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Yeah, the side lighting just blew them up. All the buds at the bottom are fully developed and coated in trichomes, where they normally woulda been in the shade of the canopy above and not developed...

the T5 panels are awesome for side lighting - you can have the plants right up next to them without burning, and they really penetrate into the plant‘s interior well with some defoliation...

I’ll take more pics during the chop tomorrow...I’m thinking 2 oz oz wet per plant which will dry down to between 2 to 3 oz dry. will keep me in Weed for a couple months plus I still have around 8 oz from previous grows. I’m shittin’ in tall cotton...

Couple friends came over and helped with the chop...I’ll return the favor in January when one of them will have some incredible Double Grape to harvest. In any event, it was a good day. 43.3 oz wet from 4 plants and they were aromatic and quite sticky...safely in the Cannatrol dry/cure cabinet to be undisturbed for the next 8 days. Gonna be like looking at fully wrapped presents under the Christmas tree...

Just chillin’...

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised during weigh in based on what you were originally expecting. I'm going with 8 ounces dry but I couldn't tell how tall they were exactly. They're just too dense all the way down not to be at least that for 4 plants. Man I'd kill for some trustworthy growmies that lived close by to help with trimming. I need to just let my wife help more but I freak out when I see her with scissors near my buds since she's new.
How close can you have the T5 lights to the actual plant material, ie leaves, buds? I need a new tent really bad, mine is 4 years old, and maybe if I upgraded to a 5*5 I could run those on the outside perimeter. Congratulations on an excellent job and thanks for sharing it with us.

I had the plants right up against the T5 light, just kept any leaves from touching the lights...I kept a clear path open to the interior of the plants and I got some pretty decent buds from in there. Hardly any larf but good deal of frosty trim for use later on...

the buds were really wet with resin - I pounded them with the 10,000k bulbs for a day before chop. lots of good scissor hash made the day go by quickly yesterday...

hope ya have a great Christmas and your garden continues to grow...I’ll get started again in Jan after I score some more seeds...I have some on hand, but looking for a deep purple strain. Just for the hell of it...

If you had a 5 by 5 you could easily hang a T5 fixture horizontally against one wall, and then rotate your plants every day to even out the coverage. I was rotating mine twice a day at the end. Keep the canopy open, and increase the size of the opening as you approach the end of flowering. I did get some awesome buds from the inside of the plants...

I had the lower branches pulled down to the sides for all of veg, and the first couple weeks of flowering. I let them loose to grow unrestrained, and could still see the right angle bend where they turned up toward the light.

I think the mylar covered foam board I had underneath the front of the plants which bounced light back up that would otherwise been “wasted” helped a lot too. The leaves do their photosynthesis thing on the tops of the leaves, but i kept the lower buds exposed from below so they got the reflected light and got pretty frosty.

It was a great grow bud. I love how you kept tweaking it all the way to the end. Once I'm into peak bloom I have a bad tendency to get into tending mode. I focus on watering and tending buds for inspection purposes and stop thinking about how to boost production. All during veg it's my primary focus but once trichomes start sparkling I get spellbound with caring for what I have in front of me and protecting it like I'm guarding a treasure. My truck just crapped it's transmission so the new tents gonna be waiting quite a while I'm afraid now. As will lights, seeds and a whole lot of other grow stuff. Bah humbug.

Hindsight is always 20/20 - I could have let them go for another week maybe, but they were really dense and sticky, so gonna be a great harvest nonetheless. They are in the sweet zone in the dry/cure cabinet now...life is good.

‘’sorry to hear about yr transmission-I’ve been lucky on that front with no major vehicle problems in the last several years. But, I take mine to the dealer for all service and pay a premium for that so it all evens out in the end. pay me now or pay me later...

I hope you and your family have a great Christmas - I’m freezing my ass off up North at 15 degrees right now, low tonite expected down around zero. bundle up!

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Hindsight is always 20/20 - I could have let them go for another week maybe, but they were really dense and sticky, so gonna be a great harvest nonetheless. They are in the sweet zone in the dry/cure cabinet now...life is good.

‘’sorry to hear about yr transmission-I’ve been lucky on that front with no major vehicle problems in the last several years. But, I take mine to the dealer for all service and pay a premium for that so it all evens out in the end. pay me now or pay me later...

I hope you and your family have a great Christmas - I’m freezing my ass off up North at 15 degrees right now, low tonite expected down around zero. bundle up!

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We had a cold one up in the mountains last night too, low twenties. The trucks 16 years old with almost 200 k on the clock so while it is never a good time I'm not shocked it happened. I was on the way to Richmond and had to grab a cab home. Ten to fifteen days just to get the new transmission in to my shop which is what really bites.
Have a great Christmas and safe travels. Looking forward to the smoke report upcoming.