Santa came a little early here as well brother! Thank you! Excellent work
Hyena's Never-Ending Adventures In Growing
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Santa came a little early here as well brother! Thank you! Excellent work
You are so welcome and thanks for being here bro! Merry Christmas!
Peace, Hyena
With all the issues that have been plaguing the start of my new setup, I have decided I needed to revert to the absolute basics of it all: superstition.
Thus, the post-it from the mailer has become my "lucky horseshoe" and is now affixed to my light controller.
If I come back cursing.... well, ya know.
Thus, the post-it from the mailer has become my "lucky horseshoe" and is now affixed to my light controller.
If I come back cursing.... well, ya know.
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Here we go with a Tuesday edition of the
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
WOW, a week away and I suddenly walk in Tent #1 they're throwing a party...
Beauty stretches from wall to wall! It's really fragrant too...
That's what I'm talkin about Willis! I love the beginning of bud porn season, which for me is week 6 of flowering. Here's a few frosty examples of these Blueberry and Big Bud beauties:
Great mid-level development everywhere, it's hard to pluck enough fan leaves to allow some light into the interior
Everywhere frosty little nuggies
Makes yer mouth water doesn't it?
I have got a pretty sound monitoring system in both rooms now and I have to say it helps, both with maintenance precision and just with confidence really. I'm away a week at a time and it helps to know precisely where I leave them each time.
My tank now stays at 70, the PH stays around 5.8 and the room temps are always about 70-72 with RH under 50. Winter is such a comparatively easy time to grow indoors, no bugs, diseases, molds, fungus, or high humidity to battle. I keep exacting notes about every grow, and now that I'm scaled up a notch the comparisons are getting quite scientific. Thus far Grows #1 and #2 flowered for 8 weeks 6 days, and 9 weeks 3 days respectively. Even though the seed packages claim 8 weeks to finish I have learned to ALWAYS plan on an additional 7-10 days to get the better bulk. Studying the trichomes I saw very little amber even at those time frames; I like to have a more cerebral and uplifiting buzz so I didn't let them get even to 25% amber but they probably could have gone one or possibly even two more weeks if I wanted the most weight. I'm not willing to do that because it will sort of ruin the high, I don't like couchlock dope. Got to keep the quality as number one priority.
So if I go 9 weeks 3 days again, which was ideal IMHO, that means I can count on chopping this bunch on Wednesday, January 8th! Ah, science! Seriously, it's cool to be dialing it in like this, it's been a learning curve for sure the last 7 months (as a hobby grower I always kind of winged it) but it's becoming super fun now with a better regimen and higher precision.
MEANWHILE IN TENT #2...
Oh yeah, there's a lot happening in here as well!
Everyone is spreading out nicely, a lot of very stout plants in this bunch. They are all self-created seeds from the first grow here so I expect some genetic anomalies but so far at least, everyone seems healthy and like they are going to produce:
I gave them another hour of careful scrogging and fan leaf trimming. Nice girls, everybody looks great so far. Leaf tips perfect which is the real indicator.
Time has flown this last, easy-as-pie month. The holidays are in full swing which means parties and family stuff and eating too much and too often. It also means I have to drop beans for the HGH Grow #5 this Friday to be on schedule to replace the Grow #3 girls on January 8th! Wow, did that come around fast! I was getting lazy the past month not having to deal with babies in the attic lab. Back to work Friday I guess!
This next run, I have a new direction: MAXIMUM STINK! Previously I was leery of too much smell, but my twin 80-pound filters are, so far, an absolute brick wall to any odors. I vent my grow rooms into a common attic section, where they seep out the soffits under the eaves. I have walked around and around at peak of flowering and can't smell a thing outside. It's pretty effective I must say. So were going stinky baby!! Let me spill the beanz...
