Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing

CheeseWedge said:
Hyena,
Awesome updates. Please update us on the Holy Grail mini, I’m still pulling for her.

Have you thought about an interior fan and filter to get more of the air inside against the activated carbon?

Great stories and pics! Those colas are so plump and fluffy. I can picture you by the garage puffing anxiously as your wife comes down all done up for work ready for the drive. Another A+ update. Enjoy the braaaaaaaaaapppppp!
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Thanks, Wedge, appreciate the comments!

I DO have an interior fan/filter and it's pretty jumbo. The carbon filter weighs over 30 pounds and it's new this last summer. BUT...there's only so much you can do to remove molecules with such pungent character out of the air. Plus, even with good backpressure in the grow lab the smell gets around. Stinkiest plants I have ever grown I think. It's a wonderful problem...

I just returned from 4 days away and everything is stinking like a champ. I will post an update. Hope THAT doesn't stink...

Peace, Hyena
 
Happy Tuesday! Here's the PROJECT 26 UPDATE!

I return from almost 150 blissful miles of high-speed snowmobiling in Northern Michigan...to find the little jungle just the way I left it...and a little bigger!

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All the interesting standouts are still progressing. The giraffe Amnesia pheno continues to fill, and the photo doesn't really convey how thick it's getting because this cola is over 2 feet high, it's hard to fit in a picture..

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The spooky MOAC looms in the far reaches of the galaxy. It just seems to grow every day. Like a Death Star of dope.

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This grow has been a good one for learning. The overall value of proper LED cannot be understated and I've gained a lot of understanding about how to use it.

The ability to use LED to better regulate temperature, and the lower power consumption per lumen, are both going to increase the efficiency of my future grows.

The results are definitely IN regarding the value of side lighting, my best experiment during this grow I think. The additional development on the illuminated side is nothing short of amazing! I see now I have been wasting perhaps 10% of my overall potential by not side-lighting this grow area.

Here is the side with the extra lights:

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Compare to the side with no supplementation except a reflective wall:

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Not a great picture but you get the picture. I sure do.

I estimate the additional yield on the left side will make a real difference in the final harvest. It's obvious the plants respond to extra illumination nicely no matter where you put it.

Now I'm also getting kwazy thoughts like hanging some CFLs in the middle of the biomass. Bulking the middle up to unthinkable levels. Hmmmmm... might be a great idea. Might burn some leaves too, have to do some research.

However, I'm sure about one thing.

I will be constructing the supplemental LED bank for the other side as soon as I pull this grow down.

The more normal-height Amnesia pheno in front right is getting a lot of orange hairs in contrast to her still-snowy-white sisters.

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General frostiness is quite nice throughout the garden. I can't touch anything or I'm instantly sticky.

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So on we roll, and we are starting to consider the timing of the chop.

We will leave for the family trip North on Christmas day, and gone for a week so it's either down, trimmed, and drying before that or wait until the first week of January, roughly a ten-day swing when you consider the time required on either end to cut and trim. I want everything to finish and yet the Sativas won't get there in time to properly harvest them, I'm pretty sure there's no chance. But the rest look like they might be done in another 10 days or so...what to do?

So I'm leaning towards a two-step chop.

This would allow me to pull down the Indica-heavy stuff and get it all drying and I could still let my Hyenas (and perhaps the Herer and/or Amnesias) have the extra couple weeks they truly need to become all they can (and should) become. It will also meaningfully reduce the amount of time I will have to somehow sneak to be in my secret lab right before a big vacation with a lot of prep.

Only real issue I guess is, this will mean a significant delay in starting the next round but the finish is everything in this game so the annoyance of having to wait a few more weeks to start my new babies will be well worth it when we're looking at piles of incredible chronic budz. Can't wait.

I am finalizing my entry in this month's photo contest. Should post it by tomorrow. All you bud porn fans enjoy!

