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New Grower My 1st Grow, A journey...
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Hey! Thanks guys, it's more a thing of convenience than anything else. I have read things here and there, not enough evidence to do it expressly for this purpose though. Thought I would see what if anything happens. Hope to get to it after supper tonight. We'll see!
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Well alrighty then all done! Just finished taking down the last plat of this grow. Seemed much better than her sister, bigger firmer buds although still leafy. Think I will get a nice weight off this one, I would love to see 1 11/2 ounces. We'll see when she dries. Did not ahve enough paper bags so some in the bag some on a rack, all in the tent drying now.
Here is the top of her.
A shoebox of BDM
Have more pictures, will post later. It's been a long day...
Here is the top of her.
A shoebox of BDM
Have more pictures, will post later. It's been a long day...
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Well alrighty then all done! Just finished taking down the last plat of this grow. Seemed much better than her sister, bigger firmer buds although still leafy. Think I will get a nice weight off this one, I would love to see 1 11/2 ounces. We'll see when she dries. Did not ahve enough paper bags so some in the bag some on a rack, all in the tent drying now.
Here is the top of her.
A shoebox of BDM
Have more pictures, will post later. It's been a long day...
Looking great, they really turned out great, i know you said it looked leafy but i think they couldnt look better man i tried to find that type of scissors and ended buying a different pair that were small and real precise looking, and the thing broke when i harvested like right away. I ended up cutting with like a pair of old school kindergarten scissors. It was really kind of ironic. I used brown lunch sacks for mine and put them in a box,is that what you did?
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That is the best two hours I've spent reading in freaking ages. Proper feel good story, babies struggling then get better then look at that critical cheese. Gorgous isnt a strong enough word. Im sure your love for canna-horticulture will never wain and i cant wait to read the smoke report and see those dragons next. Peace
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As promised a few more photos. Things are going well. Two bags and a rack are drying BDM and CC is in jars. Look to do an official smoke report on CC this weekend as she was harvested on 2-16.
BDM before being chopped
And again
And the top of BDM
BDM before being chopped
And again
And the top of BDM
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WTG Willie! Sorry haven't kept up in a while. Been busy around here..
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Good morning gardeners!!!
It's almost sad that I have completed my first grow! The time seemed to simultaneously crawl and fly by. I never thought I would get such a kick out of writing this journal either. I think that, truly, the responses I received from this community along with the help, that made the grow and my journal possible. Thanks to all, really, thank you so much. I will try to break out the photo gear and get some bud shots to wrap it all up.
In summation it was a great grow, I learned soo so much about it and developed some techniques and found out that I still have a lot to learn! I need to work on lighting, don't have that down at all. The LED makes me wary, I think it was a bit to strong. Watering is still a bit of an issue, I think I over compensated and did not offer them enough when the were growing. Need to water to a good runoff each time so as to avoid salt buildup in the soil. Need to gauge better when to start flushing. I think I started a week maybe two early on both plants. They looked good but I think I could have done better with that. I tried to gauge by the trichomes, but these did not go as amber as I thought they would. I was looking for a heavy, body effect, hence waiting for amber. Need to be more organized too, a bit messy and careless here and there, no reason for that. Should have a method to my madness. Odor control... Missed that boat! The critical cheese was very strong, drove my wife crazy, even I could smell it now and then. I had a 6" x14" carbon folter negative pressure in the tent, Ona bucket and ozone and yet I had to add another 6x14 filter to it and it just about did the job! Oh well that will be moot once my room is built.
On a more positive note, two of the three were wonderful and the other one was quite nice. CC and one of the BDM grew into big plants with nice tight buds and the other BDM grew nicely but compared to the others it was a bit loose and airy. They were all very frosty with tons of trichomes I did not expect that! And potent, at least to me they are!! Wow, been steady at least once a day for a few weeks now and it still knocks me for a loop after two or three passes at the vaporizer. I bought a nice little meerschaum pipe for smoking and smoke reports, put a top from BDM in there, whoa, saw things...
