420 Magazine’s Official Girl Scout Cookies Comparative Grow By DonkeyDick

BakedARea said:
Niiiiiice!!! Congrats Dick! Great looking plant.

Quick ? - did you do a period of darkness? I haven't had a chance to harvest my gsc #1 but i have seen so many people do a dark 2 or 3 day period before chopping. Thanks.
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:thanks: BA. She was a nice one to look at by the end. She had some really heavy tops on her. It’s very gratifying to grow such great medicine. Thanks again to all our sponsors!

I too have seen a bunch of folk employing this varying dark period just before harvest. It isn’t something I do.

As far as techniques go to increase resin production I believe there is a lot of merit in employing a pre-harvest drought. A period of 7-9 days of drought will produce a measurable increase in resin (up to 20%!) in some cases. Leaf wilt angle is your metric and when you see more than a 50 degree change you can apply a rescue drench or just harvest at that point. It’s not for the squeamish and it’s only for clones because it’s only clones that you know when 7-9 days before harvest will be.

I have used this method with some success sometimes, none at others. It’s hard to say.

Successes claimed anecdotally and attributed to this dark period practice are in the same category (for me) as flushing. People that swear by it are emotional about it, emphatic too even though results are hit and miss. This is just me, but what I think is that successes people find employing these methods may in fact be due to factors (ie. hydrostatic pressures, root ecology... etc.) related to drought stress.

:nerd-with-glasses::reading420magazine::headbanger:
 
DonkeyDick said:
:thanks: BA. She was a nice one to look at by the end. She had some really heavy tops on her. It’s very gratifying to grow such great medicine. Thanks again to all our sponsors!

I too have seen a bunch of folk employing this varying dark period just before harvest. It isn’t something I do.

As far as techniques go to increase resin production I believe there is a lot of merit in employing a pre-harvest drought. A period of 7-9 days of drought will produce a measurable increase in resin (up to 20%!) in some cases. Leaf wilt angle is your metric and when you see more than a 50 degree change you can apply a rescue drench or just harvest at that point. It’s not for the squeamish and it’s only for clones because it’s only clones that you know when 7-9 days before harvest will be.

I have used this method with some success sometimes, none at others. It’s hard to say.

Successes claimed anecdotally and attributed to this dark period practice are in the same category (for me) as flushing. People that swear by it are emotional about it, emphatic too even though results are hit and miss. This is just me, but what I think is that successes people find employing these methods may in fact be due to factors (ie. hydrostatic pressures, root ecology... etc.) related to drought stress.

:nerd-with-glasses::reading420magazine::headbanger:
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Well, I think I made my girls grow in a drought for months! Haaa haaa.

I appreciate the insight about harvesting. I don't have any personal experience to be emphatic about any one method. I was going to do the drought but I chickened out. LOL
 
Great journal brother, glad everything worked out well for ya!

Thanks for taking us along with you, job well done! :high-five:
 
420 said:
Great journal brother, glad everything worked out well for ya!

Thanks for taking us along with you, job well done! :high-five:
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Thanks Rob. And thanks again for putting this together.

We are wrapping this up now? We just got moved to completed journals - I guess that’s it for the ride.

Thanks to @Weed Seeds Express for supporting this worldwide mission with your supreme generosity!

Thanks to @GeoFlora Nutrients for showing me a new way of gardening.

And @DYNOMYCO and earth alive - best inoculants ever :love:

It’s been great to be a part of this.

Anyone who wants to check in with rosin production from these GSC’s and see the next two come down please come over to the end of the Stable Of Impermanence in my sig.

Thanks for reading :thanks:
 
Some of my favourite songs do that too, that thing with the false ending. It’s all about dynamics.
Films too.
As a writer, the way I see it is as art imitating life. Sometimes you really don’t know when it’s over.

We might’ve been riding the rumble strip for a bit. We are back in traffic.
 
DonkeyDick said:
Thanks Rob. And thanks again for putting this together.

We are wrapping this up now? We just got moved to completed journals - I guess that’s it for the ride.

Thanks to @Weed Seeds Express for supporting this worldwide mission with your supreme generosity!

Thanks to @GeoFlora Nutrients for showing me a new way of gardening.

And @DYNOMYCO and earth alive - best inoculants ever :love:

It’s been great to be a part of this.

Anyone who wants to check in with rosin production from these GSC’s and see the next two come down please come over to the end of the Stable Of Impermanence in my sig.

Thanks for reading :thanks:
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We enjoyed it too! Thanks for all the effort and dedication. It was a true joy seeing such passionate growers getting the best out of our genetics.

On to the next comparative grow! :hippy:
 
Opening the Stable doors

Hello folks I hope you are well and your gardens are thriving. If you aren’t gardening, but thinking about gardening then get some GSC fems from @Weed Seeds Express and you’re most of the way there. I mean here. . .

GSC #5

GSC #5

Flip day 13

I’ll be thinning her out more down low as she goes. She has a nice number of tops.

GSC #5

GSC #5

Flip day 13

GSC #4

GSC #4

Flip day 56

She’s going to keep putting on weight for another week or two.

GSC #4

GSC #4

Flip day 56

To quickly recap on stores of GSC meds.
#1 as we know is long gone.
#2 is still curing, but getting used a lot already. Impressions are forming. She’s a great vehicle for rosin-added smoking. She has a very satisfying taste to her. I’ll make some rosin with her soon. I’m dutifully using up such rosin as I have so that I have somewhere to put it when I make more. Achievable goals, there we are ;)
#3 has been drying in the fridge for a week now. I have started to combine bags now as they begin to feel like they are getting somewhere.

It’s a lot of fun and very rewarding to be curating a collection now of craft cultivated cannameds. Thanks again to the sponsors.
Thanks for reading.
Play safe.
:snowboating:
 
Time for a play to get some work done

Girl Scout Cookies

Girl Scout Cookies


Climbing a Cookie mountain

Climbing a Cookie mountain

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It’s a Girl Scout mission

Removing plant material

Removing plant material


GSC under pressure

GSC under pressure


Rosin

Rosin

4.4g from 32g flower

Racing stripes

Racing stripes

A nice golden colour

GSC combustion

GSC combustion

 
Lovely squish. The Girl Scouts would be proud. :high-five:
 
Love that greased up jay!
 
InTheShed said:
Lovely squish. The Girl Scouts would be proud. :high-five:
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Cheers, Shed. I’m sure there is a mountaineering badge. If not perhaps someone with a sewing badge can make one.
:thumb:

StoneOtter said:
Love that greased up jay!
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Cheers SO. It’s a great way to enhance cannabinoid flavoured Scooby snacks.

I find with rings of rosin inside a joint that you can slather it on and the gaps give the melt somewhere to go. Without stripes if you lay the rosin on the paper thickly it can plug your doob as it melts, unless you roll a real fatty.

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Racing stripes the movie!

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Dohc007 said:
Racing stripes the movie!

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Ok, so if a cross between a Zebra and a Donkey is a Zonkey (which it is, btw) then maybe these joints are what we smoke to get Zonked®?

:passitleft:

We got 3.9oz or 110.5g back from GSC #3. Pretty happy with the volume, but haven’t tried it yet.
 
Mmm, coffee with my cookies please!
 
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