Got these seeds a couple years back but likely they should still pop. ORIGINAL SKUNK #1 is a legend, by all data available. It is one of the 3 or 4 varieties that form the original ancestry of nearly all commercial strains in the modern weed world. It is also considered the go-to genetics to add to almost any variety, to contribute more smell and bulk. Reputed to be easy to grow and hardy, with big production, I'm excited to give it a try. The 3 EARLY SKUNK seeds might be a little different, and if they really are early I wonder what that even means...do they still achieve the same structure and yield? Or, if you let them go longer are they substantially different than Skunk #1? I guess the best time to find out is to grow them together. I also decided, after the picture, not to run the 3 Cheese seeds. Some other time, I have enough if my Skunks come up. So the beans are ready to add water, along with four of my Blue Dream x Blue Dream beans from the 6/16 harvest, just as a backup to make sure I end up with 12 plants. I will add water Friday!
So that's the news from the GH. Winter is buzzing in, and I'm just buzzed...
Peace, Hyena
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
WOW, a week away and I suddenly walk in Tent #1 they're throwing a party...
Beauty stretches from wall to wall! It's really fragrant too...
That's what I'm talkin about Willis! I love the beginning of bud porn season, which for me is week 6 of flowering. Here's a few frosty examples of these Blueberry and Big Bud beauties:
Great mid-level development everywhere, it's hard to pluck enough fan leaves to allow some light into the interior
Everywhere frosty little nuggies
Makes yer mouth water doesn't it?
I have got a pretty sound monitoring system in both rooms now and I have to say it helps, both with maintenance precision and just with confidence really. I'm away a week at a time and it helps to know precisely where I leave them each time.
My tank now stays at 70, the PH stays around 5.8 and the room temps are always about 70-72 with RH under 50. Winter is such a comparatively easy time to grow indoors, no bugs, diseases, molds, fungus, or high humidity to battle. I keep exacting notes about every grow, and now that I'm scaled up a notch the comparisons are getting quite scientific. Thus far Grows #1 and #2 flowered for 8 weeks 6 days, and 9 weeks 3 days respectively. Even though the seed packages claim 8 weeks to finish I have learned to ALWAYS plan on an additional 7-10 days to get the better bulk. Studying the trichomes I saw very little amber even at those time frames; I like to have a more cerebral and uplifiting buzz so I didn't let them get even to 25% amber but they probably could have gone one or possibly even two more weeks if I wanted the most weight. I'm not willing to do that because it will sort of ruin the high, I don't like couchlock dope. Got to keep the quality as number one priority.
So if I go 9 weeks 3 days again, which was ideal IMHO, that means I can count on chopping this bunch on Wednesday, January 8th! Ah, science! Seriously, it's cool to be dialing it in like this, it's been a learning curve for sure the last 7 months (as a hobby grower I always kind of winged it) but it's becoming super fun now with a better regimen and higher precision.
MEANWHILE IN TENT #2...
Oh yeah, there's a lot happening in here as well!
Everyone is spreading out nicely, a lot of very stout plants in this bunch. They are all self-created seeds from the first grow here so I expect some genetic anomalies but so far at least, everyone seems healthy and like they are going to produce:
I gave them another hour of careful scrogging and fan leaf trimming. Nice girls, everybody looks great so far. Leaf tips perfect which is the real indicator.
Time has flown this last, easy-as-pie month. The holidays are in full swing which means parties and family stuff and eating too much and too often. It also means I have to drop beans for the HGH Grow #5 this Friday to be on schedule to replace the Grow #3 girls on January 8th! Wow, did that come around fast! I was getting lazy the past month not having to deal with babies in the attic lab. Back to work Friday I guess!
This next run, I have a new direction: MAXIMUM STINK! Previously I was leery of too much smell, but my twin 80-pound filters are, so far, an absolute brick wall to any odors. I vent my grow rooms into a common attic section, where they seep out the soffits under the eaves. I have walked around and around at peak of flowering and can't smell a thing outside. It's pretty effective I must say. So were going stinky baby!! Let me spill the beanz...
