Pantagruel's Durban Lights - Half-Pound or Bust

[devilish]

some beautiful little nugs there!

 

[alex801]

Nice n frosty
Congrats

 

[Mike Wright]

Thanks guys. I'm quick-drying some of the tiniest buds on the ballast right now and about to have a taste....

 

[alex801]

Hope it gets u nicely medicated
Wen i ever quick dry i put it a brown paper bag in the oven at low heat turning ftom time to time for an hour or so

 

[Mike Wright]

When I switched to LED one of the things I missed most was having the HPS ballast and reflector top to quick dry on Glad I hooked it back up for vegematating.

 

[Mike Wright]

Hope it gets u nicely medicated

We just rolled a little spliff. I let the missus have most of it but I got a really nice rush from just one small hit. She says it is really strong. I think the quality test is a pass.

 

[alex801]

Hi 5

 

[lexblaze]

Wow perfectly timed harvest. I like how you managed that

 

[Antics]

Congrats on the harvest! Very nice looking buds. They look like they smell absolutely amazing

 

[Mike Wright]

Yeah, the bubblegum started to go diesel at the end, but as it dries the sweetness is coming back.

I think my growing skills are pretty average, but one thing I am getting pretty good at is curing. I'm an aspiring chef so I have a pretty good sense of how to cook plants to a desired consistency, and curing is a lot like cooking, really slow cooking....

 

[Antics]

Agreed 100%. I cook a lot myself. It can be compared to smoking meats, or doing a big roast in the oven on a low temp for a longer time.

It takes a long time, but the results are well worth it.

 

[Mike Wright]

Damnation. The lockout issues have taken hold fully on the next two girls in line for harvest and are starting on the last three too. I'm almost certain now that this is a salt buildup problem. Even using a small amount of our hard tap water is obviously deadly. My TDS pen is supposed to be here Monday. Meantime I am going to load up on distilled water for some major flushing. I guess I will have to buy distilled/RO water from now on, seems like even the rainwater isn't immune to the salinity issues around here.

 

[MedFarmer]

Agree with the curing. I won't go less than 4 weeks.

 

[Catman12]

Damnation. The lockout issues have taken hold fully on the next two girls in line for harvest and are starting on the last three too. I'm almost certain now that this is a salt buildup problem. Even using a small amount of our hard tap water is obviously deadly. My TDS pen is supposed to be here Monday. Meantime I am going to load up on distilled water for some major flushing. I guess I will have to buy distilled/RO water from now on, seems like even the rainwater isn't immune to the salinity issues around here.

Sorry to hear that Pantagruel I'm in the same position and keeping jugs of water on hand is a hassle. What are you able to save?

 

[Antics]

Stick with it man. One problem at a time. And if you have to wait a few more days it shouldn't hurt the yield, and the small increase in ambers would be barely noticeable.

 

[Mike Wright]

Sorry to hear that Pantagruel I'm in the same position and keeping jugs of water on hand is a hassle. What are you able to save?

I guess a good plant is worth a few jugs of water. I can wait an extra week, we'll see if the flush I did today has an effect.....

 

[Bubba Zanetti]

hey mate nice buds indeed ,you talk about a lockout issues in the next plants to harvest , how much time till harvest that plants , cuse it is normal the plants show deficiencies in the last weeks unless you don't stop feeding plants 2/3 weeks prior to harvest ,and that is a mistake , in my case I stop feedings 3 weeks prior harvest , I only give plain water to the girls in the last week's (lots of water),that serve no t only to clean all the soil from nut's but also oblige the plant to start heating her self , cuse lots of the nuts you gave the girls hare stored on n the leafs , I use a organic line now but I cut nutes 2/3 weeks before end

 

[Mike Wright]

Thanks Fr3d. I did stop feeding, but I grow in organic soil so the deficiencies should be minimal.

I had to pull the Durban Poison - the deficiencies were crisping all the sugar leaves so I wanted to get what usable bud I could. She had hermied. Quite a mess. Of the four remaining girls, one Durban Lights is also showing some deficiency problems, but her buds are packing on weight still. I'll pull her when I get back from my birthday trip this weekend. The other 3 are fine, with less than 2 weeks to go.

 

[Antics]

Not what I was hoping to see. Sorry man. Hopefully things turn around for ya.

 

[Mike Wright]

Pulling a Durban Lights tomorrow. Some of the sugar leaves are starting to crisp on her too, but some of the largest buds I have produced yet so it will be a better update and a better day

edit: finally bought the cleaning solution for my ph meter. That should help. Things are a fair bit more acidic around here than I thought. Damn thing cost me as much as a good LED by the time all the calibration and cleaning solutions are added in. PH, TDS, CalMag. Hopefully there isn't much more that can go wrong....