I have a vacation coming up next week and I needed something to smoke on it so I cut off a few of the lower branches and hung them to dry. View attachment 161101 View attachment 161102 This pretty much confirmed what I was worried about, the buds are so tiny... I wanted to trim about 7 grams off, but I don't think I have that... looks more like 3.5 grams, but we'll see how much it shrinks while it's drying. View attachment 161104 A nice macro shot, these buds aren't as frosty as the tops of course, but they still look pretty good! View attachment 161103 I've decided to push my harvest back another week as it looks like the buds might be putting on a little bit of weight this week. I'll be out of town and won't be able to check on them so I hope they'll be okay. It'll be a flush week so I don't expect too much can go wrong during it. They'll run out of water about half to 3/4 of the way through the week but I don't think that's going to hurt them any. I'm more worried about PH swings, but again it's the last week of their life so I don't think too much can go wrong.
Week 9 update (Light switched to 12/12 on 7/18/2015) So it's looking like the buds are putting on some weight this week finally. Nothing too crazy, but it's something. I'm not going to be doing my harvest nest week as originally planned. I'm considering leaving the plants to flush for a week while I'm out of town, or maybe leaving them with nutes and deciding if I want to flush when I get back to keep giving them more time. I have until Wednesday to decide. View attachment 161133 Here's a couple of the buds, that have been getting bigger this week. Looking awesome, but still have a long way to go before they're as big as I was expecting or the other plant is at. View attachment 161134 View attachment 161135 Fox tails continue of course. View attachment 161136 Here's a couple buds from the plant that has had big buds, they're really looking good, and nice and fat. I wish all the plants looked like this. View attachment 161139 View attachment 161140 Now for some gorgeous macro shots. You'll notice the purple bits have all amber trichomes, the green bits are still milky so I'm not totally sure what to think of that. View attachment 161137 View attachment 161141 Man up close you can barley see any green, it's just a snowy day View attachment 161138
I noticed tonight that the edges on my leaves are starting to curl upwards. I did a search and the common cause for this is heat stress. However I keep my canopy temperature at 75-78 degrees during the day and around 65 at night. Since my temps are in the butter zone I have trouble believing I'm having an issue with heat stress. Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? Some leaves are worse than this, some are better, this is somewhere in the middle. View attachment 161161
week 10 update Nothing really to say this week, I'm out of town and haven't seen my ladies since Wednesday night here's hoping they're doing okay, I didn't have anyone to check on them for me. I started their flush before I left town so they're on plane water now. I'll be starting the harvest Wednesday if everything goes according to plan.
Harvest Update #1 Day 82 I harvested the first plant last night, it took almost 7 hours! I really need to get faster at this harvesting thing... however since I am slow I'll be updating this post with the harvests as I go, it's going to take me until at least Saturday to finish Plant #1 (These numbers are the ID I used to track which plant is which, not the order that they are being harvested in) View attachment 161418 The leaves and top buds started to turn a beautiful purple last week. It was really nice getting home to see these shades of purple. View attachment 161419 View attachment 161420 Lower buds are all a light green shade, still sexy though. View attachment 161421 Holy foxtails Batman View attachment 161422 I'm a bit shocked by this, the difference between color and trichome density between the very top of the bud and what's under the first set of sugar leaves is crazy. This bud is the most evident with this since it was a bit lower on the plant where only the very tip could get direct light. View attachment 161423 Now let's wrap up with some photos of the trimmed buds. After seeing this I am much more optimistic about my final weight, this is all from the smallest plant, I'm harvesting from smallest to biggest to allow the most productive plants the most time. View attachment 161424 View attachment 161425 View attachment 161426 Time to go harvest another plant
Amazing color bro and what strain? Looks exactly like this unknown I've just cut Yourz is absolutely beautiful bro, saweet pull
Thanks I appreciate it coming from you Wow those monsters are awesome, wish mine came out that fat! I still haven't gotten to my one plant that was putting on weight though, so hopefully I've got one like that. The strain is Mega Jackpot from AMS.