Got these seeds a couple years back but likely they should still pop. ORIGINAL SKUNK #1 is a legend, by all data available. It is one of the 3 or 4 varieties that form the original ancestry of nearly all commercial strains in the modern weed world. It is also considered the go-to genetics to add to almost any variety, to contribute more smell and bulk. Reputed to be easy to grow and hardy, with big production, I'm excited to give it a try. The 3 EARLY SKUNK seeds might be a little different, and if they really are early I wonder what that even means...do they still achieve the same structure and yield? Or, if you let them go longer are they substantially different than Skunk #1? I guess the best time to find out is to grow them together. I also decided, after the picture, not to run the 3 Cheese seeds. Some other time, I have enough if my Skunks come up. So the beans are ready to add water, along with four of my Blue Dream x Blue Dream beans from the 6/16 harvest, just as a backup to make sure I end up with 12 plants. I will add water Friday!
So that's the news from the GH. Winter is buzzing in, and I'm just buzzed...
Peace, Hyena
MagicJim
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I'm the same way. If I see some amber I'll start sharpening the axe.
I'm the same way. If I see some amber I'll start sharpening the axe.
I don't mind having some around. Good for those times you can't shut your head down and need to get some sleep.
Also handy on those occasions when you've overdone yourself, and need to lock your butt down for a bit.
But yeah, most of the time I either need that "get er done" stuff, or the slightly more relaxed social, chill feel.
LordDWC
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now I see healthy, beautiful plants!!! great job my friend, it's a pleasure looking at these pics
425jesse
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Amazing as always!!
Badass new calendar came last night....can’t decide if I like October or December best. Thank you Hyena, it’s beautiful!
Badass new calendar came last night....can’t decide if I like October or December best. Thank you Hyena, it’s beautiful!
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Thanks brother, I truly appreciate you being there. Might as well preserve the memory of a lot of pretty buds...that have all been smoked!!
Happy Holidays!
Peace, Hyena
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Thanks Bode, I appreciate that...and yes I am turning the idea over and over in my twisted mind, whether to duplicate the GH and run two. If I could have it all built tomorrow I certainly would. However, it cost a lot and took months of work, both of which are prohibitive details to getting me off the couch. For now.
Stay tuned I guess!Happy Holidayzz!
Peace, Hyena
Booming garden and lovely ladies as always hyena! Hope you’ve prepped for the holiday season
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Happy Sunday!
Why not a little HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update?
Actually I'm not going to the GH until tomorrow, but things are starting here in the no-longer-secret-but-pretty-much-forgotten attic lab!
Got 12 seeds popped and into rooters...yay!! And even though I hope more come through (there are 5 more beanz) I'm happy I now have 12 and if everybody makes it above ground we're in business. Right now I have 6 Original Skunk #1, 3 Early Skunk, and 3 Blue Dream and if those 12 make it I couldn't be happier!
So at this point I filed the remaining 5 beans...which means scraped really...I have a very tiny screwdriver and I hold each not-popping bean and gently scrape the seal where the two halves of the shell join. from the pointy end to about the middle. There's a sort of saran-wrap micro layer around every weed seed and it sometimes isn't penetrated by water unless it gets a little help. Then it often sticks and holds the emerging plant closed. My last project I had to physically remove this remnant from almost every sprout so the cotyledons could separate and open. All the seeds I'm using for this run are at least 3 years old so I guess I shouldn't complain if I'm getting most of them to grow.
So Run #5 has begun. I will cruise up to the GH tomorrow early morning and with Tent #1 in full bloom there might be some tasty pictures in my Tuesday morning report.
The next three weeks are the final three for Run #3. I have had to schedule my next three visits carefully because there are some nice vacations in my immediate future! First, we're going to the far-Northern command post the day after Christmas for four days of snowmobiling adventures, then coming back home for New year's Eve.
Okay if I was an Elf I'd be the one in Elf rehab...
But then the best part...I'm turning 60 on January 2nd!
Yes, I must be hydro now because I'm older than dirt!
I must celebrate accidentally living this long. Rather than a big party with a bunch of friends I get to see all the time anyway, I have decided to spend it with my lady in my adopted home town, Sin City! I know, we were just out there in October and it does seem like a totally crazy indulgence but what the phuck man, my favorite thing is Las Vegas with mama. Shows, concerts, excitement, incredible dining and nightlife, plus legal weed and they even sell pussy. I bring my own thankfully, of both.
