Hi there
Hi JonHi @Trala, we haven't "met" yet, I'm Jon, I saw this post, and I won't clog up Em's journal but I just wanted to say what an awesome, honest, and very cool post. And I'm a boy but I feel you.
Fair enough, but you might be a stalker. How about we start with a cup of coffee in a nice public place?Hi Jon
Nice to meet you, but mate if you’re gonna feel me you at least need to by me dinner first
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Thanks for the reply. It was really nice of you to say that.
Wonnerful
I have the same problem where I live. I had to keep an ac unit running 24/7 at 60 F. Mine lasted about 10 days at 60/60 until they were ready for brown bags
Trala, I just posted my final harvest update on the main GSC comparative grow thread and I covered the slow/dry cure approach I used, as do many here at 420 from what I’ve seen. I made the mistake one grow and it dried too fast during full plant hang upfront….terpines were there, but hidden mostly by chlorophyll/hay smell. They eventually cured to a nice cedar flavor, which smoked well anyway. I filter my incoming air, so have never thiught about rinsing as I see done here often. Cheers
Thank you very much I will go look now.
Congrats Emilya, that is a fine light. Trim took hours over several days…with only four plants. I think you mentioned you will have a crew to help with the harvest…great plan. Plants look great and yield should be a beauty. Cheers
Absolutely beautiful.Bloom, day 56
I have some harvest pictures to share with you! We cut 3 more plants yesterday, for a total of 4. Yield is not what I had hoped for but it's not bad and I know what to do better next time. When I do this again instead of the standard plastic brace at the top of the tomato cage I am going to use gardenwire and create a larger loop at the top so that the middle canopy can spread out and get more air and light. That minor modification should add another ounce at least to each plant in the future.
The buds are beautiful with sparkling red pistols and and pink buds and it is going to be a great bag appeal pot.
Out of 4 plants we have gained approximately 20 oz ounces of dry pot and we are fairly happy with the yield with an average of 4 to 6 oz per plant. There are 7 plants remaining so we can expect at least 2 to 3 pounds of pot from this garden at this current rate, but it is noted that there are some very large and tight buds left in the room and average yield per plant may go up with the next harvest.
Today is day 56 and the start of the 8th week and all of the remaining plants could be harvested today. They all look good and I'm sure they would all be quality pot being pulled right now.. The plan however is to wait for the crew to be able to be available again to help with harvest and that will happen on Thursday so Tuesday sometime we will put the remaining plants into the dark to be ready for the final harvest on Thursday. They got what should be their final watering this morning after a 5 day dry out to build more trichomes. That will put them at day 60 and I imagine we will have couch lock quality pot from that batch by that time.
Here are the harvest party pictures:
Those buds are just gigantic. And beautiful.Bloom - 8 weeks --- 56 days (if you count from the flip, 63 days)
Geoflora Feed - Day 21
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 0
Number of fast waterings - 0
47 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering until the last 2 weeks
Length of Grow - 4 months, 1 week, 1day
Today was watering day after a last of grow attempt to get a drought response as well as signal to the plants that the end is near. They went 5 days this time between waterings, and mostly they survived this period without visible complaint. Our big bud that we have been watching could not stand up to its own weight during the end of season drought and folded over to lay on the top of the canopy. A few of the plants are still showing some white pistils that are in the foxtailing growth of the buds, but they too appear to be ready for harvest. White pistils at the tops of the buds are almost all gone. Amber can be found everywhere. Still we wait for a few more days to see what happens and to wait for the hard working trimming crew to rest up from the last 7 hour stint in the cutting room.
The buds should be even better by the time we actually harvest. On Tuesday evening when the lights go off for the day, that will be the last time they see the bright light. On Thursday afternoon, the massive 7 plant harvest will begin and at the same time the harvest yesterday should be dry enough to move to the paper grocery bag stage. Its a plan at least, and unless I get called away for a funeral (which I still don't know the final plans of), Thursday, Friday and Saturday we will finish up this harvest.
Here tonight, there really isn't much to do but show you each of the 7 plants. Please enjoy the pretty pictures.
Please also note and ponder why a lot of these leaves that the other day were yellowing and clawing badly, have now achieved green again, at the very end of the grow. I will call it reverse senescence just to be funny.
