1st Time Grow: AF Diesel Ryder, Purple Wreck, using T5's and HPS

[DeeEffDubya]

Originally Posted by mordenkainen

Shit man, at least you don't only have one plant. And at least what you harvested looks like real quality. I would take a small yield of well loved weed than a large batch of failed potential any day.

By the by, what would you approx. the dry weight to be off that plant, I have a inkling that my many colas are going to raisin up by the end up the dry.

Don't doubt yourself though, that shit looks tasty.

Man thatnks for the compliments dude, and personally, I tend to think like you, it is a fairly small yield, but there is no disputing potency from the little I've smoked already. It's been my experience that better quality smoke tends to last a little longer than sub-par smoke anyways. At first I thought my yield would be closer to 2 ounces, but after a few days drying, I'm thinking more like an oz., maye oz. and a half. The shrinkage is hard to watch, for sure, your bud just withers away it seems...something tells me that the 3 or 4 small colas on your baby are going to surprise you though, I think you hit a homerun on your LST with your plant, and I kind of wish I'd done mine that way, but I'll get another shot at it with my clone if I feel so inclined...always good to see you here brother, talk to you soon...

[mordenkainen]

Yeah I love the way it bushed on me however for my next grow i'm not 100percent on how I should go about it. As it is my one plant takes up almost the entire space under my light (I have both the 150w and 250w under the same econowing). And I have 3 lemon skunk seeds, I will still probably top and lst em, I just need to be creative (or cope with having the light further away). Good problems to have, now I just have to wait the ten or so days til harvest and another week or so for drying before I get to try it. I can't wait, it's killing me.

I have pulled a few hairs from the bottom branches (I didn't figure they had much chance of becoming buds by harvest time since they are poping up all over the bottom and not getting much light). But when I smoke those hairs I get high, and that gives me infinite hope for the end result for the mature bud. But yeah, it's like going from a grape to a raisn after drying, or at least that's what i've learned.

I am positive it will break my heart to watch that.

Also i'm not sure that drying buds in 100% dark is a great idea, even though that's what I see on this site a lot. I'm probably going to keep one of my big cfls on and not directly hitting the drying bud. I think the small risk of lowering potency is worth the essential elimination of the mold factor. Again this is all speculation, considering how I have 10 days to do nothing but contemplate.

I am very excited to see your harvest pics of the blue widow. Keep me posted, i'm sure you will.

Peace.

[BuzzLightOne]

Wow Dub, she sure has one helluva nice cola man. Not too much popcorn on the bottom, but I think an oz is a great yield for quality bud like that. I'd rather have good bud and less of it, than have a huge yield of mediocre weed anyday.

I suppose by now she is all jarred up and starting to smell wonderful...

How much longer for the rest? How's Boo lookin'? Does it smell like it may be good?
My money is still on Boo Boo to finish up better than expected.

Well, I hope you are very pleased with the end product. The money and effort it took to get this far can be a strain sometimes, but we growers always manage to get what we need. Here's to bigger, and better next time. I've had a taste of the final product and never want to stop growing this magnificent herb.

[BuzzLightOne]

Oh, I wanted to ask you something about the grow tents. I planned the space out to be a certain way. I have my exhaust to the outside on the top left. The intake on the bottom right. I can't really tell by the pictures of them on ebay. Do you know if they have them all designed one way, or can you choose R or L exhaust etc. Thanks bud, Talk to you soon.

[bmerboy]

you got some real nice harvest pictures there. that main cola looks good. cant wait for a full smoke report.

[CleanCutGurilla]

told ya the boys could do it!!ha ha they had me a bit scared at times but overall they did a bang up job....along with the texans. now if they can just keep it up.

im sure youve been busy "sampling"...hope that is going well for ya!

[BtNugs]

Hey DFW!! Long time bro...Looks like you did well on your harvest . The pics look great. Congrats man and may you have many more plentiful harvests in your future! Lates bro

[DeeEffDubya]

Originally Posted by BuzzLightOne

Wow Dub, she sure has one helluva nice cola man. Not too much popcorn on the bottom, but I think an oz is a great yield for quality bud like that. I'd rather have good bud and less of it, than have a huge yield of mediocre weed anyday.

