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You can almost taste the rainbow 😜😋😋
Continuing to drop temps and humidity to bring out those exceptional phenotypic expressions with 11/13.
Another 5-9 days depending on the pheno. Next SoG run will be one selected pheno x24 plus their bonzai mom. All those cuts have rooted and been vegging for a few weeks, ready to go into flower.
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10/28 Added day 61 photos. Checked trichs on every plant with an illuminated 30-60x magnifier. Another 2-3 days for the cheese crosses although some are ready today, and maybe 5 for the oranges. Stripped most remaining fan leaves. Everything getting super solid and fat. Calyx explosion. Love it. Cheers
Harvested on day 62. Earlier then wanted to but I just noticed my intake air filter was F’d up and allowing light leaks. There are a few hours that this dark tent overlaps with another veg tent in the same room. Rookie mistake. Noticed some regenerative growth and trichomes were already milky to 10% amber across the board so it’s not the end of the world that I’m chopping 3 days ahead of schedule.
I am a firm believer in bud washing. I grow organically, in soil, with intake filters and a very clean room. However it’s undeniable that with all the air movement within the tent, with carpet fibers being sucked into the tent anytime it’s opened, Etc,. that shit lands on sticky buds and gets stuck. Dust, soil, hair, carpet fibers, etc. I see it in nearly every photo posted here even by the best growers. You can see hair on their bud. You can’t see the dust and shwag.
Bud washing is controversial, but I am a convert and firm believer after seeing what comes out the wash.
Case in point - look at the photos I posted. There is a shot of three clean buckets, the first contains 5 gallons of warm water with 1/4 tbsp of fresh squeezed lemon juice and baking soda each.
Look at the after shots. The entire plant stalk is dipped and gently swirled In bucket 1 (lemon/soda) for 10-15 seconds. Excess water is allowed to drain off for a few seconds before this process is repeated in buckets 2 and 3, respectively. Buckets 2 3 contain clean, and cooler water than bucket 1. After the third dip the plants are treated the same as I would had I not washed them.
Hang dry in my small dry chamber at 60% Rh and 55*F for 10-14 days. Then onto cure with bovedas and glass jars. I’ll post update on this with dry harvest weight in about 2 weeks.
Bottom line - I take pains to ensure a clean environment. I also recognize it’s not a sterile/sealed environment and shit gets thru. I grow sticky icky buds. Stuff gets stuck to it that we can;t see with our naked eyes. Wash your buds, just like you would your food, and it will taste better. Taste cleaner. Burn cleaner. Will blow your minds when you see the crap stuck to your buds that is left behind in the water buckets.
No major terp loss in my experience. Key is being gentle and following the temp protocols. I’ve run the dirty water through bubble bags and found next to no Trichome heads kicked off during wash. After all, outdoor flower gets rained on late flower all the time and it doesn’t fuck up the trichomes - though it can bring mold issues.
Check out my other journal that will show this strain inn action for more than a few weeks at the end of flower.
About to flip 24 clones and their mom into flower in the same footprint as this grow
Harvested on day 62. Earlier then wanted to but I just noticed my intake air filter was F’d up and allowing light leaks. There are a few hours that this dark tent overlaps with another veg tent in the same room. Rookie mistake. Noticed some regenerative growth and trichomes were already milky to 10% amber across the board so it’s not the end of the world that I’m chopping 3 days ahead of schedule.
I am a firm believer in bud washing. I grow organically, in soil, with intake filters and a very clean room. However it’s undeniable that with all the air movement within the tent, with carpet fibers being sucked into the tent anytime it’s opened, Etc,. that shit lands on sticky buds and gets stuck. Dust, soil, hair, carpet fibers, etc. I see it in nearly every photo posted here even by the best growers. You can see hair on their bud. You can’t see the dust and shwag.
Bud washing is controversial, but I am a convert and firm believer after seeing what comes out the wash.
Case in point - look at the photos I posted. There is a shot of three clean buckets, the first contains 5 gallons of warm water with 1/4 tbsp of fresh squeezed lemon juice and baking soda each.
Look at the after shots. The entire plant stalk is dipped and gently swirled In bucket 1 (lemon/soda) for 10-15 seconds. Excess water is allowed to drain off for a few seconds before this process is repeated in buckets 2 and 3, respectively. Buckets 2 3 contain clean, and cooler water than bucket 1. After the third dip the plants are treated the same as I would had I not washed them.
Hang dry in my small dry chamber at 60% Rh and 55*F for 10-14 days. Then onto cure with bovedas and glass jars. I’ll post update on this with dry harvest weight in about 2 weeks.
Bottom line - I take pains to ensure a clean environment. I also recognize it’s not a sterile/sealed environment and shit gets thru. I grow sticky icky buds. Stuff gets stuck to it that we can;t see with our naked eyes. Wash your buds, just like you would your food, and it will taste better. Taste cleaner. Burn cleaner. Will blow your minds when you see the crap stuck to your buds that is left behind in the water buckets.
No major terp loss in my experience. Key is being gentle and following the temp protocols. I’ve run the dirty water through bubble bags and found next to no Trichome heads kicked off during wash. After all, outdoor flower gets rained on late flower all the time and it doesn’t fuck up the trichomes - though it can bring mold issues.
Week 1 of Whole plant hang dry
Everything looks great!
60% humidity and 60*F
I live in a very low humidity environment so a humidifier and small fan is all I need to maintain the correct environment for two weeks of drying
@OneBakedWalrus, daytime highs of low 70s, night temps high 50’s low 60’s. Be careful with low night temps depending on strain. Most growth stops in 50’s. You don’t want to shock them. Don’t want to do it too early in flower - only after buds have started chunking up. For me that’s week 6-10 of flower, again depending on the strain. You’ll get rock hard hugs, higher resin production, and of course those awesome colors.
Strangely enough - these tropical African Orange strains (equatorial landrace influence) love low night temps at end of flower. Every geno and pheno is different, so experiment. best of luck
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eta - I also live in a cold environment. Above 7,000 ft altitude, winter seasonal high of 20*F during days and around 0-10*F at night. Not uncommon to go a few weeks with highs of -25*F around Christmas/New Years.
@El_Andy, what do you consider low Temps? Just curious cuz I live in a pretty damn cold place already and my basements getting a drop in temp too. lol snow does that I guess .
@WighLowBeanz, sorry for the delay. Had to verify account email to comment or like. Those are three African Orange phenos. I do run 11/13 and very cold temps with low humidity at end of flower which help those color expressions.
@amazongrow, thanks. Yup, I’m really into the colors she puts off in late flower. Definitely one of the reasons I’ve selected one of those phenos as a keeper. Cheers
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I’ll try and recreate all of these week by week
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