My perpetual grow journal

[RosettaStoned]

Also, they have those humidipaks (integra-products.com) at my "gardening" store. I picked up a few for my purchased flower. Anyone ever use these for curing and storing?

[oldjarhead100]

I cure and when they reach 62%I will add the humi packs ,the humi should just be there to maintain the 62% RH,

[RosettaStoned]

10-4 👍

[alltatup]

Boveda used to be Humidipaks, so you're getting the good stuff, AND you can re-hydrate them when they go grainy!!! ;-}

[RosettaStoned]

Merry Christmas everyone!
a little root porn this morning and nice shot of my giant pineapple Express and two smaller bc pinewarp x bubblegummer (need to come up with a name for this). With the buckets, they have reached four foot tall. Week four of flower starts tonight. I'll do one final trim under the net/trellis and remove/tuck any fan leaves that are blocking light.

How much defoliation does everyone else do for flower?
I pretty much take out just what needs to be removed. As flowering goes on, I remove anything blocking a major growth site.

[alltatup]

Same here, just what absolutely needs to be removed. I even leave the fan leaves below when I do my modified lollipop to remove unwanted bud sites. Can't have too many solar panels, as long as they don't block the buds!

[D.A.A.S.69]

Hey RosettaStoned, I like your avatar, but your plants look great, and I'm like you on defoliating, mostly just the ones in the way, or the ones I can't tuck.
But everyone's different on that.

[oldjarhead100]

Not me Rosetta I take as many as I can the 3rd week of bloom ,I leave the bottom ones and the small ones that dont block light, haven't seen any bad effects yet lol

[RosettaStoned]

Bought two of these earlier tonight. Just caught the deal they had running. $56 each

Also decided to wait on the harvest of these other two. I'm giving them a week, give or take. I want to see more amber and it's slow goin....... patience

[alltatup]

Absolutely stunning, stoned: what is the strain? The bud shape is really interesting. could you take a closeup for me, please???

[oldjarhead100]

very nice stoned I was wondering the strain to due to bud shape looking great

[RosettaStoned]

Thanks again guys!

[RosettaStoned]

alltatup oldjarhead100 These girls are pineapple Express x black diesel. The friend who hooked me up with my grow stuff also made three out of the four strains I have. The others being pineapple Express, pineapple Express x White widow, and bc pinewarp x bubblegummer (just harvested that, eight quart Mason jars).
i like how they are growing different even though they are the same strain.

[oldjarhead100]

Those are amazing Rosetta ,how do the trics look the rest of the bud looks close to me but its the trics that count. Rosetta you should send these pictures to Nebula for pic of the week damn do they look cool

[D.A.A.S.69]

Morning RosettaStoned, I would most definitely make sure they are ready before you harvest, do not harvest if not ready. Wait. Get a loupe from Nebula on Amazon so you can see the trichs, about 15bucks, works great. Just don't harvest that beautiful plant unless she is ripe. You will be glad bigly ,that you waited. Patience.

[RosettaStoned]

Sent them to Nebula ojh!
Another question, how do I get the pictures to be scrollable, like everyone's here? Mine you have to click on each to see them.

[RosettaStoned]

I have these.
That's my issue....trying to figure out when to cut. My friend decided the pinewarp needed to be harvested and showed me how to trim. Now it's up to me he says.
i though it was going to be easier to determine cloudy vs clear. Amber is easy to tell. I'm guessing I just need a little experience to tell what I am looking at, and if it's what I want.

[RosettaStoned]

Did a little inspection just now. A lot of the views had 1-20 amber, looking through the 60x loupe. That's obviously out of the hundreds I see. I would say they are mostly cloudy too....I guess

[RosettaStoned]

Looky what me gots delivered today!

[alltatup]

Let there be light!

[RosettaStoned]

$112 for both!

[oldjarhead100]

holy cow thats a good deal makes me wan't to buy some extras lol

[RosettaStoned]

Started harvesting

[alltatup]

Ok Rosetta, good to hear!!! I just couldn't tell from the pic, but YOU clearly know what you're doing! ;-}

[RosettaStoned]

I hope I do haha

[RosettaStoned]

I am correct on the lights off part? I figured I would just leave them off for the few days I am harvesting. I want to finish my room when this these are harvested and in jars. Wanna ditch the tents and just separate my room, veg and flower. I think I'll have more sustained temps.
If I am ever doing something that doesn't sound right, let me know. I get all my info from here and my buddy who grew for 10+ years. He's not keen to what everyone is doing today so some of my info might be outdated. Thanks for everyone's help!

[oldjarhead100]

Thats a pretty kola Rosetta, it looks like your ready for a surgical procedure lol.

[RosettaStoned]

oldjarhead100 how well do the t5s work for veg?

[oldjarhead100]

thats all i use for veg I get mine from growershouse.com best pricing I've found

[RosettaStoned]

You da man! 😉

[RosettaStoned]

2nd plant harvested, other than the small stuff I didn't trim out under the net. Lights back on for a few more days for the last one to get a little more amber/milky. That one is trimmed underneath so I'll be completely done with my first grow. Just the curing of the buds.
Looking forward to making dry ice hash still need to order the bucket screens

The wife helped with some of the trimming so you'll have excuse some of the shaggy buds 😄

[alltatup]

Just gorgeous!! Nebula says in her dry/cure tutorial that you don't want the buds touching each other during dry; I just thought I'd mention that...Your wife did a great job trimming!!!

[RosettaStoned]

Thanks for that 👍

[RosettaStoned]

Typical change out night
40 gallons of water, trained 10 plants, and 13 bucket changes. Bumped up nutes on six bigger plants next in line for flower. Tent #2 started it's 5th week of flower and is looking good. Next week is the pk 13/14 feeding although I supplement a small amount throughout flowering.

Tended to the 18 clones for my sea of green, topped a week ago, going into their containers tomorrow with a light nute solution. Two weeks of veg before the switch.
i was going to use a double 150 watt hps hood, I made, to grow the sea of green but have the two 300 watt LED (132 watt draw) I could use. Any suggestions or comments on what you guys think would be better. I've read hps will always outgrow led but I am curious to try them out as well.

One more question, I had 19 clones but lost one leaving me with 17 of equal size and one two nodes behind. The 17 are topped but left the smaller one alone. Should I just let it go to catch up, hopefully, to the rest of them?

[alltatup]

I don't know about clones, but jeez, you are a growing fiend, a beast!!!

[oldjarhead100]

yes it may catch up and surpass the others

[RosettaStoned]

6 1/2 zips from the first plant. Not to count my chickens before they hatch, but.....the second and third are looking like they will be more