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Week 17
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noodle noodle
6 years ago
"Wow, your plant looks roughly half as tall as it did last week" You're right, harvest has begun. I cut off the top half of the plant and gave it a rough trim and hung the stems up to dry. I did not have enough clothespins or binderclips or clotheshangers or even space to hang it all up. The smell in my house was almost overpowering from all the fresh cutting and took a day to work itself out. Wet weight was right about 1100g and after 6 days I trimmed it all up. One third of all the stems went into a big box and hung with a small thermoelectric dehumidifier in the box. Temps were round 84F and I'd run the dehumidifier if the humidity was over 70% and turn it off when it went under 60%. Those stems dried a couple days faster than those hanging in the grow tent, which were at a humidity of about 65% at night, 55% during the day. Dry weight so far is 180g, but there are a few bits of stem in there so maybe a little less. I need to get another jar to cure in for sure. This is my first time trimming and I wasn't sure if I am supposed to leave the sugar leaves on that are completely covered in trichomes. Some are super thick with em! I've been trimming almost all of them off, so as an experiment I loaded up my Pax with some of the ground up leaves. It tasted different obviously, but not objectionable and it did seem to have the desired effect. Am I supposed to leave them on? The stems dried in the dehumdifier box were definitely more dry on the outside than those hanging naturally in the tent. It took 3 days before the humidity in their jar climbed from ambient (55%) to 65%. Those in the tent were more sticky and the humidity in their soup container jumped up into the 60s% overnight. I also found some fluffy mold on a few of the buds (5-6?) when trimming, I cut those off and put them in their own small jar so I can measure the waste weight before I dump them. The second layer of buds changed a lot this week, bulking up a bit and definitely getting more frosty all over. They should be ready to harvest this week so I can get my final numbers - 193g so far from one plant!
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noodle
noodleweek 6
Oh thanks for the info @BudKingsGrow! I thought I must be taking crazy pills because if I only watered once, it definitely looked sad. Two or Three times not great, but not like it just crossed the Sahara. Four, Five or Six times a day it seemed fine but would droop right about the same time. I could only tell on the timelapse that it sort of would "relax". By the end of this week I gave up changing the feeding schedule and just assumed I couldn't fix it. That is good to know that it is part of the natural cycle. It appears to happen about 12-14 hours into the day, sound about right?
BudKingsGrow
BudKingsGrow
@noodle, I think the time of day will vary with how you have your light cycle set, but a daily rest/awake cycle should happen near the same times. Your Lady is looking healthy and happy as can be!!!
Mr_Positivo
Mr_Positivoweek 7
Your plants are looking lovely, Noddle, Something I was interested in learning recently, It might be worthwhile to share. Leaves max out photosynthetically. You can tell this stage by measuring the leaf temperature. It rises a few degrees. Alternatively, you can watch for the same moment by witnessing the leaves droop. My plants are on an 18 hr cycle. I can see this in my garden @ about the 16-hour mark.
noodle
noodle
@Mr_Positivo, Oh I've never heard about that! Definitely going to bust out the IR thermometer this week and make some notes. I've started tracking the VPD in the tent and saw it was a little low (7-7.5 through the day) so I've upped the ventilation a little to get it up. The science of this is just exciting.
Jaindoh
Jaindohweek 11
those fan leaves in the middle pointing up to try to reach the sun are some of the number one perpetrators of shading and blocking air to nodes, causing them to lose the airflow light and space they need to bulk right. going well overall and glad to see it -- looking forward to your harvest in this setup!
TheMachinist
TheMachinistweek 7
Holy moly, do I love me some time lapse! 😵 nice work.
BudKingsGrow
BudKingsGrowweek 6
Excellent GD entry this week! Love your time-lapse vid! Dont worry about the "drooping" this is caused by your Ladies normal daily sleep/rest cycle.
Ripper
Ripperweek 5
She looks super healthy. Nice job
Ripper
Ripper
@noodle, growing these girls can become addictive
noodle
noodle
@Ripper, Thanks! I've grown lots of vegetables and herbs and lettuce indoors but this is my first attempt at this sort of thing. I'm pleased to finally see some vegetation taking off.