I suppose by now she is all jarred up and starting to smell wonderful...

How much longer for the rest? How's Boo lookin'? Does it smell like it may be good?
My money is still on Boo Boo to finish up better than expected.

Well, I hope you are very pleased with the end product. The money and effort it took to get this far can be a strain sometimes, but we growers always manage to get what we need. Here's to bigger, and better next time. I've had a taste of the final product and never want to stop growing this magnificent herb.

Hey Buzz, sorry it's been so long...Just to answer your questions, my other plants are all in the process of finishing now, my Pineapple Express just came down this weekend, Blue Widow should come down sometime in the next week I'm guessing, LSD about 10 days out or so, and White Widow is slow to finish but smells incredible! AS far as Booboo is concerned, it looks like shitty weed, and it has no smell, and very little thricrhomes to speak of. It may have been a waste of time, but it was an experiment anyways, so who cares, right? You're right, I'm like you in that now I got a taste I don't want to stop. The Purple was complete Dank! Well I'll tlak to you soon friend...

Originally Posted by BuzzLightOne

Oh, I wanted to ask you something about the grow tents. I planned the space out to be a certain way. I have my exhaust to the outside on the top left. The intake on the bottom right. I can't really tell by the pictures of them on ebay. Do you know if they have them all designed one way, or can you choose R or L exhaust etc. Thanks bud, Talk to you soon.

Well, that was soon! LOL...As far as these tents, go, I'm honestly not too sure how they are all vented, but most of the ones I've seen, which were all either online or inside Texas Hydroponics, were like "universally vented" if that makes any sense? In other words, they had vent ports all over--on the bottom, sides, and top, so you can set your vent system up however you'd like...hope this is somewhat helpful, albiet somewhat late...Later girl!

Originally Posted by bmerboy

you got some real nice harvest pictures there. that main cola looks good. cant wait for a full smoke report.

Hmm....looking back, I realize I may have skipped this step, and truth be told the Purple is almost gone...but just for you bro, I'll tell you what I thought about it smoke-wise...first off, we were clearly into it long before it had any 2 weeks to cure up, and day by day, the smell and taste did change, but IMO the bud tasted and smelled the very best after about 5-7 days of curing, seemed just perfect, nice and sticky but still broke up nice in the metal grinder, and the smell was delicious when freshly broken up, the dominant smell was that "danky" smell you'd normally associate with a strain like Wreck or Diesel, but with just the right amount of mild fruit undertones. The Stone seemed to change over time too, and quite honestly it seemed like the bud was a lot more potent to me when it was fresher. I prefer the "couch lock" Indica high, and when this stuff was 4-5 days in cure smoking just a bowl of it through my big perc would get me totally ripped, but it seemed to lose that potentcy fairly quickly, and as the smoke neared 2 weeks in cure, I found myself smoking 2 bowls instead of just one to achieve the same high. All in all though, I think this was some Badass quality connisuer smoke though, and truth be told, I might order some more and take another shot at it. Anyways, hope that was a decent smoke report bro. Thanks for droppin in man, peace!

Originally Posted by CleanCutGurilla

told ya the boys could do it!!ha ha they had me a bit scared at times but overall they did a bang up job....along with the texans. now if they can just keep it up.

im sure youve been busy "sampling"...hope that is going well for ya!

Okay well I realize this is from last week, but, Hells Yeah, pulled it out against Atlanta and then straight routed Seattle today! We'll have a chance to win our division after all it seems...Texans kill me man, teams like them and the Miami Dolphins make NFL Picks a lot tougher each week, because you never know which team is going to show up, but still, they're a far cry better than they have been in many years, and are in perfect position to play spoiler this year, we'll see....keep in touch bro!

Originally Posted by BtNugs

Hey DFW!! Long time bro...Looks like you did well on your harvest . The pics look great. Congrats man and may you have many more plentiful harvests in your future! Lates bro

Hey Homey, I thought you'd jumped off the GC train a long time ago! Good to see you man, hit me back for some sick pics in the next day or so..peace bro!!!

