atu micro grow

[oldjarhead100]

text book = perfection

[alltatup]

Awwwww suh weeet

[alltatup]

Rounding out wk 5 12/12 and wk 4 flower. The 8ball kush and the euphoria CBD are starting to triche up.

I can't wait to get my next grow started in my Roomie BCNL box, but I gotta wait till June. I'm gonna have surgery, and I keep focusing on the next grow. Not to avoid the fact that I'm having surgery: I'm pretty calm about it; my tinctures are taking excellent care of the bodymindspirit I inhabit. It's part of the ritual, the dance of growing older, and I think I will come out the other side of the surgery being more of a woman warrior, a wicca witch, than before. I have to have the bicuspid aortic I was born with replaced, so in effect, the operation will open up the heart more. Oh well: it is what it is. It's a step in my life.

I'm gonna grow 4 cup winners in June, as soon as I'm able to shuffle about the house, and I'll get my vaping buddy to haul water for me for a coupla weeks. OG Kush and Royal Gorilla by RQS, and NL and Shiva Skunk by Sensi. From all the research that I did, I decided that RQS's version of Gorilla Glue was the one I wanted to try; these "strains" (actually, they are chemovars) are not all the same. One breeder's WW or Jack Herer is not the same as another's, etc. And I concluded that Sensi has the winner with their NL (Genetics: NL #1 x NL #2 x NL #5, old school NL. The Shiva Skunk is NL#5 x Skunk#1: "The original Skunk hybrids fused traditional cultivars from Central and South America, Afghanistan and Thailand."

RQS's OG Kush: it has over 350 reviews on RQS's website. Genetics: Chemdawg x Lemon Thai x Pakistani Kush. I love learning about all the strains, and I love blending buds to make my own hybrids!

[Canuck147]

Great write up - good luck with your surgery - plants look great!

[alltatup]

Thanks all!! You can pray for me, but make sure you smoke a blunt for me!!!

[Doubledealing72]

Good luck with your surgery atu! Your girls are looking great as always!

[strainsgrow]

Looking great! Hopefully they wont strech much. Subbed to see this grow progress! ✌

[alltatup]

Welcome, strains: I think they're through stretching: now I wanna see the buds fatten up...

[oldjarhead100]

still amazing ATU

[oldjarhead100]

Off topic ATU but you know Buddy shes off of her eggs took 3 weeks of sitting but she finally gave up and I took them out of cage she is one happy girl ,the draw back is she wants me to scratch her head long enough to make up for the 3 weeks she was on them lol

[oldjarhead100]

wrong ATU I have one wife and 11 girl toddlers we lost 5 of the chickens over the winter lol but I do love my babies

[alltatup]

OJH, that parrot lays her eggs for YOU. You are her betrothed!!!!

[oldjarhead100]

I'm afraid you might be right lol

[alltatup]

Ending week 5 flower. I discovered that part of my 200w cfl bulb was not working, so the girls got about 75% of the light they should have been getting. So I switched out the fked up bulb for a good one. It's true what they say about these large cfls: they are extremely delicate and expensive; I hate them. That's another reason why I never recommend SuperCloset to anyone. BIG MISTAKE/LESSON OF THIS GROW: CHECK THE LIGHTBULB!!

Closeups of RQS Critical (Sat. looking) and BF 8ball Kush (short and squat). They both have 2-3 more weeks to go, and I want to keep a record of how much they fatten up. I hope the bulb mistake didn't cause extreme damage to bud development, or this will truly be a micro grow and I will only harvest a few grams!!!!!

[oldjarhead100]

I don't think a bulb out would change mush it couldn't of been out that long anyways

[alltatup]

Starting week six flower. Waiting for miracles to happen. I think they may all need an extra week, but we'll see what happens over the next two. Holding my breath. Asking my girls to produce phat buds.

The other pics are my carniverous plants, who love the dirty south.

[Dutchman1]

Love the carnivorous plants ATU. Are they bladder-wort and sun-dew?One looks like pitcher

plant.

[oldjarhead100]

I like them too I will have to show my honey shes been planting like crazy the farmers market starts this Thursday . Dont be surprised when she asks for seeds lol

[alltatup]

Dutchman1 There are two kinds of pitcher plants there. I have to separate the babies; last year they were huge, but they've started over this year. I've got two types of sundew and so many fly traps. They thrive here, and I believe this is a native habitat for fly traps; it's very swampy in some parts of the surrounding forest.

oldjarhead100
My carniverous babies have multiplied so much that I have given away many plants. I wish Chris could just come and pick some up!!!

[alltatup]

In week 8 flower, harvested Royal Queen's Critical on Sunday. Dried the buds in my dryer and then decarbed: 11.5 gm, and it smells like the Taj Mahal, magnificent. Triches were mostly cloudy, some opaque and some clear. I spotted an amber here and there, just the way I like it.

It's just like they say: the buds really do phatten up in the final weeks, even in a micro grow. Been raining like a sumbitch here, so dehumidifier brough humidity down from 70% to 47% inside box.

[JimmyPapaya]

@ATU, Beautiful ladies! So you dry and go straight to Decarb? Why, preparing to make tinctures? You don't cure in the jars first? Just trying to learn what you're doing! Thanks for your wisdom in advance!

[alltatup]

JimmyPapaya You're too kind!! One of the ideas that I got off the Ardent Nova website (that's the decarb machine) was to decarb buds as soon as they are dry. I've done it on the last couple of grows, and I really like the way it turns out, and it stores really well, the aromas are intense and wonderful, and it stays that way (stored in cool dark place). Then it's ready for whatever I want to make, and I think that decarbed bud vaporizes great. It's prolly all in my head, but I think the high is deeper.

I have really fallen in love with concentrates, so I'm making tincture and vape pen juice. I studied up and found out that probably most commercial vape juices are made with proplyne glycol, which is not safe: PG produces formaldehyde when vaporized. So all the expensive liquidizers the cannacapitalists are selling for folks who want to make their own canna juice are also made with PG or Vegetable Glycerin, which isn't good to vape, either. These are both FDA approved substances, but they're used in things like toothpaste, and FDA doesn't know shit about what vaporizing PG or VG might do.

So I'm using MCT, which is "Medium Chain Triglyceride" made from coconut oil, and it makes an absolutely excellent liquidizer to add to oil.

I'm gonna post the concentrate procedure here later this week.

https://forum.growweedeasy.com/forum/growing-community/202131-tincture-question/page2

[oldjarhead100]

ATU that sounds interesting drying then putting them in the Nova right off before burping them , How do the buds come out of the nova are they still moist

[alltatup]

OJH, it depends on how dry they are when they go in the Nova. I won't put really wet buds in there.

Decarbing it makes all uses better for me.

[oldjarhead100]

it does for me too . so I successfully did some rso oil I added about a 1/4 cup of coco oil to it and it came out pretty good I got 7 10 ml syringes out of it and I still have the the original weed I can do a second run or have it at night ,

hears your morning chuckle Buddy is in display mode this morning that means she will open her wings and tail looking for a mate she is ,anyways its quite pretty except shes doing it everywhere on my shoulder so I get a wing to the eye or a tail ,she opened on my chest blocked the computer screen on my arm so I cant type (never could anyways) and shes not stopping this morning ,I hate it when the birds are horny lol

[alltatup]

You have a great healthy bird there--a tribute to your skills!!!

[Agentbuckwold3]

So happy to see you come over to the micro side )).

[alltatup]

Hey Bucky!!! Good to hear from ya!! :-}