TheMachinist
TheMachinistweek 17
Just did my first harvest a month ago, congrats! let me answer a few of your questions. **For future not if create an official grow question other members can get credit towards the grower of the month contest by answering and then being selected by you as the correct answer.)** I decided to trim off my sugar leaves and freeze them to make fresh frozen dry ice shake. If interested, I posted a video on my diary of me trimming a branch, (lots of other examples on youtube). I think your hanging technique is great. What helped me was to leave the lines a bit loose so the branches could hang down far enough not to interfere with the ceiling of the tent. If you just move the string line to the center of the ceiling supports instead of near the edges would maybe get better air circulation. Anywho, great diary and nice first grow. Those buds look smokelicious!
noodle
noodle
@TheMachinist, Thanks for answering the questions. So that's what that question form is for! I'll be sure to use that next time I have one so people can get proper credit where it is due. Used your suggestion for loosening up the strings and moving them more toward the middle and it worked great for the second harvest, which had more plant mass to deal with but dried more quickly. Kudos to you!
TheMachinist
TheMachinistweek 15
With the color change my guess is a week or two. I had a plant turn purple, and it was finished when the purpling made it to the sugar leaves, at that point the fan leaves sticking outta the buds on mine were starting to crisp up. when I checked the trichomes at this point I had maybe 5-10% amber on the calyx's. Just my experience.
Hellhazard
Hellhazardweek 1
Looking really good! Those Vero cobs seem to be kicking butt. At 4000k they should be outstanding during bloom, lots of reds.
bobo420
bobo420week 11
Great job, nice and healthy plants! They are starting to put on some serious weight ;)
TheMachinist
TheMachinistweek 10
Having trichome development on the leaves is normal from what I can tell, at least mine did. I think this is a good sign of things to come. I agree with you on the defoliation, I took the same route and my plants look like I did a defoliation but I've only let the plant naturally shed it's under canopy fan leaves.
Zannabis7
Zannabis7week 8
Nice even canopy. Once all the flowers come I bet it's going to be stunning! Best wishes.
PigBearMan
PigBearManweek 8
Nice update. 😊
BudKingsGrow
BudKingsGrowweek 7
Her canopy looks perfect for the switch to Flower! Each plant will grow differently (even exact same genetic), so base your decision on when to switch on how you like Her profile vs. where axillary nodes are coming out. Amazing Work 😀
BudKingsGrow
BudKingsGrowweek 9
Looking great! If you defoliate "Lollipop" style, you will see a dramatic decline in RH due to increased air flow.
noodle
noodle
@BudKingsGrow, will do, thanks for the tip!
BudKingsGrow
BudKingsGrow
@noodle, Leaving more sugar/energy producing leaves nearest light source is always best. Look up some YouTube videos on Lollipopping.
noodle
noodle
@BudKingsGrow, huh I was thinking about going the other direction from the top down to get more light penetration. Is removing the lower leaves beneficial in reducing humidity than the upper?
bobo420
bobo420week 13
That's a jungle! Looking great and yes you can do a partial harvest of the plant
bobo420
bobo420
@noodle, you're welcome ;)
noodle
noodle
@bobo420, Great, thanks for the reply! I was worried that if I cut a couple stems off the plant would all of a sudden decide to go back to a growth phase or something. Going to cut the two bits off tonight. It really is a jungle though, you're right. It is hard to get any sense of scale in the photos and I tried to add a ruler but it just gets lost in there. Just one plant taking up 30x30x30" of space.
Zannabis7
Zannabis7week 6
Nice. Kinda makes me want to get one of those cameras. Any suggestions? What do you use?
Zannabis7
Zannabis7
@noodle, Thanks for getting back to me on this. Sounds like an interesting process. Thanks for sharing the information.
noodle
noodle
@Zannabis7, sorry I missed your message! It is an ELP 1080p webcam I bought off eBay, attached to a RaspberryPi just grabbing an image every 240 seconds with mjpg-streamer and shell script. At the end of the week I copy all the files off an dump em into ffmpeg to convert to H.265.
Zannabis7
Zannabis7week 6
Looks like you are off to a great start. Looking nice and healthy. Nice job. That time-lapse was fun to watch. Best wishes on the grow - Zannabis7
noodle
noodle
@Zannabis7 Yeah with the timelapse you can really see things I wouldn't normally notice because the plant looks great when I look in on it, but in the timelapse you can see it grows to a certain point then peaks and starts to sag. Next week's should be even better, assuming the webcam stops disconnecting and losing half a day at a time. It is also beneficial to be able to see the plant from the exact same spot for the whole week to see it fill out.
midEastern
midEasternweek 18
i must say it looks good but it doesnt seem logically reasonable to get 250g dry from one plant under 170w power..
bobo420
bobo420week 17
Congratulations on the harvest ;)