I don't care for the smell when it's too strong either when it's raw. When I was in the dispensaries this summer it was over the top and didn't sit well. I love a sniff of it but when its in your face like that it dosen't sit too well with me either.
Ase's Perpetual Fun With Coco
I don't care for the smell when it's too strong either when it's raw. When I was in the dispensaries this summer it was over the top and didn't sit well. I love a sniff of it but when its in your face like that it dosen't sit too well with me either.
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Day 11 Flower Tent A
First off the next girls for Tent B need to be transplanted. I'd like to think I'll get to it tonight but the girlfriend will be over tomorrow and she can help. It's so much easier with two people to lift everything and whatnot for the cleaning and reusing of the coco.
The real fun is going on in Tent A though. These girls are really starting to stretch inches a day and I think they will do that for a couple more days. It is only day 11 of the flip and they usually stretch for about 17 days. They really just started booming yesterday so I know I'll get a few days of crazy growth now. I decided to put the Green Crack on a little stand to raise it up to be level with the other ones since it is smaller. I did the same thing with my Jock Horror last time.
In this tent the Green Crack is now in the back left and the Super Iced Grapefruit is front left. Blue Dream in the back right and Crown Royale in the front right.
Sideshot
While I was doing this the cat decided to jump up and investigate. The funny part was I caught this by accident as she makes hardly any noise. Plus with all the equipment running. Anyways I take multiple pictures and choose the best looking ones for these updates and this was caught by accident! She hasn't been to my area in a while to investigate unless she parties down there while I am at work. Highly possible.
Knuckling going on at every joint. Pretty happy with the base structure of the 4 main branches. They are doing exactly what I trained them to do, support. I've also read that the scaling going on is a great sign of health as well.
First off the next girls for Tent B need to be transplanted. I'd like to think I'll get to it tonight but the girlfriend will be over tomorrow and she can help. It's so much easier with two people to lift everything and whatnot for the cleaning and reusing of the coco.
The real fun is going on in Tent A though. These girls are really starting to stretch inches a day and I think they will do that for a couple more days. It is only day 11 of the flip and they usually stretch for about 17 days. They really just started booming yesterday so I know I'll get a few days of crazy growth now. I decided to put the Green Crack on a little stand to raise it up to be level with the other ones since it is smaller. I did the same thing with my Jock Horror last time.
In this tent the Green Crack is now in the back left and the Super Iced Grapefruit is front left. Blue Dream in the back right and Crown Royale in the front right.
Sideshot
While I was doing this the cat decided to jump up and investigate. The funny part was I caught this by accident as she makes hardly any noise. Plus with all the equipment running. Anyways I take multiple pictures and choose the best looking ones for these updates and this was caught by accident! She hasn't been to my area in a while to investigate unless she parties down there while I am at work. Highly possible.
Knuckling going on at every joint. Pretty happy with the base structure of the 4 main branches. They are doing exactly what I trained them to do, support. I've also read that the scaling going on is a great sign of health as well.
#knuckleshot lol . those are some mass muscles on her!
DobeWan
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Nice shots Ase, but I'll admit, I'm more interested in seeing what's going on in Tent B at this point for obvious reasons! 
Super Iced Grapefruit looks like a winner.
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Day 14 Flower Tent A - Day 20 Veg Tent B
Well I had a crazy weekend! One of my good friends wants to try snowboarding and I've gone a few times but have always tried to catch the people I go with and the results have been bad. Gone on way too hard of runs for my novice level. My girlfriend also wants to go but has never been. So it will be the 3 noobs just having fun on the mountain. We are about to get a good amount of snow on our mountains so we needed to get my girlfriend all of the gear and snow clothes. Well it just so happens my mom and her are the same size and my mom can't do it anymore because of her knee. So on Thursday night I made the decision to drive home for the weekend and drive back to get her gear and visit them. It saves us a bunch of money as that stuff gets expensive fast.
Here is where this ties into the grow. This weekend was my weekend to trim some of the buds I had hung to dry. I also needed to clean my used coco and get that processed to use again. Usually this is something I do with someone else's help as it's a lot of heavy lifting and carrying 6-7 gallon buckets of water back and forth and then outside to dump. Our outside requires walking up about 12 stairs. Basically it's nice to do this over an entire weekend at a slow pace. I also had to transplant the new plants and clean the tent. This amount of work happens once every 10 weeks. Unfortunately I had to leave right after work on Friday so I had to get this done. I work pretty early too so I had about 4 hours to get all this stuff done and eat and pack and barely get 4 hours of sleep and then drive home! You can see this is a recipe for disaster.
