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Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing
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Understandable sir! I was merely day dreaming on what I’d do with a whole house at my disposal, cash crop to find my favourite strains and then breed! Pot is valuable depending on where you are located these days lol
I think a good quality breeding program would pay off in spades over the years.... one plant, 2000viable good quality seeds at 100bucks/10seeds, is a pretty good return per plant... even at 50/10seeds... provided the genetics you have are of interest and desired. Anyways, ramble done, my apologies!
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Understandable sir! I was merely day dreaming on what I’d do with a whole house at my disposal, cash crop to find my favourite strains and then breed! Pot is valuable depending on where you are located these days lol
I think a good quality breeding program would pay off in spades over the years.... one plant, 2000viable good quality seeds at 100bucks/10seeds, is a pretty good return per plant... even at 50/10seeds... provided the genetics you have are of interest and desired. Anyways, ramble done, my apologies!
You are quite right my friend. Making some seeds for my own use is one thing and putting seeds onto the market is another thing entirely. Like you said, "Provided the genetics you have are of interest and desired"...this grow sadly showed my genetics are nowhere close to stable so not desirable (yet), even though most plants are fantastic growers, interesting traits and produce nice buds...but would need generations of careful selection and crossing to stabilize to 90%+. Eight generations to be exact, according to Mendelian math. That ain't happening. Yet. Maybe my old age will be spent combining and crossing cannabis strains but I ain't there. Yet.
Peace, Hyena
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Howdy! It's Tuesday, so how about a
PROJECT 28 REPORT!
Since Project 28 may be the last project in my little attic lab I'm trying to make the best of it but it's very difficult right now...
I spent the weekend snowmobiling in Northern Michigan, where there was a bit of a cold snap you might say. Yesterday morning during coffee with Mrs. Hyena if was minus 23F. Yes I said 23 degrees BELOW ZERO.
Well, after returning home when I popped into the lab this morning I looked at the thermometer/hygrometer...ouch!
Like most, this thing shows the high and low temps for the past 24 hours. Apparently the cold wave hit here too and it got to SIX BELOW ZERO F outside over the past couple days. That never happens but it did and I was away so I couldn't do anything to augment the heat. My small grow room heater was simply no match for that temperature drop. Exposure to such low temps might seriously hurt my girls and I'm already resigned to the possibility that they will either start to die or at least slow way down. That last thing might not be all bad, I want the biggest buds I can get and I'll wait for them.
For now nobody looks any worse for wear...
I'm happy to see nice chunkiness developing, as chunky as a Sativa can get anyway.
Here's a nice polyploid bud
Heavenly colas filling in nicely, soooo fragrant...
The frostiness is becoming quite excellent.
With no pressure to start another grow quite yet I can take my time with this finish. So I will. Next phase, Hyena's Grow House, is in early development.
I flipped a snowmobile at about 40 on Saturday, only tore off the windscreen but I busted my absolute ass flying about 20 feet and landing on a road on my back and head. Good gear and a tough general makeup saved me from breaking anything but my pride. Still, my X-ray is interesting...
Like I thought, nothing in there.
Peace, Hyena
PROJECT 28 REPORT!
Since Project 28 may be the last project in my little attic lab I'm trying to make the best of it but it's very difficult right now...
I spent the weekend snowmobiling in Northern Michigan, where there was a bit of a cold snap you might say. Yesterday morning during coffee with Mrs. Hyena if was minus 23F. Yes I said 23 degrees BELOW ZERO.
Well, after returning home when I popped into the lab this morning I looked at the thermometer/hygrometer...ouch!
Like most, this thing shows the high and low temps for the past 24 hours. Apparently the cold wave hit here too and it got to SIX BELOW ZERO F outside over the past couple days. That never happens but it did and I was away so I couldn't do anything to augment the heat. My small grow room heater was simply no match for that temperature drop. Exposure to such low temps might seriously hurt my girls and I'm already resigned to the possibility that they will either start to die or at least slow way down. That last thing might not be all bad, I want the biggest buds I can get and I'll wait for them.
For now nobody looks any worse for wear...
I'm happy to see nice chunkiness developing, as chunky as a Sativa can get anyway.
Here's a nice polyploid bud
Heavenly colas filling in nicely, soooo fragrant...
The frostiness is becoming quite excellent.
With no pressure to start another grow quite yet I can take my time with this finish. So I will. Next phase, Hyena's Grow House, is in early development.
I flipped a snowmobile at about 40 on Saturday, only tore off the windscreen but I busted my absolute ass flying about 20 feet and landing on a road on my back and head. Good gear and a tough general makeup saved me from breaking anything but my pride. Still, my X-ray is interesting...
Like I thought, nothing in there.
Peace, Hyena
Hopefully you dodged a bullet in the grow room. They look good for getting hit with that kind of temps. Most likely they will bounce back!
