New Grower My first grow! Berry Ryder@ week 6.5 - Day 41 and counting!
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Well Hello There,
The girls finally reached their respective harvest dates and I finally made the chop! I left the grow room dark for the last three days to try and induce some purple colouring and get some resin flowing. I noticed no difference in either plant. This is maybe because the plants are still too young, or maybe the room wasnt totally dark enough. meh. Both girls were still green, so would be interesting to keep them growing, but alas I need their smoke and can't wait any longer.
Anyway, I broke the buds down into small/medium/large sizes but still broke down the main cola a bit on plant 'A' to a weight of 30g. I feel like I mutilated the trimming process, but I did get about 15g of dried trim to make some form of hash, prolly QWISO as that seems rather easy.
I decided to use the 'paper bag' drying method after reading a bunch of posts on AFN and other sites. The drying process is still going, the smaller buds are currently ~ 70-75% after 5 days in the closet @ 45% rh. I'm expect to start jarring tomorrow.
***One important thing to note.... The drying process seems to be much smellier than the growing process. I am using a small ionic breeze type thing that worked well during the grow to mask smell, but it is doing jack shit versus the waves of pot odor emanating from the closet. I will definitely need to use a carbon filter of some sort for the next grow.
Total harvest weights:
Plant 'A' - 302.6g wet
Plant 'B' - 176.7g wet
Plant 'B' total weight is 40.7g after 5 days of drying, didnt weigh plant 'A' and both need another 12-24 hours at least before jarring.
So here's a few bad pics of the girls getting cut up. I smoked the resin scraped off my shears and fell asleep I think. I'll post the final dry weights in another couple of days along with a preliminary smoke report hopefully :head:
Plant 'A': Plant 'B':
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Lastly, the light is bright. This grow was LED only, aside from the first week under CFL. I removed the CFL to really show what this light could do being used by a newb such as myself. I'm happy with it and the spectrum. I paid less than $225 for the light by waking up early for many mornings and bidding on many auctions till one lazy sunday everyone else finally forgot to wake up! I'm going to try it again in a few weeks and probably add a few fun additions.
Anyhow, enough for now. Gotta get them jars washed and sanitized!
Thanks again AFN!
The girls finally reached their respective harvest dates and I finally made the chop! I left the grow room dark for the last three days to try and induce some purple colouring and get some resin flowing. I noticed no difference in either plant. This is maybe because the plants are still too young, or maybe the room wasnt totally dark enough. meh. Both girls were still green, so would be interesting to keep them growing, but alas I need their smoke and can't wait any longer.
Anyway, I broke the buds down into small/medium/large sizes but still broke down the main cola a bit on plant 'A' to a weight of 30g. I feel like I mutilated the trimming process, but I did get about 15g of dried trim to make some form of hash, prolly QWISO as that seems rather easy.
I decided to use the 'paper bag' drying method after reading a bunch of posts on AFN and other sites. The drying process is still going, the smaller buds are currently ~ 70-75% after 5 days in the closet @ 45% rh. I'm expect to start jarring tomorrow.
***One important thing to note.... The drying process seems to be much smellier than the growing process. I am using a small ionic breeze type thing that worked well during the grow to mask smell, but it is doing jack shit versus the waves of pot odor emanating from the closet. I will definitely need to use a carbon filter of some sort for the next grow.
Total harvest weights:
Plant 'A' - 302.6g wet
Plant 'B' - 176.7g wet
Plant 'B' total weight is 40.7g after 5 days of drying, didnt weigh plant 'A' and both need another 12-24 hours at least before jarring.
So here's a few bad pics of the girls getting cut up. I smoked the resin scraped off my shears and fell asleep I think. I'll post the final dry weights in another couple of days along with a preliminary smoke report hopefully :head:
Plant 'A': Plant 'B':
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Lastly, the light is bright. This grow was LED only, aside from the first week under CFL. I removed the CFL to really show what this light could do being used by a newb such as myself. I'm happy with it and the spectrum. I paid less than $225 for the light by waking up early for many mornings and bidding on many auctions till one lazy sunday everyone else finally forgot to wake up! I'm going to try it again in a few weeks and probably add a few fun additions.
Anyhow, enough for now. Gotta get them jars washed and sanitized!
Thanks again AFN!
Nice Job, I was In the same boat for my light. It's really nice to get what want isn't it? I walked away with a 500w model for a lot less than they were going for. It was like the other guy forgot.... I hope mine works as nice as yours. Have fun!
Well folks it's time to close up the thread. Here's a final pic of all my bud. Final weight was 60.5g from Plant A, or a little over 2 ounces! The little stunted plant produced 32.5g. I consider this an amazing result for my skill level.
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The smoke is still curing and the taste has changed from a heavy thick skunky smoke that sits on the palette to a lighter & easier smoke with a cleaner aftertaste. My eyelids drop about 8 minutes into a joint and i'm all smiles. Am not noticing any berry similarities but do notice a slight evergreen aftertaste on the exhale. I have some photo Plush Berry I'm comparing with. The PB sends me to sleep after extended smoking, but so far the Berry Ryder has me aloof, but still functional in front of the neighbors.
I'll totally recommend the Auto Seeds Berry Ryder to newbs. It stays small and will produce a load of buds!
The LED light definitely works great. I still don't know it's name, but one can google the model# LG-G04B96LED for loads of links. I'm going to add some CFL for the next grow anyway.
So that's it! Many thanks yet again to AFN for her wealth of info.
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The smoke is still curing and the taste has changed from a heavy thick skunky smoke that sits on the palette to a lighter & easier smoke with a cleaner aftertaste. My eyelids drop about 8 minutes into a joint and i'm all smiles. Am not noticing any berry similarities but do notice a slight evergreen aftertaste on the exhale. I have some photo Plush Berry I'm comparing with. The PB sends me to sleep after extended smoking, but so far the Berry Ryder has me aloof, but still functional in front of the neighbors.
I'll totally recommend the Auto Seeds Berry Ryder to newbs. It stays small and will produce a load of buds!
The LED light definitely works great. I still don't know it's name, but one can google the model# LG-G04B96LED for loads of links. I'm going to add some CFL for the next grow anyway.
So that's it! Many thanks yet again to AFN for her wealth of info.
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Hey nomis that trader joe's looks good...
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I recently have purchased this light myself. My plant is budding right now. Its a sativa straight from bag seed. I just ordered some feminized autoflowers. I was curious what light schedule to start the feminized autoflowers on and what new to put them in can you please help me? So far are you satisfied with that light?
Not new.... I meant to say nutrients.
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