Harvest & Curing First Grow... Ready to Harvest??

[Mañ'O'Green]

16 square feet will yield about 20 ounces of bud per grow based on what I see you doing. This is not counting products made from the rest of the plant.

 

[Life_On_Mars]

16 square feet will yield about 20 ounces of bud per grow based on what I see you doing. This is not counting products made from the rest of the plant.

That would be amazing. Even if I pulled 10 I'd be very pleased, but 20... that could see me through the best part of a year

Just checked out the Cheese XXL grow in your sig - awesome stuff! Very cool setup you've got there. That hash plant pheno is crazy!? Never seen anything like that while researching this stuff! Some of my phenos here have freaky looking polyploid buds and double nugs, but nothing like that!

How was the hash? In fact - how was the smoke/taste in general for the Cheese XXL after curing, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

That would be amazing. Even if I pulled 10 I'd be very pleased, but 20... that could see me through the best part of a year

Just checked out the Cheese XXL grow in your sig - awesome stuff! Very cool setup you've got there. That hash plant pheno is crazy!? Never seen anything like that while researching this stuff! Some of my phenos here have freaky looking polyploid buds and double nugs, but nothing like that!

How was the hash? In fact - how was the smoke/taste in general for the Cheese XXL after curing, if you don't mind me asking?

I don't do combustion. The Hashish will be for friends and family at Thanksgiving if we can gather? The dabs from the Cheese XXL is very good with an overall body buzz.

Yeah 40g of hash was a pleasant surprise from that plant. It smells better every time I open it. It is getting that incense like quality.

The blonde is the 63 micron sift and the darker was 160 microns.

 

[Bob's Auto's]

blonde is the 63 micron sift

Mmhmmm...Blond...63 micron...

 

[Life_On_Mars]

I don't do combustion. The Hashish will be for friends and family at Thanksgiving if we can gather? The dabs from the Cheese XXL is very good with an overall body buzz.

Yeah 40g of hash was a pleasant surprise from that plant. It smells better every time I open it. It is getting that incense like quality.

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The blonde is the 63 micron sift and the darker was 160 microns.

Ah Ok. Thanks for the info. That hash looks lovely. Did you document the process you used to make it here? I assume it's dry sifted and then pressed? Is it heated too?

 

[Mañ'O'Green]

Ah Ok. Thanks for the info. That hash looks lovely. Did you document the process you used to make it here? I assume it's dry sifted and then pressed? Is it heated too?

Yes it is dry ice sift, dried and then pressed in one of my rosin prepress molds with 160°F. Pressed in my rosin press. No I did not document as it is a well documented process. Nothing new here. I do have some pictures of the kief and the plant it came from.

 

[Life_On_Mars]

Weather here in the UK has been very hot the last few days, upwards of 34C, and 50-60% ambient RH. This ambient RH is normal (it's normally higher if anything) but when it's cooler I can heat up the tent or the insulated shed containing the tent, and this rise in temperature drops the RH to a reasonable level. However, with these ambient temps, heating up the shed or tent is not an option. The tent was getting up to 30C, so I had to get my portable AC cooling the whole shed (I normally keep it in the room, only use it occasionally, don't bother venting, run it on 'dry' mode and point either the cold vent or hot vent at my tent depending on which I need). Venting the AC out of the room and cooling the shed properly did bring temps down, but even with dehumidifier running this cooler temp meant that when lights went off the RH in the tent shot up to 70%.



Not good!

It's a packed tent and this strain is not especially mould resistant (Dinafem state this on their website). I'm seeing lots of amber trichs on the sugar leaves but barely any on the calyxes so I'd like to give them all more time. However, I don't want to risk mould, so I think I'm going to harvest the most 'done' looking plant, and one particularly big donkey d*ck cola from one of the others. I'm hoping this extra room and airflow in the tent will reduce RH enough to avoid that high spike at the next lights off. Trichs are definitely majority cloudy on all plants, so it's not like I'll be pulling them super early, and I suppose I can compare the smoke between these and the ones I let go longer, and see what I prefer.

I've built a drying box that I'm going to passively vent through the tent to control the smell. Hopefully this doesn't raise RH in the tent too much. I'm going to have to make sure to keep the shed cool from now on... letting it get hot to control the RH won't be an option as the plants that are drying will dry too fast. Even right now the tent is 25C with lights off, and 60%RH... not ideal.

I've got three fans circulating air as well as a 6" high powered extraction fan pulling air passively through a vent at the bottom of the tent, so I don't think there are any 'dead' spots of air. I can't say that for sure though, and the last thing I want is to lose a bunch of this to mould.

Perhaps I should just chop the lot now...

 

[Life_On_Mars]

Well @Mañ'O'Green you were pretty close with your prediction -

I eventually pulled 650 grams of nice sticky stinky bud, plus 200-300 grams of trim. That doesn't include the 10+ grams I've smoked over the last week either :smoking:

Not bad for a first time grow with a 450w LED!

Thanks to everyone who helped, and thanks to Dinafem for the genetics.