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**Eigholte** · 04-21-2019, 03:49 PM

End of Week 16 from seed / End of week 9 from 12/12:

At this stage of the game, I think I could potentially harvest at any time. The trichromes are largely cloudy all over, and some of the lower canopy are showing any where from trace to maybe 10% amber. They could go a little longer though, so I think I'll give them that one extra week, as planned, before the chop.

Still watering with "flush" nutrients - today's batch was around 280ppm.

Plant is also putting on some nice fall colors. Here's the plant as my grow light sees it.

And that same "bottom bud" from last time now looks like this:

We're getting really close!

The harvested buds from the top are not quite dry yet... otherwise I might have tried a sample. I'm a little excited to try a 1:1 CBD/THC plant - it'll actually be my first time trying anything with a respectable CBD content, so a little novel. In addition to that the buds have a scent right now that reminds me of papaya (Very peppery, spicy fruit notes). So I can't wait to see if that translates through to the vaping experience, as well.

**Eigholte** · 04-25-2019, 10:47 PM

Early Sample Report:

Uncured, dried flower. 0.2g ground and loaded into Pax 3, on lowest temperature setting (360F).

Flavours: Spice and Fruit, reminiscent of papaya, with a very slight sharp aftertaste (and some minty chlorophyll flavors due to lack of cure on this sample).
Dose: ~2-3 medium draws. Around 3 second inhale each.
Effect: Nice sense of relaxation, and a loss of muscle tension (Notable because I just finished an evening Mountain Bike session and was a little wound up). Went from reved-up to chill in about 60 seconds. Despite being relaxed, I have no real desire to sleep as such, unlike some of my higher THC experiences. Do have a sudden urge for a good massage and a glass of water, though that may be unrelated to the cannabis.

Full harvest is scheduled for this weekend. Timing looks right, plant is going purple and showing all sorts of fun color, and the trichromes are starting to really stand out, at least visually. I am hoping to have at least my wet-weight yield for my Sunday update this week, with final dry weight the week after that hopefully. Also hoping that my trim will be wet-cured, and turned into extract for next week, so I can give that a test run and report back. Final cured sample report could be a few weeks later than that depending on how curing ends up proceeding.

In other news - checked on my little trio of Blue Mystics this evening and they are MONSTERS. They're already at 4 nodes and ~6.5" canopy diameter at 11 days, and are beating out this plant at rate of growth fairly solidly (This plant was ~3 nodes at day 14). This is great... but I'm not ready to transplant them yet, dang-it! And I also have to harvest this plant and also am expecting tiny rabbits this weekend (which will need to be weighted and health-checked). I am going to be really busy...

(Edited to add a stupid after-thought: Wonder if my rabbits would appreciate the leaves from my crop... I've sampled the leaves, and they were actually really palletable, and I didn't notice any effects. According to this, it's hypothetically possible to use it as animal feed, at least in cattle - fermented hemp silage had promising results in a feed study ~15 years back. https://www.producer.com/2000/08/hem...energy-levels/ And the stats they give are very rabbit friendly - ~19% protein, high fibre and high calcium... I might have to actually look into this. It'd be a shame for perfectly good leaves to go to waste with a group of hungry herbivores just hanging around)

**Eigholte** · 04-28-2019, 04:23 PM

End of Week 17 from seed / End of week 10 from 12/12:
HARVEST DAY!

Today was chop day. The plant, under normal circumstances, would have been watered a day or two before, but because I knew the chop was coming, I skipped that last watering. So I had a rather floppy and thirsty looking plant to chop down today.

But it looked like the right time for harvest.

The chop took 3 hours, including clean up time. I was pretty aggressive about labeling things as "trim" since my trim is being water-cured and extracted to a tincture. I don't have to worry as much about "green" tastes with the water cure (though, that also seemed to take out some of the flavour last time. I think it may wash away any water soluble terpines, to some extent). And because light is my limiting factor, there was no shortage of fluffy, "undercarriage" buds that weren't worth my time to dry and slow cure for vaping.

So when all was said and done, I weighted out the parts of the plant after chop and got the following distribution:
(Keep in mind, this is on a water-starved plant, so it may be hard to reproduce these numbers on a well-watered plant)

Total weight: 680g 100%

Rootball (that I could dig out): 35g 5.0%
Stems, not attached to buds: 134g 19.7%
Fan leaves: 152g 22.3%

Trimmed flower and attached stems: 150g 22.0%
Trim for tincture making: 209g 30.7%

In addition to the above, the Cola's I harvested earlier are dry now, and came out to 9g dry weight. Not bad for a start!

And then, in less excellent news, I managed to bust my scissors trying to break up the massive main stem on this plant.

Need to get me some more non-stick scissors!

Have a good day, GWE!

**Eigholte** · 05-05-2019, 05:02 PM

One week post harvest:

The buds dried down over 6 days in my tent (lights off, fan on) at 50%RH and 20c (68F). They were then jarred for curing.

Yield of buds was 40g/1.4oz off one plant. It also yielded 35g of dried, water-cured trim which is now being turned into an extract.

So, I got 75g of harvest of this plant, which I think is respectable in my set up. It's an improvement off last grow where I got a total of 62g off two plants, at least!
So total wet "biomass" of the plant was 680g, and with 75g dry harvest, that means I got 11% of the plant as usable product. I think that's okay.

Here's my bud harvest validation photos.

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