I wasn't worried about the flowering girls, although I was kind of sad that I was going to miss probably my favorites 3 days of a grow. I really enjoy aggressive stretch mode. It's usually 5-6 days so I'm hoping I'll see some good growth the next few days as they were just entering this phase when I left. I was however worried about my drying tent because if I kept my fan running it would drop the humidity too much and they would dry too fast. I also didn't want to leave it not running just in case of mold issues. My littler girls had to be transplanted and I could tell they were starting to yellow on the bottom node. I've had this happen before and I know I'll probably lose that node on all of them. I cull them anyways so no worries. I was worried about transplanting and not being able to monitor them for a few days and just really hoped they weren't dead when I got back. With coco things can happen so fast, I just was a little nervous.
My plants were really healthy this time and I decided to turned the fan off for the drying tent. Luckily this was the right call and I came home to that tent in the mid 60s for RH. Phew, dodged one bullet. The big girls looked good like I expected and I had trimmed the Ice before I left too and the RH was perfect in them too. The last problem would be the recently transplanted girls and I was so excited to see they are fine. They are going to yellow on the bottom like I thought and you can see the fresh growth really getting darker green so all is well! All that worrying for nothing.
Here are the recently transplanted girls before I did anything to them.
Here they are after yellowing leaves were removed. Plants were using the nutrients in the lower stuff to survive the small pots. Doesn't look like they missed a beat though.
Happy to report that there are hairs starting to pop out of everywhere on all my girls now, so all is well with the flower girls.
Day 5
Day 8
Day 11 - Flipped the Green Crack to the back and put it on a booster to make it even with the others.
Day 14
Well I had a crazy weekend! One of my good friends wants to try snowboarding and I've gone a few times but have always tried to catch the people I go with and the results have been bad. Gone on way too hard of runs for my novice level. My girlfriend also wants to go but has never been. So it will be the 3 noobs just having fun on the mountain. We are about to get a good amount of snow on our mountains so we needed to get my girlfriend all of the gear and snow clothes. Well it just so happens my mom and her are the same size and my mom can't do it anymore because of her knee. So on Thursday night I made the decision to drive home for the weekend and drive back to get her gear and visit them. It saves us a bunch of money as that stuff gets expensive fast.
Here is where this ties into the grow. This weekend was my weekend to trim some of the buds I had hung to dry. I also needed to clean my used coco and get that processed to use again. Usually this is something I do with someone else's help as it's a lot of heavy lifting and carrying 6-7 gallon buckets of water back and forth and then outside to dump. Our outside requires walking up about 12 stairs. Basically it's nice to do this over an entire weekend at a slow pace. I also had to transplant the new plants and clean the tent. This amount of work happens once every 10 weeks. Unfortunately I had to leave right after work on Friday so I had to get this done. I work pretty early too so I had about 4 hours to get all this stuff done and eat and pack and barely get 4 hours of sleep and then drive home! You can see this is a recipe for disaster.
I wasn't worried about the flowering girls, although I was kind of sad that I was going to miss probably my favorites 3 days of a grow. I really enjoy aggressive stretch mode. It's usually 5-6 days so I'm hoping I'll see some good growth the next few days as they were just entering this phase when I left. I was however worried about my drying tent because if I kept my fan running it would drop the humidity too much and they would dry too fast. I also didn't want to leave it not running just in case of mold issues. My littler girls had to be transplanted and I could tell they were starting to yellow on the bottom node. I've had this happen before and I know I'll probably lose that node on all of them. I cull them anyways so no worries. I was worried about transplanting and not being able to monitor them for a few days and just really hoped they weren't dead when I got back. With coco things can happen so fast, I just was a little nervous.
My plants were really healthy this time and I decided to turned the fan off for the drying tent. Luckily this was the right call and I came home to that tent in the mid 60s for RH. Phew, dodged one bullet. The big girls looked good like I expected and I had trimmed the Ice before I left too and the RH was perfect in them too. The last problem would be the recently transplanted girls and I was so excited to see they are fine. They are going to yellow on the bottom like I thought and you can see the fresh growth really getting darker green so all is well! All that worrying for nothing.
Here are the recently transplanted girls before I did anything to them.
Here they are after yellowing leaves were removed. Plants were using the nutrients in the lower stuff to survive the small pots. Doesn't look like they missed a beat though.
Happy to report that there are hairs starting to pop out of everywhere on all my girls now, so all is well with the flower girls.
