Progress: starting to harvest.
Update 10/9, we’re in the amber zone and will cut it all by 10/11.
Marathon OG; 1 plant. Started harvesting earlier in the week, gradually taking down mature or at risk colas. The plant is probably going to be my best this year.
Yield so far; I harvested 75%: fresh froze 2gal and cured 9oz. Theres
another 4 oz still on the plant. 75% good to high quality dense and resin packed buds. This yield is for a 20 gallon plant.
Lava cake: 4 plants (3-15 gallon 1-5 gallon). The main colas were mature with some amber. The sex pods were rotting on some so I took them down first to prevent any bud rot. Colas were mature (mostly mains) with hard dense buds. I took 30% and left about 70% still growing. I froze 4 gallons and harvested about a pound or so, hard to say yet as it’s just starting to dry.
PPP is still waiting to be harvested. Funky looking purple bud stacks. Still some clear trichomes, mostly milky. Cant wait to try it.
I ran some bubble hash: I ran some fresh frozen marathon OG as well as a pound from last years harvest.
Bubble Hash Yield; < 2 0z
3g rosin quality A+quality (use a rig!)
10g high quality (dark rosin hash) A- quality
38g hash C quality (smoke in joints, like OG hash, but cleaner.)
10g low grade d/e quality (edibles or press for rosin)
The fresh frozen produced the high quality rosin, but at a lower yield. The dried and cured pound from last years harvest produced so much ( an ounce and a half) it clogged up my micron bags. It’s good hash, but nothing like the fresh frozen rosin like hash.
It’s gonna be a busy week of feeding, scoping, harvesting, drying, curing and trimming.
The lava and the OG smoke great. The marathon og is so far my favorite to smoke. I have not tasted the purple push pops yet…..
Im suffering from moth caterpillars too T_T. I go through my plants every morning and squash every caterpillar I can find, but they've taken out a lot of nice looking buds. How is your BT regiment working? I've never used or heard of it before your post. Is it safe to smoke plants that get sprayed with BT?
@Todzilla, Ya this is my first time growing outdoors, so I wasn't too familiar with outdoor pest and how to stop them. I've just been killing them by hand, but its so time consuming and those fuckers are hard to spot. Only when I see a brown patch on my buds is when I know there's a tiny fucker eating and shitting inside.
I'm going to get some BT asap. I thought I could stop them by hand but they've fucked up a good chunk of some nice tops. Time for the nuclear option.
Yeah, before my plants started budding, I was contemplating if I should wash or not. But after seeing all that caterpillar shit, I'm definitely going to give em a nice bath.
I'm out here in Whitter/City of Industry.
@CriticalBush420, I spray for caterpillars using BT every morning. I soak the buds good. Buy it at Home Depot in 8oz concentrate for $10.
My first time I lost 40% due to cats, that was about 8lbs…
Once I started spraying I got losses down to 10-25%.
In some grows, like in one city away, I see zero cats. In another I saw a 100% losses to cats. The cats love those top colas.
BT is approved for use on cannabis in CA. I’m guessing almost all commercial outdoor grows in ca must use this stuff.
Just understand that the cats will die only after eating the BT, this means you’re only limiting the cats from taking out the entire cola; you will likely still have losses, just a bud - and hopefully not the entire cola.
I wash my buds at harvest for contaminants. You should see what comes off … yuk. I suggest all outdoor buds be washed.
BTW what city/area?
Cheers TC
@Northern_Ent,thanks man, especially coming from a seasoned grower like yourself.
I saw some of your other grows and they’re ALL quite impressive. I’m sure I can learn a lot from you!
I’m in the SoCal Long Beach 🏝️
Looking good. You might apply BT in the evening rather than in the morning because it’s photodegradable. Using before dark gives it time to work. BT is a soil bacteria so it makes sense that it doesn’t appreciate direct sunlight. Cheers.