My Harvest

Hey Everyone,

I've finally harvested my "big girl" that's been growing for 158 days. I got 2 and
a half pounds of wet bud from her. Any guesses on dry weight? I'm hoping 8-10 oz
dry. We will see

Here are the pics:

Here is the first pic. It was a big branch I cut off the plant
and cleaned up:
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/big-bud1.jpg

Here is a picture of it fully "processed":
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/big-bud-cleaned.jpg

Here is a pic of the rest of the harvest, taken today:
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/big-buds2.jpg

A close up of one of the buds.. Check out my thumb at the top, its a
a little over an inch wide, so you can get an idea of how large the
bud is:
http://s255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/big-buds3.jpg

Here is the stalk, all the bud trimmed off:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/weed-stalk.jpg

Here is my thumb next to the base of it:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/weed-stalk2.jpg

Here is a pic of my scissors, I broke them trying to cut the base:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/broke-scissors.jpg

Here are three pics of the buds cleaned and all hanging up to dry:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/buds-drying1.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/buds-drying2.jpg
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/buds-drying3.jpg

Just a piece of cardboard with a bunch of popcorn buds drying:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/small-buds-drying.jpg

Here is a picture of some kief that I made from some trimmings:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/kief.jpg

And here is a picture of more trimmings that i'll turn into hash tomorrow:
http://i255.photobucket.com/albums/hh159/experimentalist/trim.jpg

These will all dry for a few days then cure in large 64oz glass jars.

Cant wait to get my next grow going in a few weeks!



~Experimentalist

 

Basically it was bag seed from a neighbor. Grew it under a 400W metal halide bulb during
veg, and switched to a 400W high pressure sodium bulb during flowering.

I added a 26W Ultra Violet Blue (UVB) light during the last three weeks. Worked GREAT!
You can really tell the difference where the UVB was pointed. I'll be adding a 2nd UVB
bulb during the entire flowering cycle on my next grow.

Was grown in Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil. I did a big no-no and fed her all chemical
fertilizer. Miracle Gro 18-18-21 initally in veg, then 30-10-10, then switched to Miracle
Gro 15-30-15 for flowering. I watered with a single drop of superthrive, and 1 tbsp of
blackstrap molasses for every watering during flower.

I flushed for one week prior to harvest. I also did not water for three days prior to cutting
her down.

~Experimentalist

PS: I obtained a few grams of kief from the trim.. it's GRRRREAT

 

Thats 2 and 1/2 pounds WET keep in mind. Dry, I don't know yet.. I'll let it dry for another
day or two before getting a final weight. I am expecting to lose about 75% of that weight.

I went with MG just because it was available and I'd had experience with it before. I know
you can get better results with all organic, which I'll be using on my next grow. I can state
that I had no issues with nute burn, the bud tastes fine, etc. I've been using MG products
for YEARS in my legal gardening hobby and never had any issues.

~Experimentalist

 

You can smoke it, kinda.. you will need to keep a lighter on it to smoke it and it wont be
very good. It's best to let it sit out at least overnight or something to get it pretty dry.
You can quick dry tiny buds inside of CFL bulbs but its easy to overdo it with that method.

If I wanted to sample some MJ from a plant before harvest, i'd cut a bud off, chop the
bud up with scissors and let the peices sit out for an hour or three. It'd be pretty dry by
the time you wanted to smoke it.

~Experimentalist

 

At first I was like .. wtf? .. then I realized you were being sarcastic!

The product smokes nice.. doesn't go out, so I must have gotten rid of most of the nitrogen. I
can say that it sure doesn't have much of a taste though, but it's smooth and mellow. The high is
totally a head high, with a minor body buzz.. so its functional and gives me energy.

Thanks!

~Experimentalist

 

Okay.. Final dry weight is 7.5OZ. I now have all the bud stored in three 64OZ air-tight
latch-style jars to cure.

I also harvested a few branches earlier and got an oz or two there, an OZ of dry trim for
making kief, which I did, and got a few grams of.

Not bad.. not bad.. I'd say I pulled ~9 dry OZ from her and got some hash!

~Experimentalist

 

Thanks, I am quite pleased with it too.

I vegged for exactly 30 days before switching to 12/12. It was about two feet tall, maybe
a little taller by an inch or two, maybe less. I did LST the top half of the plant.

~Experimentalist

 

The area the UVB light shone on matured quicker than the rest, for example, the
tricomes within the UVB influenced area ambered up earlier than the rest of the plant
and the hairs turned orange faster than the rest as well. I didnt notice any increase in
the size of the buds, compared to the rest of the plant, just that it matured more
rapidly and gives a stronger buzz, no doubt due to the higher ratio of amber:milky
trichomes compared to the rest of the plant.

I'll be keeping UVB on my plants for the next grow during the entire flowering cycle.
This plant only got between two and three weeks worth of UVB.

~Experimentalist