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technical precisionaryness
Cool trifoliate (sp?) baby Nivek.
Not a heck of a lot of that technicalish stuff going on around at my place let me tell you. Maybe the grass growing operation always looks more technical on the other side? I have noticed that effect with a lot of pursuits in life.
The stuff you haven’t tried yet is usually more technical looking than the stuff you already have tried. Except I guess for the things that are a lot more technical looking
after you try them. Generally it’s like
‘The water’s fine once you’re in, c’mon!’
Or so we like to tell everyone.
Or so Skybound likes to tell everyone anyway...
Read up, source the parts, spend a month or two learning codes, build and program a 3D printer so I can get started on figuring out how to print out, build and program a bigger and better 3D printer? Sure why not? Or I could just watch? Looks technical....
Also some people have the knack of focussing on technical stuff, and even more importantly, remembering it later so th... Hey look!! a butterfly!!!
Whoops it flew away. Shit. So as I was saying- about the seeds. They ought to be Chocolope x Golden Tiger. The GT was a male from reg seed. I guess it might have been a moth. It
is the middle of the night and all....
I’ve been doing a few side by side experiments lately. I’ve found myself too busy to properly pay a lot of attention to them and take photos of progress, etc. Which probably diminishes some of the white knuckle excitement of these tests for the hordes of people following this journal. But they’re still useful tests.
——Test #1
is the side by side ‘super high vs super low PH’ test. This is in my grow medium, Sunshine Mix #4, which consists of peat moss with about 30% perlite, and some lime.
One clone went through flowering with feedings of about PH 3, which is basically where my PH lands when I mix the bottled nutrients, pre-adjustment.
The ‘high PH’ clone had the same feed but at around PH 10, give or take a little. Basically I’d toss some PH + into the mix until it was insanely high and then feed it to the victim. Sometimes it was 9, sometime 11.
Anyway, shockingly, both plants seem fine- or at least equally as fine as all the other plants with well-adjusted PH. I’ll get some photos at harvest time. Now that my LEDs are not in the flowering room anymore it’s once again difficult to get any decent photos under normal-ish light.
——Test #2
is the ‘flushed vs unflushed’ test. Or, more accurately, the ‘feed till the bitter end vs -stop feeding before the bitter end’ test.
Those two plants are almost at harvest as well and the results don’t look particularly earth shattering, the bud actually looks pretty similar on both of them so far. It’s kind of hard to see under that light and I’ll have a better idea in about a week
——Test #3
is the ‘dry your bud too much and it will never cure again. Or will it?’ test.
So this, as with the other two tests, was partly prompted by some forceful comments on the forum. Also - it’s just something I’ve questioned increasingly over the years. People say that once you over-dry your bud after harvest, the curing process stops dead and it will not cure after that. The idea being, as I read it, that once your RH drops below 55% (cause you screwed up and let it dry too much), whatever elements/microbes/bacteria which effect the changes we call ‘curing’, are killed,
and will not return. And your bud will not be good thereafter.
To the end of testing this I left a bud of Strawberry Blue on the shelf in a warm dry room to dry to a crisp. Actually I then went sailing and forgot it there for a week so it was definitely crispy. The main portion of the SB harvest was put in the jar to cure normally.
The crispy bar was divided into two parts and put in smaller jars. One of the small jars got a 62% Boveda pack to rehydrate it. In a few months I will try smoking the various buds and see if I can detect radical differences. I’m going to try this with a few more harvests in future as well, because it’s something I would like to test out a bit more thoroughly than just once. Also my crispy sample is smaller then I intended, and I didn’t mean to crisp it for a week. I just want to replicate screwing up the drying process, and then see if the bud cures well after that or not.
There was some other stuff I was going to say but this damn butter moth/fly keeps flittering around the cabin.
Edit. Oh yeah I remember now
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The LEDs. I’m having some question how well these are actually working, given that the buds under them seem small and sort of listless. As I said before it’s sort of like they barely know there’s a super bright light just above them. They don’t seem to want to look up, or go towards them.
To be fair, the plant that is under them is my main ‘problem plant’, the clone of the original P Chunk, which I have been cloning and re-cloning for four years. I think it has lost its will to live so it’s not exactly the best test subject. I should bring some young seedlings in and see how they do. However, since I’ve gone this far with the PC I don’t want to pull it out now- so I’m sort of committed to keeping it there....
I asked Grizzwald about it because he has the same lights. He reported similar worries. Nivek has some too. Lights that is, not worries. The jury is out. Probably smoking dope over at Graytail’s place.
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So where does my money go, up someone’s nose perhaps, eventually?
