Sep 21: harvested the tops total wet buds 1.460 g which should be good for about 360 g dried. Was considering waiting another week but I spotted a few more signs of bud rot. Caught it early and it makes almost no difference to final yield, but if it had been left another week as I intended it would have been a big problem.
This is because the buds are so big and tight that they don’t fully dry out after some rain. We’ve had some rain this past week and cool nights. Glad that I harvested the tops today even though I wanted another week. Now the lower buds have 10 days to harvest by end of September.
Sep 22: there are more lower buds than I thought and should be good for more than 150 g dried so likely in the low 500 g range when fully harvested. We’ll see.
Just watering with warmed water that is pH adjusted using Apple cider vinegar. Except for this evening when I included some cal-mag and a half dose of potassium silicate. Just plain pHed water from now on.
Sep 23: nice colour has arrived on the buds due to cool overnight temperatures. I didn’t realize it was only 2.9 C the other night. Supposed to warm up again for the next week.
Saw a dead leaf and investigated…another one with bud rot. There was no salvaging that fairly large bud so it went into the compost. Shaking off the buds after rain helps but sometimes that’s not enough.
Ran freeze dryer yesterday and trimmed them this morning. Buds are always too dry out of the dryer and have to be re-hydrated a bit. Left in cardboard box with some moist paper towels and two giant humidity pack (each supposedly good for one pound of bud).
Sep 24: buds are nicely dried and ready for curing. Total 374 g dried buds in 12.5 jars and that’s just the tops with about 40% of the buds still ripening on the plant. Will be well over a pound of high grade bud from one plant in a 5 gallon bag in Northern Canada (53N latitude) and done by end of September. Woohoo.
Sep 27: looking great and will harvest the remaining lower buds this weekend. Had in garage last couple nights to avoid overnight rain. No further signs of bud rot so it was a good choice.
Decided to harvest tomorrow, which is Saturday, cuz the weather gets shittier on Sunday. Growing outdoor sometimes means calling it before you’d like but she’s ready now.
@Northern_Ent, I cultivate my own Lab serum use it weekly already! For PWM its amazing, never ever had it, but I'll keep it going and fingers crossed I don't find any more rot.
@Still_Smoq, right on, thanks. Should be good, I’ve got some new UV lights to use during peak sunlight hours to make Edmonton in September seem like California in July. 👍👍
and for outdoor? holy shit, they are starting to flower 3 week after the lighthours getting shorter, thats the total point in growing outdoors, getting a fast flowering
or fsat into flower strain- i am in love
@musashi_miyamoto, thanks. I just measured the diameter at 44” or 1.12 m. With area equal to pi x r-squared that is very close to 1 m2. I want to see if I can break a pound of dried bud (454 g) from each of my photoperiod plants, and it is looking possible. 👍
@musashi_miyamoto, yeah the Euphoria seems a bit ahead in part because it recovered quicker after the last round of topping. For a couple days the fan leaves got bigger on the BB Pie, but the growth tips were slower to grow than on Euphoria. Could be just the heat, and now we get 7 days above 30 C with two days at 35 C. That’s hot anywhere, including here.
Looking good! Glad you caught that rot early. Just snipped my first few spots sadly, and I have my grow tarped during rain and overnight, so dry as a bone, but that 97% humidity overnight makes it a challenge. Do you ever spray anyhthing for rot? H202?
@Northern_Ent, a little late now, but this I what I used to cultivate Lab at home https://www.rebootedmom.com/lactobacillus-serum-lab-serum/. It's good for like 6 months with molasses, so I also add it during flower in addition to once a week foliar spray.
@Arcadium, there was actually quite a lot of spots where you could see the rot was starting, like 10-12, so even just a couple more days would have been a disaster. That load is in the freeze dryer now so that will kill any and all microorganisms like yeast mould or bacteria. Harvest problem solved. 👍
@Arcadium, one year at the farm I did a lot of lactic acid bacteria foliar sprays and that seemed to work as I had zero rot all season. I commented on that once and an answer back was to just use a dilute milk solution which will have enough LAB to outcompete the mould. I still haven’t tried that but I might this year. My Overdose is being slow and the strain write-up from Divine suggests rot can be a problem. I’ll have to go buy some milk.
Hydrogen peroxide is a maybe in that it’s easy to overdo and cause real damage. Dilute milk sounds much more benign.
Mostly airflow is key prevention and is always better than a cure.
@Arcadium, hey, valid question. My Auto Overdose wasn’t an auto, and last year’s Gorilla Cookies vs Gorilla Sherbet thing, but, yes, as far as I know, this is Blueberry Pie F1 Fast. Great strain, and Mrs. Larimar has also said she’ll be growing this one next year. So far, so great, and I’m at that stage where you’re trying to judge when to harvest. Soon, and I’ll take the tops first and give rest another week or two. It will be all down before end of September which is great.
Wow, iaimpressed, shes a darling directly from start, and those fat and big leaves,
i know where iam buying my next seeds, those hybrids are awsome,
virgour, string and awsome looking, welldone welldone, and crossing finger
iam feeling they have to give more prizes , if the other plants look as awsome as ours