Arteekay's 1st Grow - Sunshine #4 - Spider x 4 - Crop King Autoflowering Mix Strains

Re: Arteekay's 1st Grow - Sunshine #4 - Spider x 4 - Crop King Autoflowering Mix Stra

Beautiful I'm going to steal your weight of the pot technique.

I'm quite sure I'm not the first to think of it. I said to Jaybiz I wanted to weigh the pots on the night we put our first beans in our first pots. I tried with an ancient analog bathroom scale, but that was a lost cause. Then I got lost in scale research for a couple hours, got baked and went to bed way too late, so nothing came of it for a while.

I've been unsatisfied with height as an accurate measure of much other than to figure out if the lights need to go up or down. Weight seemed to be easier to measure, and as the weight of the pot plus plant increases when soaked completely you can get an idea of how much of that is the plant on top. Now if I could just remember to weigh the damned things after watering...

The ultimate goal is going into some kind of software, right now Biz is planning a spreadsheet. I'm a little surprised there isn't some freeware in active development, but I guess I can't be surprised if I haven't even looked into it. If there isn't a software based grow journal, there should be.

I'll keep journalling here as well of course. Sorry folks, ya let me in and now you're stuck with me.

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Re: Arteekay's 1st Grow - Sunshine #4 - Spider x 4 - Crop King Autoflowering Mix Stra

RTK and Jbiz your girls are so fat when they bend over Twinkies fall out.
Kudos on the spreadsheet idea and weighing.
For drying I hang my girls on coat hangers in the grow room until the stems are bendy. Then I will put them in 1/2 gallon Mason jars with small Boveda packs and burp them daily until they stabilize. I really want to buy one of those cvault megas. They have giant Boveda packs and can hold 2lbs of herb.
 
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RTK and Jbiz your girls are so fat when they bend over Twinkies fall out.
Kudos on the spreadsheet idea and weighing.
For drying I hang my girls on coat hangers in the grow room until the stems are bendy. Then I will put them in 1/2 gallon Mason jars with small Boveda packs and burp them daily until they stabilize. I really want to buy one of those cvault megas. They have giant Boveda packs and can hold 2lbs of herb.

Twinkies? Lmao! :rofl::rofl:

When you're drying do you try to keep them totally out of the light?
 
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no actually I let them get some light. The plants are still alive when you cut and hang them. Letting them get some light helps them to utilize some of the leftover nutes. But not in direct light. That will bleach them.

Well I think that seals it, we're drying in our veg tent above the light. We'll have to get air exchange going again though, we've had it off while the girls in our second grow were in their first two weeks.

Once again Shigs, thanks for sticking around and helping out still. Congrats on your MOTM nomination, You'll have mine (and I'm guessing Jaybiz's) until you win one.
 
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Once again Shigs, thanks for sticking around and helping out still. Congrats on your MOTM nomination, You'll have mine (and I'm guessing Jaybiz's) until you win one.

Absofriggenlutely! (sorry Glimmer, but Shiggs has REALLY helped us out with our first grow or you'd be getting my vote for sure)
 
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I tell you what, I bet arteekay makes it up there to the voting next month.

I hope not, I see 8 other people on this month's list that deserve it far more than I and I'd hate to steal a single vote from one of them.

I'm little more than a parrot at this point, a thought recorder that pushes a virtual play button to repeat the sage advice I've read from yourself, another member of the current MOTM competition, or one of the hundreds of others, new and old, that add to the collective awesome that is :420:.
 
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Absofriggenlutely! (sorry Glimmer, but Shiggs has REALLY helped us out with our first grow or you'd be getting my vote for sure)

heh heh heh -- hey, Shiggs probably has MY vote, actually :) He is a smart, wonderful, funny and very helpful grower and being nominated in the same breath as him (and the other nominees) seems surreal to me.

And MASSIVE congrats on the CKS journal -- they're a really nice company, aren't they? They have been very generous with their support of this community as a whole and of individual growers. I really respect that. Also, this journal KICKS ASS.

I love (and resonate with) the fact that rtk is researching drying and curing like mad right now :) Researching this subject is one of my own fave things to do. Here's some stuff about drying and curing I found very helpful -- I'll paste it here in case you haven't seen it on your travels ...

This method is particularly effective for folks who are starting out, those looking to maximize quality in a shorter period of time, and folks who's like to produce a connoisseur-quality product each and every time with no guesswork involved.

