Dark Devil Auto: A Community Grow Record

I know a great many people who grow Dark Devil wait until right at 100 days before they harvest their plants. And the first one I grew I followed along with what everyone else was doing. But I found that the plant was getting "crispy" at 100 days. Now I harvest between 85 and 95 days. You'll be fine harvesting your plant on Thursday (81 days) just expect the high to be a bit more racy. <------ is that a word?
 
I dropped three DDAs in water on Monday night. One had a tail on Tuesday morning. Another had a tail Tuesday night. Another looked like this:

:hmmmm:

Selfed parent. Think "brother and sister"², lol, most of them will be fine - but once in a while...

Seriously, though, it happens. Give it a very light dose of nutrients (might want to use an eye dropper ;) ) and some mild light and it might green up.
 
Hey all. My DDA in DBHBB is still going strong on Day 68.
Just did the 2 cat drenches this week so hoping to see the buds really start to kick.
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Still no sign of any purple but man oh man if this girl fills out good she'll be massive.
 
I love how resilient these plants are nearly always! My brand new DDA sprouted 4 days ago in a hempy solo cup. I let her stay in the perlite an extra 2 days till her second set of leaves were doing well. Today I floated her out of the perlite and got her transplanted into her final pot (4.2 gallons) in my homemade organic soil. First attempt with a DDA auto in my homemade soil. We'll see how she does.



 
About to do my harvest of the dd and first ever, going to push it back to tomorrow, but the question I have is have any members here dried their bud in a tent, with another plant growing? I was thinking putting it in a box inside the tent if the light would bother it, but without proper air movement would it possibly go mouldy? Any suggestions? I can put it in my garage as well, but it is pretty humid and rainy weather here and only about 10 to 15 degrees Celsius
 
About to do my harvest of the dd and first ever, going to push it back to tomorrow, but the question I have is have any members here dried their bud in a tent, with another plant growing? I was thinking putting it in a box inside the tent if the light would bother it, but without proper air movement would it possibly go mouldy? Any suggestions? I can put it in my garage as well, but it is pretty humid and rainy weather here and only about 10 to 15 degrees Celsius
Throw it in your fridge in a couple of paper bags for two or three weeks then to the jar.Let them dry to slight crisp before the fridge.
 
About to do my harvest of the dd and first ever, going to push it back to tomorrow, but the question I have is have any members here dried their bud in a tent, with another plant growing? I was thinking putting it in a box inside the tent if the light would bother it, but without proper air movement would it possibly go mouldy? Any suggestions? I can put it in my garage as well, but it is pretty humid and rainy weather here and only about 10 to 15 degrees Celsius

Yeah - humid and rainy doesn’t sound good does it? I get that problem here after the outdoor harvests sometimes.

The “low and slow’ method could work if your fridge is suitable - here;s a link to that thread so you can see how to do it (need to make sure your fridge is ok RH wise ;) )

Or... I know that others dry in their growing room but I’m not sure how exactly. I don’t think the light is an issue the first day or so, but after that they should definitely be in the dark AFAIK.

If your can get airflow through the box that might work - you can wire up a computer fan to a 12v power supply and use it to air extract through the box... I dunno, that’s all I’ve got :)
And this... :passitleft: (DDA actually...)
 
Blowing air directly at the harvest might end up causing them to dry too much and too quickly. Better to aim fan at nearby wall at an angle so that the air in the space moves a little more "organically" (so to speak?). On the other hand, ending up with bud that's too dry to properly cure beats moldy bud, lol - so ya got to do what ya got to do, as they say.

The way people dry their harvest in their grow room/tent is to have everything harvested and shut the grow down, then run the exhaust fan as needed to control ambient RH and temp. With a circulation fan set up as above. It's... Not feasible if there are still plants growing in there.

There's always "spare room with a dehumidifier in it," I suppose, but make sure not to get carried away with the dehumidification. The perfect dry, IMHO, is a SLOW one, but it requires the ability to be able to... approach the "conditions are favorable for mold" threshold without actually reaching it, lol. Not especially easy, and made more difficult if one has bud of different densities. So most people dry it quickly in a few days to a week or so, throw it in jars to cure ("cure"?), and the result ends up being a final product that hasn't had all the chlorophyll converted, doesn't look basically brown, and doesn't have the natural sweetness. And I'm generally one of those people :rolleyes:. Because, again, a less than perfect product beats a moldy one.
 
Yah - i meant to use the computer fan like an extraction fan for the box... few random small hole around the bottom where air can get in, extraction fan towards the top, run it really slow. Not suggesting he blow a fan on them ... no ;)... That might be a way for the box in the grow tent method to work
 
So this is what I was thinking, think this will work? Would probably get another fan, it's all screening on each layer
 

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Buncha damn rednecks. I made a cold smoker a few years ago using a refrigerator box. It didn't do well in the rain though.
 
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