If anyone still doubts the power of the @GeoFlora Nutrients, please carefully note that it has been 21 days since the last feeding, and even using tapwater, the microbes and the top dressed nutrients are still doing a great job and will do so right up to the end.
oh yes, and they are potent too, already!
speechless....Bloom - 8 weeks, 2 days--- 58 days (if you count from the flip, 65 days)
Geoflora Feed - Day 23
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 2
Number of fast waterings - 0
49 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering until the last 2 weeks
Length of Grow - 4 months, 1 week, 3 days
Say goodnight, Gracie... tonight, actually as of a half hour ago, the lights went off for good and that was the last bright light these girls are going to see. Now they go into a forced period of darkness, being well watered from 2 days ago and ready to give it all till the end. These remaining buds are going to make this grow sing, because all of the major weight is here. All of these buds are massive and mostly rock hard too, and I expect that Thursday afternoon when the crew arrives, we are going to find these to be a lot of fun to harvest, weigh, trim and wash. I suspect that we will give 3 pounds dry product a good run for its money just with this harvest, making about 4 lbs total for the room. We will see... I still haven't seen how bad the middle canopy is on these remaining plants, but I am confident that these will be better producers than the first 4 early plants.
This has been a great run and overall, I am pretty proud of what was accomplished here. You got to see some of my favorite tricks and methods and I got to prove that they work, and hopefully we had some fun along the way. We learned a lot about @Sierra Natural Science pest control, @GeoFlora Nutrients, @DYNOMYCO and the mighty @NextLight MEGA. Thank you to 420 Magazine and @Weed Seeds Express for making all of this happen! I learned a few things on this journey, and I hope that you did too, and of course thanks to all of you, this journal won the prestigious Grow Journal of the Month for August!
We still aren't finished with this journal as we still have some major drying and curing to do, and then finally the crew and I will all sit around and work on a smoke report for you, from several perspectives as we sit around sampling buds from the various plants.
For tonight, we will do one last round of one glamor shot per plant, from 7 of the most beautiful girls you would ever want to meet.
Before you close out the journal can we please have a picture or two that's a full-on big bud closeup? I went back through and checked out your buds in the pics real closely, and wow, you got a lot more color out of them than it appears on first glance. It looks like you got some yellows and pinks and lovely shades of purple/lavendar. Pinks! Just the camera, or are some of those cool colors really in the bud? Gotta be in the bud. And it also proves that keeping the leaves green til the end on a plant and trading off the colors you get from leaves being forced to die, does NOT equal a lessening of the colors to the buds themselves. I was watching for that specifically and am very impressed.Bloom - 8 weeks --- 56 days (if you count from the flip, 63 days)
Geoflora Feed - Day 21
Wet/Dry Cycle - Day 0
Number of fast waterings - 0
47 Days since last SNS Foliar, SNS 209 given on each watering until the last 2 weeks
Length of Grow - 4 months, 1 week, 1day
Today was watering day after a last of grow attempt to get a drought response as well as signal to the plants that the end is near. They went 5 days this time between waterings, and mostly they survived this period without visible complaint. Our big bud that we have been watching could not stand up to its own weight during the end of season drought and folded over to lay on the top of the canopy. A few of the plants are still showing some white pistils that are in the foxtailing growth of the buds, but they too appear to be ready for harvest. White pistils at the tops of the buds are almost all gone. Amber can be found everywhere. Still we wait for a few more days to see what happens and to wait for the hard working trimming crew to rest up from the last 7 hour stint in the cutting room.
The buds should be even better by the time we actually harvest. On Tuesday evening when the lights go off for the day, that will be the last time they see the bright light. On Thursday afternoon, the massive 7 plant harvest will begin and at the same time the harvest yesterday should be dry enough to move to the paper grocery bag stage. Its a plan at least, and unless I get called away for a funeral (which I still don't know the final plans of), Thursday, Friday and Saturday we will finish up this harvest.
Here tonight, there really isn't much to do but show you each of the 7 plants. Please enjoy the pretty pictures.
Please also note and ponder why a lot of these leaves that the other day were yellowing and clawing badly, have now achieved green again, at the very end of the grow. I will call it reverse senescence just to be funny.
If anyone still doubts the power of the @GeoFlora Nutrients, please carefully note that it has been 21 days since the last feeding, and even using tapwater, the microbes and the top dressed nutrients are still doing a great job and will do so right up to the end.
I will work on a good tripod bud closeup shot or two this evening as we harvest the next batch of this crop. Yes, I see pinks and purples so far in the buds, and that was just one quick phenotype. All the plants we harvest tonight will look a little different and will trim up a little differently, and I expect new colors and tastes and smells from all 3 of the phenos I still see in the room. This is the advantage of an organic grow. The plants know what they need and they work with the microbes to bring all of that to them. As long as the raw nutrients are in the soil or added every two weeks, the microbes will feed the plants better than any blind readily available nutrient program could ever do, no matter the skills of the gardener. The organic feeding cycle allows the plants to totally express their genetics to bring out every terpene and color that the genepool is able to bring out. It's not just keeping them green till the end doing this... it is trusting the organic feeding cycle explicitly while not getting in the way with lots of other additives, and keeping the roots energized with intelligent watering practices.
