Jon's First Outdoor Grow: Sugar Breath Photoperiod & Strawberry Banana Autoflower

[Jon]

Apple Blossom
Flower Day 58
Grow Day 118

HARVEST TIME?

I think today is harvest day. Anyone disagree? I can be swayed....

Here's the plant, a bud, and a trichome shot which is representative of all the buds. Harvest time????? I can't wait to pick Molly's hair off all my buds. Lmao.

 

[Kanno26]

Apple Blossom
Flower Day 58
Grow Day 118

HARVEST TIME?

I think today is harvest day. Anyone disagree? I can be swayed....

Here's the plant, a bud, and a trichome shot which is representative of all the buds. Harvest time????? I can't wait to pick Molly's hair off all my buds. Lmao.

Very nice @Jon

 

[Jon]

Very nice @Jon

Thanks @Kanno26, so would you take her? @Bill284, you feel like offering an opinion?

 

[BubbaKush909]

How is it possible you never have? Do you just jar up your gigantic colas as is? To answer your question, what I meant and what I do is take the buds off the stems and separate them out into individual buds. A cola is rarely "one bud." It's a whole bunch of buds grown together into one giant bud. But if you trim it down, then start at the bottom along the base of the stem of the cola, and work your way up that stem, cutting off each horizontal shoot that comes off that main bud stem - those are all individual buds. You'd be surprised how many individual buds you find a big cola is actually made up of when you break them down. And as FR said, it's mostly something you'd do to mitigate mold and bud rot. It can also be used to accelerate the drying process. Once you harvest a few big colas and find they have bud rot you hadn't even seen inside the biggest buds that easily could have been avoided by separating the cola into it's constituent parts, you'll begin to do it as a matter of course. Too easy to not take the chance. Once you get your pictures, why keep a gigantic cola lying around? Pain in the ass to fit in a jar to dry, to store, etc.

Morning Jon! What you describe here is pretty much exactly what I do, I thought you meant when you were first hanging the plant to dry you'd break up big colas. I never foliar feed or spray the plants while they're growing, on my very first grow I did that and had serious bud rot. I've never had any since, but I'm always worrying about it. I have a ceiling fan in my drying room, aka my bedroom lol, and that seems to provide the perfect amount of air movement for a safe dry.

I think AB looks ready, that's about as much amber as I ever seem to see. Good luck!

 

[Jon]

Morning Jon! What you describe here is pretty much exactly what I do, I thought you meant when you were first hanging the plant to dry you'd break up big colas. I never foliar feed or spray the plants while they're growing, on my very first grow I did that and had serious bud rot. I've never had any since, but I'm always worrying about it. I have a ceiling fan in my drying room, aka my bedroom lol, and that seems to provide the perfect amount of air movement for a safe dry.

I think AB looks ready, that's about as much amber as I ever seem to see. Good luck!

Thanks BK! Yeah I meant when they're dry. That said, when you get those big heavy indica buds that are super dense, you may find it at some point. Sometimes I'll take the colas when I hang them and bend out all the smaller buds to the side, and even trim the sugars all the way down in between the individual buds on the cola, just so they're not all smashed together.

And yeah, it's time. See next post, lol. Thanks @BubbaKush909! Here we go.

 

[Jon]

TEST

I took the smallest branch on the plant, one of the three I almost chopped but decided to leave. Knew they'd be the smallest three branches. Wet trimmed it. This is one of my more extreme "are they really ready?" tests - take a smaller branch, wet trim it, and see what you've got. Is it tight? Is it relatively free of rougue, underdeveloped hairs? Is the density where you want it? Can you extrapolate from the wet trimmed bud what it'll be when dry?

On all these counts, I'm satisfied based on this tester. GREEN BUD IN THE HOUSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thoughts, anyone? And thanks!

 

[Rexer]

Apple Blossom
Flower Day 58
Grow Day 118

HARVEST TIME?

I think today is harvest day. Anyone disagree? I can be swayed....

Here's the plant, a bud, and a trichome shot which is representative of all the buds. Harvest time????? I can't wait to pick Molly's hair off all my buds. Lm

Looks perfect to me, happy chop day! And congratulations on the upcoming harvest- she looks beautiful

 

[Jon]

Looks perfect to me, happy chop day! And congratulations on the upcoming harvest- she looks beautiful

Thanks Rex! Yup. I'm officially in Chop Jail!

 

[Bill284]

Apple Blossom
Flower Day 58
Grow Day 118

HARVEST TIME?

I think today is harvest day. Anyone disagree? I can be swayed....

