Morning tokers and growers, time to clean those bongs and pipe clean those neat pipes, the weekend is here.
Right, seedlings are starting to go for it, all have good colour and vigor. Seems its a three plant grow, as the Amnesia Lemon won't be joining this green journey.
But the other three are off, the ten year old seed of the Juan Herer is starting to shake off the odd leaf pattern on the tips, so it looks like a goer. The Zkittles is the biggest plant of the three, followed by the Pure Kush, and third is the Juan Herer, all have a different look about them, you can see the large amount of indica in the Juan Herer compared to the other two strains which look sativa based. Don't know if I've done some thing different this run, but the seedlings seem slow to take off, weather is a bit cold, borderline frosty, so maybe its time to restrict the cold air vents a little, and keep the heat in a bit more.
This week saw me make a start on my one and a half gallon trim bucket, got the trim broken down in to roller sized pieces, I'll get the buds spinning in the trim spinner later when I get a minute, then leave it spinning for a couple of hours. I find it does a better job if you run it slow rather than smash the buds to bits and wind up with to much rubbish to sift on your sifting trays, the idea being to roll off the frost.
Anyway, lets have some pics before this update turns into a book/books.
Pure Kush. Week three of veg, was hoping to flower these three plants at week four weeks, but I seem to be a week behind.
Zkittles.
Juan Herer.
Other things. Finally got round to getting my trim bucket out and gather up the siffting tools,
been trying to sort out some hash for a while, but just don't have the time spare to sort the job out, this morning sees me make time, don't know if I'll get the whole job done today (would be nice) but even if I ONLY get the spinning done, then we're half way there.
I don't use any thing fancy, because as you already know, things can get sticky, very sticky, very fast, so it helps if you can just dump the sticky stuff, with little cost to your self. This is what I use, a cheap build, a couple of bits of wood, all off cuts, and bits of wood destined for the log burner. Just slap them together, and your off. I made this spinner, I was well stoned at the time, just wanted to see if it worked, sort of a stoner project,
And blow me if it didn't work really well, so well I've not got passed the prototype to build a better one, one buddy sat on it and crushed it, you can still see the curvature in the mesh. lol It stuck back together and is nearly worn out. I keep my eyes pealed for better parts and the auto jumbles, but until the prototype wares out.
Anyway, if you like the idea, get one built, and post your design in your diary, you might have a better design than mine, in which case, I'll nick your ideas to update mine. lol Right, lets get spinning.
This is my spinner, its just a large plastic box with a clip on lid, the lid keeps the fine dust in, as we don't want to lose that do we.
Trays x2, can't remember the mesh size on the trays or the tumbler, but there's plenty of good advise online. I remember going for a good sized mesh for the tumbler, going with the idea that it would block less, and as I'm sifting it later, it doesn't matter if I get a bit of debris in my container.
If you look at the mesh, you can see the difference, the one on the right is wide meshed, the one on the left is finer. I use the wide gauge mesh tray first to take out all the rubbish, then the finer tray to create the magic.
Motor, the motor for my spinner, I chose a 12v Denso windscreen wiper motor off my old 4x4, cheap, and has a bit of torque on low power to turn the spinner, also its an electric motor that is meant to be running for a couple of hours, so it is purpose built really for the job.
How to fill the spinner.
I fill my spinner to three quarters full, this will reduce after a couple of hours spinning.
This is the trim that's going in the spinner from the trim bucket.
And that's it, was hoping to have a video of the spinner in action, but that will have to wait. Hope to get every thing spun and prepared this afternoon so I can show you the results next week.
So until then, build your self a spinner, and get spinning that trim, and above all, just keep tokin.
Right, plants are doing ok, just need them to fill out the pot a bit more, and then I'll get them flipped over to 12/12. Now in week four of veg, so end of next week maybe. 
As you can see from the pic bellow, even a small spinner like mine can churn out some dust, this is why I like to spin in an enclosed box, or you find you have a room full of yellow dust, and nothing in your box to collect. 
moment.goes out into pantry and start disasembling the tumbler..back door opens in comes wifey...me putting tumbler back together 
