BACK from a wonderful week at the beach in Florida.
Here's a
PROJECT 27 UPDATE!
The grow room was fragrant and green when I opened the secret door to the attic lab...
Wham!! Of course I was confident the little machine would run flawlessly all by itself for a week...but it's sill nice to open the garage door and not see a collapsed ceiling or something like that...
In the Air Force there was a term "
mission-critical" which referred to a part that, if it failed, would be the end of the whole aircraft. There are certain
mission-critical parts in my grow room, only a few but the main one is the reservoir. If it failed somehow about 40-50 gallons of water could be released. I have a double tarp on the floor which is waterproof, and probably extends four or five inches upward all around like a pool liner but I have always wondered if it would truly be sufficient to contain that much liquid if the worst happened. It would be close for sure. So that's my main fear. Everything else would maybe hurt my plants but not reveal my grow or destroy my house.
But everything is fine...didn't even need to refill the reservoir since it remained well below average temps outside all week. So on we rock
All plants are popping but here's the right side:
Kind of easy to see the three different strains now, Blue Hyena in back, Hyena Berry in the middle and Big Nugs Fast in front. All three, each in her own way, is doing very well. Especially the Big Blue Hyena! That plant is a champ. Look at the close up:
It's like it's trying to just jump right out of there! Signature long, bushy Hyena colas with amazing white hair. Second floral wave in robust development now, and the plumping is taking place, filling the gaps between nodes nicely.
First real Hyena portrait of this grow:
Ain't dat a beautiful thang? Damn right.
I really think everything in here still has weeks it could go. It's like the long colder-than-normal winter temps have just simply made things a little slower. In a hotter environment the buds got bigger and were a lot farther along at this length of 12/12 as I recall but no matter, I look at each grow as an individual effort, I never know what will happen until it does regardless of how many times I do this.
I really feel I flipped too early by about ten days. I always hate wrestling with the ultra-tall colas late in my grows but this time around I kind of miss them...only the Blue Hyena is really putting out anything special, everything else is kind of shorter and more Indica based, so I probably fucked up not latting them cruise a little longer in veg...but no matter. I still like what I'm seeing everywhere, bud-wise, and that's what counts. The harvest will be awesome , the canopy is just probably 20% shorter but we will see if that means an actually reduced net harvest or just makes it a little easier to manage.
Bud shots:
All looking pretty juicy so far!
So here's those two autos, pretty much a couple of castaway runts if you ask me...
These highly-touted autos have enjoyed royal treatment since their birth...their own bucket, front-row position and a lot of tender care...all to produce about two skinny buds, and not even frosty or very fragrant to boot.
At the risk of offending, (which I never do)...autos suck, man. They just suck. Like owning a small, yappy dog, building a ship in a bottle, and eating crab legs, I put them in the category of things that you can put a ton of work and time into and what do you get?
Not much!
Okay, I've seen some amazing lollipops grown by some folks using autos...but they still don't seem, to me, to return near as much on your invested time as regular-size cannabis plants and for me, a secret indoor hobby grower, yield is everything baby. It's about the weight.
Still amazing is the Hyena Berry in the very middle, toasted almost into oblivion by (apparently) the burning light from the too-intense LEDs. It's a brand-new variety so who knows what strengths/weaknesses it contains? It is still growing buds, but most of them look pretty rough with most of the fan laves toasted. I did clip a couple buds before I left which are now all dry and I smoked my first few bowls of the Hyena Berry this morning...
It knocked me on my ass. Not even sure I could get used to the buzzzz...makes me sort of euphoric and a little dizzy. I've written this entire post under this mellow but kind of disorienting high...I definitely couldn't play golf on this stuff. Mini golf maybe. But it enhances focus big time so maybe I like it!
How it looks:
The polyploid bud remains a curiosity...its amazing resistance to the same intensity of light rays and environmental factors that have really hurt the rest of the plant is very interesting. A close up shows the growing frostiness and still-hardy condition of this one freaky bud...
I wish I had a bigger facility, I would love to clone that branch and see if it could be re-vegged into some kind of super-plant. Oh well, just have to smoke it and see if it is delicious...too bad for science but good for me.
Meanwhile, I must recover after just spending a week on the beach in sunny Florida, getting high all day and communing closely with nature. I have been blessed to a have a sort of psychic connection to living things in general, plants mostly but even animals. I love them and they respond to me in many amazing ways.
They say dolphins are unusually intelligent...
And there's your proof. This is apparently dolphin-safe weed.
Peace, Hyena
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. You are the man Hyena!!!
congratulations