So on New year's Day, me and wifey are off to Las Vegas for 5 days of sex, drugs, and rock and roll! I am capable of professional-level sinning and believe me, sinning will be done!
We both love LV, and it's nice to share it with someone who likes the same things as you. Except for one little thing...my wife doesn't smoke weed. She dislikes smoking in general and truly doesn't like getting high. With it being such a major part of my existence it's remarkable we are such a fit but it's never split us up, which I often imagined it would probably eventually do. Now that I openly grow at this level I guess the world has turned, she benefits certainly from the money and all, but she still doesn't really like cannabis. And she certainly doesn't share my deep appreciation for its many amazing and beautiful attributes...or for being stoned...
A couple years ago I tried to share the wonderful experience of having a little weed buzz with her when we were in Las Vegas. I gave her about 1/3 of a 10-mg edible, which was at MOST a 3-4 mg dose. An hour later it transformed her into a nymphomaniac and she ripped off her clothes and threw me down on the bed...uh, just kidding. She got incredibly paranoid and thought I was trying to kill her.
Grrrr. At that point I briefly considered it but she went to sleep and after a nap she was fine. Oh, well. If I DID have a wife who liked to get high where would my life be? No, I realized once again the incredible value of being the only one who smokes in the relationship. All the benefits of enjoying cannabis, with none of the hassles my friends have experienced, like missing stash, a perpetually messy house and a wife who's always hungry. No weed for you!
Then we will return and I chop the tent on January 8th. All that work will be good to help me sober up...and the journey continues...
Peace, Hyena
Why not a little HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update?
Actually I'm not going to the GH until tomorrow, but things are starting here in the no-longer-secret-but-pretty-much-forgotten attic lab!
Got 12 seeds popped and into rooters...yay!! And even though I hope more come through (there are 5 more beanz) I'm happy I now have 12 and if everybody makes it above ground we're in business. Right now I have 6 Original Skunk #1, 3 Early Skunk, and 3 Blue Dream and if those 12 make it I couldn't be happier!
So at this point I filed the remaining 5 beans...which means scraped really...I have a very tiny screwdriver and I hold each not-popping bean and gently scrape the seal where the two halves of the shell join. from the pointy end to about the middle. There's a sort of saran-wrap micro layer around every weed seed and it sometimes isn't penetrated by water unless it gets a little help. Then it often sticks and holds the emerging plant closed. My last project I had to physically remove this remnant from almost every sprout so the cotyledons could separate and open. All the seeds I'm using for this run are at least 3 years old so I guess I shouldn't complain if I'm getting most of them to grow.
So Run #5 has begun. I will cruise up to the GH tomorrow early morning and with Tent #1 in full bloom there might be some tasty pictures in my Tuesday morning report.
The next three weeks are the final three for Run #3. I have had to schedule my next three visits carefully because there are some nice vacations in my immediate future! First, we're going to the far-Northern command post the day after Christmas for four days of snowmobiling adventures, then coming back home for New year's Eve.
Okay if I was an Elf I'd be the one in Elf rehab...
But then the best part...I'm turning 60 on January 2nd!
Yes, I must be hydro now because I'm older than dirt!I must celebrate accidentally living this long. Rather than a big party with a bunch of friends I get to see all the time anyway, I have decided to spend it with my lady in my adopted home town, Sin City! I know, we were just out there in October and it does seem like a totally crazy indulgence but what the phuck man, my favorite thing is Las Vegas with mama. Shows, concerts, excitement, incredible dining and nightlife, plus legal weed and they even sell pussy. I bring my own thankfully, of both.
So on New year's Day, me and wifey are off to Las Vegas for 5 days of sex, drugs, and rock and roll! I am capable of professional-level sinning and believe me, sinning will be done!We both love LV, and it's nice to share it with someone who likes the same things as you. Except for one little thing...my wife doesn't smoke weed. She dislikes smoking in general and truly doesn't like getting high. With it being such a major part of my existence it's remarkable we are such a fit but it's never split us up, which I often imagined it would probably eventually do. Now that I openly grow at this level I guess the world has turned, she benefits certainly from the money and all, but she still doesn't really like cannabis. And she certainly doesn't share my deep appreciation for its many amazing and beautiful attributes...or for being stoned...
