Update (Week 36 / Bloom Week 9-ish)
It's been a busy week. I'm having so much fun with the rosin press, it has been difficult to force myself to trim. Luckily, the wife is helping. We spend a couple of hours at it each morning. I chop a little then we trim a little, so not bad. Hopefully I'll cut down the last of AS today. Tomorrow we start in on GG4.
A lazy grower's rough trim.
Before we get to the grow, in case you aren't following Shiggity's
Rosin Press Thread, here's a quick show and tell with thumbnails you can select if you want more detail. a BIG shout out and thanks to Shiggity for introducing me to this technique. It is the best tasting stuff I've ever consumed.
The DIY aluminum plates, heaters and PID controller added to my shop press.
I make pucks by putting herb into a piece of pipe and quickly compressing it with a blow from a hammer.
Place puck in parchment and press. My first attempt yielded about 22% from a 2 gram bud.
Meanwhile, down in the garden...
First up is LH#2. A little beat up from the weather, but hanging in there now that it is tied up well. Most of the weather damage can be seen on the left side of the second photo. Not bad.
LH#1 looks much better than it did a few days ago. I've tied branches like crazy so most of the ones that were on the ground are at least up in the air. The last photo shows where the damage was.
Unless Liberty Haze blows me away, I'm done with this strain. It looks very nice, but it has no smell - zero, and no crystals. Yield wouldn't be huge even if it did finish on time, which it didn't (not even close). I can stick my nose down into a bud and pinch the bud. No stank at all.
WTF?
ZD(+) and GT(+) are just plain monsters. I feel bad the top buds are out of room and getting wet from hitting the cover's condensation. The first two photos are ZD and the other two are GT.
This is what's left of AS after most of it has been chopped. Still plenty of work to do on her. This plant will be a personal best for yield. I'm thinking it will double what I was able to pull from her mother last year.
GG4 is pretty much ready. I'd like to give her another week, but with our weather forecast, I'm going to start chopping tomorrow. I've been extremely lucky with mold/rot, but don't want to push my luck any further. More rain coming and it is going to get cold. We are already in the low 40's at night and low 60's in the afternoon. We'll likely get a freeze by Halloween.
GASS is gone. The skeleton is now an anchor for one of the guy wires holding up LH#2.
This is a quick-dry bud from Waldo, our volunteer (GASS).
That's it for this week. Have a great weekend gang! Thanks for following and all your support. See ya' next week.
fantastic i had to go way back
