I say 3.8 ounces, I hope it's more, I already won a trip to hawaii north dakoter, so no prize is fine!
Let's Find a Mother! Hiking Through a Field of Mary Jane
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4.5379ozHi Wiz!
Thanks. I liked the colored discs too. When I went to the hydro store to get them, I was hoping they would have colored ones. They had black too, but black was more expensive. Made that decision easy! I have 6 colors because my first cloner had 6 rows. This one is smaller and only has 5 rows. The other nice thing about the colored discs, is I can write on them with a Sharpie. If you look closely, you can see some of the numbers in the picture. This was great for me since I have 6 strains in there. The colors don't really correlate to each strain obviously. I just wrote in my notebook B1 - 1A2, meaning Blue #1 has a clone from plant 1A2 (strain 1 is TGA Apollo13xVortex, it's seed 'A', and this was clone 2 from that plant). Eventually, the colors will represent which mother they came from. I'm still ramping everything up, so I don't have mature mothers yet. All those plants in the 1g pots are the potential mothers.
And yes, those are coco/perl/verm mix.
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Got some bud porn for everyone. The Royal Queen Critical was starting to push out nanners, so she got her first harvest. I only harvest the top 'layer' of mature buds. I then put the lowers back into the room to ripen for another week or so.
I noticed the remaining White Widow is also starting to spit out nanners, so she will go down tonight.
Here she is ready to be cut. She's a beauty! For a very long time, this was my favorite plant. She made big fat buds quickly, but the growth seems to have slowed on her. It's time! She will become a mother. It's one of my femmed freebie seeds. I had not planned to make any of those mothers, but this plant is too awesome to not keep the genetics for awhile.
Another shot of her. I'm still struggling to get good pictures with my phone. I think it's mostly a lighting issue. The lighting in my basement is bad. Hopefully, by next harvest, I'll have a better camera. Maybe I can find my old P&S somewhere.
Top view.
Size reference. Not the biggest ever, but certainly nice!
The whole harvest hanging.
The Bubba Kush branches I dried last week took about 5-6 days on the string. The basement is much warmer now because the AC is heating it with it's exhaust. It hovers around ~73 when the lights are on and ~68 when they are off. Where I have the string is also getting hit with some of the wind from the AC exhaust. That made them dry a little too quick for my tastes. The outside was getting crispy, but the center was still heavy. I jarred them up, then put them on the drying rack for a day (which is out of the AC's 'wind'). Now they are back in the jar and getting several long burps each day. After 3-4 more days, they are just about perfect.
This buds are bigger, so I'm guessing they will need to hang for 6-7 days. I'm going to move them tonight. I'm going to setup another area to hang the buds. That string was just put up quickly in a convenient spot. I'm gonna need about 10 of those strings to finish.
Enjoy the bud pr0n. I'm trying to get around to everyone else's journals, but the rest of this month is gonna be crazy busy with work. That's in addition to this harvest and getting everything ready for a house guest that I do not want to know about the basement project. I think I'll be fine. There is NO odor of the buds in the house even though there are several ounces drying in the basement.
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So that leads me to a question for anyone reading this...
How much do you think this harvest will weigh? I don't really have a prize for you if you win, but I thought it might be fun for everyone to try and guess. You're guessing the weight of that entire string. I have my guess, but I'm not sharing it until after. I don't want to influence anyone else's guess.
AudioBassiks
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"the lighting in the basement is bad" wtf you have a full grow opration down there with all kinds of lights to mimic the sun and out doors,, you have all the lights just need to learn how to use them... manual setting and ajust the suttre to the line is under the 0 and nly the 0 if you find its too dark move it to the - if too light move to the + photographers would kill for them lights
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I say 3.8 ounces, I hope it's more, I already won a trip to hawaii north dakoter, so no prize is fine!
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Entry recorded. My scale only measures to the tenth of an ounce, so I'll round your entry down to 4.5.
I have a lot of light, but it's not the right kind or concentrated in the right place. HPS take ugly photos IMHO. At least I don't like the yellow pictures as much as ones taken under a wider spectrum. When I want better pictures, I remove the plant from the room and set it on my workbench. There is a single CFL above that area, so I try to supplement with other light. I think the real problem is there are single CFLs spread all over the basement, so there is always a light in the background. There is one that is behind where I like to shoot pics. I'll try turning that one off when I take more pictures tonight.
AudioBassiks
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cange the meter location if you can spot meter
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hehe my DSLR was lost when I moved to WA. I'm using an iPhone until I can get something better.
AudioBassiks
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i dont care what anyone says iphones suck at taking pictures
4oz 26.7 g 
wildbill38
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My guess is 5.5 oz.
wildbill38
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Congrats on the nomination for motm.
