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JustCallmeMom

JustCallmeMom

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greg nr said:
Mostly clear, yes. You want to look at them from the side, not top down. I have at least a week to go, maybe 2. I'm so ready to be done with this grow and move on to the next......
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Looks like we are about on the same time line. Have you harvested and dried and all that stuff before? I might have to put out a plea to a member who might want to come over and give me some help and pointers. This is the hard part!

In regard to the time.....no kidding, feels like this first harvest has taken a year!! I have 3 grows going now, once ww is harvested i will move the smelloscope over, and the new little green o matic should be sprouting :-)

time to start thinking about what I would like to plant again in about a month. was thinking gorilla glue auto but not sure.

I just ordered a scope from amazon. hope its not one of those orders that ends up taking 2 weeks, mommy doesnt have that kind of time!!!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1Z6AFX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
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ttystikk

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JustCallmeMom said:
I dont have a microscope, so a friend came over saturday with his hand held. He said he saw nothing. Today when I took the pictures I see something. Is that frost/trichs?
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That looks good considering it's an auto. I don't think it's close yet. You have a couple weeks yet.

That frosty stuff on the leaves are the trichomes.
 
greg nr

greg nr

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JustCallmeMom said:
Looks like we are about on the same time line. Have you harvested and dried and all that stuff before? I might have to put out a plea to a member who might want to come over and give me some help and pointers. This is the hard part!

In regard to the time.....no kidding, feels like this first harvest has taken a year!! I have 3 grows going now, once ww is harvested i will move the smelloscope over, and the new little green o matic should be sprouting :-)

time to start thinking about what I would like to plant again in about a month. was thinking gorilla glue auto but not sure.

I just ordered a scope from amazon. hope its not one of those orders that ends up taking 2 weeks, mommy doesnt have that kind of time!!!

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N1Z6AFX/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Nahh, this is my first time harvesting. As they say down south, "here, hold my beer and watch this...". ;)

I'll offer my help, but it will probably be pretty funny watching us fumble through it all. Luckily the plants know what to do If we can stay out of their way.
 
Axle4worc

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JustCallmeMom said:
so you dry hang....do you leave leaves on when you hang, or do you trim before you hang?
there are so many ways to do it....just dont want to **ck up my first plant! LOL
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I can't say that it's right or wrong. I do a wet trim and then hang from coathangers. From what I have been told, with lower humidity, you should leave the leaves on. It slows down the drying process. That is good.

My first plant turned brown prematurely. I flushed it and put it in Darkness for 36hrs before chopping. I dried it until the stems snapped. Took 14 days @ 60% rh & 70°f. It was way too long to dry it. It was close to 55%rh in the jar. Boveda packs brought it right up to 62. Although it is very potent, it smells like cut grass to me. Great for cooking and extracts but a bit harsh to smoke. Too short of a flush maybe.

Unfortunately I didn't find this out before the next one needed harvest. Next one turned hermie at 5 1/2 weeks into flowering. Same flush and 36 hrs of darkness. Same high potency. 12 days @ 55% rh & 61°f. Still too harsh and dry.

The next 2 plants dried for 7 days @ 55% rh & 61°f. Still too dry but my ww smells good in the jar.

The last one to be Jarred up, I flushed for a week. Darkness for 48hrs then dried for 3 days @ 55% rh & 61°f. This time it was a little too humid. I had to lay them out on my trim bin for a day.

My last plant, I flushed for 1 1/2 weeks, 48 hours of darkness, wet trimmed ,(dry trim was harder for me), and now have been drying for 2 days. I expect to jar it up in 2 more days.

Flush long, dry slow is what I think I have learned.

greg nr said:
It's a usb microscope someone here recommended. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001GIJZQA/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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That's the one I posted a few weeks ago. I use it with my laptop. Sometimes my wife holds it. If you use the timed shot mode, it takes pics every few seconds. Then you can zoom in on particular shots.
 
Creature1969

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There are too many ways to dry, you have to find what works best for you and your environment.

I've wet trimmed and hung, I've cut off branches and removed fan leaves and hung, I've hung the plant whole, I've wet trimmed and dried in paper bags, and I've cut branches to no more than 8" leaving buds no larger than a golf ball removing fans and large trim leaves and dried in paper bags.

That last one is the only one I did a second time. I'll do it again too! :bigjoint:

I just feel I have more control with paper bags. If I had a climate controlled drying tent, I'm sure one of the other methods would likely suit me better.

I've also learned I prefer to dry trim. Much less mess and leaves a nice powdery layer in my trim bin as a reward for not getting my hands so sticky. Yeah, I have gloves, I hate condoms too so, there ya have it!

Didn't flush. Organic, water only, nothing to flush. I AM however running dual coco hempys and only one of them will be flushed at the end. Mua-ha-haaa Science! Well, science-ish for me and my own feeble attempt at figuring this shit out.

