Re: Phenominawesome Family First Grow Tries Aurora Indica, AK48's - 1KW MH/HPS - 5x5
Day 54 Harvest 0.1! - "More noob hyjinx".
I was going to say that I cut down the Aurora bit that's mean.. She's finishing up nicely.
Matter of fact, she is the most mature but also we want her to go as long as possible without making Ambien.
So ending of week 8 and everything is going swimmingly.
I decided to sacrifice the mystery Iced Grapefruit plant yesterday to an experiment and harvested the top half on day 54. Letting the bottom half continue unless it dies or herms...its been a full day and the plant looks fine. Didn't even droop at all, wonder if it's in mh shock.
Trichomes are milky on the buds harvested. There were an amber here and there as well a couple still clear. Not ideal really but not upset with the effect for sure.
Total honesty, out of money for medicine and I couldn't bring myself to interfere with the others. I am tracking weights and will do a smoke report on some that is dried and cured well for at least a little bit.
This is my smallest plant by far and truth be told I didn't care for the mother very much so we were both like, wth let's try it.
I think this was actually Super Iced Grapefruit from spain, hence the odd look that I couldn't place when compared to regular Iced Grapefruit.... Anyway.
This thing stacked way too tight making airflow impossible without heavy defoliation and even then the lowers got little light. Add the rediculous amounts of resin and the leaves just get all stuck while trying to grow. That trait alone is why I'm keeping the seeds. If that could be locked in and the potential bisexuality bred out, it would be a rosin dream come true. Who knows.
Some foreshadowing : I made a great choice
some crazy potent stuff...
The reason the buds looked the way they did, I come to find is similar to what I see in breeding rooms.
They have a good deal of very large ripe tiger striped seeds deep in the buds. Telling me that it had to be that bisexual plant doing the pollination.
Anyway, I have the buds hanging in a closet upside down and will be moving them to my office closet that has a more stable humidity level.
The current dry is the closet on the grow room so humidity spikes. I can keep the other closet a perfect temperature and close on humidity.
We dried a couple of buds to sample at 150 degrees for 4 hours in a toaster oven...I know, I know...
I have to digress a second here and say only this.
I am a coffee snob. I do not like shitty coffee. I will drink whatever you have to wake up, but dangit I will take the extra time and money to have good coffee most of the time.
When I smelled the chlorophyll I thought what the hell this is garbage?! I just literally grew a bunch of grass
I really had no idea this smell would present itself and how embarrassing. It's a plant what would I expect?
I knew you had to dry properly for a good smoke and plan to for the majority, but I didn't understand that the cure is about removing chlorophyll and letting terpines express themselves better.
So that is why I bring up the coffee snob thing. I finally get the reason for a good cure. It will be great when we have enough on hand to be more patient.
Quick question how long of a cure does it take to remove most of the chlorophyll smell?
I didn't taste it too much when smoked although it was a little harsh. Heck not as harsh as some of the stuff we buy haha.
AK5 will be next... Maybe a week.
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