AudioBassiks
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3.18 z
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I doubt you'll find much disagreement with that. I'm sure not gonna say you're wrong! LOL
Gotta make the best of what I have though. Trust me, I know about photography. I'm missing my Nikon DSLR a lot during this grow.
4oz 26.7 g
recorded as 4.99 oz
recorded.
Thank you !
Great harvest. Looks like a promising dry weight. Im waiting to pull my off. I have 2 sativas hanging now. The last plants are the DWC and coco indicas. Did you flower your DWC by its self under a light? Im thinking about doing one or 2 SOG plants in 1 dwc bucket under one light to see if I can reach the gram per watt.
That doesn't sound too bad. I don't have most of the tools yet, but a vacuum pump could be useful. Who doesn't like torches!?!?
If you have never silver soldered before it may be a lil dificult as its more of bead welding then it is soldering water pipes. But it can be self taught with a couple hours of practice. Just remember your running a bead to make the connection, heating up the silver and running it allong the joints, soldering water pipes you want to heat up the fitting and let the heat draw the solder into the joints.
Hozona
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Cleanliness (bare metal) is important also...emery cloth will clean and rough up the surface. Fit the pieces back together NO gaps..tight fit, add low heat, flux, increase heat until metal is light pink and flux appears glassy and apply solder...look for the silver stream, the solder will follow the heat source. Try not to get too hot, move the torch away if that happens...Have been a silversmith since 1973
ronnie6690
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this is how i braze. sand joints inside and out, copper to copper no flux need. i use 15%silver sticks. start by heating pipe on inside of joint, move flame back and forth to heat pipe as even as you can , then i move the flame to outer pipe joint still moving flame, then run the stick on joint edges all around joint. by heating outer pipe joint the brazing rod will flow into the joint. when your done there should not be an edge, shoud be smooth transition.
Great harvest Hiker, those buds look pretty decent sized to me buddy!! Get me down for.. Hmm.. Lets get me marked down for a good 3.4 OZ. 
Good job on all those clones!!
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Thanks. I was just down there looking at the buds. They are quite lovely.
I've never tried DWC. I'm using the CAP Ebb & Gro. It's a flood and drain style of hydro. I like the system because I have lots of individual buckets and I can move the plants around, but it's all on one reservoir.
Thanks denots.
I've had LOTS of experience soldering electronics and a fair amount of pipe soldering. It sounds like the "bead" might be what I've been taught as a "filet". I've got at least 6 months before I do it, so I can probably watch a couple youtube videos before then.
Cleanliness (bare metal) is important also...emery cloth will clean and rough up the surface. Fit the pieces back together NO gaps..tight fit, add low heat, flux, increase heat until metal is light pink and flux appears glassy and apply solder...look for the silver stream, the solder will follow the heat source. Try not to get too hot, move the torch away if that happens...Have been a silversmith since 1973
Thanks Hoz. When I replumbed this house, I used mostly PEX. There is a small section of copper where the water enters the house and connecting to the water heater and some of the fixtures. Before that job, I had very little pipe soldering practice. I think I'm good at it now.
this is how i braze. sand joints inside and out, copper to copper no flux need. i use 15%silver sticks. start by heating pipe on inside of joint, move flame back and forth to heat pipe as even as you can , then i move the flame to outer pipe joint still moving flame, then run the stick on joint edges all around joint. by heating outer pipe joint the brazing rod will flow into the joint. when your done there should not be an edge, shoud be smooth transition.
Thanks Ronnie. That's sound pretty much how I did the copper water pipes.
Great harvest Hiker, those buds look pretty decent sized to me buddy!! Get me down for.. Hmm.. Lets get me marked down for a good 3.4 OZ.
Thanks CA. They aren't the monster football size buds, but that's fine with me. I've had problems with the giant buds rotting, so I am very happy to have lots of 1-2" wide buds.
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No more harvesting last night. We had a bowling event to attend. It was fun. I had not bowled since moving to WA. I bowled pretty much my average, 174.
Gonna clip a few more starting in a few hours.
All of your guesses about how much that little batch will weigh are very encouraging. I also think it will be somewhere in the 3-5 oz range (I recorded my guess too, but won't divulge until I weight them). This was definitely not my largest plant. It is probably somewhere on the lower side of center, ie number 7 or 8 out of 11, as far as plant size. There are 6 plants that should yield significantly more. I'm hoping this math is in the ball park, 5 plants x 3oz + 6 plants x 4oz = 39oz. I'll take it!
I just wanted to get more than 32oz. For the first harvest in a new room, after not growing for 15 years or so, I'm pretty satisfied already. If I end up getting 4oz and 5oz on the plants? Well then the #s get even better.
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