, I felt the additional swelling would outweigh the growing risk of significant seedage. No choice now! Hopefully there won't be any real issue with seeds.

In tent #2 the Indica family was in week 2 of 12/12...

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

It's so green it's like a screen saver.

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

There was no real pistil explosion quite yet but again these shots were 6 days ago...tomorrow I expect to see a whole lot of white hairy action!

Turning to the clone closet...

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

WOW, an amazing explosion of roots on every one! I was out of time or I would have probably engineered a way to put them into Grodan cubes and let them gain a foothold in them. I hope tomorrow when I want to do that they can do it without damage, there might be too many roots to use a cube by then!

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

We will know tomorrow. So since I am having a big shed built today I delayed the trip North to do the three-day chopathon, I will go tomorrow and then it's slaughterhouse for at least a couple solar cycles. I'm ready!!

I will post a report when I get back. Hopefully my fingers won't fall off from using those little scissors!

Meanwhile, I will get stoned...

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• Hyena Merica
• May 12, 2020

Explains a lot, I'm afraid. Keep your world green!

Peace, Hyena

 

[Bode]

Highya HM,

Love your update! The colas are looking as I expected; huge, many, and very frosty! The clone room will look like this one in a couple months!! Also love the clone update! I think I'd go hempy until they find their grow home. Happy Snippin'

 

[DonkeyDick]

Nice one, HM. That flower room looks like dynamite!

I gotta say I’m enjoy your calendar in the grow room. Really helping to keep track of things. Cheers.

 

[kiwiman]

Hey buddy so in your cloner is it just water and are the misters on a timer? Cheers and mate that garden looks on fire

 

[Hyena Merica]

Hey buddy so in your cloner is it just water and are the misters on a timer? Cheers and mate that garden looks on fire

Hi Kiwiman, thanks for stopping by!

I am using a small amount of Clonex and a very small shot of grow nutes in the res, and the sprayers just go 24/7. It's VERY dilute because of the 25 gallon supplemental reservoir. Plus I also sprayed the leaves twice with that clone foliar spray. Frankly I'm blown away by the amount of roots and can't imagine what I might have to untangle tomorrow!

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• Hyena Merica
• Jan 13, 2020

Next report will be HUGE!

Peace, Hyena

 

[PGA Caddie]

Plants are looking great man and it seems your cloning game is on point.

Glad you had a good time in FL. I figured that’s why we hadn’t heard from you. My mother in-law just moved back here from FL. I’m ready to send her back.

Can I bother you for a little more advice? My plants are starting to put off a lot of odor and I’m going to exhaust outside my building. UPS and FedEx unload within 30-40yds from the building and I’d rather them not be aware of my activities. What kind of filter you running in your tents? I’m prepared to spend some money on this just want to make sure I’m getting my moneys worth.