Here goes...another
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
5:30 am Monday morning I got in my car and drove to the GH. 8:30 when I walked in. By 8:31 I was once again the happiest man in the world...
It's unreal... like being in a movie about weed. I can hardly wrap my mind around the reality that this grow is mine. I just stood there for about 5 minutes, surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of fat colas, drinking in the aroma and just feeling thankful. Considering I made two semi-huge mistakes in this first effort I'm awfully happy they all look so good.
Even from the back everything looks like it is filling in everywhere, high and low, absolutely everywhere there are nuggy colas swelling.
I am even seeing great development down low, I am very surprised at the number of nugs I'm getting that are tight, not larfy at all, all throughout the periphery of the hedge. I have never got such robust interior/peripheral development before and I can only guess it's...those lights. Monsters. They are set on 50% power yet still making everyone happy apparently.
How about some bud porn?
Getting very good frost on everything with most also surprisingly tight. The nugs are quite firm and I see a couple plants already unable to fully support the weight...
Branches just laying over each other, but still looking healthy and putting on weight...I swear cannabis can grow upside down.
Some schoolyard bullies looking like they might take my lunch money:
I have allowed some of the Super Bud plants to remain within a foot of the light and I see no difference in the structure of those buds vs others. Maybe a little earlier yellowing of the leaves but I have never grown two of these varieties including Super Bud so I'm not really sure if the general yellowing and fading of fan leaves I am observing is normal attrition or if I'm doing something wrong. But from the look of the buds I think it's probably normal.
White Widow nugging up...
Huge chunkers that already can't stand up...
Even the scrawny little plant of unknown lineage in the right front is growing some impressive nuggers.
The foxtail plant is making my mouth water...awesomely chunky...
Okay, now I'm just rubbing it in...
Whew. I hope that was good for you, too!
MEANWHILE, Phase Two...is rocking!
I only took one picture because I had to bust ass for almost an hour to do the final defol and weaving of this canopy. The Super Bud is again so tall it will become unmanageable unless I flip now. The rest is spread out pretty evenly and I have good secondary (and thirdary?) branching everywhere so three more weeks of gradually-slowing upward growth should give me a nice forest even if a lot of it will stay as low as Phase One. I flipped them to 12/12 because the amazing penetration of these lights allows such full interior development I feel confident the canopy will be very productive, if the other tent is any indication.
Overall, I still don't exactly know how long to go and how long to flower...I'm observing and learning like everybody else. My best guess is another two weeks of flowering in the P1 tent. My best guess on when to flip P2 was based on how it looks and my instincts. I drove home wondering if I had flipped too soon. I really want to mirror what I'm doing in P1 and perhaps I should have checked to compare the number of days in veg. When I got home I pulled out my calendars (I keep exact notes on each of these grows) and counted...P1 went 5 weeks and 2 days from transplant to the flip. It turns out P2 has been exactly 5 weeks and 3 days. Perfect. I guess my instincts are getting pretty good. Should have known that before I went up, I admonished myself.
But MEANWHILE...in the attic lab...
Upstairs I went and saw I now have some babies!
All the Blueberry came up (7), along with 2 Bud Bud Bling Tings I started as insurance. Glad I did because only 2 of 6 Critical seeds popped and I still haven't seen those two emerge. I really want 12 plants to be about the same age, within 4-5 days max, to keep everything on track in later phases. So I placed six more seeds in water the other night just for backup and three more BBBTs sprouted immediately and I planted those. I have 3 White Widows and of course the Criticals might still show some life so it's a race for the last few spots.
I had to recon the lab, cleaned everything and rebooted the water, everything set except filling the 12 1-gallon pots to plant the babies and get Phase Three going. I'll do that in a day or two once I have 12 ready.
The whole thing is getting to a point of automation where it's actually looking like I won't be a slave to the project after all. Getting this to where I only have to go up once a week, and I'm almost there. The water uptake of Phase One has slowed dramatically. I don't mean to seem like this is all new but it's interesting to observe how much water they go through during full veg vs now later in flower. P1 tent used around 60+ gallons a week during full veg and now uses only 20. I attribute that to less fan leaves in general, I have removed many hundreds but also they seem to be yellowing and losing function generally everywhere. Earlier than I am used to, but maybe it's because these varieties mature earlier. Learning. It's so fun.
So I spent several more hours finishing the drying/curing room. It's a big walk-in closet in the P2 room. Instead of installing another fan and filter, I just put an exhaust opening up high in one corner and ducted it into the P2 tent. A filtered intake down low at the other end makes for a gentle airflow through the entire closet and up and out into the P2 tentand out through the 80-lb carbon filter. So smell issue solved. It has a couple small circulation fans I can adjust anywhere.
Well that's the update. I plan to go up to the far-Northern command with Wifey this Friday for a weekend combining my two favorite things: smoking lots of tasty weed, and love.
We will hit the GH on the way up, then again coming back Tuesday. That means a week probably until there's more to relate. I wish I could write more often but I don't want to endlessly repeat myself (though I could). But I am truly enjoying sharing this adventure with you.
Big finish coming up!
Meanwhile, tonight...
Nothing like having a plan. Hope you all have a great week my friends.
Peace, Hyena
Nothing but net. Beautiful.
Field of DDA?
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Me too!
