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@Weird_Jimmy
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This is the first staggered harvest I have done. The highest parts of the plant were definitely ahead of each lower level of flowers. So it made sense to give this a try. Also, there were so many sugar leaves in the flowers I knew I was facing some major trim time. So I started at the highest branch of colas and that was the main stem…what I call the Queen cola, on April 4. I was also very busy with work and life so I spaced out each successive branch by a day or two…or so. To harvest I would cut each major branch from the top down. There would be one major cola ( and best specimen) on each branch. That cola was trimmed so it was still on its stem and then weighed. I recorded the weight of the cola then assigned it a letter, put on a clothes pin, then hung on a rack. I would weigh the cola over a couple of days till it had loss 75% of it wet weight. I would cut from the stem for the final weight, then place in a jar with a hygrometer. I would monitor the jars and if they were above 62% I would take off the jar lid, then replace when humidity was back down. When stable I put a humidity pack in some of the jars, but not all, just to see if I can observe a difference after the cure.
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My last trim penance was served on May 1. Almost a full month. The first cola harvested is already being tested. I did a close trim and removed as many sugar leaves as possible. I think I spent over 10 hours in total. So glad I chose to stagger the job. I trimmed any frosty sugar leaves over a trim tray with a screen for a bottom. I also scissored a bunch of the larf buds into small bits to add to the trim. I made a nice small wafer of just trichomes with no plant matter. Very nice, sweet stuff. I’m letting the large pile of trimmed sugar leaves dry out till crispy and will hand grind them over that screen and press the kief produced into pucks. It’s green and has lots of plant material with it…but its still sweet, and a very nice topper to a bong or joint.
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There were a lot of nice buds of what I call secondary flowers. Those were on secondary branch ends mostly. These buds were placed on a dry net. After 24hrs, I placed them in a paper bag. When they had lost 75% of their wet weight they were put into a jar with a hydrometer. Almost everything that wasn’t a branch end flower was put in the larf bin. Lots of larf. I didn’t weight any of it dry and just the wet weight from a couple of branches. I plan on making bubble hash and extracts (oil and tincture) with the larf. Of course planning and doing are two separate issues. I have acquired all the proper gear and done lots of research.
I am also experimenting with the drying environment. In the past I was using a direct fan to oscillate directly on the buds for 24 hrs. At 24hrs the buds were put in bags and also kept them in direct wind. After a couple of branch sets I decided to stop oscillating the fan and make the breeze indirect. I still put the buds in bags after 24 hrs and kept the wind indirect. It took a few days to get to 25% doing it this way, as opposed to 2 days in bags with direct wind. The slower is supposed to be better, but risks moldy buds. I’m not doing everything the same way so I’m curious to see if there are perceptible differences in jar aroma and taste. To further complicate things to eye-roll status, The staggered harvest should have improved the lower level of flowers to the same ripeness. I can honestly tell buds from the same plants taken at different levels. The lower ones are noticeably weaker. I won’t start testing to see if there is improvement till the flowers are at least 4 months cured.
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@CBD_Sweden
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@MephistoGenetics,
Hi all the happy people here in GrowDiaries.
This is my second cultivation ever and it will be fun to try a bigger space than my closet grow.
First, I'm just going to say I'm done with the construction of my new growroom.
The room is 2.14 meters by 1.7 meters and has a ceiling height of 2 meters.
It provides a floor area of 3.6 square meters.
I use a 54 Watt Lightwawe T5 for germination and 2 Pcs 400 Watt HPS lamps.
I have a channel fan that replaces the room air about 40 times an hour to get a comfortable environment in the room, the air enters a fresh air intake from the outside.
The air is purified through a carbon filter to then leave the room to the rest of the basement.
Then I use that heat to heat the rest of the basement.
I will use 10 pcs 15 liter Autopots to grow with and a 100 liter water tank that supplies the pots of water and nutrition.
I will grow completely organically in soil and will watercure my buds to get the best possible medicine for me.
But there are no cultivation rooms to be displayed here, so I continue with what is most important.
Today I have put my seeds in paper towel and hope the seeds have germinated within a few days.
I am very excited to see how the new growroom will work and how this Stilton Special will turn out.
