OMG! Can it be?!?!
Hiker is posting pictures!
Not a big post though. Been trimming for 5 days now. Hoping to be done tomorrow or the next day. Anyway, I promised pics for a long time now, so I wanted to give everyone something!
Here is the garden before starting harvest. The pic doesn't really show how badly they are falling over on themselves in the middle. I didn't have enough air movement in the space (both oscillating fans stopped moving within a few days of each other), so the stems were not strong. I tied them up, but the buds were just too big.
Here is the harvest drying. This is ~60-70% of the total harvest I think.
We're generating more trim on top of the 3 turkey bags full I still have from the first harvest. I finally ordered some extraction bags. We have friends that live up closer to the border that I found out recently grow a few plants for personal, so I finally told someone local(ish) that I'm growing. They told us that everyone up here grows there own (at least up in their area), but that nobody did hash. I just think that's terrible and feel bad for the patients that can't find quality hash, so I'm going to help.
I haven't really taken a lot of individual plant pics because they are falling over themselves so bad. I've been taking some pics of the branches while we trim, but my cell phone isn't really capturing the detail well. If I get some good ones, I'll share those, but don't expect tons of pretty plant pics cause there aren't any
I will say that I'm giving up on my White Widow. The strain has not done well either time, so I may even cull the mother (and I have a father). She made HUGE buds, if the not the largest, close, but I found some rot inside one of the biggest buds. It was caused by an old shade leaf that was decaying buried inside the bud. This just reaffirmed my dislike of giant buds. There are more crystals on the outer surface then buried inside the flowers, so more smaller buds will contain more trichomes than one large bud. That alone should be enough to steer people away from trying to grow the giant colas, but when you throw the risk of rot on top, it isn't worth it to me.
Anyway, the search for the mother is progressing. My goal is to only run 2 strains this next round. I've put myself behind schedule by not taking any clones yet. I was waiting to see the results to help me decide which strain to focus on. The Blueberry plants really did well this round. They make wonderfully frosty dense nugs that smell amazing. The one female I got really demonstrates the blueberry scent she is named after. Right now, I'm planning to run Blueberry, and one other strain. I'm leaning towards one of the TGA Apollo 13 x Vortex moms, but I'm undecided about which one. They all are similar, but they are also unique in their own ways. I'm pretty sure I know which one I'm keeping. All the mothers I decide to not keep will get flowered out with this next batch.
Hope you guys appreciate the pics. I ended up writing more than I planned, but I'm not surprised. Work let up slightly, but harvest has really kept me hoping. I've averaged 4 hours of sleep for most of a week now.
I've been experimenting with washing the buds too, so I'll post some pictures about that after I have my buds curing in their jars.
The thing I don't like about it is the sharp edges will cut roots... so that's what I'm afraid of.
family. I just don't have the time to post pictures, let alone catch up your journals! I do want to know what's going on, but this week is the annual convention for my company's industry. I'm swamped. 
I'm taking a 15 minute break to let everyone know why you won't be seeing much of me.