A couple years ago I tried to share the wonderful experience of having a little weed buzz with her when we were in Las Vegas. I gave her about 1/3 of a 10-mg edible, which was at MOST a 3-4 mg dose. An hour later it transformed her into a nymphomaniac and she ripped off her clothes and threw me down on the bed...uh, just kidding. She got incredibly paranoid and thought I was trying to kill her.
Grrrr. At that point I briefly considered it but she went to sleep and after a nap she was fine. Oh, well. If I DID have a wife who liked to get high where would my life be? No, I realized once again the incredible value of being the only one who smokes in the relationship. All the benefits of enjoying cannabis, with none of the hassles my friends have experienced, like missing stash, a perpetually messy house and a wife who's always hungry. No weed for you!
Then we will return and I chop the tent on January 8th. All that work will be good to help me sober up...and the journey continues...
Peace, Hyena
From hidden, trying to remain ultra secret in the attic... to a full fledged grow house. Looking back over the course of events across the two threads it never ceases to amaze me how far things have come for you. Wishing you the best, and more, for 2020!
Hey Hyena I got my calendar today, it'll be going on my wall to track things in 2020. Thank you!
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You're quite welcome my friend! Thanks for being there!!
Brother I even envy myself.
But seriously, everything in life works out...if you work hard enough.From hidden, trying to remain ultra secret in the attic... to a full fledged grow house. Looking back over the course of events across the two threads it never ceases to amaze me how far things have come for you. Wishing you the best, and more, for 2020!
Thanks Vortex, it has been quite a little adventure so far. Notice I said, "so far"?
Keep a lookout! 2020 is going to be sweeeeet!
Peace, Hyena
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Happy Tuesday and here's another
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
WOW, December has flown by, Christmas is a week away! It's been busy but fun, especially at the GH in Tent #1...
The shit is hitting the fan! Now it's just as stinky as it can be in here, the powerful brick wall of smellage just smacks you right in the nose when the flap is opened! It's sooo stinky, it's hard to believe there's no smell outside but as far as I can tell there isn't, and besides there's snow on the ground so nobody is likely to be walking around in my yard. The fragrance of all these blooming buds is like a symphony of aromas.
Smellin like a felon
Two sisters with such different looks...
Now I'm seeing the density I crave. Mostly Blueberry and some nice phenos, with some even nicer Big Bud plants...
Yeah it's going well. I plan to let this kettle cook for another three weeks. Then likely chop time, and as sticky as this stuff is getting I can't freaking wait!
So now it was time to try something a little new...I got good results, I believe, from pinching the tip off a number of buds and "bulking" them...not EXACTLY sure how much it added but it certainly didn't subtract. I was thinking it's destructive to either pinch or snip off even the tiniest end of a nice bud, maybe just tapping it a few times with something like the flat blade of a kitchen knife might do the same thing so I tried that on a fair number of them, and also snipped off a number.
We will observe how they all do the last 3 weeks. I think either way will be fine no matter what happens as the nugs feel quite dense already.
In Tent #2 it's also humming. This hedge is spread out pretty well and to my amazement this biomass used up almost 75 gallons of water in one week!
I want this to go another week since they came up here a week earlier and also I am going to try to get a higher hedge before I flip, most of these Indica-based varieties don't stretch like my precious Sativas always have and it's time I got it through my thick skull I can let them get bigger. So maybe even two weeks, I am prepared to push the limit a bit more since I doubt anything in here will reach the lights no matter how much I grow them. Maybe doing so will increase the yield, that's what I'm mainly trying to figure out.
