The plant was grown in Mother Earth Coco Peat during veg, and given only water. She was put into an organic mix found on the maximum yield website before flower, and was given 1 tea during flower, but otherwise only water. Happy enough with the results, and we will see how she dries.
11/24 - She was harvest on 11/24, the last day of the 13th week of flower, the 91st day of 12/12. She could have easily went a bit further, but I was content chopping down now. Most of the main colas were trimmed back to about 6 inches, and everything else was trimmed as nugs. I planned to dry in my Rubbermaid tote, and didn't have enough room for the entire plant. I had bought what I thought was going to be a 2x2 tent on Craigslist that I was going to use as a possible clone tent, and when I unpacked it, it happened to be a 4x2 tent. I am using it to dry 2 colas that I couldn't put into the tote, so I will get a bit of a comparison of dry trimming and wet trimming from the same crop. The part that went into the tote was wet trimmed, the 2 remaining colas that were hung will be dry trimmed.
The top colas for certain were hard as rocks. Can't wait to see what it does dried. The two tops I did happen to weigh wet (don't care for a wet measurement as I know lots will be lost during dry) were around 30g each. I would expect it to dry to about 4-6oz or so, enough for me, since it was about 1/4 of the tent essentially. Now that I have a 2nd tent, I will look to use the 4x2 to veg/mother plants, and the 3x3 to flower, and hopefully cycle them to get a harvest every couple weeks. I also have 9 other seeds from this pack, so I will definitely give it a go again, but if they are going to be 13+ week flowering plants, chances are I won't keep them around, unless any of them turn out to be something really special.
Now we wait for the buds to dry and can be put up to cure (assuming 4-10 days, as I don't really know with the wet trimmed how much it may take off of the drying time.
11/29 - The part of the plant that was wet trimmed and put into the Rubbermaid dryer was trimmed up and jarred today. The smaller nugs that were in there were pretty much dried, but the main cola parts still had some moisture on the inside (was all trimmed back to manageable nug sizes), so I am going to be burping daily for 30-60 minutes during this first week to help continue the dry/start the cure. The 2 colas that were hang dried will be staying up for another couple days. The 6 colas done so far went into 3 quart mason jars, with 25.2g, 26.5g, 26.8g in each, though as I said, with them not being fully dried, it will continue to go down a bit. Assuming the other 2 branches follow suit, we will be somewhere just under 4oz for the plant. Will update again in a few days.
12/1 - Two hang dried colas were even less than the others, coming in at 21.5g. As with the others, I expect some more loss in weight as the cure starts and they continue to dry out a bit. Will update the weight in about 7 days when I expect it to be about finished. I will say, the hang dried plant already appeared a bit more fragrant upon going into the jar. We will see where they stand in a week. Either way, between 3-4 ounces for 1/4 of my tent, not bad. It would make mainlining a viable option if staggered/perpetual grow.
12/5 - We are on the cusp of getting the smell back into the buds after a few days in the jars.
12/9 - Calling the final weight at 98.8g for the one plant, in basically 1/4 of my 3x3 tent. Smell can really only be described as funky. I even tried to ask a friend his opinion, as my nose can sometimes fail me, and his only answer was funky. Will be back in a few days with a smoke report, hopefully with comparison from a friend or two.
12/11 - Friends say the Dreamcatcher smells like cat piss. I always just said funky, and someone else said cat piss, someone said a skunk that sprayed. The smoke is smooth, maybe a bit earthy with berry tones, and for me the high is pretty clear headed and more of heady high than anything. Happy with the way she turned out. Interesting to see what the rest of the pack will produce.
@buddha61, now thatβs what I call a vault πͺπ½ U should be straight for life but u sound like a seed junkie π I swear thereβs going to be a rehab set up for people like us πͺπ½πͺπ½πͺπ½
@buddha61, I slept on the Topanga hoping for a rerelease even though I have a few OGs. Smoothie and Zkittlez should be fun grown a few zkittlez crosses so far pretty impressed with plant structures on them πͺπ½
@MMTSavage, I'm not a huge fan of the 'gas' of Sour Diesel, so Snake Oil doesn't sound like one I would enjoy a lot. Either some sort of Christmas, or New Year sale, lol. TBH, I have $100 that is stuck in Coinbase (tried to do online payment and messed up), $80 of which went into Bitcoin on coinbase, so I am prepped to buy more when another sale comes up lmao.
As to what I am going to run next, I am going to run 4 autos (Fastbuds Smoothie and Zkittlez), have a few seeds I want to get rid of, and try them in a proper grow (tried them in place of a couple males, but they were too far from the lights, in soil I had never used, etc). As for the GPS/HB seeds, I will likely pop a pack about a month out from the autos finishing, so that I can start to veg before pulling the autos and flipping to flower in the 3x3. Which pack, I'm thinking Topanga Canyon, find me a OG keeper, and then move to one of the purple strains to find a keeper, If I keep flowering in the 3x3, I'd like to keep at least 4 mothers so I could have strains going at the same time. Not sure I could keep more than 4 moms in the 4x2 either.
Damn man, she's looking frosty! How you feeling about GPS' stuff? It's hard to tell with the light, but a little yellowing on the bottom in week 5 isn't too big of a deal, just keep an eye on it (I think your top dressing/tea solution ideas should be fine). Good luck my dude!
@buddha61, That's good to hear man, I've picked up several of their packs, but I don't have any of the strains you listed so I'll be interested to see how they turn out for you. I just ran Golden Nugget (straight fire), currently running Skydweller (it's OK, really stretchy and OG-leaning, only in week 2 of flower but I didn't take any cuts because it was so fussy), and just popped some Dynamite Diesel (just popped up out of soil).
I might pick up another pack of Skydweller to try it again, maybe it was just a weird pack as all the phenos shared the same stretchy traits, but aside from that my GPS experience has always been awesome. I'll make sure to keep an eye out for those Pig Whistle, OBS, and Sundae grows!
@RussianPetrol, I should also add that I now have 5 strains of GPS seeds to try. Aside from the other 9 beans I have of this and the Chinook that is growing, I have Pig Whistle, Orange Blossom Special, and Sundae Stallion.
@RussianPetrol, I did just finish filling the pots with remnants of the soil mix for transplant. We will see how it settles, and does for the next week or so, after the next watering and just play it by ear. So far, I am impressed with the GPS stuff, but obviously it is still early, and a small sample size, so time will tell.
@buddha61, last time I did manifolds, I trimmed back like how you mentioned, but in retrospect I wished that I hadn't. The colas will form the same size anyway, and I would have had more lateral buds for a larger yield overall.
@MovingOn, Thanks, I appreciate that. I learned a bit myself from this, my first manifold, and when I do it again, I will have a better idea how much of the lower branches I can trim back. I left more than I would have preferred here because I didn't trim but the lowest. Now I know I could go up about half the total height of the cola, and I will be left almost nothing but the cola mass.
Great journal my friend lots of detail. Well done on the manifold and the finished product looks good, looking forward to the final weigh in and smoke report!
@MMTSavage, I'm jealous. I wanted to give the Banana Orange Daiquiri a try, but ended up missing it when the vultures cleared the feminized stock last week.
Looking good so far man! Excited to see how these turn out.
As a big fan of mycorrihizae myself, I've used that exact mycorrihizae product before and had good results. I think the full powder form of some of the more expensive stuff (great white, etc) is nice to have and saturates the soil a bit more thoroughly, but for transplanting right around the roots I think the Bigfoot stuff will work for you just fine.