BudBogart
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Thank you srenots. After such a great veg cycle we are anxious for the buds to start maturing into some trichomes laden hard nuggets.
Norcal Outdoor Medical, Organic Forest Grow. First Grow Log
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Good afternoon Mr. and Mrs. BudBogart, Love your images this week. I'm really glad to see them fattening up nicely now. I just read this morning that the northern hemisphere experienced its hottest night time temps in a 121 years this past summer. I think this has had a huge impact on plants, insects and wildlife abound . We have finally had better night time temps for about the last ten days. Most of my outside vegetation has gone crazy with regrowth, and ripening as well in response to the more proper nighttime temperature departure. We had our first freeze warning last night in the Yama valley up in the northwest corner of Colorado. It was 47 degrees here in downtown Denver with a lot of low forties all around me.
I love to see you tracking the ripeness of your plants to satisfy you and your wife. We have found that we both like our trich's with very little amber in most of our strains to obtain best flavor and high . The thing to keep in mind with us with growing perpetually. Almost all of our MJ is smoked fresh dried with very little curing.
I have to say that I have learned a lot from your outside grow and many others here this season.
Thank you so much for sharing!:)
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Thank you for the kind words!
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Hey friend, it's an honor to us that anyone with your prodigious skills would care to follow such a bumbling, albeit lucky as fuck fellow as myself. I don't know if the girls are fattening up as much as my photos portray. My latest pics purposely focus on what's starting to fatten up and ignore all the blue dream, original amnesia and most of the other 8 footers that need to get going.
It took me a minute to get the import of the warmer night time temperatures on bud growth, yes our nights have been warmer this year, now that you mention it! However it turns out, I'm glad I have had this experience.
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Some of you know I have motion sensor lights on my dirt road that shine into my bedroom so I can monitor the road at night.
You may recall we have a bear that occasionally uses our road at night.
Some other animal was tripping the light, I could only catch glimpses of its feet and legs passing thru the brush.
So anyway, Friday afternoon mrs. Bogart and I head up the dirt road headed for dinner and we come up on a very full sized mountain lion, aka cougar. I love living down in this canyon!
We have been Harvesting the blueberry gum that flowered in May as soon as they went outside. The buds swelled, the pistils quit growing and instead started Turning brown or red and even the leaves have taken on a faded, end of season appearance. Obviously ready to take down. I still have about half of the plant growing, all of the dense buds on the inside of the cage. So a day or so I noticed that these faded, browning buds started having trichomes show up!
WTF? It's very interesting because trichomes are showing up at the same time on this very done plant at the same time they have started appearing on some of our other normal buds. Hmmm.
Well now I'm not harvesting any more of the bb gum until I see what happens with trichome development.
Bud trimming...turns out I love trimming dry bud compared to wet. I use the scissors in my bum hand and use the scissors like a pick, breaking the dry leaf off near the stem with very little scissor clipping involved. I may not still be loving it by the time we are done, but, lol, where there is a will...
Hope everyone has a great week. I'm keeping my eye out for mountain lions!
You may recall we have a bear that occasionally uses our road at night.
Some other animal was tripping the light, I could only catch glimpses of its feet and legs passing thru the brush.
So anyway, Friday afternoon mrs. Bogart and I head up the dirt road headed for dinner and we come up on a very full sized mountain lion, aka cougar. I love living down in this canyon!
We have been Harvesting the blueberry gum that flowered in May as soon as they went outside. The buds swelled, the pistils quit growing and instead started Turning brown or red and even the leaves have taken on a faded, end of season appearance. Obviously ready to take down. I still have about half of the plant growing, all of the dense buds on the inside of the cage. So a day or so I noticed that these faded, browning buds started having trichomes show up!
WTF? It's very interesting because trichomes are showing up at the same time on this very done plant at the same time they have started appearing on some of our other normal buds. Hmmm.
Well now I'm not harvesting any more of the bb gum until I see what happens with trichome development.
Bud trimming...turns out I love trimming dry bud compared to wet. I use the scissors in my bum hand and use the scissors like a pick, breaking the dry leaf off near the stem with very little scissor clipping involved. I may not still be loving it by the time we are done, but, lol, where there is a will...
Hope everyone has a great week. I'm keeping my eye out for mountain lions!
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Marksurfs
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Lookin goood BudBogart :)
You're right about the year seeming to end early this year here where we are . Oct . I bet will be wet . The weather has been strange where we are and seems to be getting colder already where last year it was smoking hot right now . My harvest last year finished out fully matured in Sept . so I didn't have to worry about the rain . Plus when it's already raining and trying to harvest and dry the buds , when it's raining and all that moisture in the air really sucks to get good flavor unless you can control the area where the buds being dried and have to use heaters to dry with which sucks . I like the suns heat and lots of circulating air to dry with . We really need to be careful or end up with moldy buds in Oct. for all our time and efforts .
