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Rider509
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Ha! There's the bright spot in shrinkage. More trichomes per unit area.
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The MamaThai ThaiStik got a repreive. As someone pointed out, even though it's foxtailing it's still packing on the sugar. There are far more clear trichomes than amber. I gave it a good check and only found one more banana. It's a crapshoot but I'm going to ride it out and see what happens.
Great post Toast! This info is about soil though and probably doesn't pertain to Rider's grow specifically.
Does this information imply that Rider didn't give his plants the correct calcium (calcium phosphate because he didn't go organic), and therefore his buds would have had more trichomes if he had grown in soil with calcium phosphate?
The Thais normally throw out a ton of foxtails in late flowering. I usually harvest within a couple weeks after that.
Do you have a less blurry photo of the whole plant?
Do you have a less blurry photo of the whole plant?
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Unfortunately, no. Just the view from the grow room cam. It's def getting close to harvest, and I'm checking the older trichomes to judge readiness.
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I get the weirdest deficiencies. First the molybdenum def in the WW. Now a copper def in the Thaibodian Skunk. I knew it wasn't right when the leaves started feeling papery and should have hit them with a foliar feed of copper octanoate two weeks ago. If yer gunna be stoopid, yer plants gotta be tough. They've been foliar fed now so we wait and see.
This strain is know to exhibit this deficiency.
This strain is know to exhibit this deficiency.
Copper octanoate is category III for inhalation and IV for eye and skin irritation. Hope you wore protection!
Also, it doesn't degrade so careful trimming as well. Might even want to consider bud washing to get it off the trichomes before you extract.
Also, it doesn't degrade so careful trimming as well. Might even want to consider bud washing to get it off the trichomes before you extract.
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It can be used on food crops up to the day before harvest. And at the concentrations used you could bathe in it and join the BlueMan group.
Fair enough for your brother who will be ingesting the extract, but for anyone considering spraying and then smoking it, inhalation is a different story .
There are many properties that organics improves. It would make the buds more dense and resinous. Not really referring to trichromes but overall density and potency of the bud. Sorry yes i realized this info does not pertain to his grow but i thought it would be good info to know. Since he had showed the shrinkage of his giant buds lol.
JustMeds
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@imtoasted I am liking the soil info.
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Premature echopulation. This Thaibodian bud was being badly affected by the copper def so I chopped it to let the healthy buds down the branch have a chance. It weighed 20 grams, was washed and hung to dry. Let's see how much shrinkage occurs.
Scrogdawg
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A ton of trichomes on there. How much longer on them?
My money says 80% loss, it'll weigh 4 grams dry.
My money says 80% loss, it'll weigh 4 grams dry.
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I'd bet that's pretty close, SD. The breeder gave no info on expected length of flowering so it's just a guess but I'd say two more weeks. Earlier if the deficiency can't be controlled.
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Here's my quandary with this MTTS. You can see the brown leaves that'll be a bitch to trim out, and yet there are a ton of new pistils popping out everywhere. The trichomes say it isn't ready. My lazy ass says it is.
Who cares about trimming out every brown leaf? It's all going in the alcohol!
I say don't worry about the trichomes or the pistils. Pure sativas don't always act the same as indicas. It will never just stop growing. I've let them go past 16 weeks and there were still white pistils, but they sneakily turn more leafy and do some sort of reveg thing
I tried to grow amber trichomes with a mama Thai once and it wasn't possible for me.
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What I hear you saying is that the longer I let it go the more tedious the trim job will become...
OFF WITH THEIR HEADS! I'm tired of looking at it anyway. Gotta make room for the clones.
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What you're looking at here is a dedicated budbox crafted from the finest cardboard. Chosen for its immediate availability and fortunate size this budbox will be the testbed for the "shrinkage factor." No expense has been spared in constructing this non-hermetically sealed, completely uncontrolled drying chamber.
