I never did find the back build use. I have also placed a pencil on top of buds. In similar theory to build the bud, not much use. But I probably did it wrong.
I just grow, dry, and get them ready for my missus. There is My half a cent.
Rad. I thought I read something about 12 in center for COBs being the norm. You are combining the HPS though too,right?
just thinking out loud again. Happy sweetest buds !
I typed an earlier answer but never hit enter at 30W per COB and a goal of 30W per square foot, one COB per square foot is perfect. It's all about where to place those (roundish) square feet. I'll try something soon. The goal is to take one of the HPS out and run the COB alongside the HPS. I'll be hanging the COB in the front of the flower area where I can keep an eye on them. The front of the flower area is also where I place the girls closer to harvest where I can keep an eye on them, so the COBs will initially be used to finish flowering.
Congrats on the harvest Rad.
I've yet to sample an AK47.
I'm seeing dramatic improvement with my lighting upgrade. I'm feeling certain you will too.
I'm absolutely amazed at your Carnival. The way you grow these trees.
I'm still working at getting the lights installed. My social calendar has actually had one or two events a day for the past week - it slows me down. I cancelled the one because it was porch painting day, but it doesn't make sense to cancel most of them since they have mostly been about someone giving us food or money
My plan for the day was to harvest, wash, and trim - then eat some fat Prime Rib steaks given to us a couple of days ago by a 'prep' chef when his boss said "Take those steaks and their sauce home with you!" I woke up early so I weed whacker groomed the gardens before breakfast. Then a couple 3 blocks away, who are fast becoming close friends, called and asked if they could come over today. She and my wife shared several bowls while she and the girl trimmed my harvest. He offered to make his famously addicting Greek burgers - then shopped and prepared them on my charcoal grill while I harvested some fresh rosemary, helped him find spices and tools in the kitchen, and reheated the prime rib.
I have cooking photos but I'm having problems remembering my login and password to 420 magazine.
I'm not doing anything special to grow 'trees' - AK47 didn't get tall. My Carnival pheno just took off, 20 to 48" is 140% stretch at the Cat Drench. That's my biggest stretch to date and still going. If she goes 8 more inches, I'll be either supercropping or shuffling plants and raising the COBs to higher than the HPS hood can be raised. Given the buds I've seen on other Carnival grows, it's a good challenge to have
AK47 XTRM is one of my favorite strains, it's got just enough indica (25%) to add a good stone to the sativa zip. AK47 (Columbian, Mexican, and Thai sativas with 25% Afghan indica) and Amsterdam bred White Widow XTRM (Brazilian Sativa with 25% Afghan indica) combine to create a gentle high with a big initial kick. It's better smelling and tasting grown with the kit than grown in my build-a-soil mix. Freshly harvested it has a pleasant, sweet, citrusy aroma with a touch of sandalwood. If one mixed passion fruit, mandarin orange, grenadine, lime juice, coconut rum, and Captain Morgan spiced rum they might have a similar aroma.
Around noon, I took one hit off a bowl of Agatha (Ace Mix) with kief on top and it was enough to force me to reallly focus for the next 1.5 hours. I imagine the kief contained a significant amount indica
Similar effects abounded among the ladies - to the point where it took about 20 minutes to come up with the food schedule - which turned out to be "whenever the cook decides to cook
" When we went back to more contemplative discussions we did much better than when asked to choose a time.
Life was good today: Good food. Good friends. Good conversation.
Sounds like a picture-perfect day.
