InTheShed Grows Inside & Out: Jump In Any Time

[InTheShed]

First of two Monday updates, this one with the final weight on the 5 Killer Cookies so we can close the book on that.

Yesterday we finally had some dryer weather move through, so with a house RH of 61% I put a fan on the open bags (held up by the breeze) for about 3 hours:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

5 Killer Cookies final burp

This morning one bag was at 62% and the other at 61%, so it was time to finally weigh the harvest:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

5 Killer Cookies final weight
502g / 17.7oz

That's 474g, plus the 28g I gave to my son's friend who helped trim, which brings the total to:
502g or 17.7oz.

That's easily my best, I'm sure made possible by @ChefDGreen's genetics and the SWICK I labored through. And it works out works out to an incredible 4.05g/day above ground, which is really crazy!

Here it is all jarred up, and it took 10 to get it all in:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

5 Killer Cookies jarred

In other news, Le Creme CBG clone is no more:

20231001_094027 LeC CBG clone after.jpg

• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

Le Creme CBG clone culled

I found a taker for the 3-in-1-solo-cup Amnesia Lemon Kushs, so those go next weekend.

That's it for this post, and I'll do the harvest one this evening once I've caught up on what I've missed on the site. Have a great day and thanks for following along!


Quotes:

thats the kind i love to grow
Thank you bro I know I'm a master at the sour G! They starting to look like I rolled them around in powdered sugar I set them down for the cure tomorrow!

Powdered sugar for sure!

Congrats on the plant of the month win this month shed!!! Well deserved

Thank you Newb!

POTM congrates Shed, another great looking plant

Thanks con, it was a winner in more ways than one!

 

[LKABudMan]

Congrats on POTM, and with a 17+oz plant! Fantastic harvest Shed.

 

[Graytail]

That's 474g, plus the 28g I gave to my son's friend who helped trim, which brings the total to:
502g or 17.7oz.

That's easily my best, I'm sure made possible by @ChefDGreen's genetics and the SWICK I labored through. And it works out works out to an incredible 4.05g/day above ground, which is really crazy!

Here it is all jarred up, and it took 10 to get it all in:

20231002_085957 5KC in jars.jpg

• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

5 Killer Cookies jarred

Wow! That's gotta be one of the biggest harvests I've seen from a potted plant!

Superb!

 

[Grand Daddy Black]

Nice haul!

 

[Carcass]

Well, that's a record breaker....
Great harvest/haul, Shed!
That's liable to become your new normal, if you continue growing in those SWICKs...

 

[Bode]

Highya ITS,

Very nice harvest, and weight!! Always good to set the bar/milestone higher. Ups your game trying to beat that. Yeah, she had good genetics, but it wasn't all that! You're experienced enough to handle what comes along. And that's a good thing! Also, congratulations for POTM. Do they have room for double digits under the awards? Happy Smokin'

 

[Carmen Ray]

Amazing! A job so well done!

 

[InTheShed]

Okay, here is the Grandpa's Moonshine harvest update!

Grandpa's Moonshine is another cross by @ChefDGreen, this one of Cookies n Chem x Purple Punch x GG#4. It vegged for 92 days (because it had to recover after I needed to replant it out of the SIP), and came down 61 days post-flip.

Here it was before I stripped the fans:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

Grandpa's Moonshine chop

And here post-strip in full flop mode:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

Grandpa's Moonshine chop
flop

The bones:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

Grandpa's Moonshine chop
bones

Remember those dying sugar leaves I posted some pics of on Friday? A couple of those were on their way to rot, so I lost a few small nugs at the top:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

Grandpa's Moonshine chop
rot

Here are the bits that came off during the trim, done by just me and Mrs Shed while we watched listened to first the newest and then the oldest John Mulaney comedy specials on Netflix:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

Grandpa's Moonshine chop

And here it is hung in the tent:

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• InTheShed
• Oct 2, 2023

Grandpa's Moonshine chop

The fans are a'blazing while I drive off the wash water, and tomorrow morning I'll check the RH in there and maybe put them on a timer (thanks @Carcass for the idea!) if it's low enough.

That's the GM harvest and the last of the summer grow. for stopping by!


Quotes:

Congrats on POTM, and with a 17+oz plant! Fantastic harvest Shed.

Thanks LKA! I guess it really was worth the aggro after all.

