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[wwwillie]

Thanks Brother! It is tiring but joyful work! It is my workspace that is a bit cramped making for a cramped trimmer!
Tonight the stems started to feel a bit brittle. I took this to mean it was time to put them in their jars. I put them into two, 1 quart mason jars. I put a Caliber IV RH meter in one of them; it currently reads 65% after an hour and a half. I'll keep an eye on them and follow the great write up in the curing/drying section. I also have some 62% Bovedas ready to go into the jars. I want this part to go great too, get myself some smooth and tasty goodness!!
Looked at the trichomes on the BDM still a bit of clear, but mostly milky, did not see any amber in my brief survey. Still on schedule for a Saturday harvest! WooHoo!! Getting ready to start my Dragon Training lessons!!!

And again, thank you folks, word escape me (not easy, I know), I cannot tell you rightly how much it means, I am blown away and humbled. Thank you!

 

[SkatterBrayne]

Perfect. Give them about 24 hours an see what the humidity reads. Definitely hold off on putting the packs in there so you can get a "True" reading. I like to wait a week (UNLESS the buds are over dried). Even if it's a stable 65% I would burp the jars daily, removing the buds, and rotate them around. They have a habit of compressing at his stage, and pockets of moisture can form.

 

[wwwillie]

02/20
6:00 AM
Good Morning Gardeners!
Not recording temps, etc. Only a few days to go and nothing has changed. Watered both BDM last night 2L of aftw pH6.2. This will be the last watering. Saturday is the day the come down. They look great with a nice array of buds and the secondary buds are getting heavy enough to weigh down the stems. The one under the LED looks a bit bleached, will move it to the side a bit.
Thanks SB, appreciate the input. I'll keep an eye out for the different thing you mentioned.
I took a look after a few hours and the RH was over 70% so I dumped them out and let sit for 10 hours more. I just put it all back in the jars, we'll see what the RH is in a while. Prolly gonna try to cure them for 3-5 weeks before I put the boveda pack in.

Edit: 7:30 AM Checked jars 66% that looks right on target!!

 

[greenzilla]

Any idea of the final weight of buds wwwillie. I know ur hoping for a z or more

 

[wwwillie]

Good Morning!
Funny you should ask GrrenZ! I just weighed the jars and the grand total is 40.7 grams, just a bit shy of 1 1/2 OZ. I have more than exceeded my expectations! When I started out with her it was such a horror show that I was going to be happy if she made to the flowering stage, and then was going to be happy if I got a few grams...
BDM, both coming down tomorrow, wonder what they will weigh! I would be happy for an oz of these!

 

[greenzilla]

good goin man 40 odd grams on that brother. u've exceeded urself allways a good feeling

 

[wwwillie]

Good Morning gardeners!
Took down one of the BDM last night. I was surprised at how different it was from CC. I will review the journal because I don't think I did it as well as I should. The buds were leafy and airy, immature towards the lower center and had big thick leaves throughout the bud structure. It could have been the plant and we'll see when I harvest the second one. They are nice and frosty, but not nearly as gooey either. I think lighting may have had an impact as there were what I suspect are bleached spots. Did not weigh yet but suspect 2/3 or so of an oz. out of this. Cannot wait to try a bit.
CC is still in the jars, perhaps a tad early but seem to be doing well. 69% with the lid on when I checked, burped for a few hours, still about 68%. Smells good though.

One thing for sure, put some dried out sugar leaves that were all sparkly into a pipe, two hits and I was really quite baked. Could not bring myself to even post... and this is the place if your going to post in an altered state!! Matter of fact I don't feel like posting most times after I medicate... Time will tell as I adjust to things. After ten years I have become at least a daily user and after 10 days only 1-2 hits put me away. The good news is that I have been able to make progress with some of my medication goals. I have been able to reduce the ambien to a half pill. Might not sound like much but at least once, more like 2-3x a week I would need 1 1/2 or even two to get me though the night. For the last week it's been two puffs an hour before and the 1/2 ambien just before bed and then a good nights sleep. I have also cut down the amount of ibuprofen to almost nothing where before I had been taking 800mg (4 pills) three times a day, I now take 400mg (2 pills) maybe once a day. This has been for my rotator cuff injury, It hurts but the amount pain has become reduced and/or my pain tolerance has increased. So that's pretty exciting!

 

[wwwillie]

Good Morning Gardeners!
Did not have the chance to chop BDM #2 yesterday, hope to today. Well don't feel as bad about perhaps not doing as best I could with BDM. Spent some time looking around and all of the BDM pictures I find with google of this plant look like mine. My girl may be a tad loose compared but not as bad as I felt they were, whew!! Also I will trim more carefully and put the immature growth back under the lights. Live and learn. I want to be sure I get a lot of this worked out before next grow.

 

[wwwillie]

2/23
8:00 PM
Did not get a chance to take it down today. Took it out of the tent and put it in the blackout bin/box I was using for BK. I will leave it there 24 or more hours. I have read that some folks do a dark period. Don't know if it hurts or helps but I don't have time to cut her down today so we'll just wait and see.

My 1st Journey is almost to a close. I guess that technically the Bubba Kush was part of this but now has a show of her own. When I started I had no idea, now I have a few ideas AND some nice stash too! The growing was fun with the help of all here! Thank you for that!! Stay tuned for some photographs of BDM when I harvest and some bud shots. And then an official smoke report for each. CC is in jars and BDM 1 is in a paper sack drying nicely.

 

[Bgrow82]

Hey wwwillie do not quote me but I had a buddie that grows some of the most dense buds ever, almost feel compressed, he had a loss of power two days before he could get back home to fix the problem and those two days he knoticed a burst of what he thought was growth from the dark. Well he said all it did was loosen up his buds. That is just info im passing on. To be honest I thought about the dark period and might do it to one of mine sooner or later. Beautiful grow man Beautiful!