Black Sugar Comparative Oct 2023

Preston9mm · Feb 21, 2024

Trala said:
I can defs see similarities in our Black Sugars. Do you do the close up glitter thing before chopping?

I'll shoot pics & vid as I harvest & dry, I've just landed in my sweet spot around harvest time & honestly don't care much for the opinions around the Mag about my plants.
I just post my stuff to share the fancy plants.

I get exhausted listening to all the idiots give unsolicited advice about what I "should have done", but also watch them harvest bullshit numbers in comparison.

I'll just keep posting what I do; sometimes pics, some vids, but anyone who follows along can see the full picture.

After the plants get old & ugly, they get harvested & I post pics after a finish trimming. People seem to love the finished pics, but talked shit thru the final week pictures. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder....

The "pretty" doesn't even calculate in my schedule. I just run my ugly heifers until they're near dead and enjoy the results, glamor shots & all be damned.

End of the day, I'm harvesting solid quantity that is highly sought after in the TX hill country. I don't generally put much thought to the "looks" otherwise.

Preston9mm · Feb 21, 2024

Preston9mm said:
I'll shoot pics & vid as I harvest & dry, I've just landed in my sweet spot around harvest time & honestly don't care much for the opinions around the Mag about my plants.
I just post my stuff to share the fancy plants.

I get exhausted listening to all the idiots give unsolicited advice about what I "should have done", but also watch them harvest bullshit numbers in comparison.

I'll just keep posting what I do; sometimes pics, some vids, but anyone who follows along can see the full picture.

After the plants get old & ugly, they get harvested & I post pics after a finish trimming. People seem to love the finished pics, but talked shit thru the final week pictures. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder....

The "pretty" doesn't even calculate in my schedule. I just run my ugly heifers until they're near dead and enjoy the results, glamor shots & all be damned.

End of the day, I'm harvesting solid quantity that is highly sought after in the TX hill country. I don't generally put much thought to the "looks" otherwise.

.... while I'm on my rant.... I'd like to disprove the constant rants about a plant being "rootbound".....

I regularly grow these plants in the smallest pot possible (to prove ppl wrong because I'm a dick).... but I can promise that your 18" plant isn't rootbound in that 15 gal pot...

These are 5gal pots... the lowest yield will be 8oz.... the biggest should be around 16.

Your plant isn't rootbound, it's just screaming for help

dr.h00k · Feb 21, 2024

just keep being true to yourself...cheerz... :high-five:

...h00k...

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Preston9mm · Feb 21, 2024

dr.h00k said:
just keep being true to yourself...cheerz... ...h00k......

Growing is a whole lot easier than people make it.... I watch people "struggle" all the time around here and they're generally greeted with a solid list of what they should have done.... from someone who grows nonsense plants....

I just want to be the guy who breaks that shit up.

Mistakes happen.... grows get sideways & need adjustment. It's just a matter of whose advice you follow when the shit happens.

People tend to follow the regular faces around 420 nag, but that's not always the best answer

I may be a crotchety dick, but I'll never lie to a person. I speak from experience or I don't speak at all

dr.h00k · Feb 21, 2024

I know what you mean...everybody seem's to want to complicate things...K.I.S.S has usually worked for me, without going down a dozen rabbit holes of advice...some general knowledge is mandatory, and some trial and error is expected at times...I've had a few 1# plants, and some that I hate to admit to...all part of the process...keep's us moving forward...cheerz... :high-five:

...h00k...

Preston9mm · Feb 21, 2024

dr.h00k said:
I know what you mean...everybody seem's to want to complicate things...K.I.S.S has usually worked for me, without going down a dozen rabbit holes of advice...some general knowledge is mandatory, and some trial and error is expected at times...I've had a few 1# plants, and some that I hate to admit to...all part of the process...keep's us moving forward...cheerz... ...h00k...

Yeah man! I'm grateful for the "beginners knowledge" that I learned from this site. But, I've also spent years around this site, watching the "senior elite growers" delve out shit assed advice.

Best advice I can give anymore is to look at what they grow.... watch what moves they make.

If their grow is trash; so is their advice

Trala · Feb 22, 2024

Preston9mm said:
I'll shoot pics & vid as I harvest & dry, I've just landed in my sweet spot around harvest time & honestly don't care much for the opinions around the Mag about my plants.
I just post my stuff to share the fancy plants.

I get exhausted listening to all the idiots give unsolicited advice about what I "should have done", but also watch them harvest bullshit numbers in comparison.

I'll just keep posting what I do; sometimes pics, some vids, but anyone who follows along can see the full picture.

After the plants get old & ugly, they get harvested & I post pics after a finish trimming. People seem to love the finished pics, but talked shit thru the final week pictures. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder....

The "pretty" doesn't even calculate in my schedule. I just run my ugly heifers until they're near dead and enjoy the results, glamor shots & all be damned.

End of the day, I'm harvesting solid quantity that is highly sought after in the TX hill country. I don't generally put much thought to the "looks" otherwise.

Fair enough.

I struggle to know when to harvest, I really do. Just harvested an auto prolly 3 weeks too early. FML

I’m all about pretty plants. It is what drives my grow. I fuckimg hate ugly plants. I like to watch grow magic. Then try and copy it I can do veg okay, but I struggle with flower.

And yeah I’m all about nic3 bud too. I just need to work out that sweet spot.

Trala · Feb 22, 2024

Preston9mm said:
.... while I'm on my rant.... I'd like to disprove the constant rants about a plant being "rootbound".....

I regularly grow these plants in the smallest pot possible (to prove ppl wrong because I'm a dick).... but I can promise that your 18" plant isn't rootbound in that 15 gal pot...

These are 5gal pots... the lowest yield will be 8oz.... the biggest should be around 16.

Your plant isn't rootbound, it's just screaming for help

Omg it’s a bit funn6 tho. Like watching it.

My first 6 months here I starved my plants because the talk had me believing I didn’t know how to water a plant. Something I’d been doing with my houseplants and garden in forever lol.

Yeah I keep it simple. MC and water. Nothing extra.

Preston9mm · Feb 24, 2024

Getting near the end.... I'll be harvesting Black Sugar #2 tomorrow morning, but will let the #1 plant keep going for another week or so.

Both plants are looking pretty rough, but will definitely make it to a successful harvest.

Here's the #1 plant. She's still throwing fresh white pistils, tricomes are milky white with about 10% still clear.