Wow! That's gotta be one of the biggest harvests I've seen from a potted plant! Superb!

Thank you Graytail! And all that from probably around 7 gallons of soil above 8" of perlite.

Nice haul!

Thanks!

Well, that's a record breaker....
Great harvest/haul, Shed!
That's liable to become your new normal, if you continue growing in those SWICKs.

Thank you Carcass! I'm not sure if I'll do this again next year, but if I do it will end up being a much smaller plant, so I think the 5KC will be the record-holder for me.

Very nice harvest, and weight!! Always good to set the bar/milestone higher. Ups your game trying to beat that. Yeah, she had good genetics, but it wasn't all that! You're experienced enough to handle what comes along. And that's a good thing! Also, congratulations for POTM. Do they have room for double digits under the awards?

Thanks Bode! I really don't need nearly 18oz of any plant so this one was just a happenstance of circumstance. Cola Monster will get to double digits long before I ever will.

Amazing! A job so well done!

Thank you Carmen, and thanks for creating the SWICK thread to support folks using that as their growing method!

 

[Stunger]

Great result for the harvest Shed, they look primo!

 

[Grand Daddy Black]

Nice takedown Shed, and a first-class flop pic!

 

[veinz]

 

[Agemon]

I'm gonna copy that picture Shed, FYI.

 

[Grand Daddy Black]

I can get to chopping whenever I have the time tomorrow, which will be flip day 61.

Taking down a plant at 61 days post-flip!?

Is that typical for your grows? Seems really fast to me.

 

[StoneOtter]

Whoopa! another huge harvest! 17.7! Heck that's almost a pound! Great growing!

 

[HashGirl]

Nice harvest yield of the 5KC! Congratulations!

And, congratulations on winning Plant of the Month for September. She was definitely a good looker.

 

[Carmen Ray]

I just posted this over in Amy's thread, but why should she get to have all the fun! Let me start by thanking @FelipeBlu for bringing DLI (Daily Light Integral) to my attention to begin with!

Here is a general definition:
Daily Light Integral (DLI) ...calculates the entire light provided to a plant per day. The farmer can choose DLI as a reference in light daily intakes given to his culture. DLI is expressed in moles per square meter per day.

An enclosed space with a LED lighting system with low PPF may emit the same DLI than that of a horticultural LED with a strong PPF if it extends its photoperiod. The DLI is very useful to determine the overall growth of your plants.

Here is a DLI calculator (you will need to be able to determine your PPFD, which can be done with a lux meter and online calculators if your light is fixed spectrum...hard to do with blurple/mixed spectrum lights without an actual PPFD meter).

Then there is this chart as it relates to cannabis:

Figure 1. Recommended light schedule for cannabis across propagation, vegetative and flower stages of growth.

There is a good article on the page where that came from here. This is an excerpt:

A SHORT DAY, HIGH DLI PLANT

Since cannabis is a highly versatile crop valued for its flowers, maximizing floral biomass and understanding the photoperiod thresholds (see Figure 1) for cannabis has been my primary focus over the last few months. This is because cannabis takes on more light than any other flowering plant I have worked with in the past. And the cultivation of the plant is just the beginning of the crop’s productization as dried flower, extract or oil which requires a thorough understanding of plant maturation and the necessary treatments just prior to harvest.

The most noteworthy aspect of how cannabis differs from typical greenhouse plants is how the plant thrives under high-intensity light. Cannabis is one of the few plants which flourish under more than 950 to 1,200 photosynthetic photon flux density (PPFD) in full bloom, i.e., 41 to 51 daily light integral (DLI). However, several factors in a controlled, sole-source lighting environment need to be optimized to transition a cannabis plant to this level of high intensity lighting — we call this transition process “photoacclimation.” During the early stages of growth — propagation and vegetative growth — cannabis plants can require some of the DLI levels the plant will experience during its life cycle, but with the long, 18-hour photoperiod, the DLI is relatively easy to achieve at low light levels.

After this vegetative bulking period, the reduction to 12-hour photoperiods during the reproductive growth stage can confuse the need to still maintain relatively high DLI levels during this stage of growth. While DLI requirements dip to a degree, the loss of the six additional hours of light should not be dismissed; growers who do not account for this change will see poor yields in terms of flowering productivity. This is why high-intensity PPFD lighting is especially important during the bloom stage. Some growers assume the same supplemental or primary lighting can be used for every stage of growth. Th is has led to bad experiences with some LED systems, which were not designed to
provide enough photons to promote efficient photosynthesis during a short
photoperiod.

