Carcass' $150 Low Budget Grow 2019

I let that one go either 50 or 51 days before the flip, but I think I'll go longer on the next one.
The only thing that the last 3 17" plants have in common is when they were flipped to 12/12- all 3 around day 50, so I'll let the next one go 60-65 days and see what happens.
They actually do double in size after the flip- but when they start at 8" tall, doubling in size still isn't very big... ;)
I think I read somewhere that the height of your pots can limit how tall your plants get or was it total volume. Now I'm wondering if your pot size was also a factor in keeping the girls short. I'm testing that theory now, I put my ssh in a 2 1/2 gal pot cause I was trying to limit how tall she gets, the first time I tried growing a sativa (arjan's haze) way back when I first started, she just overfuckinwhelmed me and I got lost in that grow, didn't try doing another pure or almost pure sativa until now. I'll keep you posted on how tall she gets. :hookah:
 
I use 3 gallon pots for everything- outdoors, plants in them will get up to 3' tall, so I think it's me flipping too early that's keeping the indoor ladies a little shorter than I'd like.
Although, 3 feet tall may well be the limit in a 3 gallon pot, because I've never had one get over 3 feet tall in one...
 
Hmmmm now you got me thinking.... when I started growing I was using a 5 gal dwc buckets then upgraded to a 10 gal 2 station rdwc that's when I got scared of trying to grow sativas in the enclosure I had. Today, since making a room for them, I switched over to hempy but still in 5 gal buckets and all of the girls harvested have been somewhere in the 5 - 6 foot range, especially when I let them veg anywhere between 6 - 8 weeks. :Rasta:
 
Happy Saturday(?) Trala!
Yes, I will also be doing a weight comparison- although with three different strains it won't really prove anything...I think the Blueberry (the middle one) is going to do the best- not very many colas (10) but they're pretty big...The GG has a lot more buds (apx. 35), but they're all fairly small..

I've been watching your thread- looks like you're getting "the cure" figured out pretty well!
Yep Saturday and it’s wine o’clock, thank fuck :)

Oh I don’t know about that. My jars still get to 70%. It’s 3 weeks now.

Have you told me how you cure? Coz if you have Ive forgot. I bought a book to write things down, so if you can tell me, I’ll write it step by step in my book.

I am so shit at searching back for things, I’m hoping my notebook will help :)
 
I'm going to let both of them go awhile longer, like I did with the Chocodope a few months ago..
When they start drinking less than a gallon every other day, then I'll harvest...
Does that sound about right, Beez?
Sounds like a good strategy to me. :thumb:
The indoor Gorilla Glue is at apx. 15-20% amber, so she's probably getting chopped tomorrow morning,
How cloudy are the trichomes? I find that in many of my outdoor grows, and actually one of my indoor autos, the trichomes can be amber and clear at the same time. I try to ignore the amber until I see mostly cloudy. And as you mentioned, drinking less.
 
Good Sunday Afternoon!
Time for a little Harvest update!
The 110 day old, 17" tall Gorilla Glue was ready to chop yesterday morning, after flowering for 57 days, so that's what I did...forgot to get a pic while she was still in the box, but got a few other pre-chop shots:

Of course, I had to do a final silhouette shot...

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And after removing lots of fan leaves...
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A couple of buds, just before she went under the knife...
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They're not real big, but they're solid
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Here's the scene 2.5 hours later:
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I weighed things before hanging them to dry:
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22.6 oz wet, so probably around 5oz. dry- I figured it'd produce more than a gram but less than a pound,
so I was right on... :)

a typical trimmed bud:
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And hanging to dry- she'll likely spend about 5 days here:
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And that's about all there was to that!

Now, to the quotes:
all of the girls harvested have been somewhere in the 5 - 6 foot range, especially when I let them veg anywhere between 6 - 8 weeks.
I'm gonna try an 8.5 week veg next time unless the plant starts getting too tall...come to think of it, I could probably just flip when the plant is 12" tall so doubling in size would might make it end up "just right"...
Have you told me how you cure? Coz if you have Ive forgot. I bought a book to write things down, so if you can tell me, I’ll write it step by step in my book.
I don't think I have, but @Growings and @Regrowth have got you pretty well covered -I stick the buds in the jars at 68-70rh, then burp them down to 62, which usually takes about two weeks- every time you burp them, the rh should drop a little- if your rh is staying the same, or it's taking a looonnnggg time to lower the rh, you need to leave the jars open longer.
All the way open, not just lids ajar... :)

How cloudy are the trichomes?
There were still a few clear ones, but very few- I didn't really check for clear ambers- but there was
so much amber that she just had to come down. I usually have the opposite problem under the led- Waiting on amber that sometimes doesn't happen- this plant definitely did it a bit differently...
 
I don't think I have, but @Growings and @Regrowth have got you pretty well covered -I stick the buds in the jars at 68-70rh, then burp them down to 62, which usually takes about two weeks- every time you burp them, the rh should drop a little- if your rh is staying the same, or it's taking a looonnnggg time to lower the rh, you need to leave the jars open longer.
All the way open, not just lids ajar... :)
Thanks C Bird :)

Your plant OMGGGG ♥️♥️♥️

My jars are still 65%-70% over 3 weeks on. I’m still worried I’ll ruin it and it will go mouldy. I’m sooooo close to the finish line.