I'll have a full Journal up tomorrow. I hope to talk to you all soon, later for now!!!

[77401]

Originally Posted by DeeEffDubya

Hey Buzz, sorry it's been so long...Just to answer your questions, my other plants are all in the process of finishing now, my Pineapple Express just came down this weekend, Blue Widow should come down sometime in the next week I'm guessing, LSD about 10 days out or so, and White Widow is slow to finish but smells incredible! AS far as Booboo is concerned, it looks like shitty weed, and it has no smell, and very little thricrhomes to speak of. The Purple was complete Dank! Well I'll tlak to you soon friend...

I'm so jealous, you are harvesting every week?
My WW was a failure, I won't even smoke it its that bad. Besides temps, I don't know if I pulled it too late or too early or cured it wrong. I never got the smell your reporting. matter of fast my scrubber came un attached & I never knew it.
January I have to try new strains, looking at a skunk or kush, or something with couch lock & yields.

[DeeEffDubya]

Originally Posted by 77401

I'm so jealous, you are harvesting every week?
My WW was a failure, I won't even smoke it its that bad. Besides temps, I don't know if I pulled it too late or too early or cured it wrong. I never got the smell your reporting. matter of fast my scrubber came un attached & I never knew it.
January I have to try new strains, looking at a skunk or kush, or something with couch lock & yields.

Well yeah, I'm harvesting every week for now, anyways, that'll only last a couple more weeks though, I'm not cycling really yet, just keeping what I have going but not really on any timetable. I intend to change that though, I bought a Daily Planner today that has monthly calenders and what not for keeping track of my garden, and I intend to sit down with it tonight and get good and ripped off Pineapple Express and figure out how I'm gonna cycle.

Shame about your Widow man, I know you worked hard and spent plenty of cash, but eventually you'll get it right, I think winter will be much more "grow-friendly" in your neck of the woods. BTW if you're looking for "couch-lock" buds, you might consider the LSD I've been growing from Barney's Farm, a cross between a supposed really potent form of Skunk and Mazar, another popular medical strain, they say the bud is heavy-hitting Indica that measures like 24% in THC content...Peace Out my man

[DeeEffDubya]

**JOURNAL UPDATE**

Purple Wreck, Pineapple Express--Harvested
Blue Widow--Comes down Saturday
White Widow, LSD--Both will come down in the next 10 days
BooBoo--Still sucks, waste of time and money

Well, sup yall, I realize it's been a long time, but I've been working here and there, when I can find the work and stay busy. A lot has changed in the garden since my last update, my Pineapple Express was harvested over the weekend, Blue Widow was flushed and moved into the bathroom to finish out her last week, and my first round of clones started 12/12.
So let's get started--The Pineapple Express harvest was pretty easy, and went well I guess. The buds are smallish in size but absolutely covered in crystals, and the whole guest bedroom smells like candy while this stuff dries...I made a nice batch of QWISO this time around with the trimmings, and it tastes sweet like the bud tastes. Yeah I already smoked some, of course. Even not really completely dried and no cure at all and this stuff tastes really sweet. Maybe a cure will do something for the potency, because in comparison to the Purple I just grew this stuff is weak! Don't get me wrong, it'll get you high as Hell, just takes a little more to get there right now. Gotta let it dry though and stop picking at it, lol. Tomorrow it should go into Mason Jars to start the cure.

My White Widow and LSD plants are taking the longest to finish, but both have surprised me a great deal in terms of how I thought they'd finish. Those who have been on board for a while will remember that even at one point I had decided to kill the LSD because it got as big as a Christmas Tree, literally, but changed my mind and decided to just rope her down as best I could and let her take her chances. This turned out to be another GREAT decision. This plant now nearly 9 weeks into flowering, literally has one outer bud as big as a Pine cone, and an almost scary-looking Cola. And, oh Sweet Jesus, the smell of this one...it will hijack your nose and take it hostage...I've never smelled any weed like this, when I lean in and smell it I have visions of myself running through a giant field of the shit somewhere, laughing like a madman, lol. Oh and I suppose it's worth noting here that my spouse thinks it stinks...I just can't wait to smoke it and see if it stacks up to its supposed potency, and if it does, I've probably found a new favorite.