Day 5
Day 8
Day 11 - Flipped the Green Crack to the back and put it on a booster to make it even with the others.
Day 14
Man those are rock solid plants!
So consistent even when on vaca! Nice. I'm gonna hit the mountain tomorrow too actually. Glad to hear everything stayed healthy. Hope you had fun
Doggie Daddy
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I miss snowboarding. Being from Socal snow is a luxury not a burden like it is to others lol. It's about time to teach my kids to get into it before I'm too old to teach them. Plants look great Ase! Have fun on the mountain buddy.
Plants are looking great Ase! Xmas card went out to you Friday brother....you will probably get it Tuesday or Wednesday.
Awesome update! Wow what a stretch, nice add of those transition pictures . what a chore list, the girls all look great.
I love snow and snowboarding . Catching people is something you should really break away from. I have some rescue and broken bones stories in the mountains.Have fun and stay safe!
I love snow and snowboarding . Catching people is something you should really break away from. I have some rescue and broken bones stories in the mountains.Have fun and stay safe!
DobeWan
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Looks like although the outcomes were the same in the end, you had a far more exciting weekend than me!
The skiing around here isn't great, but it's convenient - I can easily get to a smaller hill in 30 minutes. I didn't live close to skiing as a kid though, so I never learned. I need to take lessons or something and get the kids on snowboards while they're still young enough to be fearless!
The skiing around here isn't great, but it's convenient - I can easily get to a smaller hill in 30 minutes. I didn't live close to skiing as a kid though, so I never learned. I need to take lessons or something and get the kids on snowboards while they're still young enough to be fearless!
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Thanks DD! I know that for a lot of people weather is burden but I love the fact that we get all the climates in Oregon. Rainy/cold weather means snow is on the mountains. Hot weather means get to the rivers! You just have to be adventurous and realize that what is a burden to most is an opportunity for some.
Thanks for the compliments on the plants!
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Much appreciated sir!
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Harvest Update
Here were the totals of all the plants
ICE - 71 grams
Jock Horror - 79 grams
Lemon Venom - 88 grams
Cinderella99 - 112 grams
That ends up being a total of 350 grams and 12.5 ounces total. Average of just over 3 ounces per plant. I can't remember what my last weigh ins were but this seems on par with those. This was my first set of girls that I only went 42 days in veg with though so I basically cut a week off their veg and got the same result which is a huge plus. It is the stickiest and smells the best out of any batch I've done so I think the quality is likely the best I've had as well. I'm going to need 4 super healthy girls and probably about 50 days in veg if I want to hit 16 ounces. Not disappointed in these results at all. Every mason jar I have is full and I now have 11 different strains of home grown bud to pick and choose from. My little home dispensary is in full effect now. Many different options for different times of day! I'm also excited that I won't have to do any of this work again for about 7 more weeks!
The best part about all this is that when you grow your own stuff you get so used to the couple strains you grew. There is huge diminishing returns when you build up a tolerance to a strain. I've seen people talking about cleansing so they can get (and feel) high again. With 11 strains, if I don't smoke the same one over and over, I can bypass that a little bit. The advantage of growing 4 different strains every time (and not cloning to have to same plants consecutive grows) and dealing with each one growing differently and needing different things has finally paid off. This was a long term goal for me so it feels good to finally get to this point.
Here were the totals of all the plants
ICE - 71 grams
Jock Horror - 79 grams
Lemon Venom - 88 grams
Cinderella99 - 112 grams
That ends up being a total of 350 grams and 12.5 ounces total. Average of just over 3 ounces per plant. I can't remember what my last weigh ins were but this seems on par with those. This was my first set of girls that I only went 42 days in veg with though so I basically cut a week off their veg and got the same result which is a huge plus. It is the stickiest and smells the best out of any batch I've done so I think the quality is likely the best I've had as well. I'm going to need 4 super healthy girls and probably about 50 days in veg if I want to hit 16 ounces. Not disappointed in these results at all. Every mason jar I have is full and I now have 11 different strains of home grown bud to pick and choose from. My little home dispensary is in full effect now. Many different options for different times of day! I'm also excited that I won't have to do any of this work again for about 7 more weeks!
The best part about all this is that when you grow your own stuff you get so used to the couple strains you grew. There is huge diminishing returns when you build up a tolerance to a strain. I've seen people talking about cleansing so they can get (and feel) high again. With 11 strains, if I don't smoke the same one over and over, I can bypass that a little bit. The advantage of growing 4 different strains every time (and not cloning to have to same plants consecutive grows) and dealing with each one growing differently and needing different things has finally paid off. This was a long term goal for me so it feels good to finally get to this point.
