It's always fun to stop by for the Monday show and tell. I'm lovin' that YG #1!
Me too Major....wow she's got a lil resin on her eh....yowza brotha, Gray , she's , she's so tasty lookin!!
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It's always fun to stop by for the Monday show and tell. I'm lovin' that YG #1!
Wow Graytail!!! that Taskanti looks amazing, and Brix of 29-31, I believe you have set the bar a bit higher than I have ever seen online!!! I think thats a record!!!! wooo hoo!!! Very nice work Graytail!
Thank you everyone - yer all scholars and gentlepersons! And all with exceptionally great taste, I might add!
Heheh, those Brix readings, huh?
We have ourselves a teaching moment here. Nu uh. Nope. 29-31 is outta range, not possible, didn't happen. I posted it simply because that's the best I could get. (Also wanted to see if anyone would notice.) I crushed that wad 5 or 6 times, and even that last measly drop still read 29. The first ones were completely off the scale, past 35 or whatever the top is - no blue at all. So ... pour qua? I attribute it to NPM - non plant material - as in bug "stuff". My readings have been skewing high for awhile, but it's rarely been this far off. Usually, I can get a reading below 20 after a few different samples. I've tried getting a reliable reading from freshly washed buds but I don't have much data so it's hard to know what the baseline would be - hydration has been seriously disrupted by the wash. I've gotten consistent readings over 20 from plants and I've sorta trusted that possibility, but not 30.
So, I dunno. Part of it has to be NPM, but lately I've begun to wonder if the insect pressure hasn't been beneficial for trich production. Some of it is legitimate.
[Edit] It occurs to me that I've never really explained the magnitude of this whitefly population. You see them in the pics - some shots will have a dozen or more - and you can see the stuff they leave behind, but you probably have no idea how many of them there are. There are literally millions of them. I can run my fingers up a plant, letting the leaves slap against my palm, and thousands will rise into the air. So ... these plants are doing pretty well, all things considered. I think I killed about a third of 'em with the first spinosad sprayings - and I'm starting to work on the soil. Ima gonna be THE cannabis/whitefly expert by the time I'm done.
Whiteflies outdoors in Arizona mass like that - then the humidity drops to 8-10% rH and they disappears.
Your comment about insect pressure confirms my suspicion. My recent spider mite vs neem oil grows have produced the stickiest, stinkiest buds to date.
That's the counter-intuitive thing about mine - they thrive during the dry winter months, when humidity runs under 30, then wane away in the summer when it's in the 50s. It seems like bugs should be happier when it's humid. But the plants are also more vulnerable in the low humidity. Dunno. They did the same thing with the hibiscus.
But yeah, this Grieg1 is positively greasy. You know that sensation of the gooey stuff on your fingers cooling as it volatilizes? So greasy that things don't stick to your fingers? They kinda ooze against them instead?
And my my, this latest DrGrinspoon ... whew! ... nice stuff! It's been in the jar for a week and the scent is going old-school skunky, go figure - first thing I noticed - it's LOUD! I'm puffing on it as I type. This one had an interesting start to the cure. With RH this low, the buds dry too fast and these got a bit too cripsy and didn't smell like much when I put them in the jars with a nice plump Boveda. Within a few days that one went thin and I swapped it for two more plump ones and now, 3 days later, the aroma is coming back and the buds are hard and firm and just right. But anyway, DrG is worth growing! Y'all gotta put it on the list - it's a genuine one.
Heheh, the glitch gremlins are messin' wit' me since last night - can't load pics! Grr.
I have the text all done ... just no pics to go along with it.