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Here it comes...
The FINAL FINAL PROJECT 26 UPDATE!
It is finished.
During the past three days I have spent over 20 hours chopping and hacking my way through this grow...and what a delightful (through tedious as holy hell) experience it was! My fingers are aching after so many hours painstakingly snipping tiny leaves.
After the three Amnesias produced a bounty of beautiful buds, I would have been happy with that alone. Then, as I worked through the Blueberry and realized how many tight, colorful amazingly fragrant nugs they had produced, I was in heaven.
Little did I know the best was YET TO COME.
Next up were the two Jack Herers. Once I hacked everything in front of them down, I was very impressed with how many fatties the Herers had, especially the one on the right. Here's a shot of the plant:
These 2 girls have been a hidden bounty in the back row and I had no idea they were this robust. Big frosty colas with a great smell.
The two Herers produced a heap of beautiful fat branches covered with stickiness. Handling these buds even with nitrile gloves leaves your hands coated in no time...soon they're so sticky you have to change them. I went through nine pairs during the entire trimming process.
There's that Bic lighter again, I put one in every shot because I just have to give some reference to how huge these things are. I feel like a decent grower but my expectations have frankly been far exceeded on this grow. I never remember thinking "shit will this ever end?" during trimming until this time around. By the time I got all this hung I was actually sick of the smell of fresh pot. What a paradigm shift. :surrender:
But amazingly, the best was still to come...
Let me show you the prize pig at the fair, my friends. My own humble blend, the clear winner...it's BLUE HYENA!
Here she is:
As the Bic clearly shows, this plant was big and solid as a ROCK!
It produced a dozen or so amazing colas and a load of sticky trim. Here's just one:
Grab a napkin...you're drooling.
Along with the fruity and intoxicating fragrance of the elusive Hyena, the sticky factor is off the charts. By FAR the stickiest of all the varieties, one big plus in my book. Colas are TIGHT, this pheno is a winner. Check out the haul of mains from her:
The CHALICE bud was first, I picked her up reverently and examined the unique structure and strange beauty...then started slashing.
This is THE CHALICE in all her magnificence:
Cheers!
Look at the density...this mostly-sativa variety is as heavy as if it was made of solid wood.
She will be a special-occasion bud for sure!
Hours and hours of mind-numbing tedium and suddenly I looked up and...it was done.
I am not sure this photo can truly show the amount of frosty branches I ended up with but front to back this space is five feet, there are ten rows of colas.
I have no idea how much this will all dry down to but my guess is all objectives have been achieved.
Oh hell yeah!
Finally the smoke clears and I look at the ruined wasteland that was so recently a pristine national park.
The smell is fading, the floor is covered with scraps and dead leaves, and all that remains is the tedious chore of ripping out these pots and reconditioning the room.
The amazing thickness of the main stems and hugeness of the root balls were the result of two plants per pot in six of the pots. The reason I used two seeds in most plugs originally was I was just sticking dry seeds into rooter plugs, no sprouting, nothing, so I wanted to maximize the chances of having a plant in every pot from the start...I never thought 15 out of 17 would pop and I would actually have to pluck a few. One of the objectives of this grow was to see if a under-three-gallon grow container can sustain two almost-five-foot plants and the results are clear. I will definitely plant two seeds per pot from now on, at least in the middle and back row where the overall light intensity is greatest.
I have found the front three pots will never produce plants as ferocious as the middle and back but they are nevertheless good for a certain amount, just not going to sustain a double planting. Always trying to dial things in a bit more, one little detail at a time.
I'll have to completely empty and recondition the pots from scratch this time which is fine. It gives me time to consider changes to the room and execute them. I think I'll add a supplemental light bank on the right side since the left side did so well with one. I will take out the remaining 400W HID fixture and install another GROWSTAR GS1000 LED which I purchased awhile ago. I will miss the HPS light intensity but I'm satisfied that the LED does the job.
This will be my first all-LED grow so that's exciting. But what to grow?
I am tempted to run all Blue Hyenas since that plant just IMHO kicked butt head-to-head against Amnesia, Blueberry and Jack Herer. But I have enough of it to smoke all my life and still leave some to my kids so I'll probably open the prodigious Hyena seed vault and pick some new flavors. Later today I'll see what looks exciting and maybe throw some choices out there for your opinion.
Until then, thanks again for following along on this rambling ride through the weeds. The end of PROJECT 26 simply means the beginning of PROJECT 27. I don't know what it will be but I promise it will be fun. I sincerely hope all my writings, musings and photographs have at least entertained and at best helped here and there. I hope so because I would hate to think I spend so many hours smoking pot and tapping out so many random and often ridiculous thoughts for nothing.
Seriously, at this point a lot of fine folks stop by regularly and I appreciate you all. Stay tuned for an even better run, okay?