Strain Name: Stilton Special F1
Genetic heritage - Sour Livers F3 x Northern Cheese Haze F3
Strain behaviour - Stilton grows well from the off, and develops into a stout but branchy specimine that leads to a fine yield of awesome flowers. She's not too stretchy but also is sizeable enough with good growth, to train and shape to your liking. Flowers develop pretty fast and grow to a good size, it may to advised to clear out some undergrowth and if needs be a very gentle defoliation mid-way through the grow, although leaf tucking may suffice well enough.The end product is of top shelf quality and she doesn't lack in yield either.Give your garden, nose, and body a treat and be sure to indulge in a slice of Stilton this year, You won't regret it.
Size - 50 - 70 cm
Structure - Medium height but bushy
Flower Density - 9/10
Indica/Sativa - 65/35
Cycle Time - 65 to 70 days from sprout
Yield - 90 to 140 grams as a single plant
Best Method for overall high yield - 9-12 per 1,2m x 1,2m sq in 10-15 Liter pots (Soil)
Aroma - Very strong, Cheesey/fruity/sour/spicey/ with a dash of coffee.
Taste - Dank berries
Effect - Good hybrid powerful but balanced effect
Medicinal Benefits - TBA
Best Grown - Indoor/Greenhouse
Cannabinoids - TBA
Extract information - Ideal extract candidate - High in resin, oil and terps.
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2017-08-21. Started to germinate the seed.
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2017-08-23. Seed germinated and put in small pot in the humidity dome.
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2017-08-27. Slow and steady she grows.
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2017-08-28. Transplanted to the 15 liter autopot.
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2017-08-29. New movie of the girl and a new pic of the grow room from now.
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2017-08-29.
Hello to you who read my diary, I just want to say that I am pleased that you have chosen to check in with me and in my diary.
I just want to say that I do this for myself and for a steady flow of my medicine.
Everything you read and see in my diary is 100% honest and I will never distort or beautify anything here.
I document my crops so that I can learn from my mistakes and also to look back at those different crops.
I try to update with pictures every day and with text if something special has happened in the garden.
This is my strainhunt for the best medicine and the beginning of my journey with cannabis and the cultivation of it.
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2017-08-30. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution. Im testing the fan to control temp and humidity, it works great.
Added a movie. Everything is looking great right now.
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2017-08-31. 3 new pics.
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2017-09-01. New pics and a video of the room from today.
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2017-09-02. New pic
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2017-09-03. Video of the girl this morning.
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2017-09-04. Week 2 starts, new pics.
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2017-09-05. KL 08.00. Cleaned the room this morning, just vacuuming and cleaning with chlorine solution.
KL 12.00. The girl got 2 liters of water with nutes in it, added a video.
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2017-09-06. KL 08.00. The girls woke up after their beauty sleep, the leaves are always a bit down after 6 h of darkness, but they will stretch now when the HPS lamp starts.
Everything looks good and I keep trying to tuck the leaves so they get the maximum amount of light where needed. Added pics and video.
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2017-09-07. Day 17 from sprouting. I have never tested PH in my grows, when growing organic in soil iv learned that it adapt PH by it self. But im curious by nature so i had to test.
Kl 10.00 Tested PH in the soil, it was 6.9 and tested my tap water and it was 6.8. Added video of the girl.
Kl 22.30. New pics
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2017-09-08 KL 08.00. Good morning, added new video.
2017-09-08. Kl 23.50. Gave every girl 3 liters of water and nutes, added new video.
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2017-09-09. Kl 21.00. Defoliated a lot and added pics.
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2017-09-10. Kl 08.00. Last day of week 2. New video.
2017-09-10. Kl 23.00. 3 new videos.
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@FoxyLoxy
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switched the plant to 12/12 so far really not much difference other then a few inches of height. i do have some questions with leaves if anyone can take a look. for pretty much throughout this plants life as a clone ive had issues as it was my first photo and first plant in general. now after many recoveries the plant consistently having a decent amount of leaves look a little either burnt or deficiency stricken. now on another forum i was told nute burn. but im not really doing strong nutes, even after just water its still exhibiting this issue. the ph has been consistently alright. i just dont see what im doing wrong and a little nervous for flowering whats to happen.
