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HYENA'S GROW HOUSE harvest and smoke report!
Sunday night I went up to the GH to harvest. This is what I faced:
At first look I wondered if I let it go too long...both parents of the plants in this room finished nicely in 8 weeks. These had now been flowering for ten weeks and a couple days. So I sampled some bud tips and looked under the microscope...mostly a little cloudy, just a tiny few ambers (I could only find a couple) so I knew everything was ripe and ready. I also know the strain in all its forms takes ten weeks. I don't know exactly how two 7-8 week parents produce 12 phenos that take 20% longer but...let's see if it is worth the extra time.
Friends, it was.
But the last 5 days were a long slog in many ways. So before I tell you what I went through, here's some final portraits of some of the best buds I've ever produced!
Okay, I could go on and on but you get it, it's a whopping crop of amazing, stinky, sticky chunkers!
After donning my chop clothing and smoking a fatty of this crack on a stick, I sat down with a vengeance. My single pair of two-inch bonsai shears began to fly. The pile from each plant was daunting...
Each one typically takes between 2 1/2 and 3 hours...but this grow was different. The first one took 4 hours, and I'm not slow! In fact, I'm faster than two Chinese women added together but the amount from the first plant was pretty huge. No sweat, I came here to work and work I did, 12 straight hours day one and two, which knocked out exactly half the plants. I checked my pace by the amount of finished product and all but one produced three full hangers of trimmed produce plus a couple more ounces of smaller trimmed buds, and a couple produced four full hangers!
The buds just kept stacking up, higher and higher...
Day three I started at 5 am. I got through 4 plants for a new personal record! Plant after plant, while there were some differences, mostly was just a study in perfection. Thick, tight colas, many the size of a baked potato...a supremely perfect crop with not a sign of bud rot anywhere, nor a single seed, I mean nothing...this is truly the best crop I've ever grown. I have a huge difficult problem to choose the final form of this strain from so many worthy phenotypes but I know this, the final one (or two...?) will be AMAZING!
I got to the biggest and best of all on the last two days...plants 10 and 11 were almost beyond belief!
One cola...
That's a regular size Bic lighter for scale.
These two plants produced an insane amount. They are definitely two of the three finalists! Here was plant 11:
So after almost 4 full days of mind-numbing effort, it was all cut and hung:
The frostiness of these potatoes is beyond my wildest dreams. I dropped one and it hurt my foot.
And by the way, I got six pounds more of pebble buds and frosty finish trim...!
This will make one pound of hash. Just a little bonus. The finished bud haul will be over 5 pounds. So, I'm pretty happy with the first crop of SATURN 5. It has certainly shown it has its parents hugeness and super-frosty qualities. Insane production and wonderful buzz...an absolute hammer stone from every sample I have tried. And in comparing the samples from 8, 9, and 10 weeks, the final week+ of flowering REALLY kicked the stone up another notch...I was actually uncomfortably high several times from a small half-joint. I mean high-school high...you know what I mean. Destroyed. Heading for Taco Bell and then the couch. I shouldn't be driving kind of high.
I am so happy!
But my elation was short-lived...
THIS is a bitch:
Hours of bust-ass, sweaty work to clean and recondition this room. Then the equally tedious chore of planting the clones! The clones are all fine, they have gone 4 weeks in the cloner now.
And well, they have some roots...
Even the clone of #10 looks badass. These babies all went into their new homes like champs.
Only five of the original 12 phenos are left in this group, but we are whttling it down...to the winner! After everything was finally done and the new babies were all tucked snug in their beds, I let it all work overnight and run a few fill/drain cycles to make sure everyone was okay and there were no leaks or such. All seems in order and the clones looked quite happy.
And I haven't even mentioned that the hedge in Tent #2 was just flipped on Monday, and I am afraid I may have waited a bit too long...!
Is it even possible to imagine this run could be even bigger? WE SHALL SEE!
So that's all for now, I got home after 5 grueling but massively rewarding days of good old hard work. I'm a little surprised my poor old fingers can still type all this but you know me, I'm tough, baby. Time for a nice night out with my wifey and she'll probably be all over me when we get home...so the chores just never end, eh?
Besides, This shit is dangerous work...
A man could get hurt!
Peace, Hyena
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE harvest and smoke report!