Peace, Hyena
 
Damn Hyena u r kinning ut like always!! I know the bomb ass crazy pics are bout to be busting all over ur thread!! Then u put me in suspense wit i will show yall the winner if next months pic contest !! Its Hyena!! Lol!! I know ur bout to put out sone bueatiful bud porn and i cant wait!! Graet update and man sounds like u had a blast on the snowmobiles!! Glad u had safe travels sc
 
Happy Wednesday!

No real changes, still flowering away.

I just posted some shots in the monthly photo contest, check them out when you can.. :trance:

Peace, Hyena
 
PROJECT 26 UPDATE

I went out into the garage this morning and WHAM, it smells like I ran over ten adult skunks with a steamroller.

I open the main garage door every morning and that airs everything out in a few minutes then as long as its open things are okay but it's like 20 degrees F outside now and having the garage door open all day is getting suspicious. My wife actually looked at me the other day and asked, "How much do you smoke out there?" meaning the garage stinks, weed man. I told her it's the only place I can do it in winter. I still can't believe she doesn't know what's going on.

I stood out in front of the house and was getting full whiffs of it when the wind was blowing strongly from the north. Holy crap.
If we even lived within 50 yards of anyone the smell coming out the roof vent would give it away to any cannabis user with a nose. Shit! This is by FAR the stinkiest crop I have ever grown.

The varieties are Jack Herer, Blueberry, and Amnesia with a few Hyenas...and it ain't the Hyenas!

I'm thinking I might need some supplemental scent-ervention...

Thinking...

Solution tomorrow.

Peace, Hyena
 
Yeah tough position to be in. Doubtful Ono packs could help in the garage and you dont want those things in the grow room. Even a small quiet carbon filter and fan in the grow space recycling into itself and not part of the venting outside would help. Build a small frame with 1” x 1” with insulation panels to kill the sound perhaps, if thats an issue.

Interesting to see what happens lol, I keep watching for the slow motion train wreck to happen, hopefully it doesnt unfold like that but we still watch for it lol
 
I agree. Get something that doesn't vent outside and just works on recirc before dumping. With carbon you want surface area, the more you touch the more you neutralize.

Where's that baby holy grail? Keep track of her, she'll be something different for sure.
 
CheeseWedge said:
I agree. Get something that doesn't vent outside and just works on recirc before dumping. With carbon you want surface area, the more you touch the more you neutralize.

Where's that baby holy grail? Keep track of her, she'll be something different for sure.
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The only concerning factor with this is if you don't have proper exhaust and intake. You will end up with moisture building up on the walls and a powdery mildew problem in the end.
So it can't be completely sealed or it will never pan out.
 
I wonder if it's possible to double filter. Can we maybe take your current exhausting carbon filter and seal it up in a tote or something? Then can we put another carbon filter ducting into the tote hyena? Seal that tote up good and then it will have to double filter during exhaust.

Hey I'm just thinking .
 
Dam bro I didn't know you were from Mi. It breaks my heart to hear about your 150 miles on the sled. I just sold my sled couple months ago. I didn't get a chance to ride much last couple of years. I miss it already and it's only December
 
Wow Hyena so ur smellest garden so far. I remember it wasnt to long i asked u bout the smell and u had guys working on ur house amd one of them was suspect then u went somewhere n blamed it on a skunk then. But if it smells worse then that then i guess u have to say ur having a major skunk issue!! Lol!!

Nah but i do hope u get it figured cause no one wants the secret attic to get exposed!! Great work my friend and i know ur bout to b blasting some great pics very soon!! Till next time i hope life us great!!
 
Hyena Merica said:
Late-night news from the secret attic grow room...

PROJECT 26 UPDATE

Okay, it's getting super interesting up there so here's the look...

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Let's see the differences now becoming so apparent. First, my Hyenas are mostly sativa, so they always take their sweet time blooming. They have nice frost and the expected interior development but as usual they are going to be the last to be harvested...


