Sweetsue's First Grow - Stealthy Trio of Autos Under CFLs

I know it's not going to win any BOTM awards, but honestly guys - is there any bud more beautiful than one you grew yourself? Buds from your first harvest must be the best of all.

Like a kid in a candy store. :laughtwo::green_heart:

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can i play???

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my little hermie half way to maturity picked 3 days ago BOTM candidate

" bust of the month",, haha, cheers,,

still perty

so right sue,, i have never seen a bud so true, as the beautiful bud that i do,,
 
I've been doing some growing and detailing, mother trimming, clones, veg, and blooming, nutes, life, etc. so, I was away for a few days.

As far as eating the leaves, store in large spinach 16 oz sized bins, we keep them for recycling and storage for many veggies. Cannabis leaves store really well for a long time in the fridge. Typically our fridge is filled top to bottom with various veggies, fruits, and seeds we make room for the extra Cannabis leaves after harvest.

We are vegan and eat the entire fridge out before going to get new stuff. Our freezer is just space on top of the fridge, there is literally nothing in it, oops sometimes a banana or two gets in there when the peels try to come off early, then we peel them and put them in there for a day or two. Generally we only eat whole fresh alive foods, if it walks, crawls, swims, flies, we don't eat it nor any of its juices or byproducts like honey, milk, eggs, casein, whey, or cheese. We also don't drink any soda/pop/cola/energy/flavored water/ drinks or any processed foods canned, boxed, or frozen with the exception of Quinoa pasta, because we don't make home made Quinoa pasta and BEER. I have a friend that is a master brewer and I get all sorts of homemade beer. My baby is gluten intolerant so we stay away from wheat as well. The Beer is all mine :)

Think enzymes, if they die then the food is dead so, frozen is not anything we do either, same goes for canned anything.

We make smoothies not juices, if you juice you miss a ton of the nutrition, what a waste of a fruit and the energy put into growing it, harvesting etc. For instance carrots, potatoes, dark grapes, most of their nutrition is in the skin, tomatoes, oranges the slimey parts are what is best for you. Bananas are the only fruit that actually ripens after being picked. The banana gets more sweet as it ripens too. I always shake my head at people in the store that get the green bananas when its the yellow and bruised/browned ones that you want and sometimes they are discounted because they are browned Mmmmm :love:

16 oz of Cannabis leaves last about a month in the fridge, just pick a few and ruffle the remaining to air around leaves left in the container. This is depending of course on how many you use per shake. They don't get you high (just in case some are wondering) because they haven't been decarboxylated not to mention a very low THCA level but also I think there is a good amount of CBDA which counteracts the psychoactive effect but there are many other good things in them. Here is a good chart I found somewhere, maybe here at 420, I just can't remember. :)
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Anyway, fruits and veggies have plenty of good properties too, Gary Null lists a bunch. Just Google him with the word nutrition and you will find a lot of things you never thought of before. The book "Skinny Bitch" or "Skinny Bastard" written by some nutritionists Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouyn will explain a bunch about nutrition.

Moving on:
I think I guessed 2.4 Oz not too bad at all Sweetsue. Someone said 2.5 oz was on the upper end of the scale with any light. I completely agree for indoor. Its your soil not the light. The problem you might have in the future is trying to get the same results over and over. Because you friggen rocked it on the first try. :high-five: If I were you I wouldn't change a thing but I know me and I know I would at least try to get better and you will too. :)

The idea of feeding the soil just makes so much earthly sense. I'm going to have to try LOS. I am also considering a CFL room and test strain against strain using CFL verses my HPS and MH setup. If I get the same results there is no reason to burn 1400 watts when I can burn 400 or 500.

:peace:
 
Bud Porn. Any other contributors care to add theirs?
 
I've been doing some growing and detailing, mother trimming, clones, veg, and blooming, nutes, life, etc. so, I was away for a few days.

As far as eating the leaves, store in large spinach 16 oz sized bins, we keep them for recycling and storage for many veggies. Cannabis leaves store really well for a long time in the fridge. Typically our fridge is filled top to bottom with various veggies, fruits, and seeds we make room for the extra Cannabis leaves after harvest.

We are vegan and eat the entire fridge out before going to get new stuff. Our freezer is just space on top of the fridge, there is literally nothing in it, oops sometimes a banana or two gets in there when the peels try to come off early, then we peel them and put them in there for a day or two. Generally we only eat whole fresh alive foods, if it walks, crawls, swims, flies, we don't eat it nor any of its juices or byproducts like honey, milk, eggs, casein, whey, or cheese. We also don't drink any soda/pop/cola/energy/flavored water/ drinks or any processed foods canned, boxed, or frozen with the exception of Quinoa pasta, because we don't make home made Quinoa pasta and BEER. I have a friend that is a master brewer and I get all sorts of homemade beer. My baby is gluten intolerant so we stay away from wheat as well. The Beer is all mine :)

Think enzymes, if they die then the food is dead so, frozen is not anything we do either, same goes for canned anything.

We make smoothies not juices, if you juice you miss a ton of the nutrition, what a waste of a fruit and the energy put into growing it, harvesting etc. For instance carrots, potatoes, dark grapes, most of their nutrition is in the skin, tomatoes, oranges the slimey parts are what is best for you. Bananas are the only fruit that actually ripens after being picked. The banana gets more sweet as it ripens too. I always shake my head at people in the store that get the green bananas when its the yellow and bruised/browned ones that you want and sometimes they are discounted because they are browned Mmmmm :love:

16 oz of Cannabis leaves last about a month in the fridge, just pick a few and ruffle the remaining to air around leaves left in the container. This is depending of course on how many you use per shake. They don't get you high (just in case some are wondering) because they haven't been decarboxylated not to mention a very low THCA level but also I think there is a good amount of CBDA which counteracts the psychoactive effect but there are many other good things in them. Here is a good chart I found somewhere, maybe here at 420, I just can't remember. :)
nutritionofcannabis.png
Anyway, fruits and veggies have plenty of good properties too, Gary Null lists a bunch. Just Google him with the word nutrition and you will find a lot of things you never thought of before. The book "Skinny Bitch" or "Skinny Bastard" written by some nutritionists Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouyn will explain a bunch about nutrition.