The Nirvana White Widow is long to the finish but appears and smells to be well worth the wait. Smell is extremely strong and fruity in the little closet, and this plant's odor dominates the space really. My spouse says it smells exactly like cutting a fresh cantalope in half, I don't know bout all that, just smells super fruity to me.

Okay so the bad news in all this is that the Blue Widow is like 4 days from finish and looks like shit to me. I forgot to take a picture of it today, maybe I can get one tomorrow and post it. All its fan leaves have started to yellow and wither and crumple, and none of the buds are very big, and the plant has very little in the way of smell. And what smell it does have is very citrus-like, smells lemony to me, not at all what you would expect a Blueberry-white Widow cross to smell like. Oh well, it was a free seed, so free bud more or less, and I'll have plenty of more shots to get it right as I've cloned it a couple of times now too.

Oh yeah, and Booboo--these guys have definitely been pushed to the side. They look like just about what you'd expect--tiny buds, hardly any frostiness at all, no real smell. Waste of time, sticking to good seed stock in the future.

Okay well onto the pics. The first 2 are old pics from the Purple Wreck harvest a couple weeks ago I forgot to post, the big nug weighed 5 grams or so. Next 4 pics are of the Pineapple Express harvest, a couple shots taken right before, and the other of the bud all hung up to dry, got 2 clothes hangers' worth of bud branches not counting the main cola. next 2 pics are the LSD plant, one pic of the main cola and the other is a pic where the giant Pine cone bud is visible if ou look. Last pic is the White Widow, enjoy!

Well, drink it in GC, because there's plenty of it here. More to come.
Peace

[mordenkainen]

Great pics, that looks like some wonderful bud.

[CleanCutGurilla]

alright alright! looks tantalyzing....i bet ur posts get more n more scarce as you keep harvesting!!!ha ha anyways all looks very nice, some sweet buds n there

now, not to take away from the greenage above, but how bout them boys?!!!! those fuckers have done this before....they start playing like a real team, then theyll throw it all to shit towards the end, at least houston has a tendency to do that...remember the oilers???? it was a nice game to watch tho, i might have to score some tickets if they keep this shit up!!!

[briskgreen]

hey lookin good man glad to see you finally harvested! congrats!!!

Glad to hear a little smoke report it sounds like some awesome smoke! thanks for the input hearing that i think imma go with your reccomendation of curing for about 5-7 days! those nugs look awesome lots of crystally goodness!

I ended up with the same odds as you lol out of the 4 I ended up with 1 female... shes doing good shes about 2 weeks into flower ill be shure to get some pics this weekend to update my journal since i moved her to a friends house. Shes got that dank smell to her but its definatelly a bit on the sweeter fruity side of scent! im prolly gonna add some molassis soon to help inhance the taste.

glad to see everything going good for you man! take care



P.S btw the other project is coming along good so far i think imma get it this time

[77401]

Originally Posted by DeeEffDubya

Okay well onto the pics. The first 2 are old pics from the Purple Wreck harvest a couple weeks ago I forgot to post, the big nug weighed 5 grams or so. Next 4 pics are of the Pineapple Express harvest, a couple shots taken right before, and the other of the bud all hung up to dry, got 2 clothes hangers' worth of bud branches not counting the main cola. next 2 pics are the LSD plant, one pic of the main cola and the other is a pic where the giant Pine cone bud is visible if ou look. Last pic is the White Widow, enjoy!

Ok Buddy,
A couple of questions from a noob dirt grower, It feels weird saying that after the last 5 months, So the PE, on the table? what size container is that? did you notice it being root bound when you pulled it? Could it a gotten bigger with bigger pots? Refresh my memory, please, what size lamps did you use? and last thing is Nutes? and Supplements? I am using the FNB one part @ 1tsp per gallon on every third feeding. So, what supplements do you advise for my dirt? Remember our Bro Toaster that put molassess in his hydro? I felt so bad for him. Thanks for taking time for me.