It's a very simple and effective process:

Cut the product, trim it per your preference, but don't dry it until the stems snap. Take it down while the stems still have some flex, but the product feel dry on the outside. This is a perfect opportunity to drop the dry-feeling flowers onto a screen and collect prime-quality kief that would otherwise get lost in the jar.

Jar the product, along with a Caliber III hygrometer. One can be had on Ebay for ~$20. Having tested a number of hygrometers - digital and analog - this model in particular produced consistent, accurate results. Then, watch the readings:

+70% RH - too wet, needs to sit outside the jar to dry for 12-24 hours, depending.

65-70% RH - the product is almost in the cure zone, if you will. It can be slowly brought to optimum RH by opening the lid for 2-4 hours.

60-65% RH - the stems snap, the product feels a bit sticky, and it is curing.

55-60% RH - at this point it can be stored for an extended period (3 months or more) without worrying about mold. The product will continue to cure.

Below 55% RH - the RH is too low for the curing process to take place. The product starts to feel brittle. Once you've hit this point, nothing will make it better. Adding moisture won't restart the curing process; it will just make the product wet. If you measure a RH below 55% don't panic. Read below:

Obviously, the product need time to sweat in the jar. As such, accurate readings won't be seen for ~24 hours, assuming the flowers are in the optimal cure zone. If you're curing the product for long-term storage, give the flowers 4-5 days for an accurate reading. If the product is sill very wet, a +70% RH reading will show within hours. If you see the RH rising ~1% per hour, keep a close eye on the product, as it's likely too moist.

I gauged the RH of my bud using the same hygrometer I had used for my grow -- that worked pretty well for establishing roughly where in the cure window things were. I also ordered (and have just received) a couple of little circular hygrometers from China via the e-company -- took a long time to get here, but I have them in two of my longer-term storage jars with boveda packs and they're registering right on 62%, which gives me some confidence the cure has gone well.
 
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Thanks Glimmer!!!! I am going to have bookmark your post.. that is GREAT info,

I'm guessing I can't cast 2 votes eh hehehe :)
 
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Listen to Jbiz throwing some game. You fancy yourself a ladies man don't you Jbiz? Don't lie because RTK will tell the truth!

It's another flaw. Truthful to a fault. People say they want complete honesty, but my singlehood can attest that is a nice thought, but is not true.

He does al'ight, no Wilt Chamberlain but who is.
 
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And MASSIVE congrats on the CKS journal -- they're a really nice company, aren't they? They have been very generous with their support of this community as a whole and of individual growers. I really respect that. Also, this journal KICKS ASS.

Not quite enough ass to get that awesome pipe, but enough ass to rock my world for sure. Never expected to actually win second place, honorable mention at best.


I love (and resonate with) the fact that rtk is researching drying and curing like mad right now :) Researching this subject is one of my own fave things to do. Here's some stuff about drying and curing I found very helpful -- I'll paste it here in case you haven't seen it on your travels ...

Excellent, thanks so much GlimmerGrass. I haven't, and that brings a lot of what I've been reading into tighter focus. We've got a couple plans and are probably going to try at least a few spaces. It's far more complicated that the growin' part...


I gauged the RH of my bud using the same hygrometer I had used for my grow -- that worked pretty well for establishing roughly where in the cure window things were. I also ordered (and have just received) a couple of little circular hygrometers from China via the e-company -- took a long time to get here, but I have them in two of my longer-term storage jars with boveda packs and they're registering right on 62%, which gives me some confidence the cure has gone well.

Boveda packs and Hygrometers have been high on the list, but I kept getting distracted by the Caliber IV. Sometimes newer is not better, so I'll go with the III. For now I have a couple small ones that we picked up at a local home center. Figured they'd at least be better than "feels damp to me, how about you?"
 
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Twinkies? Lmao! :rofl::rofl:

When you're drying do you try to keep them totally out of the light?

I use a cardboard clothes closet and run a string grid through the top. W a small fan in the bottom. I also keep the girls in the dark for 3 to 5 days inside it in the pot before chopping. I find it helps with trichrome production. Keep the temp about 75 to 79 so growth doesn't slow.

As far as light goes definitely keep out of sunlight and as little other light as possible for about 14 days to help dissipate the chlorophyll.

But that's just me.

Congratulations rtk and jb on the silver medal!!!
 
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