Moving on:
I think I guessed 2.4 Oz not too bad at all Sweetsue. Someone said 2.5 oz was on the upper end of the scale with any light. I completely agree for indoor. Its your soil not the light. The problem you might have in the future is trying to get the same results over and over. Because you friggen rocked it on the first try. :high-five: If I were you I wouldn't change a thing but I know me and I know I would at least try to get better and you will too. :)

The idea of feeding the soil just makes so much earthly sense. I'm going to have to try LOS. I am also considering a CFL room and test strain against strain using CFL verses my HPS and MH setup. If I get the same results there is no reason to burn 1400 watts when I can burn 400 or 500.

:peace:

Thank you so much for posting this here. I should have consulted you sooner, but next time I will be sure to set the fan leaves aside for smoothies. I couldn't agree more about the food.

So much wonderful and valuable information got shared in this journal.

There are some grow changes that will have to occur. We plan to build a more appropriate space to grow, which will include climate control for the first time. Something tells me I'm going to really miss having them right there, open to the room. Lighting is the engine that drives the grow, so the smartest move I could make would be to improve lighting. At some point I want to try some photo flowering strains.

The soil makes the process so easy. With little effort I harvested enough to supply our needs. With little effort I expect to exceed that with the next grow. Now that the pressure is off we can explore strains to find our favorites and begin to build an inventory. An inventory. :laughtwo: Imagine that.

The joy, the passion - those won't ever change. The drive to share and learn - that's a constant in my own life and will continue to be expressed in my journals. This merry band of growers that float in and out of the room? I think they'll all stick around. It should be loads of fun. :laughtwo::green_heart:
 
Nah, it doesn't. I've gotten so bad now that I can't walk past a decent looking pile of clean garbage.

Congrats on your recent chops Sue.

Thanks BAR. Mine only come every 4-5 months. :laughtwo::green_heart:
 
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I don't have pics of the first run I ever did indoors, but I think these pics are from the 2nd run (in TLO).
That's the only plant I've ever had foxtail. I think I was flowering under MH only at the time, trying to reinvent the wheel while still very wet behind the ears, :)

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Crowded!

I LOVED smoking these buds and was really proud of the jars. Growing your own organically does that to you!
 
Sue, that nug looks like a real treat. Good pics.

Are you missing the growing plants? I feel a little bummer when I chop mature plants down. But hey, that's what we grow them for! I don't have kids, but my dogs and cannabis plants are kinda like kids to me. :)
 
I always liked foxtailing ... :cheesygrinsmiley:

Nuthin' but crunchy sticky calyxes - what's not to like?

Ever have one of those chevron shaped buds? - look like a wheat stalk? :love:
 
You find foxtailing a bad trait?

I do think so, generally.

You trim a lot of buds, fox tailing certainly makes the job a little harder, no?

I prefer buds the way they were naturally meant to look. I think some (sativas) will foxtail, but a lot of foxtailing is due to some sort of stress on the plant during flowering. Locally, here, I've seen strains foxtail under certain growers care that shouldn't normally do so.

My 2cents.
 
What do you find undesirable? As a producer I keep those for my personal enjoyment but was curious what you find poor about it?

My second highest result thc wise was a fox tailed chocolate fondue
 
I do think so, generally.

You trim a lot of buds, fox tailing certainly makes the job a little harder, no?

I prefer buds the way they were naturally meant to look. I think some (sativas) will foxtail, but a lot of foxtailing is due to some sort of stress on the plant during flowering. Locally, here, I've seen strains foxtail under certain growers care that shouldn't normally do so.

My 2cents.

Totally agree. On the trimming part. Have you ever noticed it in a very well controlled environment. I'm gonna be honest like you I've had some dispensaries not like it. Then others love it. I find I get the most complex smoke characteristics and best idea of the terpene profile on a fox tailed nug.
 
I haven't really dug deep into the hows and whys of it, Dutty. I've noticed that my plants never, (er... Very rarely) produce buds that foxtail. Others grow the same cuts which sometimes I've seen foxtail for them. I chalk it up to some combo of nutrient issues and or environmental stress in their grow.

I'm no wizard.
 
So I came home anticipating the making of some nice magic brownies, brownie mix in hand, to discover that I am short on oil. Oh well, this will have to wait until tomorrow. What I did do is decarboxylate the 1/4 oz of sugar leaves I'll be using to increase their THC value. I want the maximum effect from this batch of brownies.

They went into the oven, heated to 225 degrees F and left for 30 minutes.

One thing not to forget, is that during baking, they decarboxylate more .. if your recipe asks for over an hour of baking time at a temp well above 225F, there is no real need to decarboxylate .. unless you want heaps of CBN in there.
 
I understand this PlanetJ, but my gut instinct said "decarboxylate", and there's nothing to lose by doing so. It was my way to jump start the process. Tomorrow we'll know if it worked.
 
I also think high levels of potash can increase the fox tail amount per plant.

Dutty, what are your feelings on foxtailing?

Never mind - I went back a page. My own journal got away from me there! :woohoo::laughtwo::green_heart:
 
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