Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing

I loved your harvest adventures. Treat yourself to a back massage later.

That Sour Jack sounds like my kind of herb. and I know you'll enjoy the tighter trim. I haven't grown White Widow in a couple years but and I considering dropping some more of those seeds soon. Never under-estimate the power of the WW. Cheers :bongrip:
 
Well.......

It's......

One of the last PROJECT 27 UPDATES!

Chop, chop, chop...I deliberately flipped this grow early to keep it little lower and smaller...lower it was, smaller it was not!

It seems that the plants were smaller but the density is amazing. As I have deconstructed this canopy each section has been a bit better than my expectations. The overall size, density, and quality of the nugs has been very pleasing. I'm used to growing mainly airy sativas so these more-commercial and especially more-indica plants are nicely nuggy. Each batch I trim yields a super nice pile of finished buds. At this point I'm very, very happy with project 27!

First up are the two autos...Wild Thailand Ryder was the breed. They were late plug-ins to fill an empty bucket as some will recall. Neither of them were ever much more than weeds I'm afraid...though in the end, they produced some quality, sticky bud, just not very much.

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Once trimmed up, the two main colas were very solid and stinky. Not sure they were worth the effort but better than nothing in that pot I guess. I have thought about doing an all-auto run...these two were in there partly to give an idea of the number of plants necessary...from these results it would have to be a lot. Maybe three or even four per bucket, not really sure if I want to bet an entire run on these little freaks. Still not impressed with autos, sorry.

So nice finished results from the Big Nugs Fast plants...the five of them yielded a ton of sticky nugs, it will be jars worth of finished frosty colas.

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For the record, Big Nugs Fast could be called Average Nugs In About The Same Time because the variety was no faster nor any bigger really. The buds aren't what I would call "nugs" but they are stocky enough, certainly good volume and nice development down the branches. Overall, the amount of prime buds was enough to rate the variety a good value to grow. I haven't smoked any yet so we'll see if it's awesome, shitty, or somewhere in between...that's really all that matters, isn't it?

So then I was down to the last Hyena Berry, and Big Blue.

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The Hyena Berry on this side was a really good plant. It also had sensitive fan leaves especially up high, which yellowed and fried much earlier than other varieties, though the buds themselves are just fine, healthy and juicy. Lots of branches so heavy they can't stand up and just laid over in a pile from their own weight for the last few weeks...nice.

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The Hyena Berry was a cross between Plush Berry and Cheese Berry. Both varieties were very sweet, tasty, and stony. The resulting cross looks like some tasty shit indeed. The buds are very solid and frosty, once I got trimming they went from ugly ducklings to beauties.

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The last Hyena Berry made it all worthwhile! It produced this delicious pile of finished chunkers.

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So now, only the Polyploid and the Blue Hyena stood on the beach at Iwo Jima. The last. The best?

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I though it was cool that Blue photo bombed Polly in her last official photo. So much we can learn from plants.

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I chopped the strange poly bud, noting the enlarged stem was four or five times as thick as normal, and also hollow. The nugs further down on the branch were normal. Just a strange thing, a polyploid. If I had a bigger, non-secret operation I would have tried to clone that branch and see if we could make it into a whole plant. Poly-plant...hmmmm. We'll have to wait for another opportunity for that. But I will smoke this bud eventually and who knows, maybe it will give me some sort of super power. I'll take invisibility. o_O

So now, we were down to the final, and most impressive by far, member of the PROJECT 27 garden...Blue Hyena.

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This is one of the top ten plants I have ever grown, and I've grown a few.

She came from a bud of the original Blue Hyena from the final tiny stash, which I cracked to smoke and help contemplate what to put in an empty bucket, a week late...the huge seed simply flew out and bounced across my kitchen floor as I recall, low off the fridge and back to my feet. I felt it was a cosmic sign at the time, though I was very high so most things seemed cosmic, but nevertheless here was this sign and so I stuck the seed in and even though it was a full week behind all the others, in the end it was by far the biggest and best!

Her massive colas are a wonder to behold, every inch sparkling with resin...

