2009 December Harvest

Re: Roseman's 2009 December Harvest

Great work Roseman, Followed your entire tutorial on the other site but i'm gladly following you and the other Deep Water Culture here!

Ill post my latest grow in the Deep Water Culture home

Just went and bought some Ona today from SH and used your bucket design and it wiped out a thick skunk smell in 15 mins!
 
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Stopping BHIGH..:Rasta: Gave you a vote of grower of the month :goodjob:been spreading your good words so Hope for the Honor this month:peace:
 
Re: Roseman's 2009 December Harvest

Great work Roseman, Followed your entire tutorial on the other site but i'm gladly following you and the other Deep Water Culture here!

Ill post my latest grow in the Deep Water Culture home

Just went and bought some Ona today from SH and used your bucket design and it wiped out a thick skunk smell in 15 mins!


Very glad you are here and found us Deep Water Culture. Do you reveal your name from over thre?

Did you do a INTRODUCE YOURSELF yet?
 
Re: Roseman's 2009 December Harvest

Very glad you are here and found us Deep Water Culture. Do you reveal your name from over thre?

Did you do a INTRODUCE YOURSELF yet?

Just did!

Its the same name..I didn't post much in the Deep Water Culture section but I've followed your tutorial religiously this grow and have had great success from it. A good portion of the time that I was on the other site I spent struggling to grow with an Aerogarden, but once i started doing more reading from the Deep Water Culture and visited SH and saw it for myself... i was sold!
 
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Hey Hey Roseman u R the guru of grow I read your Other thread of How to teel when to Harvest>>> What great picts of the tri's and how to tell when the are READY:popcorn: . Im doing the DEED tommorow all is good and Milky...:goodjob:
 
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looks like a little too much nitrogen, is it? maybe just the pic.
 
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First let me say how friggin awesome the last 8 pages were to catch up on. I can not believe I missed all those days. I love the vibe in your house with the pjs, Santa's beard, the birds, and kind jars and bags and boxes of smoke everywhere!

Yep, they sure do. But a pound of buds from a closet and at a very low cost, like less than $200 on this grow, was sure nice to me. I spent money, less than $200, on nutes and pH Control and some new cheap 105 watt bulbs.

I'll take that anytime, anyday!

All those nice things I just said... lies... you're a bastard. :rofl:
I just paid more than twice that for one month's electric bill!

And if you go with bigger lights you're gonna need abigger house, cause your plants are gonna knock down the walls and lift the roof!

Whiskey Papa,
what is that Avatar?
looks like a boat???
I collect bathroom bathtub toys, limited to boats and rubber ducks. I have a real 1959 rubber duck with a soap dish built into his back. I only have about 40 boats but last count a year ago, I had 120 ducks plus I've added a dozen or two more,.
yea, I know, I know. I don't play with them, just collect them. My wife hates them and makes me dust and clean them.

The avatar is a toy of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine.

Rubber Ducky,
Joy of joys,
Rubber Ducky,
You're my Favorite Toy,
Rubber Ducky I am so in love with you.

Rubber Ducky,
You're the one,
Rubber Ducky,
You make bathtime fun,
Rubber Ducky I am so in love with you.

I have a Bert in the Bathtub that winds up and sings that song.


We have a Rubber Ducky Curtains, Rubber Ducky soap dish, Rubber Ducky toothbrush holder, 2 Rubber Ducky bath matts, and 120 rubber ducks....some very old and highly collectable too.

OK now I have a very non-pot related but very ducky related story:

Once upon a time I worked on a small student movie. I was not a student, but they hired some crew to help. So we show up on the day, not knowing what to expect.

The script called for two full grown large black guys, that were supposed to be conjoined twins to be fighting about a ducky in a tub. The guys they got for the twins looked nothing alike, and they had never acted before - let alone get in a bath tub together. Further, the script had <beat> left in it. When you see that all it means is the actor is supposed to pause for a "beat" then continue their dialog. You don't say it out loud. But these guys didn't know that.

I can tell you it was the hardest thing in the world for the crew not to laugh out loud at these guys just getting in the tub and having to get close and hold the ducky.

But then - when they started saying their lines it was,"Yo, that's my duck beat." "Beat" "Beat" "Gimme the ducky beat beat." Instant hysterics.

The guys got out of the tub and left instantly and the scene was scrapped I think. I know WE didn't get called back to re-shoot :rofl:


Sorry for the big long rambling post. Just medicated a few times while reading your journal.
 