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But Blueberry is ruling the roost at the moment

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Big, frosty, bursting with color and yummy trichomes everywhere...

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It's just a pretty plant. I clipped the first small sample bud before I left last Friday and it was still drying today but like it's sugar coated.

The tallest Amnesia bud is rocking:

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It's really tall and as fruity-licious as it looks. I just touch it and it's like I petted a skunk.

The MOAC still looms in the back like a malevolent giant...

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This one bears watching...my spider-sense tells me it might be special indeed.

Speaking of special...ever have a moment where you accidentally knock something off the counter and somehow save it just before it crashes onto the floor and shatters into a million pieces? Yeah? Well, I had something like that this morning...

My wife works from home, she's an executive for a major telecom company and while it's a bit complex at times considering I have a pot farm in our attic that she knows nothing about, I manage to manage having her around a lot and after two full years have not spilled my secret. This morning I popped out into the garage with the idea of going up there later, and as I stepped out into the garage the concentrated smell of fifteen blooming reefer plants hit me right in the nostrils! My setup might be tucked away way back in the depths of the attic but the smell at this stage is becoming almost uncontrollable. I have a serious exhaust fan and a 30-pound carbon filter which channels all grow room exhaust out a dedicated roof vent, yet the smell was everywhere down here in the garage! Shit!

To make matters worse, my wife was about to leave. I knew as soon as she stepped out into the garage my shit would be busted. She isn't stupid and she certainly knows the smell of weed. I immediately opened the garage door then came back inside hoping to go up and distract her for awhile while the wind hopefully cleared out the skunk smell. As soon as I came in I knew it was too late. I felt panic welling up as I heard her shut the upstairs door and start down the stairs.

Thinking quickly, I ducked back out into the garage and pulled out my bowl and a film canister of weed I always keep on me. I stuffed a hunk into the pipe and flamed that fucker like there was no tomorrow, pulling and exhaling about five quick hits around the door of her car before she appeared. It was just in time! She looked at me, waved away the smoke, and said something about me being a dope fiend smoking at 8 am. But it worked...my smoke clouds masked the ambient smell of a secret reefer forest and she got into her car and drove away none the wiser! I was literally sweating as the garage door closed, my secret safe again for another day...

Good thing I was holding a bowl because damn I needed it! I smoked until my heart got under 200 beats per minute, then had to laugh. This is probably the first time I ever used the smell of pot to cover the smell of pot...and it saved my farm!

I have to get some of those car air fresheners and hang them around the garage until we chop this smelly bunch. Whew. That was too close.

Peace, Hyena
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I had to go back and find this because I laughed so hard describing this story to my ol lady that I just had to read it out loud. She died laughing.
She just had the baby and will be growing some cheeses on my farm soon. She really appreciates your grow and the kindness of the blue hyenas she's already called dibs on that too after seeing your pictures...Fml and I thought they were for me......
 
The rooster said:
I had to go back and find this because I laughed so hard describing this story to my ol lady that I just had to read it out loud. She died laughing.
She just had the baby and will be growing some cheeses on my farm soon. She really appreciates your grow and the kindness of the blue hyenas she’s already called dibs on that too after seeing your pictures...Fml and I thought they were for me......
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You're too kind bro.

Speaking of the problem, here's where we are...

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I don't know if I'm fooling anybody at this point.

I think they just accept the fact that I'm a pot fiend and don't ask questions...

Peace, Hyena
 
Maybe she checks on them sometimes when your sleeping and really she knows all about it but gets a kick out of pretending she's clueless and making you sweat bullets all the time lol. She probably rolled her eyes over the car freshener "this is what it's come to.., he thinks he's fooled me at 50 years old with a car tree"
 
Too funny, Rooster!! The missus will get a laugh at this story.

High, H.M.

I've been wanting to smoke some Amnesia. I like sativas and that cola looks like Plant of the Year. Blueberry looks mouthwatering, as well. I like the lighting you gave to the blueberry shot! Great job!!
 
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