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Over a dozen colas which when trimmed up weighed a staggering 2 pounds wet. I'm so blown away by this accidental creation...my original quest was to grow the rarer Sativas and less than 3 years later through the machinations of nature and fate here we are with literally a beautiful monster that is everything I have ever dreamed. Just wow. I know anyone who has ever grown weed understands my emotions at being randomly selected by the cosmos to be able to share such a gorgeous example of everything Cannabis can be.

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So in the end it was several final painstaking hours to carefully trim these colas, and when I finally hung them I felt I may have reached the pinnacle of anything I will ever do growing cannabis. The only way it could get better would be to grow them outdoors and sadly, that isn't on the near horizon though I am pretty sure they could reach 10-12 feet or more. I'm totally happy with my one sweet Blue Hyena. She will fill many jars with her awesomely fragrant branch-size buds, and fill my head a thousand times with soaring blue dreams of canna glory. :ganjamon:

What just one trimmed cola looks like. I think I hurt my shoulder holding it up.

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Now, as I turn from the straining rack of drying colas to look at the grow room, I face the usual depressing war zone. The usually tidy-to-pristine grow environment looks like that farm the day after Woodstock. I couldn't even look at it, electing to take it the next day which is today. So this morning when my wife goes out for a hair appointment I will go up there and get cleaning like the Cat in the Hat.

This time it will be a closing-down instead of a transition...I will be shutting the lab down for the summer for the first time in 3 years...just can't deal with the heat up there, even with the addition of A/C last summer it wasn't feasible and that's okay...I have so much pot right now I could conceivably never stop smoking for the rest of my life and still leave some to the kids so I plan to enjoy the less-stressful life for awhile. It will be nice to be able to walk around without the constant concern about security and all the work and time that goes into a grow. I don't know what I will do with the extra time...good thing porn is free. :nomo:

So PROJECT 27 is down and drying. I will be going out of town for the long weekend coming up so everything will dry until just before I leave when I will pull it down for intermediate curing. I get it bone dry, then put heaps into large sealed storage containers where it re-hydrates to some degree, then I final trim and jar it, placing 62% RH Boveda packs in for longer curing. My grow room also dries and cures very well, ironically once it gets out and down into the house the humidity is a lot higher and it gets softer again and somewhat harder to burn so I actually have to jar it to keep it dry enough, go figure. I don't know how commercial growers get their nugs so hard they are impervious to atmospheric humidity fluctuations...there are so very many things I don't know but I know this...PROJECT 27 was a success.

I will next post a comprehensive weight and smoke report on all the five varieties. I plan to continue this journal even though I will have a brief break from active growing...I plan to drop the beans for PROJECT 28 in mid-to-late August with the goal of a Christmas harvest. I haven't yet decided what it will be, maybe I will try the seed grow again while I still have some original Blue Hyena beans. I truly feel I should share it with the world, just got to figure out how, you know? No matter what it will be more fun and excitement for sure. And until then I'll strive to post interesting and relevant stuff that will make it fun to stay tuned. All of you who read my ramblings I want you to know it means a lot to me, thanks for being there my friends.

My inner feelings are perhaps best expressed by this...

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stoned_copy


It's good to be the weed man.

Peace, Hyena
 
Hyena Merica said:
Over a dozen colas which when trimmed up weighed a staggering 2 pounds wet. I'm so blown away by this accidental creation...my original quest was to grow the rarer Sativas and less than 3 years later through the machinations of nature and fate here we are with literally a beautiful monster that is everything I have ever dreamed. Just wow. I know anyone who has ever grown weed understands my emotions at being randomly selected by the cosmos to be able to share such a gorgeous example of everything Cannabis can be.
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Great job as always bud....I too am a bit overwhelmed by a cross I made last year and just finished harvesting all of them. Some buds still hanging and have yet to be tested. Yield average yet the potency is something I've very happy about. Now I wait for curing to that ultra smooth smoke. Cheers HM....enjoy your summer. :bongrip:
 
mr.H, what a sterling and well orchestrated novel, almost 2 days of solid reading to catch from page1-51..................

And that's no mean feat on its own.................thankyou


Was a bit sad a cpl pages back when you had your down moment. you bounced back..............

Bonus is your next attempt.....