Glad you are OK 
Brain is full of canbabis smokin though
Brain is full of canbabis smokin though
Hiya HM,
You are too funny. The images brought to mind by your description was funny! Glad you're okay.
No worries on temp. They'll slow down, but that's all. Last fall, I kept an auto alive through snow (a little) and frost (a couple times) in November, and she kept going until I chopped her. She didn't grow much at those temps, but she stayed alive! Cheers
You are too funny. The images brought to mind by your description was funny! Glad you're okay.
No worries on temp. They'll slow down, but that's all. Last fall, I kept an auto alive through snow (a little) and frost (a couple times) in November, and she kept going until I chopped her. She didn't grow much at those temps, but she stayed alive! Cheers
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Happy Thursday!
Another
PROJECT 28 REPORT!
Well, since we haven't had a cold snap quite like the one we're in since before I built my little attic lab. The limitations of my methodology (a small heater with a thermostat comes on to augment the temperature) have become apparent. I simply can't have a grow room that swings from 50 degrees to almost 80. So we adapt.
I added a timer to the main exhaust fan, so now it goes OFF when the lights go off. That way, the little heater should be able to do a better job during the cold nights without its contribution being purged immediately. It worked. This morning the thermometer showed the last 24 hours the temps stayed between 72 and 77...even better than I had hoped! Never too late for one more new idea I guess....though moving forward I hope to have an entire house to play with, including furnace and central A/C, so problems like this will be a thing of the past there. The future? Working on it!
So in the meantime, bud porn!
Ahhhhh...getting there.
Soooo, the government remains "shut down"...the craziest term I ever heard, since about 80 percent of Federal workers are still working. I think it's great because it shows people who don't know or understand very much about their government (most people, sadly) that there really is TREMENDOUS duplication of personnel and tons of non-essential disfunctionality in our bureaucracy. Honestly, unless you're a welfare recipient you probably couldn't give two shits if the government ever "opens" again!
I love common sense, and hate typical lying politicians (of BOTH parties) so I love Trump. I wonder how he maintains his cool in the face of so much fake news?
I am rolling a fatty in support of our nation. God Bless America!
Peace, Hyena
Another
PROJECT 28 REPORT!
Well, since we haven't had a cold snap quite like the one we're in since before I built my little attic lab. The limitations of my methodology (a small heater with a thermostat comes on to augment the temperature) have become apparent. I simply can't have a grow room that swings from 50 degrees to almost 80. So we adapt.
I added a timer to the main exhaust fan, so now it goes OFF when the lights go off. That way, the little heater should be able to do a better job during the cold nights without its contribution being purged immediately. It worked. This morning the thermometer showed the last 24 hours the temps stayed between 72 and 77...even better than I had hoped! Never too late for one more new idea I guess....though moving forward I hope to have an entire house to play with, including furnace and central A/C, so problems like this will be a thing of the past there. The future? Working on it!
So in the meantime, bud porn!
Ahhhhh...getting there.
Soooo, the government remains "shut down"...the craziest term I ever heard, since about 80 percent of Federal workers are still working. I think it's great because it shows people who don't know or understand very much about their government (most people, sadly) that there really is TREMENDOUS duplication of personnel and tons of non-essential disfunctionality in our bureaucracy. Honestly, unless you're a welfare recipient you probably couldn't give two shits if the government ever "opens" again!
I love common sense, and hate typical lying politicians (of BOTH parties) so I love Trump. I wonder how he maintains his cool in the face of so much fake news?
I am rolling a fatty in support of our nation. God Bless America!
Peace, Hyena
Latitude17
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Why not step it up just a little and use a temperature controlled outlet? I know you like to keep things simple, but your situation seems like you might want a bit more and climate control by timer will haunt you.
Lux WIN100 Automatic Heating & Cooling 5-2 Day Programmable Outlet Thermostat
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Why not step it up just a little and use a temperature controlled outlet? I know you like to keep things simple, but your situation seems like you might want a bit more and climate control by timer will haunt you.
Lux WIN100 Automatic Heating & Cooling 5-2 Day Programmable Outlet Thermostat
That's a good idea I will look at those for Michigan even more than here. Freakish cold snap WTF...and an attic grow will never be totally temp controlled anyway. But a house will be...
Peace, Hyena
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It's a lovely Saturday here in the frozen midwest.
So here's a PROJECT 28 UPDATE!
At a little over 16 weeks since I first dropped dry beans into rooter plugs, my little Sativas are ripening up and getting closer to finish. But still more flowering waves to come I think...
The problem is the low temps have slowed their flowering. Hasn't really hurt them, just noticeably slowed their progress. In a warmer room these would be finished by now.
I caused the only real problem of the grow, by underestimating the intensity of the two main LEDs and burning two plants completely up. Stunted the third one big time but it is still flowering since I raised the lights so that confirms my diagnosis I think.
