no joke I miss yall
Been trolling all along so not even sure where to start. Zomb I envy ya brother. You have gone with your gut many times and it keeps paying off. Wait till the trichs are where you want them. It is WELL worth checking multiple bud sites to get a clear picture. It looks like you have the scope to see exactly what is needed. If you are going to do a period of darkness before harvest just watch the humidity early on as it can jump and did on me many times. My portable AC turned off and I caught my chem cookies day 1 with 90% humidity and they had been in it possibly for couple hours. May have ruined em but jury is still out. I surely have more questions than answers that is for sure. My buds were so small to begin with that I should have known the dry I wanted in length was going to be pretty unachievable. It got to 105 already here in AZ and in an upstairs grow in my office with a 4x4 and 3x3, shit got crowded quick and was trying to keep white widows growing while drying chem cookies. Using a directional fan in the tent on floor but wasn't blowing on plants at all, a humidifier outside tent with tent slightly open to allow it to get sucked in, shitty exhaust fan sucking air out so humidity gets sucked in, and a 14k btu portable AC all at once for the 1st time posed some learning curves for sure. Seemed to be able to achieve 60/60 but mostly at night. During daytime there were periods when temp would hit 100+ outside, AC in house would turn off for even minutes, and poof temps and RH in tent could change quick. I ended up pullin 1 chem cookie(Cookie) at 7 total days including like 36hr dark period. I pulled the other(Coco) the next next day. After full trim Cookie ended up being exactly 100 grams and Coco was 90. Almost 6.8 ozs which kinda suprised me. The only reason I took them down was I had a medium sized branch "snap" like they are supposed to. No others did but I had a feeling I was over-dried already and pulled. Turned out I was right and I put in
Grove bags and RH is 50, 42, and 36 after days. Safe to say fked up and lesson learned #354. I'm not sure how to re-hydrate, was warned against
boveda packs, so added like 5 fresh leaves to a bag and humidity went from 36 to 46 and I was like yay, then I said wait a sec, I'm going to re-hydrate chlorophyll back into them and pulled the leaves out? While this was going on the 2 White Widows were being flushed. Why, cause I clipped a lower bud, checked under mic and saw 10% amber. After 5-6 day flush I put in dark for 60hr and pulled this morning, trimmed major fan leaves and hung inside 4x4 tent and have 60/60 dialed in right now. Issue? last night I went and looked with my phone in the dark and took some pics with my phone. Not only did I not see amber but it seemed a lot of trichs were still clear fml omg poof harvest done for
and to boot last time found some stupid ass "white widow guidelines for growing" type shit and it even said "BE SURE TO WAIT FOR 70% AMBER" and it was a good article
Soo it is what it is, pretty sure I kinda screwed both cultivars up but am so stoked to do it better next time that I'm ok with it. I've smoked Cookie quite a bit so far and am happy to say it seems quite a bit better than disp stuff I buy in some ways. It is pretty smooth and I've taken 2 hits only and walked the dogs and for sure felt pretty high. It is definitely like I get "high" vs stoned which isn't what I wanted with the chems but oh well. Definitely a bit early to tell but am anxious to make some canna coconout oil and some edibles with it. Saw a really interesting recipe I will post later to see what yall think of it. Seems to be pretty legit.
@CannaGranny sooo besides pro herb grower, grand master seasonal property rental-extraordinaire you also kick ass and take names shooting? That is too awesome and I had to look up your bullets just to get a clue. That is just that coolest thing. Would REALLY love to see pics so please do share. Keep smashing them men and makin em drive cross-country for "attempts" at payback
Your man makes your ammo to boot. How killer is that and I am sure saves quite a bit from buying. Great timing with your harvest and shooting lights out as well
post some nug shots when the dust settles and you have the time please. Can't wait to pick your brain for next grow(when convenient for you of course)
Happy to say am gonna go smoke some of my own supply
and then post some pics on my thread that might help make sense of the jibberish I just spouted. Keep easy fam