Cottage 420's Organic Perpetual Indoor Garden

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Dude!

Never make decisions while you are drunk or paranoid (unless it's a small decision, like pairing a Barefoot Merlot with Blue Dream!)

Your Dark Devil was an auto, right? I haven't seen any photoperiod seeds.

Hahaha.. AND I'm aware of the effect of "green" sativa being racy and bringing on paranoia 100% on that and I still wanted to chop. That strain is going to have to age a tad... I tried it again last night, felt the same initial rush of paranoia but was ready for it and settled down after a 10-15 minutes and its all good! That was just a mix too not a 100% full Blue Thai fatty. Tonight I'm going to roll me a big fatty Blue Thai since now I'm getting used to it! That's soo funny... wish me luck... I have my lady along for the ride she will keep me sane as usual.

Next Blue Thai plant to harvest - she's a small one but totally covered in trichomes

 

[Growlow]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Very nice mate. Keep em coming!

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Been away for a bit but back with another chop report!! That Little Blue Thai plant that I posted pics of ^^^ I finally chopped her down and am pleasantly surprised!! She's nothing but one giant bud from the soil line all the way to the top. I had her tucked in the back of the tent so I couldn't really get a good look at her cept for the buds. She's a freak of nature... I've never seen a plant do this before... Basically she's a 24" bud from soil line to the top cola, here's some pics:

Notice the bud starts right after my chopping point

close up of the stem and buds

The top cola which is really the whole plant down to the soil line

Another close up with test bud which I haven't tried yet it just wont dry!!

Test bud getting closer to be able to smoke

a few more close ups

 

[Radogast]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

I do my test buds with a 200 degree oven for 60-90 minutes. They dry quicker if you break them up a little first.

Slightly crispy from an oven dry, it is often easier to crush them in your hands than gum up your grinder with half dry (but totally smokable) test bud.

 

[SweetSue]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

You never cease to amaze me. You grow and harvest arguably the most beautiful plants among us. I can already vouch for the Dark Devil Auto. I'm in awe.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

I do my test buds with a 200 degree oven for 60-90 minutes. They dry quicker if you break them up a little first.

Slightly crispy from an oven dry, it is often easier to crush them in your hands than gum up your grinder with half dry (but totally smokable) test bud.

I haven't tried that yet Rad - does it smell up the house?? I live a far amount closer to civilization than you and no AC. So neighbors know when we get cookin!

On that same note there with the screen clogging you smoke from glass a fair amount and smoking fresh buds really clogs up my glass pipes, what do you clean your glass with or how do you clean your glass?? Fresh buds have a lot of resin eh??

 

[Radogast]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

I haven't tried that yet Rad - does it smell up the house?? I live a far amount closer to civilization than you and no AC. So neighbors know when we get cookin!

Probably. My sense of smell is rather poor. The raw plant sitting in the kitchen seemed to smell more than the roasting bud.

On that same note there with the screen clogging you smoke from glass a fair amount and smoking fresh buds really clogs up my glass pipes, what do you clean your glass with or how do you clean your glass?? Fresh buds have a lot of resin eh??

Fresh buds clog the grinder with fresh sap. The amount of trichomes and ash seem about the same for quick dried and slow dried, just some sap mixed with the resin.

I cleaned my first two pieces by myself on Sunday night with 91% ethyl (rubbing) alcohol for the water chamber, q-tips for the bowl, and pipe cleaner for the bowl stem/bubbler stem.

They usually clean one to three pipes when ALL the pipe screens are clogged. Sometimes pipes get cleaned because one is stoned and cleaning pipes seems like a challenge wth a high chance of success

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

All in, BluMat setup .... been away for a few weeks lets see what the ladies look like when we get back home. I took these 2 pics before the 2nd bin was filled with water but this is the basic setup. 2 bins, one for the front row and the other for the back row, if one fails I still have a 50% chance to save the harvest. Only reason I'm doing this is due to my schedule getting messed up/delayed. All these ladies were "supposed" to be harvested and the big ladies were going to be mothers but I was already behind so I went a head and put the mothers in flower and shut down the veg room. Too hot to grow this time of year and keep things sane, vacation and all its crazy for me to be running right now. Ah well... dog days of summer are almost behind us. Hopefully these ladies (some of them) will make it.

Our son checked on the grow the other day and said they all look OK one plant was wilted, I had water ready to go so he just watered and that was that, we will see. I have no high hopes this will work. Last year was a disaster and I only had 4 plants but I did not use BluMat - this setup should be better and I may just keep it and water in with SST/ACT when I want to.

 

[SweetSue]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Good luck with that. I expect you'll find everything OK when you get home. I'm an eternal optimist.

Enjoy the vacation.

 

[bobrown14]

re: Cottage 420's 2015 Organic Grow With LOS & Kristalica - Sleestack x Skunk1

Good luck with that. I expect you'll find everything OK when you get home. I'm an eternal optimist.