What doesn't pan out to your liking , bud wise , you can always use the bubble bags and make hash out of it . If I don't like the flavor or smell after curing , off to the bubble bags it goes . I have a load of hash from the buds I won't smoke and the trim . The buds are really ok smokable wise, I just have more than I can smoke , so if it isn't just perfect while curing , it's hash , that's nice to mix with the good buds :) . Great job !
You're right about the year seeming to end early this year here where we are . Oct . I bet will be wet . The weather has been strange where we are and seems to be getting colder already where last year it was smoking hot right now . My harvest last year finished out fully matured in Sept . so I didn't have to worry about the rain . Plus when it's already raining and trying to harvest and dry the buds , when it's raining and all that moisture in the air really sucks to get good flavor unless you can control the area where the buds being dried and have to use heaters to dry with which sucks . I like the suns heat and lots of circulating air to dry with . We really need to be careful or end up with moldy buds in Oct. for all our time and efforts .
What doesn't pan out to your liking , bud wise , you can always use the bubble bags and make hash out of it . If I don't like the flavor or smell after curing , off to the bubble bags it goes . I have a load of hash from the buds I won't smoke and the trim . The buds are really ok smokable wise, I just have more than I can smoke , so if it isn't just perfect while curing , it's hash , that's nice to mix with the good buds :) . Great job !
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That's awesome Budbogart. Seeing big wild animals like that is special. The energy they put off is good for the soul. Something grand about uncontrolled wild beasts. My neighbors have chickens, they don't have to, they have very nice jobs. But they feel the need to shoot bears, coyotes and even hawks that mess with their chickens. We live in a canyon also full of carnivores looking for an easy snack. They get no income from these chickens, just some eggs...but feel its in their right and is okay to hurt/kill native species just trying to get by. Its like setting out bait and claiming its the bears fault. Same people that think its okay to burn trash. Pisses me off. Let's move to the mountains, put out bear food and then shoot them when they come looking for it. Okay sorry for the morning rant. Your garden looks great! Happy harvest coming up!
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Great to hear from you! Yes, the cold wet weather can make harvesting good bud very difficult, I will be up against it for sure.
The weather sure changed yesterday. I went from shorts and tank top to jeans and fireplace, damp on the deck! Yesterday is the first day I haven't hung out in the garden since May. We should be returning to hot and dry today.
Harvesting in September would be great. I didn't know many strains would allow that. I have a freebie blue cheese who is on a September schedule, any other plants that I have grown liked mid October.
My original plan was to grow the later plants under a patio type cover to give them some protection, but I never got those holes prepped and plants I've grown there get stretchy anyway, so...
Taking chances. We look forward to a time of smoking only choice buds. We harvested a bb gum that flowered too early in May. Good enough to keep us out of the dispensary until our crop has cured. Having a great time, hope you are also, thanks. Bud
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It sucks when people are so self centered and selfish they see nothing wrong in moving into country where natures predators are living and then see them blame the animals when they seek out the smells of a food source. Sorry that a butt wad lives near your good vibes.
We do not allow hunting. In fact, the last couple miles of road leading to our place is a privately owned and maintained gravel road, maintained by myself and the few neighbors that live on the road. Trespassing has been strictly forbidden since the road was built in the 70's. Yup, we be on the quiet side, lol. Anyway, this created an unintended sanctuary for animals that like to avoid human contact. Especially during deer hunting season. I've got groups of bucks that hang out here during season. So many deer that my Akita, rip, learned to accept them nearby without chasing.
Thanks for the good wishes, Bud
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Forgive my ignorance but what are bubble bags?
scoop
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Heya folks. Lookin' good out there.
Bubble bags are what ya use to make water extracted hash...aka "bubble hash". http://www.bubblebag.com/ (there are many other brands out there...these are expensive but built well)
Definitely a MUST for a garden of your size. You can run all of that larf/trim and end up with some seriously smoke-able goodness. Thanks to "legalization", (and the serious decimation of the market for small time growers here) I am planning on running most of my harvest through the bags this year. If it works out as planned we will be smoking hash all year long vs. flowers. Should be an epic event (at least for us) and a HUGE amount of work as it will certainly be the largest harvest we've >ever< pulled off in our 25+ years of growing this plant. Gotta love the OD!!
