White Widow Extrm Auto

Thu Oct 27 - Chopped down the plants. Hung them up in the tent to dry. - I adjusted the heat to 21°C and the humidity level to 62% - I'm planning on leaving them like this for 1 week to 10 days - One thing I noticed with these autoflowers, the taller plants appears to have less buds - when I process the plants, I'll be measuring the length and then tracking the amount of buds per plants so I'll be able to analyze the if the shorter plants had more buds than the taller ones or not. I will post the results Fri Oct 28 - I emptied the soil from the grow bags and dumped it on my front lawn. I have a low spot at my house were water will trickle towards my house instead of away from the house so I thought it would be a great opportunity to try to add soil to that spot to raise the ground Sun Oct 30 - I rinsed off the white trays as they were not looking so white after this grow. I would like the trays be back to white before the next grow in order to ensure the maximum light reflection from the floor. Mon Oct 31 - buds don't feel dry. I know it's early. I feel that it will take at least 2 weeks to reach the right level of dryness before being ready for processing Fri Nov 4 - the buds started to feel more dry. Tue Nov 15 - The buds are smelling great! The turpenes are really developing nicely and the aroma coming off the buds in fantastic. - I'll be processing the plants tomorrow. I'll weight the final product and get it into the curing buckets. - I know that I let the plants hang dry for 3 weeks which seems long… it was partly because I got sick for a week and also, the longer the plants stay in this state, the more the turpenes develop. Plus, the humidity and temperature I keep the plants drying in are the same that I keep the plants curing in. So it really is no different. Wed Nov 16 - I processed 7 of the plants. It took hours. I still have 12 more plants to go. I decided to order myself one of those bud trimming bowls. - the bowl arrived a few days later. I did notice that all of the videos online of people using them, their weeds was always before drying. - Although the bowl came with blades meant for dried bud as well, I do feel that it'll do better when the weed is freshly chopped. - I tried one plant in the bowl. I cut the bud from the stems. I weighted it first, it came to 26 grams. After using the bowl, the weight was 17.5 grams - when the first 7 plants were processed, I got 28 grams of shake from them after trimming by hand. Which averages to 4 grams per plant, but the bowl took about 8.5 grams of shake. I do feel that the bud were kind of on the brittle, crumbly side and noticed that the shake at the bottom of the bowl looks like a few of the buds had gotten mulched. - I wasn't surprised, but I'm not dissapointed, because I have seen how good the bowl does with freshly harvested bud. - I will finish the plants. I'n not worried about some of the buds being crumbly as they will tighten up once they're in the curring buckets - So for the next harvest, I've decided to process the buds the same day that I chop down the plants. So, I bought a netted drying basktet with 4 tiers. - I do believe that this will save me literal days of bud trimming by hand. Tue Nov 22 - I harvested the rest of the plants. Now I will give you the analysis on the plants height and weight of buds. - I had 19 plants. The shortest one was 10.25 inches and the tallest one was 32.25 inches the average height was 22.5 inches - The total dry weight of all the bud was 472.13 grams, a little over 1 pound. - the shorter plants had a better gram to height ratio than the taller plants. However, the taller plants produced more buds than the shorter plants. - I also got 79.96 grams of shake from this harvest. This will make some incredible bud-butter. - I did an analysis of my cost per gram. - soil - 125 (6.58 per plant) - nutrients - 14.75 (0.78 per plant) - seeds - 162.14 (8.53 per plant) Total Cost 301.92 Cost per Plant 15.46 Total Cost per Gram $0.64 - after processing, I put the buds into my curing buckets. I created an auto-curing system using buckets. The bottom of the bucket has and intake valve and the top of the bucket has an exhaust valve. - I have an air-compressor and it turns on automatically twice per day for 5 min 12 hours apart and it fills the buckets with air and when the bucket get pressurized, the air will exhaust out the top thus exchanging the air. - There is a hope filled with holes at the bottom of the bucket so when the air-compressor comes on, the air goes up through all of the bud. - the lids have o-rings and they create a nice seal so air doesn't leak out except out the exhaust valve. - here is a link to the instructions I followed to create my own auto-curing system. Curing Bucket Guide - 2020 - Final.pdf (hubspotusercontent00.net) - it is truly a great system. No dealing with glass jars and having to open them and shaking it around. I have bud from a previous grow that has been in the curing buckets for 6 months and it's as good as the first day!