Yeah, kief, leaf, small buds.
Looks like you could make it work.Nick Hardy and “TRNH” The Dissertation Grow:
#Greenhouse - Autopot - Coco - Autos Barneys / Dutch Passion - Northern Hemisphere - Long Distance Colab OG Skywalker and Auto Mimosa Punch
Day 19#
I had a nasty surprise today. There I was navigating the rainforest looking for coloured duct tape for this grow and I found some. Same 3M I get. Same everything. Nearly 3 times the price. Outrageous. Still can’t grow without pretty coloured duct tape can you?
If anyone hasn’t seen an Autopot system they’re basically a gravity fed auto watering SIP or a bit SWICKY Our one has a 47L 12.5 Gallon Res.
Here’s a link to a video someone else made using fruit veg as an example so all good with the Adult warning! Not interested in the video there’s a picture below.
We’re doing clayballs, soil/worm mix, perlite, soil mix perlite… you probably get it! Thanks BIll for the riff on his Bill284 method, Azi for (I was always open to this just needed the space!) but also helping me realise the obvious soil is gonna be easier if he’s going away. Although looking at the seed to harvest numbers (something a photo grower doesn’t use as a metric) I’m not sure maybe they’re done before he goes or in the middle.
Can just run them on a flush, oh no, no flush.
But @Azimuth actually suggested this it might work out perfect? Last week in the SIP theead. Disconnect the res for a drought for a couple of weeks come home with a red face having played bad golf and harvest. Hmm. Autos aren’t just gonna suddenly die and turn to rot when they hit their number. The whole flower when they want scares me enough already.
OK,
The Grow Fairytale Cottage
SYSTEM
A Four Pot Autopot system. Place the res 15cm or more above the pots. A float valve on each pot delivers water from below to the internal res as it goes below a certain point. How do you like them apples, Mr Newton?
There’’s a full setup vid here. No affiliation to them but ots a great video for anyone might be setting such a system up in the near future.
There’s the systems setup - there are a few bitnand pieces like USB rechargeable fans - a small solar panel. If that could run a fan that would be awesome.
THE GROW ROOM
Where the magic will happen. The seedlings are currently the other side of the back wall, maybe? Been to the house not the green house! To the right is a pile of seasoned firewood about half a ton I think. That’s moving and they’ll leave a 2x2x2m (8x8x8) spot to put the pots in. Some handy shelves on the left for tools and all the rest.
It looks like an Ok spot to grow in to me.
Nick & TRNH
That’s why I chose it! I need simple for this because autos plus soil being totally new to me I’m nervous. Probably don't need to be - he hasn’t grown weed before but has grown everything else in soil so sure he’ll end up schooling me in the near future.
Congratulations! Love the drying rack.Day #74 Grow Complete
Chopped the last 6 plants now.
The Indy was rough trimmed to buds with some leaf today to make room for them.
In the pictures that’s on the circular trays.
The stuff just chopped 5 or 6 Islands maybe a mis labelled one we’ll decide in the morning - that’s on the ladder. Quite a lot of volume. In the morning I’ll be anle to open the curtains and look properly.
So yeah the growing bit on the original “Graduation Grow” is done. Its just a relief I think to get them out. No mould risk now. The dry room is perfect.
I guess it will all be trimmed in about 10 days. Think the trim crew are coming at 11pm to start properly.
Can switch two of the lights off and lower the AC right off for the Solos.
Bit sad but hey. Lots of other grows going on.
We didn’t even pull them out and photograph them. So jaded that we are! There’s 1 plant on that blue plastic sled we used to move them at that point.
We have probably 2.5KG finished off perfectly from the last harvest plus this will probably come in about 4kg - that’s pretty much a 25% increase. But we added three plants which is a 17% increase. Net out 10% ahead. Meh. Feel like we missed a trick or two with those strains. Be great to be selling some…
Still not all bad! After the room is rebuilt we go again. The Strawberry and Indy for sure. The 8-9 week strains mixed with 10-11 weekers is so much pain. Hopefully we’ll be filling her up again before the end of the month with some lessons learned. Focus on clones next week. Also depends when my seed batch arrives. Mimosa x Orange punch from Barneys in bound.
See already I’m happier!
Some pics below. Sorry even for me they’re not great!
