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My first coco grow
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OldManGrower
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I am in error. We don't leave until the 11th. That's 3 weeks. Watering isn't my issue so much as harvesting and drying. I have a good reliable neighbor who has and will help me out. However asking him to harvest my crop or show up twice a day to burp the jars is asking a lot.
Bluey
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OMG I ran into your problem regarding curing and burping. My automation isn't quite at a level to burp jars.
So here's what I did.
I over dried them and I dried them too fast (unintentional on the too fast). I brought them down to 50 to 55% RH as measured in the jars and monitored it for 5 to 7 days to make sure they were not going to rise too high in the jar.
I then sprayed the lids a little or a lot depending on where they were at. The driest buds took a couple of weeks to rehydrate to get them up to 62%.
Once settled and burped to maintain 62% into long term storage. It has taken 6 months of curing to get back to a decent cure instead of 4 to 8 weeks as is usual but my main concern was to avoid mould in the jar.
If you can get your temps right down in your dry room and maintain a 60 to 65% humidity you may be able to dry them over two to three weeks utilising a dry trim and perhaps hanging the entire plant, roots and all.. I couldn't get my temps low enough for a slow dry and it was the first time drying inside my grow room so I learnt a bit.
If you can't slow dry then over drying a bit then jarring may be your only option...or perhaps water immersion method
So here's what I did.
I over dried them and I dried them too fast (unintentional on the too fast). I brought them down to 50 to 55% RH as measured in the jars and monitored it for 5 to 7 days to make sure they were not going to rise too high in the jar.
I then sprayed the lids a little or a lot depending on where they were at. The driest buds took a couple of weeks to rehydrate to get them up to 62%.
Once settled and burped to maintain 62% into long term storage. It has taken 6 months of curing to get back to a decent cure instead of 4 to 8 weeks as is usual but my main concern was to avoid mould in the jar.
If you can get your temps right down in your dry room and maintain a 60 to 65% humidity you may be able to dry them over two to three weeks utilising a dry trim and perhaps hanging the entire plant, roots and all.. I couldn't get my temps low enough for a slow dry and it was the first time drying inside my grow room so I learnt a bit.
If you can't slow dry then over drying a bit then jarring may be your only option...or perhaps water immersion method
OldManGrower
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For those of you following this post, I finally have my "Post Grow" report. This was my first grow using this medium and the results are as follows:
Total Harvest: 420 g. "no kidding"
Grams per Watt: 1.46
This is far better than I have ever done in soil. I am a convert!
Total Harvest: 420 g. "no kidding"
Grams per Watt: 1.46
This is far better than I have ever done in soil. I am a convert!
Rootsruler
New member
Nice haul!!! Well done. 420g is almost a pound.
The last run I did in the 5 x 5 I pulled 34 ozs doing a tester of 3 cultivars I now have in my mother tent. This run looks like I may beat that!
The last run I did in the 5 x 5 I pulled 34 ozs doing a tester of 3 cultivars I now have in my mother tent. This run looks like I may beat that!
Going2fast
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C'mon man don't leave me hanging. Bud shots please. Stellar grow. Congratulations!!🙃🙃🙃
No3odiesShad0w
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That's amazing!!! I just got 294g off of 3 plants and 1 more still needs to come down. I never went above 80% on my lights. Best grow to date!
OldManGrower
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I took all seven to term. Never again. For now on it's 4 in five gallon or 5 in three gallon. The dry went well. Two finished early and two were ripe on top and furry now below so I did half of each plant at a time. Then I did all the rest at once. Lot of trimming involved and it took two days for the last four and a half. Drying was easy, took about four days.