And now for the beans I just sprouted...I think I killed most of them. I had a dozen with tails but only 3 came up and upon inspection I realized I had not remembered to squeeze most of the liquid out of the rooters when I put the seeds in and likely most drowned, my bad which sucks. But shit happens. No matter how experienced one becomes it's still easy to make any of a hundred little mistakes that will croak your grow. I'm just lucky, I suppose, that it happened in week one and not some other week!
So I just figured it's Karma telling me to go in a different direction! I busted out 9 Hyena Berry (Plush Berry x Cheese Berry) seeds and another 9 Black Hyena (Widow Mix x Blue Dream) and dumped those in water. I would rather start everyone at the same time than play catch up and have a bunch of different-sized plants because it never really evens out. So we won't run Skunk this time, but why not grow out a couple of my crosses and see how that stuff does in this larger environment? I fear it won't yield as much as these Indicas I've grown so far but if they can get bigger who knows? Let's find out!
I hope everyone is having a nice lead up to the Christmas week. I hate shopping in crowds so thank God for the internet!
Me and my friends are feeling the joy of the season...
Hope you are too!
Peace, Hyena
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE update!
WOW, December has flown by, Christmas is a week away! It's been busy but fun, especially at the GH in Tent #1...
The shit is hitting the fan! Now it's just as stinky as it can be in here, the powerful brick wall of smellage just smacks you right in the nose when the flap is opened! It's sooo stinky, it's hard to believe there's no smell outside but as far as I can tell there isn't, and besides there's snow on the ground so nobody is likely to be walking around in my yard. The fragrance of all these blooming buds is like a symphony of aromas.
Smellin like a felon
Two sisters with such different looks...
Now I'm seeing the density I crave. Mostly Blueberry and some nice phenos, with some even nicer Big Bud plants...
Yeah it's going well. I plan to let this kettle cook for another three weeks. Then likely chop time, and as sticky as this stuff is getting I can't freaking wait!
So now it was time to try something a little new...I got good results, I believe, from pinching the tip off a number of buds and "bulking" them...not EXACTLY sure how much it added but it certainly didn't subtract. I was thinking it's destructive to either pinch or snip off even the tiniest end of a nice bud, maybe just tapping it a few times with something like the flat blade of a kitchen knife might do the same thing so I tried that on a fair number of them, and also snipped off a number.
We will observe how they all do the last 3 weeks. I think either way will be fine no matter what happens as the nugs feel quite dense already.
In Tent #2 it's also humming. This hedge is spread out pretty well and to my amazement this biomass used up almost 75 gallons of water in one week!
I want this to go another week since they came up here a week earlier and also I am going to try to get a higher hedge before I flip, most of these Indica-based varieties don't stretch like my precious Sativas always have and it's time I got it through my thick skull I can let them get bigger. So maybe even two weeks, I am prepared to push the limit a bit more since I doubt anything in here will reach the lights no matter how much I grow them. Maybe doing so will increase the yield, that's what I'm mainly trying to figure out.
And now for the beans I just sprouted...I think I killed most of them.
I had a dozen with tails but only 3 came up and upon inspection I realized I had not remembered to squeeze most of the liquid out of the rooters when I put the seeds in and likely most drowned, my bad which sucks. But shit happens. No matter how experienced one becomes it's still easy to make any of a hundred little mistakes that will croak your grow. I'm just lucky, I suppose, that it happened in week one and not some other week!So I just figured it's Karma telling me to go in a different direction! I busted out 9 Hyena Berry (Plush Berry x Cheese Berry) seeds and another 9 Black Hyena (Widow Mix x Blue Dream) and dumped those in water. I would rather start everyone at the same time than play catch up and have a bunch of different-sized plants because it never really evens out. So we won't run Skunk this time, but why not grow out a couple of my crosses and see how that stuff does in this larger environment? I fear it won't yield as much as these Indicas I've grown so far but if they can get bigger who knows? Let's find out!
I hope everyone is having a nice lead up to the Christmas week. I hate shopping in crowds so thank God for the internet!
Me and my friends are feeling the joy of the season...
Hope you are too!
Peace, Hyena
Tough luck on the seeds but hopefully the new ones pop out strong!
Nice update!
Nice update!