Bapple's 2015 Outdoor Grow - Autos & Photos

Looking good Bapple! :thumb:

I have some experience with paper bag drying and also washing. I wash my plants and after a drip dry for an hour or two I hang them upside down in an empty closet for a few days after trimming off the water leaves. Once the stems snap I pull them out and trim them even more. Usually the buds feel dry to the touch but springy inside. They go into grocery bags for a few more days then into jars. Washing buds seems to lessen the scent of the buds but once in the jars it seems to bring the smell back up. I put a boveda in each jar and burp once a day for a week then every other day for another two weeks. So far for me it works great.
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Bapple said:
Top of the Afternoon to you Cap'n! :ciao:

I have no links to help you with - last year when I started growing, I spent some time on another forum and was lucky enough to be able to Pick the brains of two old timers about the paper bag drying method. I subsequently did my own due diligence and researched the bejesus out of the subject......I'll run you quickly through what I learned and that's how I have always dried my bud.

The brown paper bags and cardboard box if you decide to go that route must be untreated (no wax and or ink and other crap that stops a 2 way air exchange) I ordered mine off Amazon but understand that Home Depot carry suitable brown paper bags of all sizes and thicknesses.

After trimming my harvest, I cut the buds into golfball sized pieces. I line the bottom of my brown paper bag loosely with buds. I fold the paper bag over twice leaving leaving approximately 60% of the bag space unfolded cos the buds need air. I then staple the folded tops shut, and place my paper bags in a large untreated cardboard box and close the box (some people tape the box shut but I don't ). I leave the box in a well ventilated room, (during the day I have the windows open and overnight I leave a fan on high) with no direct sunlight .

I shake the paper bags vigorously daily, I generally only start checking the bags after day 4, cos now I know the method works, but in the early days I could not resist opening the bag and peeking everyday.

When the buds feel dry on the outside and spongy to the touch (usually at between day 5 & 7 depending on the RH where you live), I pop one of the bags of bud into a large jar and stick a hygrometer into the jar. I check the RH in the jar after a minimum of 4-6 hours, if it's showing RH of 65 or above they all go back into a fresh bag, if it's showing RH of 65 or less they go into glass jars for curing with a large bag of Boveda 62%.

I will then burp jars every couple of days or so for about an hour. I never overfill my jars and always move the buds around every week or so for the first month or thereabouts. I generally stop burping jars after about a month and rely on the Bovedas to keep the RH constant.

Please note that I have no experience of bud washing, but if the buds are wet, I would imagine you would need to hang them dry first (i.e. Let the water dry off the buds before you proceed with the paper bag drying ) otherwise you will get mould issues, as your paper bags will be soggy.

I have read of oldtimers drying whole colas in paper bags, but that is outside my experience level as I know that the larger the buds the higher the risk of mould...

Hope this has been helpful, as we all start to get excited at the prospect of harvesting, curing and smoking our respective grows. :yahoo::yahoo::woohoo::woohoo::rollit:Let me know if there is any further help I can render.

Hope you had a pleasant Sunday :Namaste:
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WOW, Thanks Bapple for taking the time to explain your system for me. I've never washed bud before but think I'm gonna try a little just out of curiosity. Good tip on the Home Depot too, I always used to ask for paper in lieu of plastic but seems that's not always an option now days, I want get started on that tonight. I had a fantabulous Sunday thank you very much. Managed to sleep in till 1000hrs :yahoo:

Went out and had a visit with my girls. Indeed getting excited for the finish.

Thanks again

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Tranquilgreen said:
Looking good Bapple! :thumb:

I have some experience with paper bag drying and also washing. I wash my plants and after a drip dry for an hour or two I hang them upside down in an empty closet for a few days after trimming off the water leaves. Once the stems snap I pull them out and trim them even more. Usually the buds feel dry to the touch but springy inside. They go into grocery bags for a few more days then into jars. Washing buds seems to lessen the scent of the buds but once in the jars it seems to bring the smell back up. I put a boveda in each jar and burp once a day for a week then every other day for another two weeks. So far for me it works great.
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and Thank you for this Tranquilgreen, very helpful :thanks:
 
Yes thanks you two for the drying info. I've been too chicken to try something new cause I often have to drop everything and run off for a few days for work, so end up staying with the tried and true methods, always fearing mold. I'll toss some in a bag next chance I get. Only one way to find out for sure.
Nice to see the plants seem to have been growing well for you, Bapple. I thought you'd be winding down soon. November?! Ha ha. Here In November it snows and rains sideways at over 100 mph. It is paradise though- just kind of a wet one sometimes.
 
Hey Weasel!

I reckon November because 8 to 10 weeks for flowering and she has only just gone into preflower again.....November is usually fairly mild here but it's touch and go where amount of rainfall is concerned and I am relying on the strain being humidity tolerant....fingers crossed.

