@dalemac
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September 25 > Harvest at dawn for the big girl. The usual routine... except I shot a time-lapse video this time to play with the camera I won last year. Clipped the top buds first - then the base. Took me 2 hours to wash all that -rinse - repeat.
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Well this was an interesting summer with this pair of girls.
I learned that I don't really need a container larger than 10 gallons in order to grow very large plants (in my neck of the woods anyway). Now when I say large I mean how much space they take up on my patio. I'm allowed to grow 6 legally but 4 eats up pretty much the whole patio. And the reality is I don't need to grow plants that large. The outdoor yield will last well into next year for me and everybody I know. So next summer I plan to do much more serious pruning to limit the scope and shape of the girls I grow outdoors.
I also learned that I don't need an inverted tomato cage style support if my container is larger than 5 gallons. The Durban I grew last summer was in a 5 gallon container and there's not enough weight in there to keep her grounded. Once up to 10 gallons you won't want to lift the container much and there's enough weight in there to keep things stable.
At the moment I've listed 450g as a dry weight for both plants (updated to 458g final). I haven't actually weighed the 2nd plant yet and won't even trim her for about a week or so (I'll be back to update diary). The first girl came in at 235 grams. I got pretty ruthless throwing away small budlets and trim this morning as it took me 4 hours to take this big girl down and wash her up. That's only because I spent half a day yesterday trimming Cream & Cheese and moving Northern Lights around... and it's been over 95 degrees both days... so I'm ready for a rest. Cannabis harvesting is not easy labor.
Diary note > There was a software malfunction a week or so back and I was unable to add a new flowering week, whereupon it was determined there was a limit of 26 weeks at that time... so I didn't add any more weeks after that until the harvest week. When I added the harvest week, it appears the malfunction had been corrected because I COULD HAVE added a new flowering week at that time. I think there's only a week missing. Differences can be noted with dates on the photos.
If I had a problem this summer it's because I was too anxious to get going after a long winter nursing shoulder surgery and I didn't pay proper attention to the lighting ramifications when the instructions were there for me, and subsequently started too early. Next year I plan for an early crop of auto flowers to keep me occupied until the proper time for a regular crop.
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September 30 > Trimming and processing complete. I really manhandled the big girl with the Trimbag, largely because I knew I was gonna have a pound of herb on my hands (way more than I will personally consume) and I wanted to minimize my hand trimming. So when I say manhandled here, I mean I ran it through the process TWICE, using about 40 rotations/spins each time. It probably would have helped to be a tad drier, but we're entering a cool spell now and we've run out of time. Mother Nature has decided to turn off the heater... which has turned my Purple Berry Kush a nice shade of purple... but that's tomorrow mornings's harvest... <sigh>... anyway... where was I... oh yeah... AMNESIA... <hehe>
Trimbag generated trim on 1st pass = 217 g
Trimbag generated trim on 2nd pass = 90 g
Trim generated by hand after that = 186 g
Final bud weight for big girl = 223 g
Clearly, comparing weight of trim generated by hand vs by the Trimbag here you can see the result of my "manhandling".
Little girl was in a 10 gallon pot and generated 235 g buds and 360 g trim.
Big girl was in a 15 gallon pot and generated 223 g buds and 493 g trim.
Final total bud weight 458 grams for both plants.
Hope anybody following along learned something this summer. I did.
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The trick is to not make the same mistake twice. That's kinda why we're all here. Kinda. ✊
@PeterSage
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Plant is fine, except one stormy night the weather is just fine.
Heard that is gonna be a nice September, hope they are right. I plan to cut the tree on the second/third week of September.
Yes some yellowing leaves, I still think is the aging process and a little bit of K deficiency, that should have decreased, and looks like it has, new growth are just fine and there is no worsening.
Still watering with:
Big bud, 2 ml x L
CalMag 2 ml x L
Bio Bloom 3 ml x L
silica, one tablespoon
neem oil
propolis
aloe
@nonick123
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Día 69 (01/07) Riego con 1 Litro sólo H20 - ph 6.2
Día 70 (02/07) ¡ Cosecha Banana Purple Punch Auto ! 😁
💦Nutrients by Aptus Holland - www.aptus-holland.com
🌱Substrate PRO-MIX HP BACILLUS + MYCORRHIZAE - www.pthorticulture.com/en/products/pro-mix-hp-biostimulant-plus-mycorrhizae
@playerkiller69
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Everything got a lot more darker and golden with temp drop technique i show earlier and water temp 60f and flushing too soon to harvest I’ll show next time how the buds look
@GREENPHOENIX6262
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07/06 week 3 - 5 inch - Heavy nute feed - humidity dome removed - Light intensity 50 - Temp 82 degrees - humidity 81 - Transplanting within 5 or 6 weeks into a 7 gallon pot.
