The Scarlet family album

[Going2fast]

So I got a new organiser for my beans. Whilst reorganizing I came across these. Completely forgot about them. When I made this seed run I also reversed a bloody skunk from Sweet Seeds in hopes of making some s1 seeds. The reverse was successful but she produced no pollen. Just empty flowers. as with scarlet sunset I only reversed half the plant so I pollinated one bud with sunset but it was late in the run and I didn't think they would mature. Ended up getting 11 nice dark beans off of the bud but as scarlet grapes has taught me color isn't a good indicator. I know what I'm popping next.

[Going2fast]

Depends on the size and health of the plant. As soon as you are able begin lst. Just go slow and get the top node bent over 90%. Here's grapes just before harvest lst only.

[Ckbrew]

Day 25

The Scarlets have been topped, one is is LST (that one is hiding int eh back) the others I may torture some other way in the future. I want to see what I have to work with before I bend them over. The big fan leaves have been tucked under so the shoots are getting as much light as possible.How long do you leave the big fan leaves at the bottom before trimmig? Normally I would have cut them by now. It may be moot soon, they are hanging in the coco and it is taking a toll. I thought I saw a hint of a pre-flower on one of them. (The plant in lower left is a RP).

[Going2fast]

I only take them off if they are touching the soil or have yellowed. Not a fan of removing leaves unless needed. I wait till flower stretch then thin as needed. They look happy.

[Going2fast]

Trolling for a response from the gingerdudebroman. How's the harvest going?

[Going2fast]

Tee hee hee hee

[Gingerbeard]

HA! I'm so embarrassed. Got most everything blasted, doled out, or spoken for before wrap-up. Harvest day was a day and two after my last pictures.
I'm going between 250-260 grams. Let's call it an even 9 ounces. Probably one of my top productions. Most of the harvest was like the buds you see. Laid Down Sally was pretty much larf but loaded with trichs!
Blasted 3 - 42 gram columns. The results are in the purge chamber. Looks like a good percentage.
Can't get over the lavender/magenta colors.

[Gingerbeard]

Oh, yeah. The hay smell during drying. Hardly a bit. I'm wondering if the lack of hay has something to do with letting my coco go dry before cutting, or if dry trimming has something to do with it.
About the dry trim. I usually do a good bit before hanging. No a full on trim, just major leaves. This time I removed only most of the fans.

[Going2fast]

She is usually sweet vanilla but have had the citrus terp come thru on occasion.

[Gingerbeard]

The only things I did not process were the main fans and stems. Every bit of leaf had trichomes.

[SoOrbudgal]

That's so true about the trichs with these strains. When i trimmed my batch i had trichs on the stems even. I'm enjoying all of them every evening

[Gingerbeard]

I took my LED apart to see how much dust accumulated in 4.5 years of sporadic use. Took a look at the light panel and saw two LED's have gone black. Along with the mix of Miracle-Gro in my coco, I'm wondering if they have anything to do with LDS's long stretch and larfy buds.

[Going2fast]

Probably not. The zamaldelica parent is pure sativa. Had one myself do that a long with one galaxy brain. Still stellar smoke.

[Gingerbeard]

Well, the big tent grew short plants. Like, the shortest I've grown by far. Even the biggest in the big tent was relatively short. LDS wound up with 10" long, long 3 finger fans at the very top of the plants. Stella and the others looked like Indica all the way. As far as I know the difference between Indica and Sativa.

[Ckbrew]

Day 29 of the Scarlet

All have been topped, one was early LST, one late LST, the other 3 still waiting to see how they develop. The 2 larger plants are galaxy which are in training and are starting to show a hint of preflowers.

[SoOrbudgal]

Those are some lush plants Ckbrew big fat fans on them. Your lucky i'm not in your house i'm so heavy with clipping on those big fans i just want to remove them.

[Bluey]

I only remove the lower fans as part of the topping and then when the upper fans have developed remove those touching the soil. I leave on as much as I can. After 9.5 weeks of flower The lower fans were still going strong. I did have too many bud sites that weren't viable. Mind you with sativas I don't think it wise to hack them back too much...they don't always react well to it when in flower.
They are all looking great!

[Ckbrew]

I'm usually a heavy cutter as seen with how I train the photo plants. My theory is if it will not be needed in the future then cut it as soon as it is not needed now and that will stimulate new growth. It is taking much restraint to not trim them. First time growing autos on purpose.

[Going2fast]

Happy ladies.

[Going2fast]

Don't succumb to temptation. Leave the leaves be. First 30 days of an auto is real crucial in not pissing them off. Tucking is your friend.

[SoOrbudgal]

Oh i do leave it alone and don't clip until they are older I should of said that sorry. I do not remove large fans until they are over 8wks on Autos. With photos I remove huge fans all the time when in the tent.

[Ckbrew]

Don't succumb to temptation...

Day 30
I have not succumbed but I have been tempted. They are starting to show preflowers. I guess it is time to adjust the nutes to a flower formula. No dank aroma yet. I have continued to bend galaxy1, g2 was bent and tied a week or so ago. The sunsets have had their main stem softened, bent over, and tied. The fans leaves that I really want to cut have all been tucked under and spared the cutter.



The galaxies, I do believe they are starting to stretch.



The sunsets

[Going2fast]

Pics are missing.

[Ckbrew]

You don't see six different pix? I see them but can not zoom on them.

[Bluey]

No pics here

[Gingerbeard]

Sorry. If you read the other one, wrong thread.

Blasting got me 19g from 126. 15%. A real fine percentage. Got crumble this time. It would be more obvious had I the right paper. Otherwise it breaks up. You say this is a Sativa. My body says it is a bona fide ass dropper. Ain't shit getting done around here and I pretty much bought healthy munches at Sprouts instead of healthy food. Smoked the flower. Smoked the Fiscar hash. Dabbed the dab. S. Galaxy hits me and my similarly drug addicted friends like a heavy Indica.
I'll be pondering S. Grapes or S. Sunset for my next grow, whilst getting rid of and refilling my pots with coco. I'll be getting rid of and refilling my pots with coco as soon as that last dab starts to wear off.
'tis a good weed, you Scarlet Pimpernel, you!

[Ckbrew]

Looks like a sponge of goodness. What is the booger at the bottom?

[Going2fast]

Looks delicious. interesting she's my after work mtn biking or fishing warm up. I think you do enough of any of them they will floor you and you my friend don't play when it comes to concentrating.

[Gingerbeard]

Ckbrew that booger is side scrapings that do not get agitated. To get the crumble consistency, the blast needs to be agitated to get air in and vacuum/heat purged to burn off the solvent. As the solvent evaporates, the goodness in the solvent warms up and holds the air pockets. It's a matter of purge, agitate, purge, agitate...
I will not discuss my solvent of choice as there are many to choose from and I do not want to open up the can of worms about using Satan's underarm deodorant.