Cannabis can be photoacclimated at such a pace that you can reach extremely high levels of PPFD near the tail-end of the bloom growth stage (see Figure 1). Even then, it is critical to administer this level of high-intensity light in short, 12-hour cycles to ensure the plant receives full and uninterrupted cycles of darkness to properly develop its reproductive organs, e.g., flowers for cannabis. These light intensity levels will ensure the plant hits the proper DLI, so it will produce yields to its fullest potential, which is one of the most important factors many new growers underestimate when first taking on a new cannabis strain.

Keep in mind that the DLI generally goes up during the period of flowering, but needs to be squeezed into only 12 hours (as mentioned in the third paragraph above). This is why you need to bump your lux during flowering!

If you grow indoors, you have all the info you need . Now let's figure out what the sun is providing for those of us outdoor growers. If you are in the US, you can use this link:

Daily Light Integral Maps for the U.S. | American Floral Endowment

Funding the Future of Floriculture

endowment.org

Let's see how I can apply this information to my grow. We are in September, and so here is a map from the above link that shows what the DLI is for California in September:

As you can see, the DLI for coastal CA is 40-45 DLI. And when we look at the chart above, we can also see that 45 is the peak DLI for cannabis. So I'm perfect, yes? Well, no. Because I'm guessing this map assumes I get direct sun from dawn to dusk, and I don't.

To calculate my actual DLI, I could measure my lux and plug that number along the number of hours/day I get that lux into the DLI calculator above. I'm not going to go to that trouble right now because I have nothing growing. But I could, and so could you.

I see from my reaction I have read this before. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again. It's one of those sciencey things that will take iterations of learning to sink in, until it does.

 

[InTheShed]

Great result for the harvest Shed, they look primo!

Thank you Stunger!

Nice takedown Shed, and a first-class flop pic!

Thanks GDB...I know you like a first class flop!

Thanks veinz! Nice to see you around again.

I'm gonna copy that picture Shed, FYI.

Which picture?

Taking down a plant at 61 days post-flip!?
Is that typical for your grows? Seems really fast to me.

That's shorter than most but not totally unusual. I've pulled in the mid 60s often enough, but since no one has grown a GM before there were no guidelines for it. Also, some of the very tops were starting to die, it had really slowed down on the drinking, and there weren't that many clear trichs left so I figured another week might be really too long.

Whoopa! another huge harvest! 17.7! Heck that's almost a pound! Great growing!

IKR? Maybe someday I'll get there!

Nice harvest yield of the 5KC! Congratulations!
And, congratulations on winning Plant of the Month for September. She was definitely a good looker.

Thanks and thanks HG!

I see from my reaction I have read this before. Thanks for bringing it to my attention again. It's one of those sciencey things that will take iterations of learning to sink in, until it does.

DLI calculating can get a bit mathy, but the concept just takes PPFD and tells you how much of that it's getting over a specific number of hours. PPFD is just a point in time but it's helpful to know what it's adding up to.

And the chart tells you if your plant is getting enough for its stage of growth.

 

[smokesbetter]

Man you killed it on the Killer take down weight , that is alot of one kind of pot / I like a switch up unless i find something extraordinary ... Grandpa's plant and you have done really well with no guilds and not knowing what to expect . YOU ARE THE MAN ! Enjoyed the ride as usual.

 

[Agemon]

The Flopper and the Skeleton. Copy may be a generous word to use...

 

[InTheShed]

Man you killed it on the Killer take down weight , that is alot of one kind of pot / I like a switch up unless i find something extraordinary ... Grandpa's plant and you have done really well with no guilds and not knowing what to expect . YOU ARE THE MAN ! Enjoyed the ride as usual.

Thanks sb! I'm sure I'll be giving away a lot of that 5 Killer Cookies with nearly 18 oz of it, or putting 4 or 5 jars through the dry ice hash process this winter...maybe both.

It's been a while since I've grown the same variety twice so there's a lot different ones to choose from. That way no one gets bored.

The Flopper and the Skeleton. Copy may be a generous word to use...

Oh gotcha, thanks. The bones I've been posting for years, the flop is recent though!