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@emeraldlabs
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Interesting week; she’s packing on and the trichromes are getting cloudy. She has been on a regular watering schedule (every other day) for awhile now. Woke up yesterday and a handful of branches were nearly parallel to floor. Using some plant yoyos (for first time) so prevent that happening again.
Will begin the flush at next watering.
Photos/video taken 91 days after breaking soil, day 49 of flower
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@The_Bearded_Grower
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Day 22 8/1/21 welcome to week 4 and most likely the last week of veg as you can see I am now SoGing and she is looking happy and healthy. I kind of wish I had a 4 in trellis and not a 6 in to start lol but it is what it is
as always happy growing and keep your stick on the ice.
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@UKauto
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Stretch seems to be over now.
Starting to get a little bit frosty.
Creeping along slowly but surely.
Fed her plain water begining of the week and a little cal/mag.
I'm away for new year so thought I'd upload upto today.
Hopefully she packs a bit of weight on over the next few weeks
Fingers crossed eh.
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@Roberts
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Drunken bitch Slap has been growing really well. She was switched to ph water 4 days ago. I am looking to harvest her in about 8 days. She grew great under the Hortibloom Solux 350. Nice frosty, and sticky colas. Everything is going great. Thank you Hortibloom, and Aeque Genetics. 🤜🏻🤛🏻❄️🌱
Thank you grow diaries community for the 👇likes👇, follows, comments, and subscriptions on my YouTube channel👇. ❄️🌱🍻
Happy Growing 🌱🌱🌱
https://youtube.com/channel/UCAhN7yRzWLpcaRHhMIQ7X4g
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@Mr_Juice
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Half of the run is behind us 😉 we'll see how it ends. I'm very satisfied so far. removed additional fan leaves due to light penetration
light intensity 90%
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@Andres
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I mean this genetics it's excellent ... if I would grow zombie kush again ... good job ripper seed ... she fought and was very strong against the plagues after a beginning outdoors ... she fought against the white fly. worms .. red spider and other insects ... and deserves your recognition ... it will not be the most beautiful plant with its leaves impeccable ... but she is a champion ... thank you ripper seed .. .
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@Shigg
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Some light defoliation and leaf tucking.
Installed the Tray2Grow today and I’m excited.
It’s looking great. The silica gave it a really beefy center stem. I dig it.
I love this plant so much.
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@AsNoriu
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No training, just hope for them to deliver.
Day 57 . All is good, small doubts about FD3 but she has to make it or bin it ...
Future looks brighter, other girls form some buds and 50 g is looking achievable at least on couple of them ;) Future will show ;))
N went down as feed chart, still no huge hopes from them....
Some leaves look hungry, couple redish stemps with mini Mag def on FD and thats all for now....
Day 58 Morning. Girls starts to love it 4 sure. Droped down temp by 2 degrees from 28 to 26, they liked it even more. Hope it will stop pistils going amber in begining of flower ...
In the midle of the day all will get molasses and cal mag, leaves a bit too bright, hope molasses will boost bacterias and last bits of N will be used. Increasing level of Top-Max aswel.
So feed looked like :
Heavy feed
Water with silica
Water
Water with molasses and CalMag
At the end of the week they will get heavy feed again.
Day 58 Evening. New attack system ;)) instead of 2-3-3 , girls regrouped into two heavy rows and now go like 2-2-2-2 ;))))
Girls are drinking really fast, still get only around 1.5 liters every second day. For auto i quess its ok. In couple hours afer feed they pray, so its a good sign always ...
Day 60. Heavy feed day, they started to bulk up everyday, really nice to see them everytime.
Day 61. They are bulking up. Thats all i have to say and i really really like it ;)))
Day 63. End of week. Everything looks fine, just i really would want to defoliate them a bit, but dont want to stress at the same time. They look too sensi for me.
All 3 FastDiesels started to show Mag def even on stemps, gave stronger cal mag water mix just for them. They need it often and a lot.
Happy growing !
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@MaryJaneUSA
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3/3 Gelat.OG are doing great. One is a bit taller than the other (which is in the top). Makes sense since the lights are focused in the middle... I will grow only 3 plants next time instead of 4. They’re also drinking about 2.5 gal of water every 5-6 days. They look very healthy and I’ve somewhat defoliated and lollipopped slightly. I do little by little as I go to prevent shock.