Yep! The Bubblicious came out pretty darn good. Ramblin'. bongsmilie

Bonus topped auto cheese pic. "Never top an auto!" ~People. Everywhere.
Don't try this at home kids...
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JustCallmeMom

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be4meliz said:
Too many White pistils-"patience" once they start showing orange and curling in, then start watching them- also get loup to check them; they can turn right quickly
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I ordered a camera microscope on amazon...hope it comes in soon. Yes, still white pistils, however today I do see some brown ones. Her leaves are starting to die on the bottom of the plant. is it normal process for leaves to start dying, then the pistils get brown?....

I am just amazed at my 36" main branch. Knew it was going to be a killer one from the start :-)
 

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Creature1969

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HideousPenguinBoy said:
Can you post a pic of your Bubblelicious towards the end? I want to compare to see if the pheno I have here is crappy.
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They went through hell due to a bad medium mistake on my part. Best pics I have towards finish. 3rd pic was about a week before chop. Leaves went black and bud turned pink/purple. The other 2 didn't get any color. Also, I never got amber trics. They went cloudy and I chopped when I noticed the tric heads starting to dimple and degrade. A few trics went black. From my research, that's pretty common with Bubblicious.
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Creature1969

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I think my issue was the "Kind Soil" didn't last nearly as long they claim. Should have been good for 4 months, lasted about 30 days. Same issue going on wit this grow but I started adding Go Box nutes around week 3 and it hasn't been nearly as bad. I'm attributing it to compounded deficiencies. It explains why no one fix I tried did much good. I wanted to blame my city water over time but I'm having no issues with coco.

I have 2 more Bubblicious beans I'm gonna toss in coco in a coupla weeks. Can't wait to see how they do then.

Even with all the issues, it's still damn fine smoke.
 
Bosgrower

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Anything special I should know about the coco hempies? I'm planning 4 gal square-ish buckets with 50/50 coco / perlite above the drain hole and plain perlite below. I'm just using horticultural perlite, not extra chuncky.
For simplicity I'm going to use the Jack's 3-2-1 formula all the way through with an as yet to be determined bloom additive.
Any thoughts or suggestions based on your experience so far would be appreciated.
 
Creature1969

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Bosgrower said:
Anything special I should know about the coco hempies? I'm planning 4 gal square-ish buckets with 50/50 coco / perlite above the drain hole and plain perlite below. I'm just using horticultural perlite, not extra chuncky.
For simplicity I'm going to use the Jack's 3-2-1 formula all the way through with an as yet to be determined bloom additive.
Any thoughts or suggestions based on your experience so far would be appreciated.
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Well, dunno if it made any difference but the bottom of my hempys contain an inverted 3" netpot with an airstone inside. (A la Autopots airdomes)
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Wishing I made the drain hole a tad higher with this setup. After runoff drains and I turn the air back on, it spits another 1/2-3;/4 gallon. Less nutes and more feedings seem to work best for me. That plant is getting bigger than her sibling. If I don't add calmag at least every other feed, I get cal deficient. Gonna switch to calimagic soon (no extra N). Tap water + 2ml/gal calmag worked a charm until day 12 but a new plant is getting canna's rhizotinic I'm seeing really fast root growth compared to the hempys.
I'm using the complete canna coco line so I can't speak for jack's.

I've experimented a bit with how fast things happen in coco and I'm loving it. I've forced deficiencies and overfed on purpose multiple times and my sativa dominant amnesia auto's still made it to 40+ inches tall and still growing. lol

Unless Mephisto's soil amendment actually works for water only grows, I'm done with soil. I'll find out soonish.

Have I mentioned I'm loving the shit outta coco? I am! :bigjoint:
 
Creature1969

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Bosgrower said:
That looks like extra chunky perlite, not the regular horticultural. And what size are your pots?
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That's exactly what that perlite is. I wanted more unrestricted air movement. They are 4.5gal buckets. I have some 2 gal coming for a comparison grow in the future. Then I can make 'em into Waterfarms w/the 4gal and a couple bucks in pipe. Gotta try hydro too right? It never ends, does it?

Edit: One more tip for coco, either have a gallon or so extra on hand or put hydroton or something similar on top. After about 3-4 weeks, I had exposed roots from the coco settling. Was nice to see thick bright white roots though.
 
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Bountykiller420

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week 7, getting there, not quite sure how long these are gonna take and when to stop giving em nutes though, breeder info says 60-68 days most of these strains
 

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Axle4worc

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Have my drop ring feeding system set up. All I have to do is drop the pump into a bucket of nutes with 1 gallon each. One minute later they all start running off.

Once I get them onto the flower tent flood table, they will have a drain too. Hate to move them now that they are really starting to take off. I think they were stunted because of low temps. Since I closed the room off, the heat built up and they exploded.

Misty kush still looks sick. I know the damage will not repair itself. New growth is still looking good. Hopefully it will stop spreading.

Next group is not far behind these. As soon as I move these to my flower tent, I can plant my cookies. Only have to drill the drain holes and prepare the Coco.

Any of you using drain to waste with Coco in 3 g air pots? Are those big enough? I plan on using a timer to water multiple times a day when needed. I have the nutes to waste. Do you put hydroton in the bottom to keep the Coco in?
 

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