07/11 week 3 - 7inches - Light starve for 3 days Temp, Humidity remain the same - moderate Myco, nitro feed tonight
07/14 week 3 - 7.5 inches - Heavy feed - Myco/Super thrive Temp, Humidity remain the same - moderate Myco, nitro feed tonight, topped first node
@SAKARABU
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Performed a final defoliation along with the usual LST. Tried watering with only 1L to bring the watering down to every 2 days, but they started drooping a bit, so decided to stick with 2L every 3 days. Seems to work best.
Not much else to report, growing steadily and buds starting to form.
@Kokot
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Did a little more lst… let me know if im doing something wrong or could be doing better, i appreciate every single tip and opinion.
@MediciGrade
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I needed a bigger reservoir, runoff catchment, and dehumidifier drain bucket because I had to go out of town for 5 days. Fortunately I calculated the volumes accurately and so when I got home I had at least another 24 hours of solution in the rez, and space in the runoff and dehumidifier catchment buckets.
The other fortunate thing is that I came home to very happy and vigorously growing plants. The tallest colas are now 30 inches above the coco, and 20 inches from the light. There is one cola (pictured) whose stem is as thick as a sharpie!
I ran out of the AN base nutrients and decided to switch over to GHE because the PH perfect buffers in the Advanced Nutrients line have been a huge pain in the ass. Also, I decided to mix my own bloom booster from Potassium Sulphate (0-0-53), Monopotassium Phosphate (0-52-34), and Epsom Salt after finding a DIY recipe (https://www.thcfarmer.com/threads/diy-hammerhead-confusions.47992/) to achieve a (0-9-18) NPK ratio. Significantly cheaper, but will be interesting to see what the results are in the end.
I will be doing one more heavy defoliation on day 21 of flower because there are so many fan leaves laying on top of each other that its hard to keep the humidity down. Stay tuned!
@GanjaReaper
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Day 75:
Due some heat problems inside, some started to foxtail, some leafs got burned besides being yellowed which is normal in this phase.
This happend because the outside climate, which heats the walls of my growing space and warms the fresh inflate air. The temperature outside increased by 4-7 degrees.
So my room is no longer 25-28 degrees celcius, but now is like 30-31 which is a huge problem.
This is the negative side of having lots of heat lamps instead of cold LEDs.
Did add an airco unit with a easy fix. Might change it into a better fix but I don't have much time.
After the pictures, I started removing old leafs,fixing some plants and gave them water.
I don't like to take pictures afterwards, it doesn't show reality.
See you guys next week.
@Danger90946
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Here we are in week six of flower and not a lot has happen this week other than the usual watering and letting her do her thing. Only trouble this week was updating GoPro had to try a few times. Other than that we got some rain in my home town and collected about 60 gallons that I'm going to use to finish the rest of the grow. Also, got my new AC Infinity CLOUDLINE T4, Quiet Inline Duct Fan System with Temperature and Humidity Controller, 4-Inch. I was really hoping this two plants would finish before the year ended, however, it looks like they got others plans. See you guys next week.
@PapaNugs
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Another great week here. Defoliated the girls throughout the week. Continue to do well and very healthy. They drink a good amount but nothing crazy. The frost is unreal! It's even on the fan leaves! I have a picture that shows the frost on the fan leaves. I can't believe the smells as well from these ladies! Cherry smells are strong! I love smelling the plants and my fingers when I defoliate the leaves.
Watering daily or every other day. Also adding water to to self watering pots as needed.
Starting to use the UVB today!! 🤞😎 Gonna start now at 30 minutes a day for a few days. Then slowly increase as we move forward. They already have a lot of trichomes, as you can see, and I'll look to increase those. I plan on harvesting these girls at week 8 to save the terps as much as possible. Let's go!
@BioBuds
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It was finally time to harvest her, what good times we had with her. Amazed with how beautiful this plant is, how easy to manage and train and how rewarding Orange Hill Special is.
So we said our thanks and goodbye, thanked her for all the joy she gave while growing her. I realize more and more how I love growing them even more than the end-product.
It takes my mind of all going on for a while, in my miniature jungle world in the attic.
Im sure all of you just sometimes sit there and watch them, in wonder, dreaming away with a good buzz on, watching them wave in the wind of the fans.
So with a heavy hart I apologize, play them their last music, sit with them and feel them and smell them, watch the glistening of the cristals.
In the end we had 209 gram dried Orange Hill Special, I will know the total of the grow, in a few days, since the final big whopper still has to dry: my XtraKush, be sure to check the harvest of that one *in couple of days) and see a one-dollar seed outperform two 10 dollar seeds.
I probably go over 500 grams for the total grow, which would be 1.6 grams per watt. Big success!
Consider an SP-3000 for your next light, you won't be disappointed! Check www.mars-hydro.com for the latest discounts!
Thank you @MarsHydroLED for letting us try out your light, it made this successful grow possible!
Greetings and all the best! Thank you to our friends here, our followers and the whole Growing Diaries community for just being there.