PE636
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Congrats on the great library of strains to pick from! I am going to have to smoke a lot less or get a bigger tent if I ever expect to get a collection like that! Variety is definitely the way to go!
DobeWan
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Congrats Ase, awesome haul once again.
I can totally relate to the strain choice and why it's important. If I'm sick, I don't want to hit a wall where what I'm using isn't working. That's why when it comes to medical use, my heavy hitter indica needs to be my heavy hitter indicaS.
I have a big "backlog" to work through from my early days in the medical system - it was hard to get what I needed, so when the opportunity arose, I went all out. I've been trying to finish off odds and ends here and there, so I can stick with my own stuff and maybe a couple of key LP strains I bought a fair bit of. But when that time comes I'll be well stocked with my own bud.
The best are weekends when I'm not busy and feeling fine. It's an awesome feeling to open my stash drawer, look at all the labels on the bottles, and start shopping for my pick of the day!
I can totally relate to the strain choice and why it's important. If I'm sick, I don't want to hit a wall where what I'm using isn't working. That's why when it comes to medical use, my heavy hitter indica needs to be my heavy hitter indicaS.
I have a big "backlog" to work through from my early days in the medical system - it was hard to get what I needed, so when the opportunity arose, I went all out. I've been trying to finish off odds and ends here and there, so I can stick with my own stuff and maybe a couple of key LP strains I bought a fair bit of. But when that time comes I'll be well stocked with my own bud.
The best are weekends when I'm not busy and feeling fine. It's an awesome feeling to open my stash drawer, look at all the labels on the bottles, and start shopping for my pick of the day!
What a great update. I couldn't agree more with you and Dobe regarding strain choice. I need at least 4 different strains to smoke and to eat due to tolerance build up and different needs at different times. This is one of many reasons I reached out for your mentorship...I saw you growing 4 different strains at once and I needed those teachings. It's nice to hear your report and know this is a realistic goal for me. Great success Ase.
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Day 17 Flower Tent A - Day 23 Veg Tent B
The Veg Tent girls were all topped 2 days ago. Same method as always except I had already culled nodes 1 and 2 the day before due to the yellowing so I just had to top and all was good. They've all responded very well and I'll start training them in a few days. I've learned to let them get into super growth mode before training as it slows them down less. It's likely due to the fact they are a little bigger and can handle it better.
All of them topped.
What will be the 4 main branches in my quadline.
This will likely be the last time these girls are seen. They will be going to their new home in a day or two. That will be a soil grow and I'll make sure to snap a few pictures of how the girlfriend does along the way. Super Iced Grapefruits both growing quick. All four look good!
The flower girls have begun to slow down in their stretch. There is still fresh green everywhere but they will be over this phase soon. Decided now was the time to do the defoliation so that maybe any of the ones that are 50/50 on making it to the canopy can have one last little stretch. Most of the defoliation happened on the bottom of these ones. I tried to leave a lot of leaves on the upper part of the plants. Some of the big ones just had to go. I really like what I did this time. Trying to leave a little more on than usual but they still look really clean.
Before sideshot.
After sideshot.
Before Crown Royale.
After Crown Royale.
Before Canopy Shot.
After Canopy Shot.
The Veg Tent girls were all topped 2 days ago. Same method as always except I had already culled nodes 1 and 2 the day before due to the yellowing so I just had to top and all was good. They've all responded very well and I'll start training them in a few days. I've learned to let them get into super growth mode before training as it slows them down less. It's likely due to the fact they are a little bigger and can handle it better.
All of them topped.
What will be the 4 main branches in my quadline.
This will likely be the last time these girls are seen. They will be going to their new home in a day or two. That will be a soil grow and I'll make sure to snap a few pictures of how the girlfriend does along the way. Super Iced Grapefruits both growing quick. All four look good!
The flower girls have begun to slow down in their stretch. There is still fresh green everywhere but they will be over this phase soon. Decided now was the time to do the defoliation so that maybe any of the ones that are 50/50 on making it to the canopy can have one last little stretch. Most of the defoliation happened on the bottom of these ones. I tried to leave a lot of leaves on the upper part of the plants. Some of the big ones just had to go. I really like what I did this time. Trying to leave a little more on than usual but they still look really clean.
Before sideshot.
After sideshot.
Before Crown Royale.
After Crown Royale.
Before Canopy Shot.
After Canopy Shot.