Thanks for looking in. :thumb:
 
I really don't know when your sativa is gonna finish, but she looks like she just started flowering so I wouldn't expect her to finish before 2nd or 3rd week of October, she might even run till November. You'll just have to keep an eye on her :thumb:
 
Mr Chen said:
subed~~seens like a bit late for the party~
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Welcome Mr Chen! Great to see you in my yard :welcome::ciao:

It's never too late - Portela is not going to finish until November and if the Blue dream does what I expect I will harvest her around Xmas.

You should start a journal - a BM grow is worth documenting.
 
So woke up to major amounts of rain - there was a serious thunderstorm overnight, and still sporadic bursts of intense rain as I write. Put on my wellies and anorak and went to the vegetable patch first, two of my okra, two of the chillies and a few bell peppers in the ground had nearly been uprooted by violent winds. Tied them up. Next went down to Narnia and all three plants were leaning over alarmingly especially the ASD cos of the weight of water on her big colas. Tied everyone up as best as I could in the rain and cut back vegetation that was falling and leaning over touching my girls. Still looks very ominous overhead, no sun and swathes of nasty looking clouds still rolling in from the sea.

I am going to consider my ASD buds as washed :rofl::grinjoint::grinjoint: well I've got to laugh, not much one can do about nature. Will go and give all of them a good shake whenever the sun decides to reappear.

Not sure whether rain makes buds smellier but the smell when I entered Narnia was absolutely delicious, two distinct smells coming off the HH and the ASD :drool::drool::):battingeyelashes::battingeyelashes:

The HH is a warrior type strain, I am expecting her to shrug all this off, the ASD I am a bit more nervous about, the colas are so dense and heavy already I WILL that she dos not mould.

Have nothing better to do so going out to prance about in the rain....I love rain :grinjoint:
 
Okay, so just returned from my 4th visit to the girls today. Had a suspected spider mite sighting but seems it's a false alarm or the storm swept them all away. Gave everyone a good shake when the rain stopped. They all still look a bit sorry for themselves but hopefully the heat will be back to its usual crazy levels tomorrow.


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Bapple said:
Welcome Mr Chen! Great to see you in my yard :welcome::ciao:

It's never too late - Portela is not going to finish until November and if the Blue dream does what I expect I will harvest her around Xmas.

You should start a journal - a BM grow is worth documenting.
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hmmmmm.......I dunt think I will start a journal. Just too lazy to do. You cant imagine how lazy I am......
 
So yesterdays bad weather almost seems like it did not happen. Sun is out and it's 30 C RH 50%, have not been to see the girls today but expect that they are drying out well.

Today is Bapple the Youngers last day here so we are having some fun. Yesterday when the sun returned after the storms, decided to test UptheHollers pot tipping idea; what a hoot.


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I should have taken a photo with the pot upright so you all can see the cool results. Well I will tip the pot on to its other side tomorrow also for two days and I think that will take care of lateral branching during her grow. She will not go down into Narnia but stay in a little hidey nook close to the house like my autumn grown ASD last year.

This forum is great and the Weed Whisperer aka UpTheHoller2 is the man. Bapple :high-five: Uptheholler
 
Thanks Spart! :thanks:

She is definitely off now, and after reading many smoke reports, I am so looking forward to smoking this girl. I think I am now officially an HSO and Dutch Passion groupie - we have so many seeds from both breeders my grows over the next few years will always be dominated by them.

I hope your LSD is as nice also, I still think you should drop a photo seed and let her do her thing outdoors between now and December, I think you'll be pleasantly surprised. You hardly have to feed because the rate of transpiration when it's wet and cool is another ball game entirely.

Hope your day is going well :thumb:
 
Returned from dropping BTY at the airport at about noon and went down to see my girls. It's 29C and RH is 44% so ideal conditions for my budding plants to dry out after the deluge 2 days ago.

Well they look fine and all recovered from the battering of the rain. The Portela has not reacted adversely to the nute fest I subjected her to yesterday but perhaps it's early days..... The ASD has a nice Diesely earthy and Tarragon smell going on....the Hollands Hope however is off the charts I am getting hints of Galangal, Lemongrass, and citrus an absolute olfactory feast.....never smelt anything like it before. Hope it smokes as good.

Under the loupe I see clear and cloudy trichs on the ASD, not bothering to check the HH or the Portela yet. The Asd is at about day 55 of flowering and the HH approximately day 50. The question is are flowering times given by breeders for photos as inaccurate as they are for Autos?


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The Hollands Hope


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I will try to control myself and not post new pics for at least a week, but it's hard as I can't stop visiting them for an occasional sniff LOL
 
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