Junk's Growing Log

SmithsJunk · Oct 14, 2017

BudBogart said:
Looking great. Do you have power/water yet?

Yeah. It came back night before last. We were some of the last to get their power up. I'm sure there's still some out still with how extensive the fire damage is.

Hey, your opinion... The Kush are really looking like they've stalled. There is little growth I can see but the hairs don't seem to be dying back. There's still very little amber, and only on the oldest and most damaged sugar leaves. I'm on the fence, should I cut them in a couple days with staggered harvests, or try to run the whole plants out 12, 13, even 14 weeks? Either way, should I start feeding and do a flush before each harvest or run them out on water only. I'm only going to be feeding them Cha Ching or Beastie Bloomz. Don't think I want to start the whole regimen up again, but when I stopped is when they stalled. I didn't recover enough on the Creamsicles to make it worth it if they were still running but the Kush are far fatter. Maybe full nutes?

No matter what, they are huge already, so I'm not going to lose on them.

Here's some pics of the sun side of the colas, on the sun side of the girls. Lots, and lots 'O' hairs. The ones on the dark side are looking more ready with only a narrow region of clusters with hairs on the sun side.

Got, got, by a rogue flower f^cker!

Green & brown seeds in the same nug. That's a first for me. I'd recognise that tiger striped bitch anywhere. I Johnny Appleseeded 10's of thousands of bammer beans in my youth. Wouldn't suprise me if that sh*t grows wild like a landrace in the Sacramento Delta.

Well, at least I got my Creamsicle beans. Lol

SmithsJunk · Oct 14, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
Got, got, by a rogue flower f^cker!
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Green & brown seeds in the same nug. That's a first for me. I'd recognise that tiger striped bitch anywhere. I Johnny Appleseeded 10's of thousands of bammer beans in my youth. Wouldn't suprise me if that sh*t grows wild like a landrace in the Sacramento Delta.

Well, at least I got my Creamsicle beans. Lol

So, names for them based on what's growing right around them...

Dreamsicle, Cadbury Creame, Creamy Glue, Creamy Beber'sicle, Orange Creamwreck, Orange Fathead (Trump)

BudBogart · Oct 14, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
Yeah. It came back night before last. We were some of the last to get their power up. I'm sure there's still some out still with how extensive the fire damage is.

Hey, your opinion... The Kush are really looking like they've stalled. There is little growth I can see but the hairs don't seem to be dying back. There's still very little amber, and only on the oldest and most damaged sugar leaves. I'm on the fence, should I cut them in a couple days with staggered harvests, or try to run the whole plants out 12, 13, even 14 weeks? Either way, should I start feeding and do a flush before each harvest or run them out on water only. I'm only going to be feeding them Cha Ching or Beastie Bloomz. Don't think I want to start the whole regimen up again, but when I stopped is when they stalled. I didn't recover enough on the Creamsicles to make it worth it if they were still running but the Kush are far fatter. Maybe full nutes?

No matter what, they are huge already, so I'm not going to lose on them.

Here's some pics of the sun side of the colas, on the sun side of the girls. Lots, and lots 'O' hairs. The ones on the dark side are looking more ready with only a narrow region of clusters with hairs on the sun side.

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Got, got, by a rogue flower f^cker!
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Green & brown seeds in the same nug. That's a first for me. I'd recognise that tiger striped bitch anywhere. I Johnny Appleseeded 10's of thousands of bammer beans in my youth. Wouldn't suprise me if that sh*t grows wild like a landrace in the Sacramento Delta.

Well, at least I got my Creamsicle beans. Lol

Truth is, I am old school organic, not familiar with much of the products or approaches, so other guys, please pitch in. My opinion is based on your pictures only! Based upon the healthy color and size of those pistils, I think that the calyx hasn't finished swelling, the flowers haven't begun to die off. With the warm sunny weather we are anticipating, I wouldn't harvest yet...again, pistil length and color only factors I'm basing that on.

Srenots · Oct 14, 2017

BudBogart said:
Truth is, I am old school organic, not familiar with much of the products or approaches, so other guys, please pitch in. My opinion is based on your pictures only! Based upon the healthy color and size of those pistils, I think that the calyx hasn't finished swelling, the flowers haven't begun to die off. With the warm sunny weather we are anticipating, I wouldn't harvest yet...again, pistil length and color only factors I'm basing that on.

ya let em go fer sure.....watch for rain in future ....lookin good tho hell ya

SmithsJunk · Oct 16, 2017

BudBogart said:
Truth is, I am old school organic, not familiar with much of the products or approaches, so other guys, please pitch in. My opinion is based on your pictures only! Based upon the healthy color and size of those pistils, I think that the calyx hasn't finished swelling, the flowers haven't begun to die off. With the warm sunny weather we are anticipating, I wouldn't harvest yet...again, pistil length and color only factors I'm basing that on.