Big Hug,
Sunshine and BioBuds
@Pistil_Whipped
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The girl grow pst the circumference of the 5 gallon pot. She is steadily growing on the top, fan leaves look thick and bright green. The stem is growing in girth.
I fed her some stump tea along with a gallon of feed water at the end of this week. Let's see how she reacts to it. I have been super cautious in increasing her feed. Since she is growing in soil, I waited until she is a month old before loading her with nutrients.
Concerns for this week: This plant is getting real bushy, the fan leaves are pretty big. Its gonna b casting plenty shade in a week ot two. Little bit concerned about light distribution to all parts of the plant. The fan leaves are so big, I am not sure how to begin LST on her. Need to read up more on it.
Onward and upward!!
![Apple Fritter [Auto #2]](https://bucket.growdiaries.com/static/report/photo/301291/facdcbe29986e33a55e84fa5635de608_150.webp "Apple Fritter [Auto #2]")
@Muuuy
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Beginning of week 13 was harvest time!
Checking the trichomes on their main buds led to the decision to harvest them. Almost all of them had already milky looking heads and some of them even turned amber. Their incredibly sour smell was barely tolerable as well.
Made the decision to harvest them all at once, so the grow room can be turned into a drying room for them. Since this is considered an experiment after all, we wanted to try out wet trimming as well to compare it to the dry trim we're used to.
So considering #3 had the least amount of effort due to the low amount of head buds overall, we choose that one to be wet trimmed. It surely was a very sticky and still time-consuming activity, but we're pretty happy with the result.
Can't wait to see and taste them when they're finally ready, dried properly and cured a bit!
This is plant #2.
She still remained my absolute favorite one of them, having the biggest and most beautiful looking main buds. Would've expected a bigger stretch at the start of flowering though, so her branches were still growing pretty close to each other, which isn't that bad but also wasn't really the desired look overall. Plant #2 is one of the dry trim ones. Just made sure to remove the biggest leaves that could prevent a good airflow between the buds when they're hung up.
@CrushedCana
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La planta se empezó a estirar y a mostrar sus primeros pistilos y ya empieza a marcar esas puntas que irán florando
@L_Tetragrammaton
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This week was explosive! I bumped up the grow nutrients and added the Bud Ignitor at 1/4 strength. I also increased the water amount progressively building up to a half gallon by the end of the week.
Mid week I stepped the exhaust fan up and increased the light to about 175w. I started the “new to me” training method as well getting some nice light down into the side shoots and lower canopy. Rings were left on during light cycle and misted with plain water and rings removed before lights out.
This week I also dropped the tower fan to the floor and brought the clip fan down a foot above the canopy and am running on the same schedule as the humidifier. Which is set to be on 20min before lights on and off 10 min after lights out.
Thanks for stopping by and happy growing!!! 🌞
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@Luv2Grow
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Day 64 - The beginning of week 10 and started off with 2 gallons of plain pH’d water. I think I waited a day later than I should of cause she was pretty droopy and dried out but seems to of recovered. I ended up tying down a couple of the really long branches to keep her even and seems to of evened up the canopy a bit.
Day 65 - Did a bit of defoliating on the lower end of her today, mainly to remove some dying leaves. Since I’ve got 3 flowering plants in the tent right now, I don’t think everything is getting the right light coverage so I’ve got another AGLEX “1200W” COB LED that should be here tomorrow so hopefully I’ll have enough light coverage and penetration from here on out.
Day 66 - She’ll be ready for another round of water, 2 gallons worth tomorrow, she’s almost dry. Other than that, not much had to be done with her today. As will all the girls in the tent, I’m trying to figure out how to get my temps down. The AC is out in the house and hoping with some cooler temps moving in, it’ll help cool it down.
Day 67 - Nothing new today other than she was very dry so she got her 2 gallons of plain pH’d water, next will be a feeding of nutes.
Day 68 - No major updates and issues going on right now. Just got some updated pictures and tucked some leaves, also removed a couple of yellow leaves at the bottom.
Day 70 - The end of week 10 and she got a feeding of water and nutes today. She’s starting to fill in nicely but still a few weeks away from harvest.
@all_about_420
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Kurz vor dem finalen Schnitt zeigt sich die One Love – die starke Kollaboration der Humboldt Seed Company mit der Familie von Bob Marley – von ihrer absolut schärfsten Seite. Die Trichome haben ihren optimalen Sweet Spot erreicht, glänzen als dicker Zuckerguss auf den Buds und versprechen pure Potenz. Dazu liefert das intensive Farbspiel aus satten Grüntönen und leuchtend rot-orangen Stigmata den perfekten Reggae-Vibe im Zelt. Das zu erwartende Terpenprofil bringt eine feine Komposition aus süßen, fruchtigen und erdigen Noten mit, die demnächst die ganze Bude einnebeln werden. Die Lady ist absolut ready für die Ernte – der finale Countdown läuft!
