Dave's 2nd Grow - LSD in Bubble/DWC with Fogger

[daveroller]

I'm looking at them on my shitty monitor at work, but I would venture to say that you have a good mix of cloudy and some are actually starting to turn amber. I bet you have amber scattered in other places not in that photo.

You have good eyes, Jin. I was thinking of maybe harvesting this weekend. Do you think it might be ready by then? Saturday will be day 63 of flowering. (The description says 60-65 days.) If it's hard to tell from my photos above, I can try looking through a little microscope that I have. A lot of the leaves are wilting and turning yellow and the plant's kind of drying out now.

 

[lordjin]

You have good eyes, Jin. I was thinking of maybe harvesting this weekend. Do you think it might be ready by then? Saturday will be day 63 of flowering. (The description says 60-65 days.) If it's hard to tell from my photos above, I can try looking through a little microscope that I have. A lot of the leaves are wilting and turning yellow and the plant's kind of drying out now.

Time to harvest. If you can feel the plant kind of starting to take on a 'dry feel.' It's time.

Turns out I actually harvested a little late.

 

[dajosh42069]

Just don't forget to pull the seeds!
put a bud somewhere to dry overnight, heat degrades thc, but if your gonna quick dry, then somewhere warm, with airflow. I will put them next to a bunch of silica packets from my med bottles any my inhaler packets that absorb moisture. But there are many ways to dry. It may taste a little grassy since it hasn't had time to cure.

 

[daveroller]

Finally made it through to harvest. Had lots of problems along the way, but I learned a lot from them at least. Now I'll do things a little differently in my next grow. But it really feels good to take a plant all the way to harvest for the first time!

As wimpy as it is, here is what I got from my plant:

I could hang up a few more buds, but ran out of clips. Wasn't sure what to do with the little buds that were growing along the dark, lower parts of the branches. Threw a lot of them away, but kept some of the stickier ones. Got lots of sticky leaves for making cannabutter.

Smoking the finger hash was a nice treat after finishing my work for the day. Wow! Very nice. Got about 4 hits of it in my pipe. I'll have to give a smoke report later, though, because I forgot what it was like last time. I only remember that those 4 hits made me feel real good and that the high lasted for a good 3 hours or more.

 

[daveroller]

Just don't forget to pull the seeds!
put a bud somewhere to dry overnight, heat degrades thc, but if your gonna quick dry, then somewhere warm, with airflow. I will put them next to a bunch of silica packets from my med bottles any my inhaler packets that absorb moisture. But there are many ways to dry. It may taste a little grassy since it hasn't had time to cure.

Heck, I just use a vaporizer on this green stuff and that seems to solve all of those problems. Won't burn any seeds and it also dries out the bud for me. You're right, it does smell very grassy.

 

[dajosh42069]

you know how to cure it right?

 

[Cid6.7]

Just a FYI cannabutter will knock you on your ass..lmao

I had some brownies about a month ago that fk'ed me up so much I couldn't talk
I could think of the words I wanted to say but my mouth had no idea how to make them into speech lol
So if your not used to it (like me) be careful & take small portions @ 1st & work your way up..
I had 3 large brownies & was still messed up 2 days later no word of a lie..lol

BTW this was one cool grow man good job..!!

 

[daveroller]

you know how to cure it right?

Sort of... I read that I should seal it up in Mason jars. Then once a week open the jars for a little while. But I don't know how long to keep the jars open or how much total time to cure it.

 

[daveroller]

Just a FYI cannabutter will knock you on your ass..lmao

I had some brownies about a month ago that fk'ed me up so much I couldn't talk
I could think of the words I wanted to say but my mouth had no idea how to make them into speech lol
So if your not used to it (like me) be careful & take small portions @ 1st & work your way up..
I had 3 large brownies & was still messed up 2 days later no word of a lie..lol

BTW this was one cool grow man good job..!!

Hey, thanks man. I know that I made some costly mistakes that I'll try to avoid repeating, like vegging it too long & letting it grow too big, but at least I got a small amount of smoke out of it.

I heard that when you eat brownies or cookies made with cannabutter it takes at least an hour before you feel anything. Was that your experience? Still messed up days later... Lol... That's wild.

 

[Cid6.7]

Yah about an hour maybe 45 minutes later & you shouldn't drink with them it only increases the stupidness of them..lol

 

[dajosh42069]

Curing is a process with many different methods, but essentially you want to monitor the moisture content of the buds, if they feel wet, they need more dry time, dump them out in the open air (as little light as possible) until they feel dry. The point of curing is that your letting the Chlorophyll evaporate and dry out of the plant, and allow the moisture content to be consistent throughout the bud. Once the outside dries, it sits in the jar, which draws out the natural oils still inside the bud, which is why you "burp" the jars. I've heard leave the lid off for 30-1hr a day until the moisture is fairly even. You do this for about a week, opening just momentarily to check how moist it is for 1 more week, then you can store it almost indefinitely in a cool dry place.

There's TONS of info on the net about it. I advise you to find some before proceeding much further. But congrats man, your all done. You oughta send me some of those brownies No law against sending baked goodies through the mail!

