Dont forget to fix that leak in the buckets.
huh? What leak?
Whens the next grow or journal going up? Like to see what your growing next.
I decided to just continue this journal. I haven't settled on a mother, so the search continues...
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OK guys, I'm sorry for the lack of updates. Things have been easing up a little on the homefront. I was able to catch up on journals a bit last week, but I haven't been able to work on the big update that is due. It will be another couple of days before I can get the promised update up. In the meantime, I did remember to bring my notebook into the office, so here are some final weight #'s, AND... the long anticipated announcement of the winners of my little contest!
I just realized I never took final weights for the White Widow or the Blueberry. Those will have to be posted on another post. Here are the final weights for each plant (grams ounces):
1A, TGA's Apollo 13 x Vortex: 61 2.2
1B, TGA's Apollo 13 x Vortex: 111 4
1C, TGA's Apollo 13 x Vortex: 130 4.6
3A, AK-48: 88 3.1
3B, AK-48: 108 3.9
3C, AK-48: 131 4.6
9A, Bubba Kush: 66 2.4
9A, Bubba Kush: 128 4.6
And last, but not least, is plant 8A, Royal Queen's Critical femmed. This is the plant I pictured and asked for estimates of the weight.
8a, Royal Queen's Critical: 123 4.4
If we just look at the closest guess, it would be Fish Cake, with the very specific guess of 4.5379. If I look at the closest, without going over, it's Sl1ngblade, with 4.25.
Since I never specified either way, you're both Grand Prize Winners!
I promised some really nice Nothings as prizes. I checked my supply and I have enough for everyone who played along. Congrats to everyone. You're all winners for participating!
You do have an option for a real prize however. As part of the prize for winning motm last month (thank you all again I'm still a little in awe), I received a case of rolling papers. While I have been smoking more joints lately, this is several years worth of papers for me, so if you would like to trade in your nothing for some rolling papers, let me know. Actually, you can have some papers AND a the Limited Edition Hiker Nothings 2013 if you prefer.
For our grand prize winners, Fish Cake and Sl1ngblade, I'll figure out something special for them since I think they both may have the same case of papers.
I'll have to measure the White Widow and Blueberry later to get a final total, but the above plants total to 946g or 33.8oz. My goal was 2 pounds, so I made it!
While this statistic is pretty worthless without a final weight, it did calculate to an interesting value. My grams per watt calculation is 0.
4204444444444 I know I have 6 oz from the 2 missing plants, so my gram/watt should end up ~0.5 Not very good, but about where I thought I would be for a first run. I'm pretty confident I can beat this number on the next run.
Lessons learned:
- Double check the drain pump for air lock after every flush/res change.
- Use DM Zone.
- Popcorn sucks. While very smokeable, and what I will happily be smoking for some time, it makes harvesting much more time consuming. The lesson is to clean off the lower parts of the branches when defoling. I used to do this when I scrogged, but it's a lesson I had to relearn this round.
- I avoided topping last round. This time I am topping a lot in addition to bending/training.
This round I am running the following (Strain - Qty):
- Blueberry - 7
- AK-48 - 6 (3 phenos)
- Apollo 13 x Vortex - 11 (3 phenos)
- White Widow - 3
- Critical - 4
- Bubba Kush - 4 (2 phenos)
There are a lot of Blueberry just because she provided the most clones. I'm not sure how happy I am with this pheno of Blueberry. It's not much like I what I remember from the last time I grew her in the 90's, but perhaps I need to just let go of my expectations and try to just appreciate her on her own merits. She just doesn't have the blueberry smell/taste that I recall. I'm giving her another chance. If I don't like this one, I will pop a couple more seeds. I still have 7 of the 10 I ordered. I also kept one of the males for future breeding ambitions.
I'm not quite ready to provide any smoke reports yet. I'm mostly smoking the shake and popcorn. I have kept the strains separate, but the shake and popcorn from the TGA and AK plants are all mixed together, so I need to do a more scientific comparison of the individual plants.
It's taken all morning to get this written.
I think that's about all I have to say today. There will be a picture update coming soon, and as I mentioned, there is a surprise in the works for this update. That surprise is taking longer than anticipated, hence the delay.