Oh No - It's A Green Hole! - Reverse Thrusters! - Dammit - Too Late!

[Weaselcracker]

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I did another fly by. Wrestled the three remaining big plants out of the veg room and into screens and into flowering. A Blueberry, Pineapple Chunk, and a Mama Thai.
This leaves me with a veg room mostly full of babies. After growing a fully packed veg room for months- I culled a bunch and managed to mismanage the situation enough that I'll soon have a half empty flowering room. Once I harvest the 3 PCs I won't have anything to replace them with. Partly thanks to the GSC quality miscommunication which led me to axe the vegging GSC. Oh well- that's alright. Maybe I'll move a couple babies in there and flower them without the scrog or something. Or plant some salad greens.
Here's how I scrog a plant.

Mama Thai - was vegging for about ten weeks. It's in a ten gallon pot.

A few minutes later... It will spring up and look happy again in a day or two. I'll do some not-so-fine tuning of the limb arrangement in a week or so.

The pineapple mess. It's just been getting water for a few weeks. Today I gave it water with a little molasses. Not sure what I'm doing there really , but maybe it will improve flavor or give it a boost of stickiness....
The mess actually looks better in real life. The buds have turned out pretty nice.

The veg room.
The new Thai Stick strain in middle. I don't know if it's a boy or girl yet...

 

[Weaselcracker]

look so beautiful WC! Such an amazing grow, thanks for letting me be a part of it and soak up some amazing knowledge along the way. It was an honour!

Well done Weasel

She looks good

Thanks guys! You are so sweet

 

[Weaselcracker]

Hey weasel i was thinking about how you said the blueberry was a pain to trim so I gotta ask do you dry trim or wet trim. I heard try trimming is easier but i haven't tried it yet so I don't know for sure. Was just thinking about it.

I always trim it wet if possible. I suppose I've never hung a plant to dry whole and them tried trimming it after. The times I have had to do any trimming of dry buds though, it felt all wrong and I hated doing it. It felt like trichomes were breaking off and falling everywhere and I was trashing the bud. Probably that was just in my head- since when you trim a green bud you are rupturing trichomes everywhere and trashing the bud just the same or worse. But I prefer wet.
The blueberry wasn't horrible to trim- it was kind of difficult but partly that was because I had it in my head all month that it was going to be incredibly easy so it was an unexpected few hours of toil...

 

[lexort420]

Ya i trim when the bud is still wet but i hear ya on the dry trimming because I always thought the same way that I would be screwing up the trichomes lol now that I know a little more it seems to be more about preference then right and wrong ways of doing stuff. So that blueberry must just have a high leaf to bud ratio then? If that is the case from what I have read its genetic and not much that can be done lol. Anyways keep up the great work and thanks for helping me over on my journal. I appreciate it so much this community is absolutely awesome.

 

[Weaselcracker]

Your welcome Lexort! Always remember to take whatever I say with a grain of salt though. I like helping and it helps me learn stuff along the way too, but just cause I'm saying it doesn't always mean it's right ha ha. If I waited till I knew everything- I wouldn't get out much.
The BB was medium leafy- but the leaves were sticky and floppy and really clung to my scissors a lot. I think next time I'll let it go another week. Maybe it would firm up a bit. Some of the tips of the biggest buds had the feel I wanted- where the sugar leaves are more brittle. I've often had plants where I could go over the buds and do 90% of the trimming without scissors- by just yanking the sugar leaves off. They will sometimes snap cleanly off at the base with a tug. This seems to be partly related to how they're grown. Maybe how ripe they are. Also if they've been overwatered a bunch they will get brittle- though maybe the quality is suffering in other ways then I'm not sure.

 

[ganjazz]

Noticed with more fluffy buds its better to dry good before trim.

With denser nugs doesnt matter that mush.

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That blueberry outside is awesome,great cola's.

Other plants look fine aswell.

 

[lexort420]

Well let us drink from this fountain of knowledge together then and smoke our forbidden fruit lol. Sorry had to go there lol. I just have to say once again that for how often your away you really have a great garden. Peace.

 

[TheRoach]

Wow bro, those are massive amounts of cannabis. I can only imagine how your drying/curing place smells.

