It has been a few weeks since my last post.... a lot has happened, so skin up, spark up and enjoy the read!
Day 129..... 57 days into bloom, and there's an open house later in the day.... we're moving out and the Landlord wants the place viewable for future tenants.
I've been planning for this, and I was ready to go as soon as I finished my wake and bake. Joint out, made another fat one (you know how it goes) and got to work.
Here she is then.... ready to start her new adventure.....
Lights out is usually 8am, so on the dot, I unhooked all the yoyos and dragged her out of the tent. I had fed her the night before, and so after 12 hours of light, she wasn't excessively heavy.
I got one of those plastic dust sheets you can get from DIY shops and wrapped that around her to gather everything up towards the middle. The plant was 1.2m by 1.2m wide so getting her through doorways would be a problem unless I could get her width down to 80cm.
I stuck a load of black bin liners together, 6 by 3, with some parcel tape to make a kind of tarpaulin.... over that went, followed by another load of black bags.... all held together with more parcel tape......
What a kinky bitch!!!
Anyway, I eased her through the door, lugged her downstairs, staggered outside, and dumped her in the carport.
I never throw shit out, so finally I had found a use for the cardboard box for a fridge we bought a couple of years back.....
I doused it in orange oil spray, parked the cars around it and got back to getting the tent down for the impending open house later in the afternoon.
I'm not gonna lie.... she stank!
But all went well, and the rabble came and went without a hitch.
I got the plant back inside, and skinned up again, the relief of not getting rumbled was incredible.
We got more and more caned, I couldn't be arsed to get the tent, fans and lighting up again for 'lights on' and the next day, we continued getting caned..... it wasn't until 5pm when I decided it was time to free her from her bondage...... when I ripped open the plastic, it was drenched inside! She'd been sweating like a Nun in a cucumber patch.
I had planned to use the same method again 3 days later when we had to move out... wrap her up in plastic, get her on a van and back in her tent in the new gaff by lights on...... but after the stress of the open house, I didn't fancy going through all that again, and seeing all that humidity build up in her gimp suit made me think the whole lot would be lost to rot if I continued, so I took drastic action......
Officially day 130 chop.... 58 days after flip.
Have a look at that blanket of bud!
It was nice and juicy, the trichomes all milky, so why not just finish this grow once and for all.....
I had shitloads to do, what with moving house and packing, cleaning etc, so cropping had to be done late at night.
I started my usual way, stem by stem, manicuring as I went, and hanging them in perforated cardboard boxes. 3 days went by in a blur, then it was move day.
The night before, I did as much manicuring as I could, but by 3am I was still left with a mountain of bud to deal with, so I just started chopping it all down, leaves and all.
I got a packing box. lined it with some packing paper, and laid out a load of stems on top. then some more packing paper, and then another layer of stems.... again and again like some kind of ganja lasagne.
I squeezed it down and then continued filling the box with the stems that I'd previously cut and hung, layer by layer until the box was stuffed. I taped it up and labelled it 'spices', doused it in orange spray, and put it with all the other boxes for the removal boys to load up in the van.
It took about 5 minutes for the whole house to stink of pungent blueberry.
'Oh I wish my house smelled like yours' said one bloke. 'Mmmmm' said another, 'that smells like strong stuff mate'. Then he went on about having to move 10 bin bags full of Peyote once, and how he's seen 'everything'.
These Guys were gonna be OK..... I could imagine some companies refusing to move drugs interstate, but this lot were fine about it!
Anyway, we made the move, and after everyone had gone, I sat down that night and thought about how I was gonna dry all this wet weed.
I was sitting in the large lock up space beside the house.... everything was packed in there... piles of boxes.... and slowly it all came together in my head.
I put up the new 1.2m² wide 2m high tent, hung up a filter and 6 inch extraction, and set to work unpacking the 'spice' box.
I hung the longer stems in some boxes, and clipped the shorter stems to a few sock hangers. I still had a load of smaller buds and stems to dry, and suddenly remembered I had this hanging net thingy I bought and never used a few years back.... all stashed in a box, somewhere in the piles of boxes in the lock up.... found it quite quickly, and hung it up in the tent, after scattering the last of the bud over it.
Being back in Suburbia, I have to be a bit more careful about prying eyes, so I came up with a solution to make the drying set up more stealthy.....
Mrs Tee wan't happy about me using her precious screens, but you'd never guess, would you? Especially the bt of paper over the 'Grocell' label
Then you open the screens......
..... and unzip the door......
Some manicured stems and a few with leaves still on.
.... and another, all with leaves on. I figure this will slow down the drying process as they wrap around the buds and hold the moisture in a bit longer.....
So 2 boxes full, and 3 sock hangers as well.
Some of it was manicured....
.... but most of it was leafy AF....
The sock hangers are great, easy to load up, and easy to hang....
I was pleased I remembered I had the drying net. I couldn't be bothered to individually wet manicure all that and brown paper bag it all. I was well knackered from all the moving, so this was a nice lazy solution.
I put the extraction on its lowest setting and let them rest for a good while.
On day 144, 14 days after the initial chop, I decided to do he final manicuring, weigh up and jar up. I'd probably left it a bit late, they were well dry.
It was pretty easy clipping off all the leaves, and eventually I made a couple of nice piles of nugs....
The top pile of larger buds weighed 185g. The bottom pile weighed 246g. This was all the stuff from the boxes and the sock hangers.
The next day I went through the stuff on the drying net..... another 91g.
The bud has very nice bag appeal.... rock hard nuggets covered in sparkly trichomes......
If you tot up the numbers, you get 522g in total..... 18.4 ounces of bud from one plant.... a Blue Amnesia XXL Automatic that developed into a Photoperiod. Dinafem doesn't sell Blue Amnesia in a Photoperiod, so this is a rarity indeed. And so fucking much of it as well!!!! What do you think
@Dinafem-Mark ?
I grew Blue Amnesia Auto 2 grows ago..... this smells the same... pungent Blueberry with a deep rich aroma. Guess how much the Auto gave me in comparison.....
521.6g..... 18.4 ounces...... what an incredible coincidence!
So there we have it, this was quite a grow..... I started with 4 Autos in a cardboard box. One became a Siamese twin, and another decided to be a photo.
1378 grams or 48.6 ounces all jarred up! I'm well happy with that!
Thank you for joining me and seeing all the bullshit I have to deal with to get some decent smoke, and I hope you have as much success with your grows!