I’m thinking about trying a fridge dry next grow. Not all of it, just a portion in case I wreck it. Have you fridge dried?

And leaving the jar ajar sounds so stupid. I’m trying to have aopenacrack become part of our venecular vanacular language. So far it’s not really taken off..
 
Have you fridge dried?
I have- One of my CBD plants last season got the low n' slow treatment, and the other 2 didn't because my son needed a fridge...(and apparently, it's not comin' back)
The fridge dried stuff smells and tastes better than the stuff from the other 2 normally dried plants.
Can't say if it affects potency or not, because...cbd, so you really never know..
 
I have- One of my CBD plants last season got the low n' slow treatment, and the other 2 didn't because my son needed a fridge...(and apparently, it's not comin' back)
The fridge dried stuff smells and tastes better than the stuff from the other 2 normally dried plants.
Can't say if it affects potency or not, because...cbd, so you really never know..
I got directions how to do it the other day. But being me I forget which thread and who told me. My job today is to sift through my written verbal diarrhoea and find it. It’s going in my book.

You and your life all good?
 
You and your life all good?
Yes, and thanks for asking! things are going pretty well at the moment...Mrs.C. is never happy when I'm drying pot in the back room, but I'm used to that...I do have to admit- this one is a little stinkier than usual...

Here's the link to the Low n' Slow process- I assume this is the one you mean?
 
Yes, and thanks for asking! things are going pretty well at the moment...Mrs.C. is never happy when I'm drying pot in the back room, but I'm used to that...I do have to admit- this one is a little stinkier than usual...

Here's the link to the Low n' Slow process- I assume this is the one you mean?
Omg my partner will blow a gasket when I take over his bar fridge lolllll. They’re such downers C Star.

Hmmm I don’t think I’ve ever seen that thread in my life, which means it well could be lolllll I don’t think so tho, coz I was talking to the fridge dryer, and I don’t remember her name being sue, tho that said, still totally could be lolllll. I’ll have a look today. I am so happy! I have 4 days off, it’s basically an Easter weekend that Jesus didn’t have to die for.
 
Omg my partner will blow a gasket when I take over his bar fridge lolllll. They’re such downers C Star.

Hmmm I don’t think I’ve ever seen that thread in my life, which means it well could be lolllll I don’t think so tho, coz I was talking to the fridge dryer, and I don’t remember her name being sue, tho that said, still totally could be lolllll. I’ll have a look today. I am so happy! I have 4 days off, it’s basically an Easter weekend that Jesus didn’t have to die for.

I think it was @Emilya who was helping you, @Trala . :battingeyelashes:
 
@Carcass man that GG looks good the colors you draw out from those strains you've been growing.... damn they just look like straight up candy. Good work man. :passitleft:

@Trala I've used Dr.Ziggy's low and slow method and it works well, and it does preserves the terpene profile like carcass was stating. Try it, it won't disappoint. I think a lot of people think its crazy, almost like they do when you tell them about washing your buds right after harvest.
 
@Trala I've used Dr.Ziggy's low and slow method and it works well, and it does preserves the terpene profile like carcass was stating. Try it, it won't disappoint. I think a lot of people think its crazy, almost like they do when you tell them about washing your buds right after harvest.
Thank you :)

I’ll have a read today.

OMG I didn’t wash my bud till it was recommended in here. The muck that comes off them is sooooo ewwwwwwwww.

I am definitely a converted wash buds after harvester :)
 
I only wish people could agree on the bucket recipes and ratios. For example is it 10ml peroxide to 1L water, or is it a rather generous 1/1 ratio. I swear I've seen both and every variation in between. Same goes with the bicarbonate and lemon / citric acid. I need to start writing things down because I never remember what to do when it's time to wash. You sure grow some beautiful plants Carcass. Thanks for the tag.
 
Congrats on the harvest, MrC! :Rasta:

I agree with Mrs. C.
 
damn they just look like straight up candy. Good work man.
Thanks for the kind words, raziel819!
If they smelled a little more like candy, I wouldn't be in the doghouse at harvest time... ;)
OMG I didn’t wash my bud till it was recommended in here.
I only wish people could agree on the bucket recipes and ratios.
I've only washed my buds a time or 2, and I think I used different recipes and ratios both times...
I agree with Mrs. C.
That's good, GDB, because I have it on good authority that she's always right!:rolleyes:
 
Beautiful end to a great looking plant Carcass...congratulations! Mrs C has to be used to this by now, it's not like you grow once in a while. :)

For anyone having trouble with high RH during burping, a mini dehuey or rice balls for cheap and fast.

For example is it 10ml peroxide to 1L water, or is it a rather generous 1/1 ratio.
I've run (with 3% H2O2) everything from 1:4 with water to 1:1. Lower dilutions won't kill the bugs and I don't actually think that H2O2 kills PM. For the lemon juice and baking soda, I like what Dutchman does here.
 
For anyone having trouble with high RH during burping, a mini dehuey or rice balls for cheap and fast.


I've run (with 3% H2O2) everything from 1:4 with water to 1:1. Lower dilutions won't kill the bugs and I don't actually think that H2O2 kills PM. For the lemon juice and baking soda, I like what Dutchman does here.

Well I am having trouble with high RH during burping, thank you for the tip. I will make one.

:)

And what ever happened to that Dutch fellow? I remember him because 1990 is my sons birth year.

Or is he another name we must not speak out loud?

LOL
 
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