Peace, Hyena
The FINAL FINAL PROJECT 26 UPDATE!
It is finished.
During the past three days I have spent over 20 hours chopping and hacking my way through this grow...and what a delightful (through tedious as holy hell) experience it was! My fingers are aching after so many hours painstakingly snipping tiny leaves.
After the three Amnesias produced a bounty of beautiful buds, I would have been happy with that alone. Then, as I worked through the Blueberry and realized how many tight, colorful amazingly fragrant nugs they had produced, I was in heaven.
Little did I know the best was YET TO COME.
Next up were the two Jack Herers. Once I hacked everything in front of them down, I was very impressed with how many fatties the Herers had, especially the one on the right. Here's a shot of the plant:
These 2 girls have been a hidden bounty in the back row and I had no idea they were this robust. Big frosty colas with a great smell.
The two Herers produced a heap of beautiful fat branches covered with stickiness. Handling these buds even with nitrile gloves leaves your hands coated in no time...soon they're so sticky you have to change them. I went through nine pairs during the entire trimming process.
There's that Bic lighter again, I put one in every shot because I just have to give some reference to how huge these things are. I feel like a decent grower but my expectations have frankly been far exceeded on this grow. I never remember thinking "shit will this ever end?" during trimming until this time around. By the time I got all this hung I was actually sick of the smell of fresh pot. What a paradigm shift. :surrender:
But amazingly, the best was still to come...
Let me show you the prize pig at the fair, my friends. My own humble blend, the clear winner...it's BLUE HYENA!
Here she is:
As the Bic clearly shows, this plant was big and solid as a ROCK!
It produced a dozen or so amazing colas and a load of sticky trim. Here's just one:
Grab a napkin...you're drooling.
Along with the fruity and intoxicating fragrance of the elusive Hyena, the sticky factor is off the charts. By FAR the stickiest of all the varieties, one big plus in my book. Colas are TIGHT, this pheno is a winner. Check out the haul of mains from her:
The CHALICE bud was first, I picked her up reverently and examined the unique structure and strange beauty...then started slashing.
This is THE CHALICE in all her magnificence:
Cheers!
Look at the density...this mostly-sativa variety is as heavy as if it was made of solid wood.
She will be a special-occasion bud for sure!
Hours and hours of mind-numbing tedium and suddenly I looked up and...it was done.
I am not sure this photo can truly show the amount of frosty branches I ended up with but front to back this space is five feet, there are ten rows of colas.
I have no idea how much this will all dry down to but my guess is all objectives have been achieved.
Oh hell yeah!
Finally the smoke clears and I look at the ruined wasteland that was so recently a pristine national park.
The smell is fading, the floor is covered with scraps and dead leaves, and all that remains is the tedious chore of ripping out these pots and reconditioning the room.
The amazing thickness of the main stems and hugeness of the root balls were the result of two plants per pot in six of the pots. The reason I used two seeds in most plugs originally was I was just sticking dry seeds into rooter plugs, no sprouting, nothing, so I wanted to maximize the chances of having a plant in every pot from the start...I never thought 15 out of 17 would pop and I would actually have to pluck a few. One of the objectives of this grow was to see if a under-three-gallon grow container can sustain two almost-five-foot plants and the results are clear. I will definitely plant two seeds per pot from now on, at least in the middle and back row where the overall light intensity is greatest.
I have found the front three pots will never produce plants as ferocious as the middle and back but they are nevertheless good for a certain amount, just not going to sustain a double planting. Always trying to dial things in a bit more, one little detail at a time.
I'll have to completely empty and recondition the pots from scratch this time which is fine. It gives me time to consider changes to the room and execute them. I think I'll add a supplemental light bank on the right side since the left side did so well with one. I will take out the remaining 400W HID fixture and install another GROWSTAR GS1000 LED which I purchased awhile ago. I will miss the HPS light intensity but I'm satisfied that the LED does the job.
This will be my first all-LED grow so that's exciting. But what to grow?
I am tempted to run all Blue Hyenas since that plant just IMHO kicked butt head-to-head against Amnesia, Blueberry and Jack Herer. But I have enough of it to smoke all my life and still leave some to my kids so I'll probably open the prodigious Hyena seed vault and pick some new flavors. Later today I'll see what looks exciting and maybe throw some choices out there for your opinion.
Until then, thanks again for following along on this rambling ride through the weeds. The end of PROJECT 26 simply means the beginning of PROJECT 27. I don't know what it will be but I promise it will be fun. I sincerely hope all my writings, musings and photographs have at least entertained and at best helped here and there. I hope so because I would hate to think I spend so many hours smoking pot and tapping out so many random and often ridiculous thoughts for nothing.
Seriously, at this point a lot of fine folks stop by regularly and I appreciate you all. Stay tuned for an even better run, okay?
Peace, Hyena
Harvest/Birthday reps comin' at cha.
