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12/06/2010 - Checked in on the plants, and took a few photos. Then noticed a gnat... then another... then another....
The bad news is there is at least one on almost every single bud. The good news is most buds I only spotted two or fewer gnats. The even better news is these buds are so sticky the gnats can't get unstuck (meaning hopefully they don't get to lay eggs). The downside is I'll be scraping bugs off my buds for a week...
So, my first plan of action is to crush some of my perlite down to a more sand-like size and layer it across the soil on all the plants. I'll probably also tape my drain holes down to barely let the water out (they are 1" square holes, which is plenty big for a gnat to find it and lay eggs - kudos for this idea to... can't remember who... someone on this forum that had gnats laying eggs in their drain holes).
Also in the news tonight: flushing! Blue Dream is supposed to take about 55 days of 12/12 to finish, and by my math it's been about 43 days since the switch to 12/12. So I figure since I can't tell by looking at the buds, I'll assume that 55 days is in the ball park. If it takes an extra week, that's fine by me.
The stuff I'm smoking now was harvested early due to some unknown plant death, and didn't get flushed. It is so terrible... a friend of mine who has his medical card was out sick from work for a week and as such was short on cash (which translates to short on medicine). I offered him a bag (I'm guessing it was about 1/2-ounce); at first he was so grateful... then we smoked a bowl. Later that evening imagine my surprise when he forgot his free 1/2-ounce of weed when he left!
I was so disappointed I couldn't move on to better things... This is the first of my outdoor grow, so it's the least potent and the least flushed, but I've vowed to smoke it in the order harvested. Never been so disappointed to see a half-ounce of weed. I'm thinking I might turn half of that crop into budder. Between that, the rest of the smoke, plus some recent "supplies" from the club, I should be good until this harvest is cured (figure roughly 2 months).
My goodness how I ramble... if you've just read this entire post you've just won a free 1/2-ounce of 2010 Outdoor Surprise! Unfortunately there's no way to claim your prize in real life, as any such real life interaction would compromise my grow security... but trust me, this is one prize you didn't want to claim anyhow!
OK, enough blabbering, time for some pics!
Another great pic of my favorite cola (the biggest, fattest one):
Can you find the dead gnat in this picture? It's actually a tough one, so I'll give you a hint: you're looking down on it from over its head, and it's wings are folded up together...
Random bud:
Possibly the best macro pic I've got out of my cheepo camera to date! You can actually see some individual trichomes! Very excited about this one:
The bad news is there is at least one on almost every single bud. The good news is most buds I only spotted two or fewer gnats. The even better news is these buds are so sticky the gnats can't get unstuck (meaning hopefully they don't get to lay eggs). The downside is I'll be scraping bugs off my buds for a week...
So, my first plan of action is to crush some of my perlite down to a more sand-like size and layer it across the soil on all the plants. I'll probably also tape my drain holes down to barely let the water out (they are 1" square holes, which is plenty big for a gnat to find it and lay eggs - kudos for this idea to... can't remember who... someone on this forum that had gnats laying eggs in their drain holes).
Also in the news tonight: flushing! Blue Dream is supposed to take about 55 days of 12/12 to finish, and by my math it's been about 43 days since the switch to 12/12. So I figure since I can't tell by looking at the buds, I'll assume that 55 days is in the ball park. If it takes an extra week, that's fine by me.
The stuff I'm smoking now was harvested early due to some unknown plant death, and didn't get flushed. It is so terrible... a friend of mine who has his medical card was out sick from work for a week and as such was short on cash (which translates to short on medicine). I offered him a bag (I'm guessing it was about 1/2-ounce); at first he was so grateful... then we smoked a bowl. Later that evening imagine my surprise when he forgot his free 1/2-ounce of weed when he left!
I was so disappointed I couldn't move on to better things... This is the first of my outdoor grow, so it's the least potent and the least flushed, but I've vowed to smoke it in the order harvested. Never been so disappointed to see a half-ounce of weed. I'm thinking I might turn half of that crop into budder. Between that, the rest of the smoke, plus some recent "supplies" from the club, I should be good until this harvest is cured (figure roughly 2 months).
My goodness how I ramble... if you've just read this entire post you've just won a free 1/2-ounce of 2010 Outdoor Surprise! Unfortunately there's no way to claim your prize in real life, as any such real life interaction would compromise my grow security... but trust me, this is one prize you didn't want to claim anyhow!
OK, enough blabbering, time for some pics!
Another great pic of my favorite cola (the biggest, fattest one):
Can you find the dead gnat in this picture? It's actually a tough one, so I'll give you a hint: you're looking down on it from over its head, and it's wings are folded up together...
Random bud:
Possibly the best macro pic I've got out of my cheepo camera to date! You can actually see some individual trichomes! Very excited about this one:
Gotta love the way those trichs are loading up 
I think you're going to make it under the wire 