Thank you. Taking my finger off the trigger.

I'm starting to see more of a die back on the sun side. I'll get some pics up after daybreak.

My cousins greenhouse harvest got hit with mold because we lost power during the fires. All his fans, humidifiers, and dehumidifiers were down. I ran USB fans off of backup batteries and opened the divider to allow the heated front half of the trailer to pull humid air from the back. Not that long back his plants growing next to mine got ravaged by caterpillars and mine were untouched.

I know I take much better care of my girls and I monitor my harvested buds more closely but this is reaching the point of divine intervention. I've seen these nastly, maggoty looking worms hatching off of the scrub oaks over our plants. I know they've got to be borers of some kind because they'd never survive direct sunlight. I got a little freaked when I found a single wilted upper fan leaf in one of my colas. Thought my luck finally ran out but haven't seen any more damage since.

Here's some pics... The shade sides are more developed.

About a half lb of some fine Creamsicle shake.

SmithsJunk · Oct 16, 2017

Thought I heard a branch crack earlier when I was adjusting them. Double checked, looking for wilt and sure'nough. Took a strip of bark with it, f^ck! Shouldn't be a problem, but if it is, it'll be low enough to take out the whole plant. I covered with a strip of electric tape but didn't have enough to do a wrap. Still, should be fine, didn't break the stalk and they are weeds after all.

BudBogart · Oct 16, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
Thought I heard a branch crack earlier when I was adjusting them. Double checked, looking for wilt and sure'nough. Took a strip of bark with it, f^ck! Shouldn't be a problem, but if it is, it'll be low enough to take out the whole plant. I covered with a strip of electric tape but didn't have enough to do a wrap. Still, should be fine, didn't break the stalk and they are weeds after all.

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Ugh, stripping so much of the bark down the plant ain't good for sure. Still, if you can get it back in place and wrapped it stands a chance.

Strangeone · Oct 16, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
Thank you. Taking my finger off the trigger.

I'm starting to see more of a die back on the sun side. I'll get some pics up after daybreak.

My cousins greenhouse harvest got hit with mold because we lost power during the fires. All his fans, humidifiers, and dehumidifiers were down. I ran USB fans off of backup batteries and opened the divider to allow the heated front half of the trailer to pull humid air from the back. Not that long back his plants growing next to mine got ravaged by caterpillars and mine were untouched.

I know I take much better care of my girls and I monitor my harvested buds more closely but this is reaching the point of divine intervention. I've seen these nastly, maggoty looking worms hatching off of the scrub oaks over our plants. I know they've got to be borers of some kind because they'd never survive direct sunlight. I got a little freaked when I found a single wilted upper fan leaf in one of my colas. Thought my luck finally ran out but haven't seen any more damage since.

Here's some pics... The shade sides are more developed.

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About a half lb of some fine Creamsicle shake.
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Beautiful bro..

BudBogart · Oct 16, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
Thank you. Taking my finger off the trigger.

I'm starting to see more of a die back on the sun side. I'll get some pics up after daybreak.

My cousins greenhouse harvest got hit with mold because we lost power during the fires. All his fans, humidifiers, and dehumidifiers were down. I ran USB fans off of backup batteries and opened the divider to allow the heated front half of the trailer to pull humid air from the back. Not that long back his plants growing next to mine got ravaged by caterpillars and mine were untouched.

I know I take much better care of my girls and I monitor my harvested buds more closely but this is reaching the point of divine intervention. I've seen these nastly, maggoty looking worms hatching off of the scrub oaks over our plants. I know they've got to be borers of some kind because they'd never survive direct sunlight. I got a little freaked when I found a single wilted upper fan leaf in one of my colas. Thought my luck finally ran out but haven't seen any more damage since.

Here's some pics... The shade sides are more developed.

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About a half lb of some fine Creamsicle shake.
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You have some fine looking colas there!
I watered today and did a thorough Amber trichomes count. I found one Amber trich, maybe.

SmithsJunk · Oct 16, 2017

BudBogart said:
Ugh, stripping so much of the bark down the plant ain't good for sure. Still, if you can get it back in place and wrapped it stands a chance.

Sh*t, I didn't even think to put it back in place. It's a pretty big plant. Should easily be able to handle that little bark strip. If not, I'll happily harvest her. No real loss. It's hard to see in the pics but the bracts are pretty swollen and that plant has had some good sunlight to mature under after the Creamsicle were cut. Not worried.