No worries about "rain" here. Our challenge here is frost and freeze. It's definitely time here to start thinking about some plastic to cover things up at night.... ah...what fun!
good luck on the finish!
Bubble bags are what ya use to make water extracted hash...aka "bubble hash". http://www.bubblebag.com/ (there are many other brands out there...these are expensive but built well)
Definitely a MUST for a garden of your size. You can run all of that larf/trim and end up with some seriously smoke-able goodness. Thanks to "legalization", (and the serious decimation of the market for small time growers here) I am planning on running most of my harvest through the bags this year. If it works out as planned we will be smoking hash all year long vs. flowers. Should be an epic event (at least for us) and a HUGE amount of work as it will certainly be the largest harvest we've >ever< pulled off in our 25+ years of growing this plant. Gotta love the OD!!
No worries about "rain" here. Our challenge here is frost and freeze. It's definitely time here to start thinking about some plastic to cover things up at night.... ah...what fun!
good luck on the finish!
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Thanks for the info. Glad to hear you're having a banner year. Ours have exceeded our imaginations and expectations. Now we just need enough good weather to finish, thanks for the wishes, back at you.
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A pic is worth a thousand words. Enjoying the garden, hope you do too.
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GreenHouser
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Lookin good, startin to yellow off an finish!!! Peanut butter an jealous over here!!!!!
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Nice pictures , looks like the front buds are already finishing . My strain I've been growing just happened to be a fast finisher flower wise - buds . If I put the plants out to early outdoors as clones they'll flower , where as other strains put out at the same time will veg . . I have to put the plants in the ground late for our growing period here . I would have liked to see the plants finish in Oct . for a larger yield , but would have had to take the chance of dealing with the rain and bud rot and would have taken a possible loss due to rot . By the time the rains came I was pretty much through trimming and was in the curing stage so all turned out great .
MrsBudBogart , scoops right , Bubble Bags is a brand name of hash making bags .
With the size of your grow you really need them so not to waste any of your great work in growing . The reason I use Bubble Bags is , I make alot of hash , in doing so I've tried many different brands . I didn't like the other brands , I either lost to much product due to screen size - mesh of the bags you process the hash through . Some of the other brands I used , the plastic inner lining started to come off in the hash and that's a bad thing . Cheap bags are not the way to go . The Bubble Bags I can use , by myself , working alone , which is hard to do , to make hash with and produce the a great product and not lose what I worked so hard to create .
They are a little costy but are of quality and have been around for a long time as a brand well respected for quality . I use a 4 bag kit . That's really all you need for what we're making . I get 5 gallon bucket bags . If you need it I can post the last time I did hash . I took pictures so I could show my friend how to make hash from his plants by himself if he has to do it alone , not fun to do it alone . It's nice to have help which you'll have and that's a good thing :) . I don't have help .
I don't live near my friend or I'd help him .
I took shots of the process with me doing it alone , so he could just look at the pictures and see what I did from start to finish so he doesn't throw away his trim or if he doesn't cure the buds right or the plants don't finish out in time for winter , he can still salvage his grow with some nice hash to smoke all winter .
MrsBudBogart , scoops right , Bubble Bags is a brand name of hash making bags .
With the size of your grow you really need them so not to waste any of your great work in growing . The reason I use Bubble Bags is , I make alot of hash , in doing so I've tried many different brands . I didn't like the other brands , I either lost to much product due to screen size - mesh of the bags you process the hash through . Some of the other brands I used , the plastic inner lining started to come off in the hash and that's a bad thing . Cheap bags are not the way to go . The Bubble Bags I can use , by myself , working alone , which is hard to do , to make hash with and produce the a great product and not lose what I worked so hard to create .
They are a little costy but are of quality and have been around for a long time as a brand well respected for quality . I use a 4 bag kit . That's really all you need for what we're making . I get 5 gallon bucket bags . If you need it I can post the last time I did hash . I took pictures so I could show my friend how to make hash from his plants by himself if he has to do it alone , not fun to do it alone . It's nice to have help which you'll have and that's a good thing :) . I don't have help .
I don't live near my friend or I'd help him .
I took shots of the process with me doing it alone , so he could just look at the pictures and see what I did from start to finish so he doesn't throw away his trim or if he doesn't cure the buds right or the plants don't finish out in time for winter , he can still salvage his grow with some nice hash to smoke all winter .
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BudBogart
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I think there would be lots of people benefit and enjoy Seeing your hash making posts, I know I would. Thanks for posting.
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Looking great over there friend. Nice job on the grow for both you and MrsBudBogart. :) I am a dry trimmer personally also. :D
Have a good weekend and be safe friends. :)
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