Enjoy the vacation.

Thanks there SS - I can use all the help I can get .... just hoping a few make it thru. I suspect to have a minor disaster but its all good. I've tried this before so I'm hoping 2x a charm??

Smoke report in for the Blue Thai fatty bud: Extremely PINEY taste, wife said it tastes like pine needles and pine resin! It's piney, I'll give here that.

First puff I can taste the pine then the whole inside of my mouth feels different, 2nd puff and more pine but a little more mellow followed by my mouth full on cannot taste anything feels like my mouth is numb completely, 3rd puff and I'm already pretty high, 4th puff time to step back away from the table and take a seat I'm stoned to be-geebers. Fairly long lasting nice mellow buzz I've been high for 5+ hours and not sleepy or lagging at all. Just sitting here reading and feeling mighty fine.

The plant has been hang drying in our bedroom with temps 70s nights and 90s in the days with RH +70 - doubt she dried any if at all which is ok hopefully shes not all nasty with PM or anything like that. I should have washed her then hung up.

We will be back home shortly so more to come on my BluMat extravaganza in a day or 2.

 

[bobrown14]

I finally got back home with a slight scare at the border coming into the country from Cannada - got pulled over with at least a zip not very well hidden either.... they were not looking for canna this time!

Anywho here's a few pics of my grow room. I harvested 2 autos. Another Dark Devil and a Jack Horrer (sp?) and one of my big Blue Thai girls. I'll do a more thorough update here in a day or so and go over what I did to keep these ladies alive for 2+ weeks while on vacation.

Here's whats left in the flower room:

No-til 3rd round this monster is 6' tall

Her sister - she went into flower 2 weeks ahead of monster girl

The only plant to really show signs of suffering but she's about ready to harvest maybe 2 more weeks. I've got my canna tool box out with all my organic tools, lets see if I can bring her around!

Auto Jack Herer - ooooh she's going to be a good'n I can tell!

tops above the lights - looking for solutions here!!?? no more room to move lights up.

Close up of the buds on monster girl - she's going to be special - a clone and I've got some more clones going and they have roots already after 2 weeks!

 

[Radogast]

tops above the lights - looking for solutions here!!?? no more room to move lights up.

I see two choices:

1. Hang the light(s) higher
2. Supercrop your cola

The way you hang your lights higher is by replacing the wire hangers.

I saw a solution where the little loop hangers (where the clips attach) were turned so the eyes face each other and a threaded steel rod was passed between the loops. 6 nuts were threaded on the rod: One nut of on each side of the loop hangers to hold the rod firmly in place, and a pair of nuts around the center that will be hand tightened around whatever wire, clip, or hook is used for hanging the center of the rod.

Your hardware store shopping list is: 2 threaded rods a little less than the width of your light, and 12 nunts that thread on he rod to modify each light.

If I run across the post again, I'll link it here. It's an elegant hanging solution.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

You could hang some cfl's above the plant?

 

[Radogast]

You could hang some cfl's above the plant?

And that is another choice I didn't see

 

[ClosedCircuit]

And that is another choice I didn't see

Ha. Over thinking goes hand in hand with what we do sometimes

 

[bobrown14]

Thanks guys all good ideas, IF I was running HPS I'd just remove the lamp from the fixture and do a vertical hang and be done with it. These LED lamps don't quite give me that option. I'm going to sleep on the options here. Trying not to add lights as my grow room temps are already high with AC maxed, but our east coast hot/humid weather is about to end so I may do that.

At least I know I can keep the ladies alive for 2 weeks while away!! That was pretty cool, BLuMat really works great once I got them dialed in.

 

[ClosedCircuit]

I dont know what you're talking about; hot humid weather about to end. Sometimes it seems like it will never end!

 

[bobrown14]

Hey there CC the Cannadian weather finally got here following me home. 10 day forecast nothing above 85F here which is my kinda summer. It's been in the 90s for 4 weeks ... finally my girls get some fresh air tonight, time to open the windows and hope no idiots are growing males near me. hahaha

 

[ClosedCircuit]

Actually now that you mention it, I went and checked the weather for here 70-high 80s with rain for the next few days. I'll take that I guess. Its sad to think the winter is just around the corner again. I drive alot for work so I'll definitely enjoy not sweating my ass off in the car seat. Formal wear and humidity do not go together to say the least.

Its all worth it for the east coast autumn. At least that's what I tell myself.
..

 

[Radogast]

We had SERIOUS winds and hail yesterday afternoon. 2 inch hail in Boston. Winds hard enough to tear off a nearby roof. I saw 5 trees busted in my walk in the neighbor's woods today. A couple of them are gonna need a chainsaw to come fully down. Our island in the forest was unscathed - twigs snapped but no branches. Still muggy after the rain.

Winter is coming.