What's that I hear, there's a thread for folk growing your seeds..............between now and your next attempt golden.

I remember your 1st journal when it all started and I was a lurker, but lost your journal among others.....

kind regards.........
smeegs..................:bravo:...........:thanks:
 
Smeegol said:
mr.H, what a sterling and well orchestrated novel, almost 2 days of solid reading to catch from page1-51..................

And that's no mean feat on its own.................thankyou


Was a bit sad a cpl pages back when you had your down moment. you bounced back..............

Bonus is your next attempt.....

What's that I hear, there's a thread for folk growing your seeds..............between now and your next attempt golden.

I remember your 1st journal when it all started and I was a lurker, but lost your journal among others.....

kind regards.........
smeegs..................:bravo:...........:thanks:
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THANKS for being there Smeegs. I truly appreciates your kind wordses, as you would probably say. ;)

Peace, Hyena
 
MagicJim said:
Great job as always bud....I too am a bit overwhelmed by a cross I made last year and just finished harvesting all of them. Some buds still hanging and have yet to be tested. Yield average yet the potency is something I've very happy about. Now I wait for curing to that ultra smooth smoke. Cheers HM....enjoy your summer. :bongrip:
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THANKS for being here Jim...you've been a pal for a long time and I appreciate you. You're an xcellent grower, too.

Stay tuned!

Peace, Hyena
 
Top notch as always :goodjob: those are some super colas !!! Can't wait for some smoke reports. I'm grateful the universe dropped that bean at your feet, what a beauty plant. Enjoy your summer without the stress of the lab.
Iti
 
Itibitiguy said:
Top notch as always :goodjob: those are some super colas !!! Can't wait for some smoke reports. I'm grateful the universe dropped that bean at your feet, what a beauty plant. Enjoy your summer without the stress of the lab.
Iti
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Thanks Iti, I really appreciate you being here. If I couldn't share this I would go nuts.

Peace, Hyena
 
High HM,

That Blue Hyena is a beauty alright! That's a lot of weight! Stella grow as always.
I always enjoy reading your journal. Makes for interesting prose.

I'm trying auto's outside this year. I hope they do well planted right in the soil.

I'll be awaiting your return in August, right after the smoke report, lol.
 
Bode said:
High HM,

That Blue Hyena is a beauty alright! That's a lot of weight! Stella grow as always.
I always enjoy reading your journal. Makes for interesting prose.

I'm trying auto's outside this year. I hope they do well planted right in the soil.

I'll be awaiting your return in August, right after the smoke report, lol.
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Thanks for being there Bode, I will still keep this journal interesting between now and then so stay tuned!

Next project will be special!!

Peace, Hyena
 
Your ramblings are great! So are the plants and that harvest. Blue hyena is a must grow again if you care for my 2 pennies. I thought I may take the summer off, but I just dropped more. High, I'm dabber and I have a problem... I think the key will be two fold. Make lights out during the hottest hours of the day, and convince the wife we need an ac unit!

Is there a place in the journal or another where you diagram the auto water set up? That is my next project. Thanks and awesome job again bud.
 
TheMadDabber said:
Your ramblings are great! So are the plants and that harvest. Blue hyena is a must grow again if you care for my 2 pennies. I thought I may take the summer off, but I just dropped more. High, I'm dabber and I have a problem... I think the key will be two fold. Make lights out during the hottest hours of the day, and convince the wife we need an ac unit!

Is there a place in the journal or another where you diagram the auto water set up? That is my next project. Thanks and awesome job again bud.
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Here's part of his set up. Post 482 and some pics on same page
 
TheMadDabber said:
Your ramblings are great! So are the plants and that harvest. Blue hyena is a must grow again if you care for my 2 pennies. I thought I may take the summer off, but I just dropped more. High, I'm dabber and I have a problem... I think the key will be two fold. Make lights out during the hottest hours of the day, and convince the wife we need an ac unit!

Is there a place in the journal or another where you diagram the auto water set up? That is my next project. Thanks and awesome job again bud.
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Thanks Dabber, I really appreciate you being there and your thoughts...

