Okay here's the
HYENA'S GROW HOUSE HARVEST UPDATE!
Hi friends, it's been awhile I know but it's also been good. Went to Las Vegas for 5 days of total immersion into the desert fun, and that is definitely was. Then one day later I went up to the GH to make the big chop.
Wednesday at about noon it was time to hack it. IMHO everything couldn't look more ready...
Fur-ocious beasts everywhere. Practically oozing stink, all dying to, well, die. Sooo happy to oblige!
This time I ran 7 Blueberry and 5 Bud Bud Bling Tings (still the worst strain name EVER). What follows is a shot of each plant, followed by a shot of one bud from that plant, until you have seen all twelve in their full beauty.
The gallery of goodbye:
Whew, glad that's over. For them anyway...for me it just begins!
Couldn't play any longer than this last brief photo session...time to smoke a fatty, roll up my sleeves, and set to work. My trimming station and equip all laid out...
Then nothing left but the first cut!
I got through 2 plants the first day...it's such a time-consuming bitch to trim huge colas! At this point I feel I don't have to take quite the time and detail I did last time around, but even a basic trim and leaf removal just can only be done so fast no matter how good you are. At this point I'm about as fast as anyone, but I don't find it relaxing because I can't watch TV or anything, the job requires focus. My snips are surgical-instrument sharp and they cut everything like butter...if I look away I could easily cut the end of my finger off with one snip. I almost have a couple times and THAT would REALLY suck so I hunched over my trimming tray and refuse bin for 6 hours on Wednesday, then 15 hours both Thursday and Friday, trimming non-stop until I literally couldn't move my hands. The radio is only so interesting after three solid days of it. Plant after plant averaging three hours with only a couple 5-minute breaks I'm not kidding. Great problem to have, eh? But a tiring marathon nevertheless.
One plant...
There were a dozen baskets like this one. I was almost overwhelmed a few times by the intense aroma of stinky, sticky cola after cola after cola. Three days went by like some sort of dream where you like what's happening but your body rebels against the hours of drudgery and eventually everything simply hurts. I would love to have someone there with me but even if I knew someone who would want to do this they wouldn't want to do it again. It's a stone cold bitch but the one up side is everything looks really, really good. Superb aroma and frostation. Super dense chunkers with real weight. No sign anywhere of anything I don't like, nothing but perfection. The best I have ever grown without a doubt.
Such beauty I hated to chop it:
A shot of halfway...on one level encouraging, on another depressing. On we go...
But the overall crop is stellar...chunky monkey like I have never seen. Literally hundreds of hunkmeisters.
The piles became hangars full of weighty, skunky green and purple globs on sticks.
At one point I took a break to play some golf but I was too tired from trimming and my first shot ended up deep in the rough...
But finally Saturday morning I had it all finished, which was one full day less than my previous two harvests. I don't really know how I could compress the process any further so three days is what I will have to live with...but it's better than four!
I twisted up a celebratory fatty and admired my drying closet.
39 hangers full of heavy fruit. Plus another pound of smaller buds and trim.
Mission accomplished!
But sadly, there was no time to celebrate yet...the arduous and backbreaking chore of cleaning this mess up still awaited me.
Three hours of careful but thorough chopping, shredding, and cleaning.
But finally, everything was sparkling once more and ready for the next generation!
I added some res clear to each bucket and the main reservoir and left the flood and drain cycle on its normal four-per-day...I figure a week of flooding and draining will totally sanitize and clear the water, buckets and pipes.
The clones look perfect by the way!
I didn't plant them yet because they still haven't produced any roots, but I added some more rooting hormone to the reservoir and I'm confident they will have roots soon. They certainly look healthy and green, obviously everyone is perfectly alive and standing tall with zero apparent issues, just no roots yet after 8 days or so. We'll see when I return this Thursday evening, as we plan to (finally!) go to the FAR northern house where it's snowy enough to snowmobile, at long last. We will stop at the Grow House and sleep over, to break the 7-hour drive into two smaller pieces, maybe by then they'll be showing some roots. I plan to return after we get back from our trip, one week from today, and plant them if they are ready. And the cycle will continue!
But at least I have everything cut and drying, and at this point my back isn't sore anymore. This isn't an easy endeavor but so very worth it in my view. Could the ultimate goal of four pounds of bud be realized this time around?
Stick around and see. I'll have everything finished next week I'm sure and I'll tell you all about it.
Meanwhile, the love affair continues...
Talk to ya soon! Stay high!
Peace, Hyena
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