Anxiously awaiting pics
Hey darkpiece! Nice to see ya. Guess what?
Pictures!!!
This is veg these days:
Here's a closer look at Cheese, which is doing great:
On the right side are the 6 bigger veg plants. It's a jungle in there:
While I was at it, I thought I would share some pictures of
happiness. I previously mentioned that I took down the AC in veg and replaced it with simple air exchange. Now that the cold weather is setting in, it's always colder outside than I need it inside, so it's a good way to cool the room for cheap. Besides, that thing dripped on me, and never did a very good job cooling the room. I'm glad it is gone, and it should never need to come back with the new bigger AC coming on line soon. I'm so happy. I hated that thing.
In any case, it used to be on a shelf over the door between veg and bloom. Right here:
I love that it is gone. The 'new' system (which is actually something I set up at the beginning of this journal) draws air in from the eave to a box recessed in the ceiling. A carbon filter hangs in there. A 6" fan draws the air in the box through the filter and then drops it into the room. Here is the cover for the recess dogged to the ceiling. All that stuff is hidden above that panel:
Please excuse the dirty fan. It isn't in use at the moment. I should clean it though.
Then a few feet away is the exhaust. It is a similar recess with filter and fan, but it draws from the room and blows outside. The recess is covered by a piece of plywood that hangs a couple inches from the ceiling:
The cover is actually hung from simple gate latches (the spring loaded ones). Here I took a couple loose so you can see up inside. The duct that goes off to the left is headed for the fan, which is hung by bungee in an insulation filled box. It helps with the quiet:
In each recess I installed a small electric winch from Harbor Freight. That allows me to easily raise those heave filters 11' up in the air alone. With a filter at both intake and exhaust, smell doesn't get out. The incoming air comes through a bit of flex duct with a metal duct-to-register adapter on the end. That keeps it down low and pulled taught. The air then comes in at the floor and exits at the ceiling, taking advantage of natural temperature stratification. It's pretty efficient. Here you can see the incoming duct:
OK, bloom from outside the room. On either side in the back are the two Blue Dreams. On the left in the mid and near are the Matanuskans, and in the mid and near right are the Super Lemon Haze and the Tangerine Dream:
The Matanuskan Thunderfu@k is a great producer of hard hitting bud, but it tends to outgrow what it can hold and gets all floppy:
But it produces some great bud:
The Blue Dream is getting gorgeous again. And unlike the Matty, BD only needs minimal support despite even higher yields. Here's a sample:
This shot shows what's going in with the SLH and TDR. The TDR is in the foreground and SLH in the background here, but they look very similar to each other (the 'fingers' on the TDR leaves are wider).
Stre-e-e-etch:
Here's a shot of me next to one of the Blue Dreams for size (I'm 5' 8" or so). Sorry for the state of my head. All I can say is
I was stoned at the time:
I took pictures of the results of this last harvest. Here is about 4 ounces of the Trinity:
Here is a tub that holds about 8 ounces of the Blue Dream:
Here is the result of the Afghani Hindu Kush. I didn't even strip the trimmed bud off the stem as it is messy. I still haven't tried it, though I can see trichs. It is
soooo airy and looks so weird:
I was looking at the
first page of this journal today - it was so
clean.
I just want them all gone.