Harvest Update #2 Day 83 Well it turns out I was mistaken about which plant was the smallest. Plant #4 turned out to be quite a bit smaller than #1, still not a bad harvest though. I'm actually not surprised this one was smaller as she was the runt of the group in veg. Plant #4 View attachment 161455 I've noticed the last couple weeks the leaves up top have been staying nearly vertical which seems weird to me, I never did try to figure out if this was a deficiency or anything. View attachment 161456 The final harvest from plant #4, I'm guessing it's maybe 2/3 of the weight I got from plant #1. View attachment 161457 I won't have time to harvest anything tonight, but hopefully I'll be wrapping up tomorrow night, Sunday at the latest. Stay tuned, the best two plants are yet to come!
Harvest Update #3 Day 85 Plant #2 After pulling this plant out of the room, it became very clear she was the biggest plant in the room by quite a bit. It's buds were as tiny as the other plants, but it had much better node spacing and overall was just a bigger plant. View attachment 161487 I really love the colors I ended up with, I wish the purple carried further down the plant though. View attachment 161488 One thing I'm surprised by is how much like bamboo weed is. Every stem is totally hollow, wasn't expecting that as I've never seen this in the weed I've bought. View attachment 161489 Such frosty sticky buds, can't wait to smoke these. I just wish they had some decent size to them. View attachment 161491 Here's the final harvest from plant #2. View attachment 161490 Lastly let's take a look at the entire harvest so far. This is plants #1, #2, and #4. View attachment 161492 Tonight I'll wrap up by harvesting my favorite plant! It's smaller than I thought it was, but it is the only plant that ever put weight on it's buds. I'm also hoping to have the final dry weight for plant #1 tonight, stay tuned!
Harvest Update #4 Day 86 Plant #3 Wow this one is gorgeous, I was definitely right about it being my favorite! It's nice to see what this strain can actually do when it's not so stressed out. I think this plant may have also been better pruned allowing it to focus more energy on fewer buds. View attachment 161493 The colors on this one are really great. I wish the leaves weren't so damaged so i could have dried one out to frame from my first grow. View attachment 161494 View attachment 161495 View attachment 161496 View attachment 161497 View attachment 161498 Here's the final harvest from plant #3. I think this one easily had the most weight out of the group, but I'll find out when everything is weighed up. View attachment 161499 I'm so happy to see some properly sized buds. The others plants are so dry that they aren't looking much size as they dry, so if that happens here these are going to be fantastically big dense buds. They're like rocks now, so I have high hopes! View attachment 161501 View attachment 161500 View attachment 161502 View attachment 161503 View attachment 161504 I'll wrap up with some glamour shots / stoner porn. View attachment 161508 View attachment 161509 I'm blown away with how much resin these girls have when zoomed in on, I'm gonna be hiiiiiighhhhh. View attachment 161505 View attachment 161506 View attachment 161507 Once everything dries out I'll let you know the final weight! Anyone want to take some guesses? I'm thinking a 1/4 pound not it's not what I was hoping for, but I'm pretty impressed with myself for being such a noob. I can't wait till next time, when it's even better!
Final Harvest Update Well I weighed everything up tonight and I'll say it's not shabby! Plant #1: 43 grams Plant #2: 56 grams Plant #3: 73 grams Plant #4: 27 grams (the buds looked as disappointing as the weight) Total yeild: 199 grams | 7.1 oz Here's some pictures from the weigh in. Plant #2, 56 grams View attachment 161540 Plant #3, 73 grams! View attachment 161541 View attachment 161545 Here's one of my favorite buds, can't wait for it to cure so I can smoke it! View attachment 161542 Some macro shots of the above bud, man this thing is frosty. View attachment 161543 View attachment 161544 View attachment 161546 Here's the final harvest all together, I didn't quite hit the half pound goal I hoped for, but hey 7 ounces for a noob doesn't feel too bad. View attachment 161547
Nice work for your first grow man, Your a natural. //static.grscty.com//public/style_emoticons/default/shake.gif
Thanks everyone! I'll be making some updates to my tent in November and starting a new grow, stay tuned!