Dutchman’s 1st Grow Ever: 2018

SmokeSara said:
Congrats on the harvest! Great job! :thumb:
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Thanks Sara! Really happy it’s all hanging in the dry box still! I think 1 or 2 days more befor jars!

Bilbobudkin420 said:
Thats a nice haul right there dutch!
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Thanks bilbo! Pretty happy about it myself! Excited to see how it dries and then jars up ! Looking forward to a sample in a week !
 
Congratz @Dutchman1990 , beautiful buds and a great yield! I'm so excited for my first harvest coming up.. I just went through your journaland took note on some of the awesome input from you and advice from everyone else. Can't wait to see your future grows!
:thumb::ganjamon::yummy:
 
ddGreenThumb said:
Congratz @Dutchman1990 , beautiful buds and a great yield! I'm so excited for my first harvest coming up.. I just went through your journaland took note on some of the awesome input from you and advice from everyone else. Can't wait to see your future grows!
:thumb::ganjamon::yummy:
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Hey DD! Thanks for taking your time and coming by! Glad you can hang out ! If you have any questions don’t hesitate to ask! I’m exvited to get the Early Miss sisters into flowering this upcoming week!
Hope all is well pal!
 
SmokeSara said:
Cannot wait to taste them, lol If I were there! :popcorn::rofl::rofl:
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Ha! Well I will definitely be doing a smoke report! Want a good cure before I do though!
 
eldorado303 said:
hi dutchman. congrats on your harvest. very good looking plants ( before harvest), really nice. really beautiful buds, i bet they smell great. and plenty of them too. dry them and cure them carefully, so you get the most out of your stash.
cheers.
:goodjob:
:ganjamon:
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Hey eldorado!

Welcome and glad you can tag along! Lots of info to be coming up with these Early Miss about to be flipped and I have some new seeds going to be dropped in the up coming weeks! Exciting times! Going to try my first sample bud from WW2 tomorrow before jarring them up! They are smelling lovely and sticky icky as can be! Love it !

My small buds from WW1 are jarred and on the cure!
All the main buds will be jarred tomorrow morning !
 
@SamSmith
Hey pal. Your heatmat that you use. The probe for temperature so you place it right in the bottom of your tray to monitor the heat best ? Thinking of buying this heatmat on my next amazon order ! I have a25$ coupon so I can get it for half price
 
Sooo about heavy defoliation. How much is acceptable when you thinning your lower plants underneath a net? I want to strip as much as I can from Early Miss sisters before they go into flower! Then another heavy strip 3weeks in. I want these girls to focus strictly on heavy bud formation!!
 
Can't speak from scrog experience, but most growers certainly seem to strip pretty much up to the net. Anything below it wouldn't get much light and the plant should eventually self-prune those. After that though I think you should keep what you can if it isn't blocking the lower buds or blocking airflow. I know that BTzGrow is running two Gold Leaf clones side by side, one defoliated and one not, and the unstripped one is stacking better than the stripped one at this point.
 
Dutchman1990 said:
@SamSmith
Hey pal. Your heatmat that you use. The probe for temperature so you place it right in the bottom of your tray to monitor the heat best ? Thinking of buying this heatmat on my next amazon order ! I have a25$ coupon so I can get it for half price
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The temp probe is attached to a suction cup. You don't want it in any standing water. I suction cup mine to The humidity dome. If you put it on the bottom it would read more of the mat temps. I also take a dish towel doubled over for a barrier between the mat and the tray bottom.
 
Dutchman1990 said:
Sooo about heavy defoliation. How much is acceptable when you thinning your lower plants underneath a net? I want to strip as much as I can from Early Miss sisters before they go into flower! Then another heavy strip 3weeks in. I want these girls to focus strictly on heavy bud formation!!
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I normally use the "bottom 1/3" rule. That's the area I always end up with larfy bud, so I trim it all off right before flower. I'll just pick off one or two fans at a time for the rest of the flower cycle after that first heavy defol.

:passitleft:
 
SamSmith said:
The temp probe is attached to a suction cup. You don't want it in any standing water. I suction cup mine to The humidity dome. If you put it on the bottom it would read more of the mat temps. I also take a dish towel doubled over for a barrier between the mat and the tray bottom.
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Thanks sam! I like the idea of a dish towel for extra heat separation! What do you run your temp at on the mat ?
 
Preston9mm said:
I normally use the "bottom 1/3" rule. That's the area I always end up with larfy bud, so I trim it all off right before flower. I'll just pick off one or two fans at a time for the rest of the flower cycle after that first heavy defol.

:passitleft:
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Thanks P! I’ll take some photos for before and after the strip! From what I’ve seen from these girls they love a good strip and seem extra perky the days following. Flip day is Saturday so I am doing the big strip tomorrow so they have a day to recover before flip!
 
SamSmith said:
The temp probe is attached to a suction cup. You don't want it in any standing water. I suction cup mine to The humidity dome. If you put it on the bottom it would read more of the mat temps. I also take a dish towel doubled over for a barrier between the mat and the tray bottom.
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Yes on the towel! The fact that the bottom gets to hot is that thing that always bothered me about the heat mat. The temp gauge could read 80º but if you put a probe on the bottom of the box it was always much hotter. And the bottom is what everything is sitting on!
 
Dutchman1990 said:
I have a 6” hurricane clip fan underneath the canopy that I recently bought and installed! Actually the other day when I installed the net the lower fan got installed !


The s-hooks your referring to being worried about. May I ask what... Like slipping? Or that may knock it off? Just curious I half multiple little clips like on the end of the ratchet hangers!
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Light falling on your plants, bump it accidentally.. crash. It wont be pretty. Can just take pliers and close the ends of the S hooks so they are much more difficult to get thru the slot they are in and the clip.

Extra fan = good bye gnats and flies.
 
bobrown14 said:
Light falling on your plants, bump it accidentally.. crash. It wont be pretty. Can just take pliers and close the ends of the S hooks so they are much more difficult to get thru the slot they are in and the clip.

Extra fan = good bye gnats and flies.
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As per your valid concern !! I have removed all s-hooks and changed to mini clamps with chain or ratchet straps! Everything is solid now no chance of an oopsie! I also have the mini 6” fan blowing right across the bottoms of the plants above the pots through the stems! Lovely vortex in the tent !
 
Hello and Happy Friday everyone!

Started off my morning by jarring up all my White Widow harvest! Lovely sticky icky buds with pleasant smell! Still a bit fresh smelling but you can smell the pungent undertones that I’m hoping will come through really well with the cure! Going to try a sample nug of it later today after work and man I’m excited about that! Here’s a look !
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White Widow #2
Beauty Nugs in the jar!

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White Widow #2
Beauty Nug going into jars!

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White Widow #1 final weight - 63g jarred up

White Widow #2 final weight - 123g jarred up

I’ll update later with some trich photos of the curing buds and some smoke reports!

Keep it green:thumb::passitleft:
 
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