 

[daveroller]

Curing is a process with many different methods, but essentially you want to monitor the moisture content of the buds, if they feel wet, they need more dry time, dump them out in the open air (as little light as possible) until they feel dry. The point of curing is that your letting the Chlorophyll evaporate and dry out of the plant, and allow the moisture content to be consistent throughout the bud. Once the outside dries, it sits in the jar, which draws out the natural oils still inside the bud, which is why you "burp" the jars. I've heard leave the lid off for 30-1hr a day until the moisture is fairly even. You do this for about a week, opening just momentarily to check how moist it is for 1 more week, then you can store it almost indefinitely in a cool dry place.

There's TONS of info on the net about it. I advise you to find some before proceeding much further. But congrats man, your all done. You oughta send me some of those brownies No law against sending baked goodies through the mail!

Thanks for the info about curing, Josh. You're a guru. I think I have the gist of the process now. I probably should give you some goodies... but I don't want to get busted. For now you have my undying appreciation and respect as an expert grower. You are one smart dude.

 

[daveroller]

I've been meaning to write a smoke report for my weed for a long time now, but I keep falling asleep before getting to it. Not a good idea to smoke this pot when you're already tired, because it will knock you out. Last night I fell asleep while I still had my vaporizer bag in my hand. This is good for me, because I have horrible insomnia and pot is the only thing that helps me sleep. It also seems to be good at relieving pain. Used it to relieve an awful back ache a few days ago and it worked like morphine. I just had to smoke a little more than I normally would to make the pain bearable.

The only thing bad about this pot is that it isn't good for smoking on one of my bike rides. For that I'd need something that would pick me up for a while. My pot does the opposite, so I'll need to buy something else for the bike trail.

 

[dajosh42069]

No worries dude, you dont godda send a thing. Site rules actually don't allow it
And not even close to a guru man, but thanks, I appreciate it, glad I could help someone who needed it. Just spent about 6 months doing nothing but studying growing in all of it's forms.

 

[lordjin]

I've been meaning to write a smoke report for my weed for a long time now, but I keep falling asleep before getting to it. Not a good idea to smoke this pot when you're already tired, because it will knock you out. Last night I fell asleep while I still had my vaporizer bag in my hand. This is good for me, because I have horrible insomnia and pot is the only thing that helps me sleep. It also seems to be good at relieving pain. Used it to relieve an awful back ache a few days ago and it worked like morphine. I just had to smoke a little more than I normally would to make the pain bearable.

The only thing bad about this pot is that it isn't good for smoking on one of my bike rides. For that I'd need something that would pick me up for a while. My pot does the opposite, so I'll need to buy something else for the bike trail.

Thanks for that. It was funny.

So you got yourself a batch of tranquilizer weed, huh? That's cuz the plant must have gone pretty deep into maturity... An earlier harvest would have given you weed with a more wakey high.

I saw your harvest photo. You should be damn proud. To go through the entire process of germination to harvest is no small thing and an achievement in and of itself imo.

I've been high non-stop since harvest and it's great, great, great to know that I will not be spending hundreds a week at the dispensaries for quite some time (even at the rate I smoke). High, high, high, free, free, free. That's why you grow. That's why I grow. And when you look at it like that, mission accomplished, grower... mission accomplished.

 

[daveroller]

No worries dude, you dont godda send a thing. Site rules actually don't allow it
And not even close to a guru man, but thanks, I appreciate it, glad I could help someone who needed it. Just spent about 6 months doing nothing but studying growing in all of it's forms.

Well, you've been reading the right stuff. I need to do that, maybe while I'm in the hospital recovering from my surgery. Can't grow anything until I finish with that.

Let me know next time you grow something, so that I can follow your journal. Looking forward to it.

 

[daveroller]

Thanks for that. It was funny.

So you got yourself a batch of tranquilizer weed, huh? That's cuz the plant must have gone pretty deep into maturity... An earlier harvest would have given you weed with a more wakey high.

I saw your harvest photo. You should be damn proud. To go through the entire process of germination to harvest is no small thing and an achievement in and of itself imo.

I've been high non-stop since harvest and it's great, great, great to know that I will not be spending hundreds a week at the dispensaries for quite some time (even at the rate I smoke). High, high, high, free, free, free. That's why you grow. That's why I grow. And when you look at it like that, mission accomplished, grower... mission accomplished.

Thanks, man. I feel the same way. It was NOT easy to get a harvest out of this grow, so I'm happy that I got anything out of it. Next time I'll do a lot of things differently. You're right, it is SO cool to be able to smoke whenever I want now and know that it didn't cost me nearly as much as I'd have to buy it for.

"Now I'm a farmer, and I'm diggin' diggin' diggin' diggin' diggin'."

 

[dajosh42069]

lol, nice man. I'm glad it worked out for ya.
Be sure to let me know your next grow man, happy to follow along

 

[daveroller]

Here are some closeups of some of my homegrown weed. I don't think I've ever seen pot that still had sparkly trichromes all over it before. Good smokin' shit!

Just for comparison, here's some stuff I bought for $60/quarter. Looks more like cow manure. MOOOOOOOOOO!

 

[dajosh42069]

They both look pretty good. Your are a little more airy due to the foxtailing. So the stuff you purchased is more compact. I like the way your sparkles though. Most likely cause it's been through less and is newer.