Here's the plant, a bud, and a trichome shot which is representative of all the buds. Harvest time????? I can't wait to pick Molly's hair off all my buds. Lmao.

Let her go ,timber.
Shiver git.
Congrats on another fantastic job my friend.

Stay safe
Bill

 

[Kanno26]

Thanks @Kanno26, so would you take her? @Bill284, you feel like offering an opinion?

Honestly @Jon, I couldn't wait any longer.

 

[Jon]

PORN SUPREME
The Best Kind!!!!!

The Apple Blossom was officially chopped on grow day 118 and flower day 58. Specs predicted 45 days.

I feel very comfortable for a change that I took her at the right time for me.

I'm not gonna lie....this is pretty goddamn sweet...and a lot more bud than I thought. Time to go a-hangin'!

 

[Azimuth]

Do it!

The Apple Blossom was officially chopped on grow day 118 and flower day 58. Specs predicted 45 days.

Oh, never mind.

Great job, Jon! I think you're goining to be very happy for a while (in a while because you know, trim jail...)

 

[Jon]

Do it!

Oh, never mind.

Great job, Jon! I think you're goining to be very happy for a while (in a while because you know, trim jail...)

Thanks Azi! Yeah, can you see what a pain in the ass to trim she's going to be? I can. There's a trillion buds and many of them are small. Dense, keepers, legit buds....just small. It's going to take a second pot of coffee. Hopefully this hell doesn't come into play for eight days or so, but I think I'll only get six out of this one. Small buds. There's a significant amount of yield here, not sure how it looks, and I'm not going to guess - but certainly more than four ounces done and trimmed, likely closer to 5 1/2 or 6. Says the guy who is not going to guess. And knowing my serious lack of skill in estimating my own harvests, it's probably three ounces.

 

[Jon]

And Lastly, the Coup de Grace!

Now we celebrate. Couldn't get the entire haul in the first picture, that's most of it except what you can't see in either corner.

To say I'm a happy dude right now would be understating the case.

Heh.

 

[InTheShed]

I have to say I'm to see that beauty gone but on that beautiful harvest Jon!

 

[Jon]

Just for Shi-s and Giggles
Let's do a *sort of* time lapse
Dry Time: 36 hours

Since I have nothing else to post trying to be creative and useful at the same time. Heh. This journal will be closed out as soon as I trim this plant up and show that and do the epilogue thing. So I thought it might be cool to see how the Apple Blossom dries over the however many days. Today I checked at about 36 hours from hang and here's a couple pictures, one with the natural sunlight that hits the closet when the door is open and one with flash in an almost dark closet. (ignore the inaccurate labels on the pics, lol) Same bud, and I know exactly which one it is, so this will be the display bud. I'll do this again after another couple days and compare.

Is that a good enough excuse to post?

Btw - I so wish you guys could smell this closet. It's truly insane. It permeates out of this guest room, down the main corridor from the front door, and into the living room/kitchen. Lmao. Glad mom is out of town.

Heh. Enjoy.

 

[Jon]

Oh Yeah, and This....

My best soil/LED/indoor stem ever. The AB stem.

 

[Kanno26]

Just for Shi-s and Giggles
Let's do a *sort of* time lapse
Dry Time: 36 hours

Since I have nothing else to post trying to be creative and useful at the same time. Heh. This journal will be closed out as soon as I trim this plant up and show that and do the epilogue thing. So I thought it might be cool to see how the Apple Blossom dries over the however many days. Today I checked at about 36 hours from hang and here's a couple pictures, one with the natural sunlight that hits the closet when the door is open and one with flash in an almost dark closet. (ignore the inaccurate labels on the pics, lol) Same bud, and I know exactly which one it is, so this will be the display bud. I'll do this again after another couple days and compare.

Is that a good enough excuse to post?

Btw - I so wish you guys could smell this closet. It's truly insane. It permeates out of this guest room, down the main corridor from the front door, and into the living room/kitchen. Lmao. Glad mom is out of town.

Heh. Enjoy.

Hi @Jon, it looks good, the smell must be great. I want to ask you do you use nuts until the end or last week in bloom shed water? Thanks

 

[Azimuth]

Oh Yeah, and This....

My best soil/LED/indoor stem ever. The AB stem.

Make a nice pipe stem.

 

[Azimuth]

Hi @Jon, it looks good, the smell must be great. I want to ask you do you use nuts until the end or last week in bloom shed water? Thanks

@Jon should we tell him about draughting now or wait until he's at that stage in his own journal?