Sunday night I went up to the GH to harvest. This is what I faced:
At first look I wondered if I let it go too long...both parents of the plants in this room finished nicely in 8 weeks. These had now been flowering for ten weeks and a couple days. So I sampled some bud tips and looked under the microscope...mostly a little cloudy, just a tiny few ambers (I could only find a couple) so I knew everything was ripe and ready. I also know the strain in all its forms takes ten weeks. I don't know exactly how two 7-8 week parents produce 12 phenos that take 20% longer but...let's see if it is worth the extra time.
Friends, it was.
But the last 5 days were a long slog in many ways. So before I tell you what I went through, here's some final portraits of some of the best buds I've ever produced!
Okay, I could go on and on but you get it, it's a whopping crop of amazing, stinky, sticky chunkers!
After donning my chop clothing and smoking a fatty of this crack on a stick, I sat down with a vengeance. My single pair of two-inch bonsai shears began to fly. The pile from each plant was daunting...
Each one typically takes between 2 1/2 and 3 hours...but this grow was different. The first one took 4 hours, and I'm not slow! In fact, I'm faster than two Chinese women added together but the amount from the first plant was pretty huge. No sweat, I came here to work and work I did, 12 straight hours day one and two, which knocked out exactly half the plants. I checked my pace by the amount of finished product and all but one produced three full hangers of trimmed produce plus a couple more ounces of smaller trimmed buds, and a couple produced four full hangers!
The buds just kept stacking up, higher and higher...
Day three I started at 5 am. I got through 4 plants for a new personal record! Plant after plant, while there were some differences, mostly was just a study in perfection. Thick, tight colas, many the size of a baked potato...a supremely perfect crop with not a sign of bud rot anywhere, nor a single seed, I mean nothing...this is truly the best crop I've ever grown. I have a huge difficult problem to choose the final form of this strain from so many worthy phenotypes but I know this, the final one (or two...?) will be AMAZING!
I got to the biggest and best of all on the last two days...plants 10 and 11 were almost beyond belief!
One cola...
That's a regular size Bic lighter for scale.
These two plants produced an insane amount. They are definitely two of the three finalists! Here was plant 11:
So after almost 4 full days of mind-numbing effort, it was all cut and hung:
The frostiness of these potatoes is beyond my wildest dreams. I dropped one and it hurt my foot.
And by the way, I got six pounds more of pebble buds and frosty finish trim...!
This will make one pound of hash. Just a little bonus. The finished bud haul will be over 5 pounds. So, I'm pretty happy with the first crop of SATURN 5. It has certainly shown it has its parents hugeness and super-frosty qualities. Insane production and wonderful buzz...an absolute hammer stone from every sample I have tried. And in comparing the samples from 8, 9, and 10 weeks, the final week+ of flowering REALLY kicked the stone up another notch...I was actually uncomfortably high several times from a small half-joint. I mean high-school high...you know what I mean. Destroyed. Heading for Taco Bell and then the couch. I shouldn't be driving kind of high.
I am so happy!
But my elation was short-lived...
THIS is a bitch:
Hours of bust-ass, sweaty work to clean and recondition this room. Then the equally tedious chore of planting the clones! The clones are all fine, they have gone 4 weeks in the cloner now.
And well, they have some roots...
Even the clone of #10 looks badass. These babies all went into their new homes like champs.
Only five of the original 12 phenos are left in this group, but we are whttling it down...to the winner! After everything was finally done and the new babies were all tucked snug in their beds, I let it all work overnight and run a few fill/drain cycles to make sure everyone was okay and there were no leaks or such. All seems in order and the clones looked quite happy.
And I haven't even mentioned that the hedge in Tent #2 was just flipped on Monday, and I am afraid I may have waited a bit too long...!
Is it even possible to imagine this run could be even bigger? WE SHALL SEE!
So that's all for now, I got home after 5 grueling but massively rewarding days of good old hard work. I'm a little surprised my poor old fingers can still type all this but you know me, I'm tough, baby. Time for a nice night out with my wifey and she'll probably be all over me when we get home...so the chores just never end, eh?
Besides, This shit is dangerous work...
A man could get hurt!
Peace, Hyena
They'll be fine.
I picked up 6 red LED's and some sockets, etc. I will build a red light bank and replace the bad light with that for the time being. By next visit next Monday I should have it ready. If I like it I'll make one for the other tent, too. More red light=always better.