Try my first journal PROJECT 21 using the link below, I start with detailing the construction of my system, which has been very easy and reliable for 7 grows now. Dutch buckets and a simple gravity-return system and I can literally leave it for a week...priceless. I didn't build this lab to babysit it.

Stick around bro, and any help I can offer I will.

Peace, Hyena
 
Here's a brief

PROJECT 27 UPDATE!

Yes, it's all over, but it's still the current grow so I'll report.

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The harvest is pretty dry by now, I would love to bring it all down off the rack and start jarring it. However, we're going on a 4-day trip tomorrow morning so as much as I'd like to get it done I guess it won't hurt to be up there awhile longer...I dry my buds totally, because frankly the whole "curing" thing is a bit of an overrated aspect if your buds are good to start with. I have to say my buds usually taste and burn about the same after about ten days of drying no matter how long they cure. If anything, my problem is buds absorb an annoying amount of moisture from the humid air where I am, so I literally have to jar them to keep them ultra-dry and nice-burning. I'm a cigar aficionado also, and have the same problem with my humidors...the Boveda 62% RH packs which I have used some keep things a bit too moist IMHO. Weed that's even a bit too moist burns annoyingly hot and the smoke isn't as tasty. Bone dry and flash it...mmmmm. That's what I like. You can really taste the flavors and you only have to light it once. :bong:

The habit of getting everything crispy lowers my finished smoke weight compared to others but there will still be piles of smiles...the amount and quality of frosty sparkly budz from this run ended up way beyond my expectations. Once it's all weighed and jarred I will provide the numbers but I predict it will come out to about 1 1/2 pounds of buds with another half-pound of sugar trim and popcorn buds. Quite a nice return for poking a dozen seeds into some rooters four short months ago and adding just a little bit of time and love. :love:

It's a fun hobby. :rollit:

As a veteran, I want to salute and honor all those who have served, and currently serve our great nation. As a citizen, we all should. Political laws like pot prohibition are unfortunate in a free society, but there are always political laws...slavery was once the law and alcohol was illegal for a dozen years so no time is fully enlightened and our time is no different.
But regardless of the issues of the day, the framework within which we are all free to do our thing was paid for by the blood of over a million fighting men and millions more who were injured. This is no trite observation; it's perhaps the most important thing in all our lives because if WWI or WWII had gone the other way we would probably be the slaves of another culture right now, and many of us would never even have been born. Half the world could be a labor camp. If you think my vision of humanity is dark, frankly you don't know the history of mankind. Freedom is precious and rare, and most people who ever lived had every aspect of their lives decided by their rulers or masters. Occasional free cultures have emerged but they don't last, and once lost people don't get freedom back for centuries, if ever. So, enjoy and celebrate the time you are living in, and the amazing freedoms of the Western world...protect it and don't let anyone tell you America is the problem because ultimately America is the only reason they even have the freedom to talk shit...and thank the dead who won it all for us.

I wish you a great weekend and a great buzz! Jet skis and Norris Lake await!

Peace, Hyena
 
PROJECT 27 UPDATE

Well, the project is technically over and the secret Hyena lab is dark for the first time in almost three years...sadness.

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I worked for hours to clean and sanitize the room, flush the plumbing, etc. It was a lot of hot, sweaty work. Then after pulling down all the now-bone-dry buds and packing everything in a couple containers, I locked the door and climbed down the ladder with my harvest. PROJECT 27 is officially over.

The entire haul nearly fills these two containers

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As I cracked them open to begin the final bud cutting, weighing, and jarring, I was truly pleased with the general frostiness and aroma of my produce. I might have been able to let them go another week or two but I am glad they came down when they did, the fruity/skunky terpines are certainly there as the aroma is excellent. I remember the harvest year ago that was simply too hot the last few weeks and it was ruined as far as smell and taste are concerned. Heat is super critical during flowering, I know that now, and this time around we beat the heat for sure.

In my office, I examined buds from each strain. Everything is awesome.

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I will spend the day jarring and weighing this stuff, and report the final weights tomorrow. The smoke report is already pretty good from what I've tried, I'll do that research over the next week.

Sadly, I can't think of anything else to say. Sucks when the project ends.

Next project will be...

Peace, Hyena
 
Happy Saturday!