SmithsJunk · Oct 17, 2017

Just finishing up trimming the first 3 lbs. If the so called "professional growers", who I'm going to call "cash croppers" from now on since 'professional' doesn't seem to fit, actually knew what they were talking about, I'd be about done trimming my first three plants. However, I still have a third of a 22gal container to go on the first cut alone. I also have 1.5 more 22gal's that are at least a quarter, maybe even half full of medium to large buds and they're no less potent than the first harvest. Most were near the top of the plant or on the sun side. It's going to be closer to 2lbs each. When I planned this grow my target numbers were 10-18lbs. My guess is that i will finish with 10-11lbs of top shelf nugs. Considering the mite infestation, learning nutes as I went, and horrible training of my girls, I think this grow has been wildly successful. I am very, very happy. Thanks everyone for all the help.

Using what I've learned this year, next years harvest is going to be outstanding.

SmithsJunk · Oct 20, 2017

I harvested my Kush before the storm hit last night, my cousin did not. He also wasn't watering enough. The colas got heavy from the rain and the stalks snapped because they were too dry. The only time these plants had green fans after the flip was when I watered them properly. If you're growing in 15gal pots you can't just shoot water into them for a few seconds. You have to slow the water down and soak them or they will go dry. The big problem is the people he has watering don't give a f^ck and they're f^ckin lazy. Lazy people piss me off.

Here's the result of dumba$$ laziness...

...and here's the result of someone who cares. I knew my colas wouldn't hold up against .5in of rain. Thank God they were mature and I stayed on top of the weather forecasts.

SmithsJunk · Oct 20, 2017

Sorry, everyone for not posting that much the last week or so. Been slammed with harvesting and trimming and I'm hurting to an extreme. I finally got a breather this morning and I'll be posting pre-harvest pics shortly. Thanks for the support.

Strangeone · Oct 20, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
Sorry, everyone for not posting that much the last week or so. Been slammed with harvesting and trimming and I'm hurting to an extreme. I finally got a breather this morning and I'll be posting pre-harvest pics shortly. Thanks for the support.

Get ur done brotha, good job!

SmithsJunk · Oct 20, 2017

Strangeone said:
Get ur done brotha, good job!

Thank you. I've got one of those bowl trimmers coming for sh*t that I don't care about whether it breaks up or not. I'm going to contact the owner of the latest co-op I joined and see if he'll concentrate it up for me. He does some sick potent natural extractions. I've already got 2lbs of mostly sugar shake. Going to sift it one more time through a 150 micron screen before I'm ready to send it out. It'd be cool to split it between pen liquid and shatter.

Strangeone · Oct 20, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
Thank you. I've got one of those bowl trimmers coming for sh*t that I don't care about whether it breaks up or not. I'm going to contact the owner of the latest co-op I joined and see if he'll concentrate it up for me. He does some sick potent natural extractions. I've already got 2lbs of mostly sugar shake. Going to sift it one more time through a 150 micron screen before I'm ready to send it out. It'd be cool to split it between pen liquid and shatter.

Hell yeah bro, sounds like you're going to have a whole lot of the good stuff, I'm just gunna make a shit load of butter out of my trimmings..

BudBogart · Oct 20, 2017

SmithsJunk said:
I harvested my Kush before the storm hit last night, my cousin did not. He also wasn't watering enough. The colas got heavy from the rain and the stalks snapped because they were too dry. The only time these plants had green fans after the flip was when I watered them properly. If you're growing in 15gal pots you can't just shoot water into them for a few seconds. You have to slow the water down and soak them or they will go dry. The big problem is the people he has watering don't give a f^ck and they're f^ckin lazy. Lazy people piss me off.

Here's the result of dumba$$ laziness...
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...and here's the result of someone who cares. I knew my colas wouldn't hold up against .5in of rain. Thank God they were mature and I stayed on top of the weather forecasts.
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Good job. Mine are still waiting for a sign of Amber. I used a generator and leaf blower to dry them this morning. One had blown over, cage, net and all. I set her up and hosed her down and then blew her off. I should have tethered the cages but that makes for tripping hazards.

SmithsJunk · Oct 21, 2017

Grow Log 10-19-2017

Purple beauties. They definitely would not have weathered the storm. Waaay too heavy and already leaning. I didn't have to check for amber, could see they were ripe. The bracts had swollen and they got super heavy the last couple days before I harvested, and that was even without watering the last 4 days. I think I nailed it. Prompting from the incoming storm was a good thing and I got a free plant wash and watering on the freshly pruned girls. I do need to keep watch on the buds I left to make sure they don't get over ripe. I was more conservative on my first cut this time around. Hoping to get a bigger haul and denser buds on the second cut.

Thanks everyone for your patience. Sorry the photos weren't as polished as my previous ones but I was in a hurry to harvest before the sun touched the girls (highest point of THC production).

Farmer P · Oct 21, 2017

Killin it! Nice.

SmithsJunk · Oct 21, 2017

It's almost a shame to see them like this. It's like slaying a f^ckin unicorn for flank steaks.

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