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Remember "Stuck on You" with Greg Kaneer and Matt Damon !! :rofl:
 
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:peace:I will shoot some picts of my grow soon...........I have to get back Home to do it out of _ ountry , right now ..All stay High the American way:cool:
 
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Roseman thank you from the bottom of my heart. I just finally finished the thread on the other site and got really mad. There was no end cause of all the jerks who high jacked. I read and read and read and learned...you said you would answer all and did.
I am now just a bit confused on how to trim since I just read the rest of the harvest here to me there was a gap. Do you just trim off the leaves and hang? After they dry you put them in a jar...why?
Thanks for all the great info I have read on a bunch of your threads.
This is my first grow have a few weeks to go and if I get an ounce I will be very happy. I ended up with one female.
Hat off to you.:bravo:
 
Re: Roseman's 2009 December Harvest

Roseman thank you from the bottom of my heart. I just finally finished the thread on the other site and got really mad. There was no end cause of all the jerks who high jacked. I read and read and read and learned...you said you would answer all and did.
I am now just a bit confused on how to trim since I just read the rest of the harvest here to me there was a gap. Do you just trim off the leaves and hang? After they dry you put them in a jar...why?
Thanks for all the great info I have read on a bunch of your threads.
This is my first grow have a few weeks to go and if I get an ounce I will be very happy. I ended up with one female.
Hat off to you.:bravo:



I start by finding me two boxes, one to put the large fan leaves in, to make oil later, and one box for the trim leaves, the leaves that grow out of the buds with trichiomes on them. The leaves with trichomes are for making Hash later.

I bring branches to the kitchen table and trim (also called manicure) them, by cutting off the leaves that are growing out of the buds. I trim them very very closely for several reasons.
1, they dry faster.
2, if there is any clorophyll taste or chemical taste to be found, it will be in the leaves and not in the pistals, caylxes or flowers.
3, I am not trying to achieve the most WEIGHT or Quanity, I am trying to achieve QUALITY!
4, I can worry less about bud mold. If I leave large leaves on the buds, the leaves could possibly hold moisture in the buds and then mold on me.
5, Well manicured buds are more attractive to look at.

You will need very sharp scissors. Some growers wear rubber gloves, and after completing the trimming, they freeze the gloves, and the trichomes that stuck to the gloves will peel off in a thin sheet of plastic like HASH. YUM -YUM. You will also want to have a straight razor blade to scrape the scissor blades. What you scrape off you will want to smoke in a pipe, two hits will blow your mind.

After I trim them, I sort them by size. Very small popcorn buds and fluff buds with no significant stem on them, go onto box lids to dry.
Buds with stems get hung up, according to size, separating very large ones from the smaller ones. I want the least amount of stem left on them. They need to be in low humidity, in complete darkness or at least in very low light and not in direct light, they need to be in air that is well circulated and moving, but not blowing directly on them. The enemies of the THC and buds are strong light, heat, dampness, mold, and animals and insects.
I hang them to dry and be sure they do not touch each other to hold any moisture.
I do blow a circulating fan OVER them, but not on them. The sides of the boxes prevent the fan's air from blowing directly on them.

The popcorn buds and fluff buds that are laying on box lids, and not touching each other get stirred and turned over daily. They take at least 3 and no more than 4 days to dry. These are not what we call the nugs or nuggets, or very tight dense buds. They never had a stem.

My smaller buds, on skinny stems dry for more than 4 days and less than 6 days.
My larger buds dry for 6 or 7 or 8 days, depending on the thickness of the stem, the bud and the stem lenght.

You will read in many places to dry them until the stem will easily "snap" and be very dry. If you do that, the buds will need re-moistioning again later.
I dry mine the number of days I mentioned above and disregard the stem easily snapping. I have completed 8 grows total, and each grow taught me to not be as concerned with how dry the stem got, but how dry the bud got.

AFTER I dry them the prescribed time, I remove them from the boxes, and cut as much STEM off as I possibly can. I then put my nugs in air tight containers, I use large mouth mason glass jars, same as most other growers use. Every day for 30 days, I burp them, or open the jar, shake and stir it a couple seconds, smell it, and reseal it. IF it stinks, IF it smells funny, like moldy, IF the jar sweats, I dry the contents a complete day again. They have to be burped 30 days in a row. That 30 days in a jar is called CURING.




We DRY pot, so we can CURE it.
We CURE pot, to make it taste sweeter, smell sweeter, to avoid bud-mold, to make it more Smokable or burnable, to get the chemical and clorophyll taste out, and to increase the potency. A GOOD cure takes 4 weeks, and some conisours (mispelled) cure it up to 6 to 8 weeks.

The idea behind curing was learned from tobacco growers. Curing is a biological process of allowing the SUGARS and STARCHES to change into something MORE pleasant to the taste and smell. Normally the SUGARS and STARCHES taste HARSH and not so pleasant. To grow, Plants need SUGARS that convert into starches from Fertilizers and sunlight. Curing also removes alot of clorophyll or the clorophyll taste that is sort of a grassy leafy medicine chemical taste and leaves a sweet tastey pleasant taste.
Also, we cure pot to avoid MOLD that can come within 30 days AFTER Drying.

We cure pot in jars, in darkness, in a cool place. After being placed in the jar, we store them in a dark cool place, then we re-open the jar once a day, smell it, inspect it, let it breathe for a few seconds and then re-seal it. IF we smell an unpleasant "nose pinching" smell, or see white growth, we need to immedialtey remove it from
the jar and DRY it some more for a few more days.

When you first harvest the buds, save some moist large stems in the refrigarator, in a baggie. If you dry it too much, you can add a small piece of stem back, to remoisten it some.

I have CURED pot one week in jars, and tasted it, and then Cured it 4 weeks and tasted it. If you will try the same experiment, or ask any experienced grower, you'll learn (taste) the difference. It is much more potent, and much sweeter tasting, and smells much better too.
 
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