It's...

The PROJECT 27 SMOKE AND WEIGHT REPORT!

PROJECT 27 was an overall success, with frosty produce and as always a couple new things learned which may improve future grows. We are ALWAYS improving and trying to dial this shit in no matter how long you have been growing. Because, growing weed is an easy thing to do...but it's a hard thing to do really well. :yummy:

As I trimmed and jarred the now-dried buds, I was very happy with the consistency of the product across all 5 varieties I grew, with plenty of nice fat nugs and a wonderful combined fragrance. I took a few pictures here and there.

Hyena Berry gave me some purple and red hues in these plump and really thick nugs

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I've smoked some Hyena Berry now and it's what you would hope for with a cross of two Berrys (Plushberry and Cheeseberry). It's a great uplifting buzz that makes your head feel like it's stuffed with cotton in larger doses. My head may actually be stuffed with cotton, but I usually don't feel it. o_O

Hyena Berry gave me just under four ounces of really nice bud. If I really like it I still have about 20 seeds and we will run it again...

The White Widow was a very nice choice. Again a 4-ounce finished haul.
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The frost is serious, like every aspect of this strain...It's everything I expected when smoked, I've had it before and the buzz is fantastic in every way. Very seriously considering an all-Widow run. It's probably the densest of all the nugs as well, since 70 grams of this variety does not quite fill a large Ball jar, and the others I have to stuff in there to get 70 grams. Overall this herb is a 10. :love:

Sour Jack was tasty, about 3 ounces total yield with great flavor and a peppery finish, plus a soaring head buzz.

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It grew a little funny, didn't do much until late then shot up and finished pretty tall with lollipop buds, so a good choice for the back row. Another healthy strain, no issues the whole way. Nice and frosty, lots of colors in the buds. I like dat.

Big Nugs Fast wasn't any bigger or faster...but it was good, solid weed with a nice taste and smell, easily worth growing because it was a nice healthy grower and never exhibited the slightest problem with heat or nutes.

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The plants actually produced only about 5 1/2 ounces, not the greatest number considering there were 7 of them. The problem is, two couldn't seem to grow equally in one pot. I double planted 3 of the pots and instead of more more more, with this strain I got one strong plant and one weak one that didn't yield even 25% of the bigger plant and also lost vigor much sooner.

So why even fricking do it?

More and more, it seems one plant per pot is ideal and yields more than two or three somewhat smaller ones. I also believe the overall height of these plants was reduced by the crowding of the pots as well. NOT unhappy with my results, in fact quite pleased, just observing and guessing that maybe another 1/3 to 1/2 more was possible with different husbandry. I have had 7-plant grows that produced 2 1/2 pounds in here, so I think the culling of all but one plant per bucket, sad as it seems when you have to do it, is probably the best way to maximize yields.

But the Blue Hyena was the star! She gave me the best of the best yet again, beating some very well-known varieties in a head-to-head matchup! I grew TWO or more of each other variety (technically 7 Big Nugs Fast) yet the ONE Blue Hyena produced just a hair under 5 ounces of amazing, frostyliciously-yummy colas!

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Just a couple buds from that magnificent plant...

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Soooo...what do you think? Is it significant that one Blue Hyena basically out-produced seven BNF? Two White Widows? Two Sour Jacks? Maybe. But the more important thing is it's KILLER dope, with a fruitylicious flavor that starts sweet and exhales berry flavor with a hit of pepper. The mostly-sativa high is energetic and cerebral...it makes you want to write nonsense in long rambling paragraphs, to your own complete amusement, and laugh a lot. As you can see. I totally blame the dope. :ganjamon:

So here's the final 20 ounces of finished goodness, all jarred and ready to go into the secret, plentiful Hyena bud cellar.

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It will be an even smokier summer now that this is in the house. I plan to see if I can smoke so much I actually die.

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two_doobs


Just kidding, I already tried that a few times. You don't die, you just wake up in the morning on the floor with half a pizza.

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pot_pizza


Damn, she was good. PROJECT 27 I mean. The next run, PROJECT 28, starts August 15th or so...more details very soon.

Stay tuned.

Peace, Hyena
 

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