 

[glimmergrass]

That's ... a LOT of cannabis

Thank you so much for sharing your grow and your knowledge. I really appreciate the latest tips on trimming -- wet seems to be the way to go

 

[Amadeus Forzin]

Checking in as part of my therapy. Lookin nice

 

[Weaselcracker]

That's ... a LOT of cannabis

Thank you so much for sharing your grow and your knowledge. I really appreciate the latest tips on trimming -- wet seems to be the way to go

Wow bro, those are massive amounts of cannabis. I can only imagine how your drying/curing place smells.

You think so? I suppose it is a large amount. Somehow it doesn't seem all that much when I look at it here. But- it is more than I ever had before. Before the journal started I was just running one light most of the time. Also, the general rule for me has been that- whatever can possibly go wrong, will go wrong, so I wasn't necessarily expecting many of these plants to work out.
This will have been my most succesful run to date assuming disaster doesn't strike the PC section of the grow. This summer I took on the responsibility of providing for two patients- with a third who is in the process of getting her medical approval. The two main guys each have a maximum allotment of 150 grams (5 ounces+) a month- though I haven't been able to provide nearly that much. My average plant seems to produce about 3+ ounces- and they all take over three months to flower, if they finish succesfully which they often don't. The last few plants I've managed to limp home though. The GSC as I mentioned turned out to be 'complete shit' Lol. The WW is very questionable still. Mama Thai was past her prime and had seeds, but the blueberry was good, and the PC looks good.
I was going to run this journal till...? Maybe till all the plants I started with have been harvested. Than maybe I'll switch something up a bit.
Now that I'm down to five flowering plants for the near future- I may shut down one light.
I like the idea of providing for the patients and it has been a surprisingly nice feeling to be able to help people on top of indulging in the hobby. Im going to reassess the situation after the next harvest and decide what to do. Maybe there's no need for me to be managing 8 plants an I could just go down to 4 under one light. To date it's been mostly a trade system and more often than not I'm trading herb for salmon and vegetables and jars of homemade jelly!

 

[Robert Celt]

Trading is always a great thing WC, so long as they have things that you are interested in and want

 

[Weaselcracker]

Trading has been nice. I love it actually. Half the economy of this area seems to run on trade. It's very rooted in the local culture. Up till recently I didn't even start weighing the herb. A pint mason jar holds about an ounce so it was- ' I went fishing- being me a jar or two and I'll set you up with a pile of smoked salmon and a couple bottles of homebrew'. Stuff like that. I started weighing the last few plants. The reason being- now that I have the scrog screens- each is 1/4 of a light's footprint. So I should be able to figure out how much I'm producing per light. I've only weighed 3 plants so far and it looks like I'm getting between 0.6 and 0.8 grams per watt which I'm fine with. Gives me some rough idea how I'm doing in the scheme of things. Before I did the scrog and had natural plants coming and going all the time in the perpetual- I had no good way of measuring.

 

[TheRoach]

That sounds nice, some smoked salmon and local brews. Damn, I would trade my pot too. Salmon is almost as expensive as gold here haha

 

[UncleCannabis]

Any plans to share or barter some of that fresh salmon with your 420mag pals? If so, I'll take a number and get in line.

 

[Robert Celt]

BBQ'd with lots of onions, dill and lemon????

 

[Weaselcracker]

Yum! I'd so love it if legalization would sweep the continent and we could be mailing each other samples, seeds, and possibly clones -if someone puts their minds to inventing a clone life-support pod with a little oxygen and led light to last a week or two in the mail. This would be so fun!
Fine. I'll mail you some salmon.

 

[iwltfum]

-if someone puts their minds to inventing a clone life-support pod with a little oxygen and led light to last a week or two in the mail.

My local hydro store started stocking these a couple months ago. It's basically a black coffee cup (like the kind you bring with you in your car) with a neoprene insert and a clear plastic cup that connects upside down to the black cup and has a little led light at the top. Happy Wednesday!

 

[lexort420]

That would be so awesome WC i aswell as all of you im sure just can't believe that this woderful plant is illegal. Its like making potatoes illegal because you enjoy potato chips too much lol. Iwltfum anway you can get a picture of this clone habitat? It would be awesome to see. If not it's cool lol.

 

[B A R]

Congrats on the chop Weasel.