But the ones that remain are beautiful and getting very sticky.
All trichs still clear and some very nice nuggies swelling up like lollipops.
From the Hyena drone:
I guess I'll just let this keep chugging along until I get noticeable trichome cloudiness. Might be weeks more, who knows? All I know is it's great fun to again see cannabis in its total glory, late in flower and smelling soooo fine.
So, with nothing else to report,
Time to roll one up! Have a great weekend!
Peace, Hyena
So here's a PROJECT 28 UPDATE!
At a little over 16 weeks since I first dropped dry beans into rooter plugs, my little Sativas are ripening up and getting closer to finish. But still more flowering waves to come I think...
The problem is the low temps have slowed their flowering. Hasn't really hurt them, just noticeably slowed their progress. In a warmer room these would be finished by now.
I caused the only real problem of the grow, by underestimating the intensity of the two main LEDs and burning two plants completely up. Stunted the third one big time but it is still flowering since I raised the lights so that confirms my diagnosis I think.
But the ones that remain are beautiful and getting very sticky.
All trichs still clear and some very nice nuggies swelling up like lollipops.
From the Hyena drone:
I guess I'll just let this keep chugging along until I get noticeable trichome cloudiness. Might be weeks more, who knows? All I know is it's great fun to again see cannabis in its total glory, late in flower and smelling soooo fine.
So, with nothing else to report,
Time to roll one up! Have a great weekend!
Peace, Hyena
Peace and
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WOW.....just waking up I think..has a week flown by that fast?
Oh well, here's one of the final-season episodes of the PROJECT 28 REPORT!
The grow lab location in an attic has its limitations...record cold weather, well below ZERO F, has hit twice now for days at a time...it's fortunate cold doesn't immediately wipe out cannabis or I'd be done with this run. The past 24 hours it ranged from 55 to 66. As it is, they are probably a bit stunned, but they don't look it...
Everyone who was perky two weeks ago is still perky. Everyone who was dead is still dead.
But even though this won't be a big harvest it will be a quality one.
Some bud porn for your weekend:
A nice portrait of a fatty with an even-fatter polyploid, on the same plant:
Can't wait to smoke that poly, looks like a sugar bowl on a stick!
I'm feverishly working on my next venture, trying to step up my game to the next level...more on that next week but it will be huge.
Meanwhile, all I can do is simply
Roll one up, start the weekend early, and have a great one!
Peace, Hyena
Oh well, here's one of the final-season episodes of the PROJECT 28 REPORT!
The grow lab location in an attic has its limitations...record cold weather, well below ZERO F, has hit twice now for days at a time...it's fortunate cold doesn't immediately wipe out cannabis or I'd be done with this run. The past 24 hours it ranged from 55 to 66. As it is, they are probably a bit stunned, but they don't look it...
Everyone who was perky two weeks ago is still perky. Everyone who was dead is still dead.
But even though this won't be a big harvest it will be a quality one.Some bud porn for your weekend:
A nice portrait of a fatty with an even-fatter polyploid, on the same plant:
Can't wait to smoke that poly, looks like a sugar bowl on a stick!
I'm feverishly working on my next venture, trying to step up my game to the next level...more on that next week but it will be huge.
Meanwhile, all I can do is simply
Roll one up, start the weekend early, and have a great one!
Peace, Hyena
This run has done well considering our winter so far!
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Happy Super Bowl Sunday!!
This is a weekend PROJECT 28 REPORT!
The latest cold wave has passed...it hit 9 below zero two days ago, and today it will get up to almost 60...geeez.
How the heck can anyone control those temperature swings? I struggled to get the lab over 65 a couple days ago and this morning I went in there and it was 90. Good thing we will be chopping before too much longer.
Can't seem to kill this stuff!
The nugs are sugary everywhere...mmmmmm
So maybe another week or two, I really don't know or even care...I know the last couple weeks slowed everything to almost nothing, since they were using 7 gallons a day at one time and this whole week they used probably ten...total. Yeah that's slow alright. But all still seems well and the nugs that are there are getting awesome, this will be some really good smoke even if it ends up being only a pound or less.
So off to the store for food and beer...Super Bowl party tonight at our palatial estate. Though, for me, every day could be described as Super Bowl Sunday!
Peace, Hyena
This is a weekend PROJECT 28 REPORT!
The latest cold wave has passed...it hit 9 below zero two days ago, and today it will get up to almost 60...geeez.
How the heck can anyone control those temperature swings? I struggled to get the lab over 65 a couple days ago and this morning I went in there and it was 90. Good thing we will be chopping before too much longer.
Can't seem to kill this stuff!
