Morning tokers and growers, hope this update finds you all fighting fit and raring to go. We've finally reached the chop, seems a long time to flower, too long. Why? Heat, with out it, where I live, its needed in the Winter, its temperate here, so we get fifty percent rain and fifty percent sun, so Summer time its fine, but what I've found with running the LED is there doesn't seem to be enough heat to make my space work. This became obvious when moisture ran back through my extraction pipe above my fan, and poured through my extraction fan and onto my power points, in my youth, this was not a problem, as the odd 240v shock kept me on my toes, nowadays it knocks me on my butt, I'm not as resilient as I was in my youth. lol
So some thing has to change, so the LED is boxed and stored for the time being. I'm not saying LED's are rubbish, they just need to come on a bit, forget the hype about bulbs and power consumption, and focus more on what the plants need. I can't vouch for other brands of lights, as I've only tried Viperspectra. The Viperspectra's are built with the same common parts that other top LED's are made of, so I don't think its the build quality. In veg the light works well, but for some reason, I have struggled to finish flowering out the last two runs. I'll hold my hand up and say I've only ran the LED in the coldness of late Autumn and early Winter, so maybe it would be a top producer in Summer, but I still think that with out the extra heat to balance out the moisture, I'd still be in the same place I am now. If you think about it, in Summer its hot, not many plants grow in Winter, so plants have over millions of years adapted to this, and maybe need it at some point, like in the peak of Summer. One thing I've noticed with LED's is that the fittings are flat, and the bulbs used are torch like in their beam pattern which straight down, in all my life, I've never been any were where the sun is directly above a plant, always the sun comes from the side. So what I'd like to see in the future is curved fixtures with the bulbs angled. I found found that I was burning 600w to light just the centre of my grow space, where as my 400w HID bulb would light the whole space, and not just the centre, the sun is round, and so is a HID bulb. I'm aware that some people are doing well with LED's, but in my space they just get me by. And that's my summery of my second run with LED's. Moving along, pic time.
Pure Kush. Smells of fruit, and looks better with out the knarlled leaves, which looks worse than it is, buds are fine, and purple.
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Zkittles. I like this strain, would love to grow one outdoors and just leave it to get on, seems a bit rampant for small indoor growers, you wont find me complaining about the extra bud though.
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Juan Herer. This plant is only half the size it should be, looks like an auto, but it has some frost on it, would have like it full size as its the last seed I have of this, and its no were on the net to buy more seeds, bought these from a member from the Dank Den, which is no more, has a very Autumn look about it.
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Since the above pics were taken, the plants have been felled and hung, finally.
Pure Kush. second best producer of this run, one hanger.
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Zkittles. Top producer this run with two hangers.
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Juan Herer. Only the one hanger, ended up a third of its finished size due to the trunk damage, quite frosty though all the same.
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Other things. Two weeks ago I manged to catch
flu, don't know where from, but it got me.
Its a bit like having a treble flu, but at day five I was on my butt, couldn't breath by day five, and worse still, I had to give up toking, yeah I know, life with out a toke, how could I possibly survive this dire situation, gasp.
FUCK going with out a hit, time for edibles, specifically shortbread. Saved
So I thought I'd put the process up, that got me though this dire situation. Its not a lot of messing about which is why I chose shortbread, you can get this together even if your totally battered. Out came an old cook book with the reciepe, don't remember where the booklet came from we've had it so long. This is how I made the shortbread fingers.
First thing is the recipe.
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Then I crumbled up a quarter of good black into a bowl, well it is medicinal, made the dough, and folded in the hash. I split the amount of dough in the recipe by half, all the hash was deposited into half the dough, the other half I baked on its own, for munchies.
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Hash peppered dough.
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Top tip, grease your tin well, or the butter will escape from your shotbread while its in the oven.
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And if you've followed the instructions in the recipe, you should end up with some thing like this, yum yum.
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So there you have it, another run ends, time to set up for the next, still not got round to ordering new seeds, so I'll have to see what left in the seed store. Anyway, there you have it, the best cure for
flu, the end of a run, and a cookery lesson, you'll not find this in a life style magazine, only here on the Farm, so that's it, hope to be up and running again in a couple of weeks, only one thing left to say, Just keep tokin folks.