First Grow!

:Hookah: Oh yes, nothing like workin at home on a sunny 85 degree day. :Hookah:
 
looks like you have been busy ole festus, I hope Ruth is helping out, post some pics of that cola!!:goodjob:
 
trichomes said:
looks like you have been busy ole festus, I hope Ruth is helping out, post some pics of that cola!!:goodjob:
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Won't do that when a pic is already posted in POTM. I even took off an 1 1/2'' in height due to the rain, but she & her seven sister colas got fatter in the last week.

:Namaste:
 
:thanks:hope your girl makes the cut in PoM on Thursday:goodluck:
 
Good morning VG,

How's life on the other side of the pond? It's great here, a little hot! 87 degrees yesterday, but I'm not going to complain. Sorry about those posts, but I sure don't want your journal being hijacked. Some people just don't have (I'd better not say it).

Well, I hope the Ladies are doing fine today. When do you plan the next shoot?

:Namaste:
 
Hey Ole :cheesygrinsmiley:

Life isn't too bad cheers,apart from forking out £350 for a new clutch on my van ! ha ha got to be done before our road trip in 8 weeks and 5 days ! didn't want it breaking down in france !! ha ha !!
Weather is good here too woke up to a blue sky sun beating down !! wasn't 87 degrees mind you ha ha ha !! it's only now starting to get a little cloudy but still warm :cheesygrinsmiley:
No worries about the posts ha ha ! ;-) don't mind the hijacking :cheesygrinsmiley:

I took a nug off the smaller PP cause it was blocking a bigger bud site below,well i say nug,i mean pop corn,it was there on it's own above the main bud on a little branch which only had one leaf,it really was out there on it's own ! there was bags of thc on it and real sticky with resin,i'm wondering if i could smoke it or would it be pointless due to the trichs being immature or summin,i dunno ha ha ha !! what you think ? it's upstairs drying out as we speak i'll go get a pic now of the nug and where i took it from :cheesygrinsmiley:

Hows your most recent harvest looking ?
 
Here is the spot i took it from as you can see it was out there on it's own
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Here is the spot it was covering believe it or not it was shading out quite a bit !
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And here is the nug
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That nug will do just fine for testing purposes! :cheesygrinsmiley: Try and get it as dry as you can. Trim those leaves off as close as you can to get rid of the chlorophyll. Put it in an envelope and lay it in your car windshield for 4 or 5 hours, then if you have a ceiling fan, take her for a 3 or 4 hour twirl. After that, place it on aluminum foil and toast it for 30 seconds at a time until it breaks apart. Don't use a microwave!

Waiting for the result, it will be a pretty good indicator as to how your smoke is going to turn out. Sampling is awesome for quality control and proper harvest time. Don't go by Trichs, go by your personal preference.

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Sweet i have it in a small shoe box which is made of cardboard by a window in my house,i'm just going to let it dry out over a few days i'm in no rush to test it,it was just in the way ha ha,the bud site it was covering doesn't look like much in the pic but there is lots underneath i couldn't get one pic of it all so just took a topside piccy :cheesygrinsmiley: I will take them leaves off now :cheesygrinsmiley: :thumb:
 
Oh, to the contrary, that is a great looking bud. A shoe box is good, but punch some holes, so it can breath a little. 2 or 3 days should be enough time for a nice dry.

Am eager for the smoke report. I already have my next project in the planning stage after the Darkstar. The Darkstar will be done right before Christmas. I'm going to grow a Sativa (Panama) in December and finish her outdoors in the spring. The Panama is 100% sativa with characteristics of an Indica. So, I'm looking for the trip :cheesygrinsmiley:, but also the pain relieving qualities :high-five:.
 
I open and shut the lid of the shoe box for a few hours at a time to let it breathe,you think that will be enough ?

I'm slightly unhinged about the smoke report as i have never had to write one before,or describe the high apart from ...it's banging !! ha ha first time for everything i spose !! so you will have to excuse if i spit out some jibber jabber that you don't understand ! ha ha

Sweet that darkstar sounds like it will take your head off ! wicked where do i sign up !! :rofl:
I think i'm going to either stick to growing indica's or be a bit more strict with the LST,i think it will be the latter of the two to be honust,looking forward to your next one mate,i am going to start with my 3 indica's the day i get back from france and really thinking about a scrog love the way a finished scrog looks :thumb:

How long you going to veg the panama for Ole ?
 
Yeah, ventilating it every couple of hours should do, just turn the bud over without squishing the trichs. Hell, I don't even know what I wrote in my smoke report, just use mine as an example. It comes pretty easy writing it when you are :smokin2: it.

I'll start a new "Darkstar Journal" shortly. I've been documenting anyways. I want the journal to be exactly like my first one. Short, compact and concise. I don't want a circus atmosphere about it.

I figure the Panama will Veg 4 months and then flower 2 months outside before the equinox. Sound like perfect timing to me.

Speaking of smoke, am lighting up now! :Hookah:

:Namaste:
 
Okay VG!

Front and Center! :cheesygrinsmiley:

Now, since you are going to start & sample, it's a very Good Idea because "Relaxed Lester" :adore: said it is a very, very good thing to do. :yummy:, because you can start to determine which type of smoke/effect you want by sampling.

The trich development is only an indicator of ripeness, whether clear, cloudy, milky & amber each have their own types of effect.

Now it's going to be up to you to decide when you want to stop giving nutes, flush & harvest when your ready. That is your best way to determine if a plant is going to be ready, test it & smoke it. Write a small report in your journal and go back after the 2nd saample and compare. I did 3 samples and could see exactly where I was and wanted to be.

You raised the plants & you are going to have to decide when to harvest them, based on your needs of course, that means you are going to have to make a harvest plan.

Can you let us know how you are thinking as to how you are going to prepare?

:Namaste:
 
VG reporting for duty... SIR !! :cheesygrinsmiley:

I have thought a little about harvesting,but not that much tbh mate as it's 4 weeks away at least for the 2 pp and maybe an extra few days on top for stevie her flowering time is 8.5 weeks where PP are 8,i do know around 10 days before the chop i'm going to start irriataing the hell out of um !! accupuncture !! ha ha :cheesygrinsmiley: i'm just going to use the 8-9 weeks flowering time as a guide it might be before or after couldn't see it being much before as i have read they put a fair bit of weight on in the last 2 weeks of flower :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
That sounds like time enough for a couple of test smoke samples, then you can nail it for sure.

:Namaste:
 
Yeah that's for sure ! he he :cheesygrinsmiley:

I was thinking to expose them to colder temps the final 2 weeks,i was going to turn the heater off in the tent for them to frost up some more and leave the window open so the temps drop a bit lower what you think ?

I'm also liking the idea of chopping them and leaving in water in a dark period but don't know how long for as i read different things,any suggestions on this ? Cheers big ears :cheesygrinsmiley:
 
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