Nick & Co
Dear & Co,
I didn't see "next weekend" in there until I reread it lol! Yes, please hold that till the weekend
Love the stands for those little girls. Very coolAll empty. Not seen it like this ever really. I was ordered out the house while the drainage system was being built, the. After last harvest the ones just chopped were going in immediately.
Needs a bit of a clean! The builders said they’ll come on 3 days notice. No rush. Next weekend maybe. Although its & Co’s birthday. Take a look at how we are for plants tomorrow or something. It’ll be nice just having two plants to worry about for a bit!
Ah outdoor grow. I can do that for a few days too!
Nick
I’m definitely cloning her. The toughest little plant that ever lived! She has taken literally everything, and I mean everything that I didn’t give her for 6 months and just rolled slowly on Photo tomorrow.Very nice.First proper/final trim has started.
Its the Strawberry. Smells so good.
These are off first tray finished.
These are lovely. Plenty of cure to come.
& Co complaining they’re so sticky the cutters keep needing swapping out and the others are cleaned in alcohol. High quality problem!
EDIT - Uh oh. Looked in the veg tent first time in 2 weeks? There’s about 30 I could get ready in a week for the flower room. Glad the lights are just at 50%
Nick & Co
Weed nutes will grow you the finest tomatoes you’ve ever grown.Quick update, a few things.
Trim Graduation Grow
We reckon we got 2-3x more from 8 Strawberry than 7 Indy. Makes me sad like I missed something on the Indy grow (actually I know the two little mistakes - actually my wasn’t “little” - but another time) but makes me happy because we got so much Strawberry which I love.
& Co reckons they’ll be 3-4 days more strawberry - 1 more week dry after and then cure.
We’re going to dry more because when they do downstairs for trim as its so much more humid down there. Then bag up in Groves until sold.
The Indy will be 2 days maybe. That’s fine because then the Island will be ready to go after a weeks dry. 3 days. When asked more Indy or Island did she think - “IIIII-LAAAND” and then snorted as she does at what she thinks as stupid talk
Fairytale Cottage Greenhouse Grow
Apparently all good. TRNH is only comfortable doing two plants (stealth) so he’s gonna take the best of each strain and give two when we up pot to a mate down the road who’s a keen grower and open to trying a new species of plant! Anyone have any suggestions for something that could go in the two spare pots let me know - I don’t think weed nutes work for much else but if anyone has any suggestions let me know. We coukd just not connect them to the main res. Same guy who’s getting the freebie plants can water them. Then he can grow what he wants there but be fun to see what full blast nutes in a peat and worm filled soil can do with something you can put on the table and eat. Chillies maybe? Final bit on that - the @DYNOMYCO was delivered. 100g the lucky bugger. Although its much cheaper there. I have to buy grey market. So waiting on the soil for our solo up pot. Tomorrow or Monday. So weekend or Tuesday up pot Solo and then a week and autopots.
The best bit of this is we probably average close on 100 80 messages a day normally. Like teenagers. But we talk maybe once every couple of months. Now we’re catching up call. Its very nice.
FINAL UPDATE - OUTDOOR
The Dos Si Dos got some nutes today. 2L or half a gallon. Then well water to overflow the res then run off again from the top. The nutes were actually from the Solos in flower. I’m hoping it stays dry so I can give her a proper veg mix tomorrow. Spoonful of Dyno to clear up what my inattention has wrought. A week and she’ll be good to flip
What a star!
Nick & Co
That has to be her pink tray….I hope….lmao!!Ha,
Been a bit jaded about it all lately - I lost the courage of my convictions a few weeks back and… yeah. Cost us some yield. But I have been reinvigorated. Obviously these are the best buds of the day. But when I joked its so good we ain’t selling any honey. We joked about how much I had to pay. Then suspiciously quickly she plucked those put them on the tray and said “Ok for you. Now we even on the electricity bills.”
But it was too quick. Too generous.
“Babe the best ones today, yes? How much you sort today out of all the Strawberry?”
- Huh, you want deal? What mean?
“& Co how much?”
- Maybe 20%. This middle.
“I think I maybe wait and choose later”
Got a cackle which means I chose well. I’m sure the biggest one or two are hidden under her chair as a voila later as well
Nick & Co Arch Negotiators since we met!
Its a small tray