Also very notable is the medicinal track. One of the reasons I started this journey was to reduce my dependance on pharma. I am quite surprised at this, pleasantly so but none the less... Due to a torn rotator cuff, use of one of my shoulders has been limited and the constant pain, well you know. I have been able to almost eliminate ibuprofen! I was taking 800mg TID for so long I cannot remember, that's 12 pills a day! I now take 2 pills like every third day usually in the middle of the night, prolly from sleeping on it in a bad position. The other I have been able to reduce and two times eliminate is the ambien. I was taking at least one, a lot of time one and a half and sometimes two of these things so I could get a decent nights sleep! When the dosage was high I would do weird shit according to my wife. Now I use the vaporizer about an hour or so befor bed and have been able to get a better nights sleep with a half a pill and two time with none!! This is a real positive trend!! Still have a bunch of stuff, blood pressure, diabetes, among them, but the RSO is a ways away yet. So all things in good time.
It's almost sad that I have completed my first grow! The time seemed to simultaneously crawl and fly by. I never thought I would get such a kick out of writing this journal either. I think that, truly, the responses I received from this community along with the help, that made the grow and my journal possible. Thanks to all, really, thank you so much. I will try to break out the photo gear and get some bud shots to wrap it all up.
In summation it was a great grow, I learned soo so much about it and developed some techniques and found out that I still have a lot to learn! I need to work on lighting, don't have that down at all. The LED makes me wary, I think it was a bit to strong. Watering is still a bit of an issue, I think I over compensated and did not offer them enough when the were growing. Need to water to a good runoff each time so as to avoid salt buildup in the soil. Need to gauge better when to start flushing. I think I started a week maybe two early on both plants. They looked good but I think I could have done better with that. I tried to gauge by the trichomes, but these did not go as amber as I thought they would. I was looking for a heavy, body effect, hence waiting for amber. Need to be more organized too, a bit messy and careless here and there, no reason for that. Should have a method to my madness. Odor control... Missed that boat! The critical cheese was very strong, drove my wife crazy, even I could smell it now and then. I had a 6" x14" carbon folter negative pressure in the tent, Ona bucket and ozone and yet I had to add another 6x14 filter to it and it just about did the job! Oh well that will be moot once my room is built.
On a more positive note, two of the three were wonderful and the other one was quite nice. CC and one of the BDM grew into big plants with nice tight buds and the other BDM grew nicely but compared to the others it was a bit loose and airy. They were all very frosty with tons of trichomes I did not expect that! And potent, at least to me they are!! Wow, been steady at least once a day for a few weeks now and it still knocks me for a loop after two or three passes at the vaporizer. I bought a nice little meerschaum pipe for smoking and smoke reports, put a top from BDM in there, whoa, saw things...
Also very notable is the medicinal track. One of the reasons I started this journey was to reduce my dependance on pharma. I am quite surprised at this, pleasantly so but none the less... Due to a torn rotator cuff, use of one of my shoulders has been limited and the constant pain, well you know. I have been able to almost eliminate ibuprofen! I was taking 800mg TID for so long I cannot remember, that's 12 pills a day! I now take 2 pills like every third day usually in the middle of the night, prolly from sleeping on it in a bad position. The other I have been able to reduce and two times eliminate is the ambien. I was taking at least one, a lot of time one and a half and sometimes two of these things so I could get a decent nights sleep! When the dosage was high I would do weird shit according to my wife. Now I use the vaporizer about an hour or so befor bed and have been able to get a better nights sleep with a half a pill and two time with none!! This is a real positive trend!! Still have a bunch of stuff, blood pressure, diabetes, among them, but the RSO is a ways away yet. So all things in good time.
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The weight totals are CC- 40.5 grams, BDM 1 41 grams, BDM 2 44 Grams. # plants and 4.44 oz. Not to shabby even if I do say so myself!
OK then, here are the photos!
CC Bowl of Flowers!
CC Bowl of Flowers 2!!
CC One purple bud!
And BDM a Bowl of Flowers!!!
All that's left is the smoke reports... All I can say is that it is very smooth, a pleasant but not really distinguishable after taste that is different between the two of them, and they put me out! Really quite potent! I'll try to give a more accurate assessment after I become more accustomed to everything!
OK then, here are the photos!
CC Bowl of Flowers!
CC Bowl of Flowers 2!!
CC One purple bud!
And BDM a Bowl of Flowers!!!
All that's left is the smoke reports... All I can say is that it is very smooth, a pleasant but not really distinguishable after taste that is different between the two of them, and they put me out! Really quite potent! I'll try to give a more accurate assessment after I become more accustomed to everything!
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