HYDRO My first post and my first grow!

[Farmall]

BEDTIME: Sorry to hear about that .... my wife gets a cold or bronchitis and then pneumonia if the dogs tail makes a fast breeze ... no clue why and it is a factor for the last 45 years. Most days, 10:30 pm it is like someone took the battery out....I gotta go to bed and off she goes. Around 11:30-12:30 I get a second wind and heaven forbid ....if I’m reading some cool thing here on weed, I start getting ramped up and wider awake.

If The Firm, Top Gun or Crocodile Dundee isn’t re-running for the 2500th time, I’ll watch that til I nod off after a 2 capsule dose of MCT extraction... then, like magic 6;00am...it an automatic wake up. Without work now at 1 day a week, I do a lot here but have days I just hang out.

Going thru a seed collection today to see which strains are next to germinate. I’m also taking a few of the seeds from a hermied Durban Poison to see what they are capable of

 

[NickyChicks]

Yeah we usually hit the hay around 11 and up at 645 except this morning. This morning was alarm clock by doggo. Boomer is on his own schedule and so 638 was wake up time today, "let me out and feed me human".
Seed collection selection. Sounds like a good time, my guess is you only have a couple to choose from 😜 . Do you have a variety type preference or even a favorite strain? I like indicas and anything indica leaning more but i do like a nice sativa in the morning or when I'm working. With sativas it's best I am busy working or doing something though, if not I'll sit there and smoke the whole stash lol.

 

[NickyChicks]

Maybe I'm closer to harvest than I thought.... I have been checking with a loupe but I checked with my digital microscope today, in natural light. This is the one of the white widows

 

[Farmall]

My last count was over 1200 and I still sort out 20-30 whenever I have my glasses with me. I have had great “luck” with Black Cherry Punch, Blueberry Gum, Grandaddy Purple, Citrus Mistress and sever others I can’t remember right now but once I go thru the little bags, I’ll know. I have found indicas are More predictable for me

 

[JohnEmad]

yup getting close.

 

[Farmall]

Hard to tell but.... are those beautiful golden trichs I see a reflection of other elements near the photo site or are they actually golden amber trichomes? I’ve had this happen that the light reflections from something made it look more amber than it really was....just a thought. Hopefully not the right thought

 

[NickyChicks]

I was in natural light, indirect, led on very dim on microscope. I'm pretty certain those are amber, I will be checking them often. Oh, btw Farmall I'm going to pull the trigger on LED strips 😬

 

[Farmall]

NickyChicks. Well, let me say GOOD LUCK and I feel quite confident you will be very pleased 4-5 months from now 👍
A.) your electric bill B.) your crop

 

[NickyChicks]

Alright, the word of the day is Nanner. Found some nanners in my single Northern Lights plant. Noticed them recently but didn't realize until last night what I was seeing. I thought it was a burnt tip on a small sugar leaf. Anyways here we are, about day 60 in flower so I yanked her from the tent and chopped her. I really wished it could have matured a little longer but I think the right choice was to pull it and not risk ruining my other girls. She was a final height of 22" and about 18" wide with 7 mains, should have been 8 but the 8th never grew as strong as the others. The buds have a peppery smell. Trimmed them up and have them hanging for now, once they're dried the buds will go into Grove Bags.

 

[NickyChicks]

Water change today for the rest of the tent and nanner inspection. I found 1 on a white widow plant and 1 on a green crack plant. I plucked them and they are back in the tent. I'm going to watch them closely over the next few days, I really think they need to go at least this whole week and maybe most of next week. Lots of cloudy trics but still some glossy especially on the green crack.

 

[NickyChicks]

Northern Lights is dried, weighed and put into Grove bags. 46.3g total dry weight. Smell isn't very strong, hoping as it cures that will change. All in all I'm pretty happy with the harvest of my first plant! This weekend I'll check the trics again but I think I'll be harvesting a couple this weekend and then the rest during the week

 

[Farmall]

NickyChicks I would look forward to your assessment of these bags in a few weeks.

 

[NickyChicks]

Farmall, I will definitely let you know what I think. So far my complaints would be bag size and design. Stuffing an entire oz into the 1oz bag is probably not a great idea. They say not to overfill the bag so I went with 21g in each I don't think I would do much more. I also wish the bag was a stand up style bag like how some snacks come in the resealable bag with a wide base. Those are minor issues though, as long as I get good results in a few weeks I'll be pleased. And if I don't I might chalk it up as first timer error lol

 

[NickyChicks]

I take back what I said about the stand up style..... They are exactly that. High how are you, no, how high are you? What.

 

[Farmall]

Well, ya got me on that one...😂

 

[NickyChicks]

Day 77 of 12/12. Harvested the smallest of the White Widow plants, and harvest the 2 smaller Green Crack plants. Both smell amazing, fruity, the green crack has a lime candy smell to it. White Widow 1(1st harvested) was about 22" tall and had a really nice purple and green color to it, dense round super frosty nugs. Green crack 1 was 19." tall had long, lanky lower branches and some chunky ass colas. Green crack 2 had the same structure as GC1 but never filled out as well despite being 2.5" taller at 21.5". Even with it's not so fat nugs, the yield was still impressive. I'll have dry weights when that times comes and more picture of the buds.

As for the rest of the tent. I have 2 white widows, 1 green crack, a chocolate kush who I've been doubting is actually CK, and my 2 alaskan purples in the solo cups. They'll all be getting a water change tomorrow and I'll let them do their thing for the rest of the week.

 

[JohnEmad]

Real Nice NC,
V impressive for your 1st grow and it's not finished yet.
Can see you did your homework before getting started.

 

[NickyChicks]

Thanks JohnEmad, I appreciate that! I did do a bit of studying, a good 4 months lol. My only resources were the GWE site and combing through posts on the forum before I started my grow, and basically the same as the grow has gone on plus asking some questions. Hoping for a successful drying/curing. I'm trying a few different methods for drying, they're all going to cure in Grove bags once they've dried.

 

[Farmall]

Just underscores the amount of realistic information that is available here to truly develop a successful crop.

 

[NickyChicks]

Farmall ain't that the truth