Amy Gardner Of Eden: Forest Adventures With Doc Bud’s HBB

@newty in the house! garden!
:party:
Perfect timing indeed - pretty spooooky really :eek:
Not to mention...
:passitleft: White Widow newts!

Candida had some mid life crises but is rolling to the finish pretty well. A week until it comes down.

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I need to make a correction - i typed calcium carbonate as CaCO2 back there. It’s CaCO3 @Oldbear :). Nobody has corrected me yet - so maybe no-one noticed. I asked the mods to correct it so it won’t be misleading to anyone. Have had H202 in my head so much that it insinuated it’s molecular structure into my typing :laughtwo:

I’m awake early as per usual and the White Widow harvest won’t happen for quite a time. It’s nice to know I won’t have to get up to go and wheel it out of the shed at 7am. I’ll get to lie in until my helper texts me to say she’s leaving home (about 20 mins away).

What better way to spend that time than with this Sunday morning wake and bake of a White Widow popcorn bud i pulled a few days ago...
:hookah:
 
:thedoubletake: This is like having a slice of lime infused mango in my mouth :drool:

:hookah: ... followed by something minty/herby

:hookah: ... maybe thyme...
 
It’s a creeper too :cheesygrinsmiley: and quite peppery on the exhale :smokin2:
 
Not much mango in mine, but lime is very much present :)
I like the mood this creeper brings together :)
 
:high-five: just stirring the bowl for a second run at it now. SO that lasted nicely - just over 2 hrs wth only 3-4 small draws on the vape before I even thought about finishing the bowl.

It’s a really good hybrid buzz. Exactly what i wanted and it has all the richness and amazing flavours I’m coming to expect from these HBB kit plants :cheesygrinsmiley: Thanks Doc :thanks: (@Doc Bud ) :drool:

:hookah: ... those cockatoos are out there again. I can hear them through the window, chatting quietly to one another :love:
 
Amy Gardner said:
:thedoubletake: This is like having a slice of lime infused mango in my mouth :drool:

:hookah: ... followed by something minty/herby

:hookah: ... maybe thyme...
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Sounds great! Congrats on the grow & harvest!
 
White Widow is washed and waving in the breezes ... it’s a lovely sight to enjoy while also enjoying it’s vapours and resting my bones ...
:meditate:
:hookah:
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andIhalped said:
Sounds great! Congrats on the grow & harvest!
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Thanks halped -it’s really lovely :D here - i’m Just enjoying the post harvest toke :passitleft:
 
It’s awesome how many harvests are happening right now AG!
Could I try that WW? I’ll trade ya some Durban
:passitleft::Namaste::goodjob:
 
I'm sure when you're done with a few days of trimming you'll have time to post some pics... ;)
:nomo:
 
InTheShed said:
LOL! There's a quote function for that ;).
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InTheShed said:
Sorry, I meant hit or miss based on the soil choices. I would think that AW's experience in FFOF is repeatable.
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I've always use Happy Frog and it's pretty good but it gets real crusty as the grow goes on. I think next time I use it I'll mix in some perlite to loosen it a bit. I used it for my first couple autos and the TWA you're gonna try tomorrow is from that same soil.
 
Archiweedies said:
It’s awesome how many harvests are happening right now AG!
Could I try that WW? I’ll trade ya some Durban
:passitleft::Namaste::goodjob:
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:Namaste:
I know - almost everyone is in a full harvest swing!


Ooh! Trade for some Durban? Yes please... I’m dying to try it. :passitleft:
 
Harvest Report 2 of 3: White Widow day 151 +62

I could hear this week’s feature critter, the glossy black cockatoos, chatting and crunching on casuarina nuts all morning while I lay in bed waiting for the text from my helper that she was on her way - at which time I got up and made us a big pot of coffee! I added some oil made from the Auto Pounder I harvested back in January which has some coffee terpenes going on itself. The combination is fantastic! I enjoyed a mostly pain free time of almost fluid mobility while we harvested the hefty White Widow.

I mentioned before how hard these glossy black cockatoos are to spot. They disappear into the air it seems, you could easily miss them if they’re not flashing their tails! (There are 2 in here...)

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They hung around there all morning, keeping us company while we chopped and washed.

There’s been some interesting discussion about White Widow as a strain recently, in another journal -maybe it was Graytail’s, or neikodog’s now that I think about it - about the lack of stability in White Widow (and in the original Black WIdow) and how there are so many versions and so many phenotypes (so it’s never been stabilised as White Widow). I’m not sure what the terpene profile is supposed to be but the limeyness to the mango is really something in this one. Growth wise, I will say that the frost production didn’t really do what “White Widow” is always described as doing, which is getting mega-mega-frosty. Frost is there alright - but it’s not as prolific as on the other two strains from this year, or even previous ones. That said, it produces heaps of vapour when i toke it so there’s plenty of resin in the buds it seems.

It stayed fairly free of rot which is impressive for such a leafy juicy plant in this environment and most of the spots I’ve removed (very few) were becasue either a critter built a cocoon and caused a spot to start, or some organic debris (eucalyptus petals etc) landed and decomposed on the plant and caused it there. It was never rot coming from inside the flower. I also kept it covered overnight for the last 2 weeks and that helps a lot.

Enough words! On with the show :D

It was the fattest stem in my garden this year - not bad for a 13 gal pot.

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I couldn’t hold it for long - is was heavy :eek:

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A couple of tributes to SweetSue :passitleft:

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Dancing on the breezes

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I always like to try and get good shots of the trichomes after a wash - continuing proof, for those that worry, that washing your buds does not harm the trichomes:

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After hangdrying for a few hours, it gets weighed on the way to the indoor drying spot (the tent). This one wouldn’t quite weigh all at once...

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So that’s about 2.75lbs, 1.2kg, with some pretty hefty stems still in there. Anywhere between 6-7 oz is my estimate, we’ll see how it comes out. There’s a lot of leafiness to trim off still!

I had 2 folks trimming the large fans and anything ‘sugarless’ and one of them was a bit timid so there’s still a lit of removable leaf on some of them. I’ve hung those ones at the front of the tent for easy access so I can trim them up some more while it all dries over the next few days.

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I am super pleased with the toke from it and think it will make some nice dosing oil as well. They are also by far the fattest buds I’ve grown to date so I’m really keen to see how they trim up and cure.

Training wise I learnt a few things as well. It didn’t stretch the way i’d expected and this may be becasue i left a big branch on one side (the sun-facing side) and removed it’s opposing branch. Reading a bit more about auxins and things lately I think it’s possible that had I keep things even it might have developed differently and even stretched more. That said, i did tell my partner i would do my best to make it look like a small citrus bush, and it kind of did! :D SO mission accomplished there. This year was the most extensive training I’ve tried to date and I’m pretty pleased all round and super ready for the next run :ganjamon:

I’m uber knackered today - Monday morning and I’m about to make an executive decision and call it an honorary Sunday... I deserve a soothing toke :hookah:

I leave you with more critter of this week looks. This one is the male glossy black. You can just catch a hint of the red tail feathers.

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Many green garden harvests to all!
:Namaste:
 
...:bravo:...:thumb::high-five:...cheerz...h00k...:hookah:...
 
Thanks Derby!
Derbybud said:
WW is a Derby household favorite and makes a real good oil.
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:high-five: Good news! I was hoping for a nicely balanced hybrid and that’s exactly what I’ve got :thumb:
 
Hi d! :ciao: :meditate:
 
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