The nugs are sugary everywhere...mmmmmm
So maybe another week or two, I really don't know or even care...I know the last couple weeks slowed everything to almost nothing, since they were using 7 gallons a day at one time and this whole week they used probably ten...total. Yeah that's slow alright. But all still seems well and the nugs that are there are getting awesome, this will be some really good smoke even if it ends up being only a pound or less.
So off to the store for food and beer...Super Bowl party tonight at our palatial estate. Though, for me, every day could be described as Super Bowl Sunday!
Peace, Hyena
Can’t wait to see your new project up and running!
Highya HM,
They are frosty alright! Looks like the cold affected bud size a little. I'd be proud to grow these, still. I know your standards are much higher than mine, though.
I thought last year you wasn't going to grow again in the winter.
So, moving on to bigger and better pastures. Keeping that dream intact! How nice for you! Go for it! Cheers
They are frosty alright! Looks like the cold affected bud size a little. I'd be proud to grow these, still. I know your standards are much higher than mine, though.
I thought last year you wasn't going to grow again in the winter.
So, moving on to bigger and better pastures. Keeping that dream intact! How nice for you! Go for it! Cheers
Bode, i think it is, once you start (growing) you can't stop
Awesome bud pics Hyena
Awesome bud pics Hyena
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Happy Sunday!
Here's another
PROJECT 28 REPORT!
Oh, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times...I guess it's always great when you have great nugs about to be harvested...but it's turned out to be such a small, if delicious, crop. Oh well, I ran into a lot of things over the course of this run beyond my control so it is what it is. I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy and half a glass of really nice Blue Hyena buds isn't all bad.
Microcope reveals some just getting cloudy but over 90% still clear. Obviously the buds are primo and I can cut this down at any time but I'm still watching and allowing the last bit of maturation and a bit more density.
Here's some bud porn for the weekend:
Nice frostiness and a super assortment of aromas with some subtle differences plant-to-plant.
What I have learned...
I appreciate the amazing amount of true differences between a half-dozen supposedly identical siblings so much more now that I have seen it up close. Short and taller phenos have emerged, smaller nodal spacing and lankier, different leaf structure, all these things that I can only observe for the first time since all the plants are sisters. But really, the smells have been the big surprise because your nose can distinguish very subtle differences in the smell profiles of two plants side-by-side. I was blown away when I realized the six remaining plants have no less than five separate and distinct smell profiles. This shows how many genetic combinations are being randomly generated even within one mother...for this reason my view of genetics has gone from one of confidence in its relative predictability to amazement at its infinite diversity and hopelessness regarding the prospect of ever breeding cannabis properly. Which means the end of my seed aspirations. Oh well.
I kept this grow very low because I planned pregnancy...but in the end I let a few stretch and they are sweet
I had pulled the small handful of branches off the dead middle back girl a couple weeks ago and I finally got to that, it trimmed up to about an ounce and a half of frosty, minty smoke. Got me very high writing this.
Wow I really am too high. I hope my brain doesn't melt since this public service tweet kind of made me think...
Stop at 2 smoakes. Just my advice. Have a great start to the week. Safely.
Peace, Hyena
Here's another
PROJECT 28 REPORT!
Oh, it was the best of times, it was the worst of times...I guess it's always great when you have great nugs about to be harvested...but it's turned out to be such a small, if delicious, crop. Oh well, I ran into a lot of things over the course of this run beyond my control so it is what it is. I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy and half a glass of really nice Blue Hyena buds isn't all bad.
Microcope reveals some just getting cloudy but over 90% still clear. Obviously the buds are primo and I can cut this down at any time but I'm still watching and allowing the last bit of maturation and a bit more density.
Here's some bud porn for the weekend:
Nice frostiness and a super assortment of aromas with some subtle differences plant-to-plant.
What I have learned...
I appreciate the amazing amount of true differences between a half-dozen supposedly identical siblings so much more now that I have seen it up close. Short and taller phenos have emerged, smaller nodal spacing and lankier, different leaf structure, all these things that I can only observe for the first time since all the plants are sisters. But really, the smells have been the big surprise because your nose can distinguish very subtle differences in the smell profiles of two plants side-by-side. I was blown away when I realized the six remaining plants have no less than five separate and distinct smell profiles. This shows how many genetic combinations are being randomly generated even within one mother...for this reason my view of genetics has gone from one of confidence in its relative predictability to amazement at its infinite diversity and hopelessness regarding the prospect of ever breeding cannabis properly. Which means the end of my seed aspirations. Oh well.
I kept this grow very low because I planned pregnancy...but in the end I let a few stretch and they are sweet
I had pulled the small handful of branches off the dead middle back girl a couple weeks ago and I finally got to that, it trimmed up to about an ounce and a half of frosty, minty smoke. Got me very high writing this.
Wow I really am too high. I hope my brain doesn't melt since this public service tweet kind of made me think...
Stop at 2 smoakes. Just my advice. Have a great start to the week. Safely.
Peace, Hyena