New Grower Start up (11/6/22)

[Cannaficionado]

Hi mate, which brand of hygrometer was it? They sound good.

Umm lemme look up my order from amazon ill link it
https://a.co/d/cBjlGol

I have noticed stuff like this is rotational, another distributor will probably buy the same ones eventually and just buy them from whoever actually manufacturers them and just pop them in their own packaging

 

[Don't Fear the Reefer]

Umm lemme look up my order from amazon ill link it
https://a.co/d/cBjlGol

I have noticed stuff like this is rotational, another distributor will probably buy the same ones eventually and just buy them from whoever actually manufacturers them and just pop them in their own packaging

Thanks @Cannaficionado .
I can get them in my country.

 

[Cannaficionado]

Thanks @Cannaficionado .
I can get them in my country.

Good, glad to hear it, its a chinese company I believe

 

[Cannaficionado]

So my ph meter is all set up, did the 2 point calibration, and I gotta say this thing is WAY better than my last meter.

Had to water the watermelon. Did a plain watering and ph'd the spring water to 6.5.....after using the apera, I can guarantee that my waterings the last few weeks were far too acidic. By a lot. According to the new meter Im using less than half the ph down I was with my old meter....the plants seem unshaken by it so far so we'll see...

 

[Cannaficionado]

Lets start with tent conditions since I havent put it up in a while

Thatd dead center of the tent. Nevermind the vpd, not really accurate since I did not put a leaf surface temperature in there.

So its been about 2 weeks of plain waterings on all 3 to help wash out any excess nutrients, so even though I watered yesterday on the tall peyote and the watermelon zkittles. I decided to give them a half gallon each of feed and the short peyote got a full gallon as she was ready to be watered finally.

Gave them a light feeding though. Tds meter came in at 550. Ph'd to 6.5 again watered all 3 to about 10-15% runoff. According to the schedule they only get big bloom and tiger bloom now, but I gave a half dose of boomerang as well to give it a little boost of everything secondary.

I should mention that Im still following the fox farm schedule but Im cutting all the dosing in half from now on. In my spring water a half dose usually comes out to 700-800ppm. This is what Im considering a full feed from now on so this was suppose to be half that but it was a bit more.

Girls are looking good, watermelon still has a lot of fried leaves but buds are still swelling. Looks like maybe the shorter peyote might be starting to foxtail.....not quite sure didnt really take pics either.

Took a bunch of fan leaves off in the middle of the 2 peyotes to try and shed a little more light in there.

Strangely enough I thought a healthy plant with budsites getting direct light would produce nice solid buds. The short peyote is proving that not to be entirely true. All the budsites with popcorn sized buds even the completely shaded ones are nice and decently dense pretty much all the way down. What is there is DENSE but its the opposite on the tall one, the shaded budsites even right under the canopy are pretty spongey, not like the granite runtz but spongier than its sister plant for sure.

Anyway thats all for today

 

[Cannaficionado]

So today is day 54 of flower on my tall peyote critical and according to trichs on the 3 main colas its time to chop

Still some clear, but sugar leaves are riddled in amber trichs. About 2-5% on the calyx of the buds and I would say 90-95% cloudy and about 1-5% clear. Lower buds are less mature and I probably could have let her go another week, but Im ok with where she is. Lots of larf on this girl, lots of really nice buds too, so next grow with this Im really gonna have to lollipop to make sure everything is a consistent density.

Nevertheless she is down. Wet trimmed some of the larger sugar leaves and all remaining fan leaves. Still the main 3 branches are HEAFTY! The whole plant definitely has some weight to it. Hoping I pull about half a pound off this plant alone. Its high hopes, but I only got about 4 off my auto and Im just about halfway through that.....since it was harvested early its not strong and Im developing a strain tolerance to it unless I smoke the main colas which Im trying to save for last.

With the whole plant chop I ordered a new scale so I could get a wet and dry weight for the cultivators club. May be overboard but it was a good deal, its a 3kg max scale with cal. weight. I really didnt know what would be a good max weight but 3k is 6.6lbs and it measures to .01g so I think Im good lmao. I just wanted a larger scale for wet weight, so I could put a larger container on top of it to get an entire plant in it. Should be here tomorrow morning, so Ill put up a pic with the wet weight when I get it.

Heres some pics of it taken down

And the remaining 2 plants....believe they will both be coming down in a week to 10 days so all 3 plamts are falling short of breeder times

 

[Cannaficionado]

Purple is starting to come through on the short peyote and it seems like buds are still are still swelling on both the plants left. Main cola on the watermelon is almost as big as a 1/4 gallon spray bottle.

Got the new scale today and I definitely went overboard. It'll be one I have for pretty much my whole life. Its a US Solid 3kg Electronic Precision Balance. All calibrated but my stuff has been hanging for more than 24 hours now, and Im working tonight so maybe Ill just put the dry weight of the tall peyote up after I paper bag it in a few days. Now that I got the scale I can put up wet/dry weights for the rest....can't wait to see what that watermelon weighs in at!

 

[Cannaficionado]

So still probably another 4 to 5 days of hang drying before bagging but I had to share my biggest cola branch as of right now.

Pictures really dont do this girl any justice.

 

[Cannaficionado]

 

[Cannaficionado]

Had to trim up the peyote I harvested. Dont know why by its dry as fuck and some of the stems are snapping already. So I trimmed and paper bagged it.

Did a little weighing, unfortunately I took a pic with the resolution too high

Surprisingly only 72.84g of good solidish bud and another 26.72g if trim and larf, and a lot of what I thought was gonna be solid ended up being pretty larfy, but almost 100g more bud to smoke on lol and it looks super tasty.