I am harvesting the last 818 Headband plant tomorrow, and probably our seed producing O. Gelato which is now in its 14th week of bloom and which seems to be full of seeds. I will check it out carefully tomorrow and determine if she still needs more time. One more light will go dark tomorrow, leaving only the Nextlight 420h sitting over this plant. The Solar Powered house designed to grow cannabis is going dark, relatively speaking, and solar is easily supplying the needs of the house, air conditioning, computers and ham radios, as shown by our electric bill just received which only demanded $39 for this month's payment. Already it is very clear what a difference the solar has made on our lighting bill and our cost per grow to keep my garden going.
Since my last update I have harvested my Critical Kush, which is now dried and in the curing stage. This entire batch, about 10 oz dry, will be going to produce oil... this dummy thought she could get by with not washing it at the end. Ooops... and that can't happen again... smoking a joint of the stuff gives a very clear taste of rosemary. Lesson learned... when using SNS 203 in bloom, especially late bloom... bud washing is mandatory.
The rest of the plants have been properly washed. I harvested the Candy Dawg and the odd looking 818 Headband the other night, one of the stickiest plants I have seen for a while. These two plants have been hanging in the drying room for 3 days, with one of the mainline Headbands joining them tomorrow.
The rest of things got a little ugly. I was too reluctant to pull out the SNS 217C and I let the spidermites take two plants by being too easy on them with the strongly mixed SNS203. I really thought that would get them, but just when I thought I had them taken out, they surged on me and in one night had taken over two plants. Isolation and emergency spraying has saved the last two plants... but it was a struggle, and frankly the camera was the last thing on my mind. I am going to deep clean the area this summer as I take a break, with the idea of starting fresh in the fall with no bug problems and immaculately clean lab like grow rooms.
I will do a couple more updates before closing this journal out, including some pictures tomorrow of what we have ended up with. Even losing 3 plants out of 11 this round, I still have plenty of strong bud to make my classic cannabutter oatmeal raisin cookies, infused spaghetti, tea and all my favorites, and more smokable bud than I can get through by the end of summer. Life is good here in Missouri.
As far as my work here on the forum, I am not going anywhere, and will still comment here and there when I feel a need, and of course I will continue with my reviews of products important to you and your gardens. Speaking of which, I have just finished my 3rd and final review on the
@Sierra Natural Science line, and my favorite of the bunch, SNS-203. You can find the link
HERE. Please let me know what you think! Next up... Geopots!