Indoor Think Big® automatic

[The Iconoclast]

@Tony21 thanks for that. That's a neat idea weighing them, but you'd need the sort of monsters you grow to make it work, however could be tricky with factoring in water retention. I've bee taking close up buds shots and trying to work out what's happening, however suddenly every day there's a lot of change. She's definitely looking ready as some of the new pistils are packing it in. I'm kinda glad really that I had to do the early chop because I learned some interesting stuff. She's looking very ready now and I'll be chopping tomorrow. I can't believe that anyone still doubts that defoliation is a good thing!

 

[The Iconoclast]

Awrighty we're done today, no leaves left by the time the chop was ready, I brought the plant into the lounge so we could admire her for a few hours in the morning light. Shots coming soon. The first harvest at 79 days was 820 wet grams which became 5 zips of quality bud plus a couple of plates of larf. I've been smoking my larf away the past few weeks.

I was hoping for at least 600 wet grams and hopefully 800 to see me though with some difficulty to the next grow. Final weight today was over 2000 grams!, and almost all of it is top quality buds so that's probably close to 13 zip which would make this plant an 18 zipper. Which has given me food for thought because I'd never have chopped early but for the bud rot situation, and I was going to try and ride it out until I found a black wet slimy patch. But it turns out to have been exactly the right thing to do with this particular strain. It's almost like getting that 5 zips for free, because I never thought I'd even get 12 zips total in my dreams.


Here is a shot of her blending into the carpet like a squid. And other shot of her packing on the calyxes at ground zero. More to follow, I'm fretting a bit over my current seeds at the moment. More shots to follow

 

[The Iconoclast]

A couple of full plant shots. She had a self supporting metal net which made her incredibly easy to work with and now she has a graceful symmetry with branches hanging horizontally. I'd have loved to have kept her in the lounge for a week. I cut the lower rootball off and I could have left her in the pot with the clay.

 

[The Iconoclast]

I've decided that this particular shallow water culture with a large pot of clay seems to give me the type of root ball that I like to have. The roots are dense towards the top and bottom of the main pot and looser in the middle which has a lot of finer structure. The plant would probably be very happy like this, but then the roots emerge from the bottom in to a humid air gap of a couple of inches, then they sit in a shallow pool of nutrient which is a few inches deep. No air stone is required.

 

[The Iconoclast]

OK the numbers are in. The second harvest at 16+ weeks came in at 13 zips of top quality trimmed bud plus an ounce of almost equal quality larfy buds that I might extract, plus quite a bit of larf that I was living on the past few weeks. Yes, I was getting high on larf. In this shot you can see some of the earlier harvest at 11+ Weeks pressed into little containers. So the plant yielded then about 19 + zips of bud with about 18 of that top quality.

What I've learned from this grow is that if you get the right plant like this Think Big, then it's possible to get two harvests. Had I not harvested early there's no way I'd have gotten 18 zips, there just wouldn't be room she's only 27 inches tall. Now the really interesting part is the quality of the smoke. While the 2nd harvest have obviously not cured, it's pretty nearly identical to the harvest at 5 weeks earlier.

This is in spite of the 11 week buds being obviously early. Nevertheless once dried and the anthers go orange there's no difference in the general look. However if you look a bit more closely of course you can see the stacked calyxes which are not there on the earlier buds, but the trichome quality is the same. They look very similar under the magnifier. A little bit more cloudy on the 2nd harvest but still a lot of clear trichomes, but the plant was definitely finished. The later buds also coloured up nicely in the calyxes giving the plant a very finished look. However both harvests smoked the same so far. Tasty banana flavour, not as tasty as Blueberry but it's equally interesting, however I'm really looking for an old time skunk smell that I'm hoping my next Orange Bud will produce.

Buds seems airy but still dense and covered in crunchy trichomes, I like it very dry so I can just carefully cut off big chunks and drop them straight into my new Vapexhale which is astounding, I'll have to do a review.

 

[Tony21]

OK the numbers are in. The second harvest at 16+ weeks came in at 13 zips of top quality trimmed bud plus an ounce of almost equal quality larfy buds that I might extract, plus quite a bit of larf that I was living on the past few weeks. Yes, I was getting high on larf. In this shot you can see some of the earlier harvest at 11+ Weeks pressed into little containers. So the plant yielded then about 19 + zips of bud with about 18 of that top quality.

What I've learned from this grow is that if you get the right plant like this Think Big, then it's possible to get two harvests. Had I not harvested early there's no way I'd have gotten 18 zips, there just wouldn't be room she's only 27 inches tall. Now the really interesting part is the quality of the smoke. While the 2nd harvest have obviously not cured, it's pretty nearly identical to the harvest at 5 weeks earlier.

This is in spite of the 11 week buds being obviously early. Nevertheless once dried and the anthers go orange there's no difference in the general look. However if you look a bit more closely of course you can see the stacked calyxes which are not there on the earlier buds, but the trichome quality is the same. They look very similar under the magnifier. A little bit more cloudy on the 2nd harvest but still a lot of clear trichomes, but the plant was definitely finished. The later buds also coloured up nicely in the calyxes giving the plant a very finished look. However both harvests smoked the same so far. Tasty banana flavour, not as tasty as Blueberry but it's equally interesting, however I'm really looking for an old time skunk smell that I'm hoping my next Orange Bud will produce.

Buds seems airy but still dense and covered in crunchy trichomes, I like it very dry so I can just carefully cut off big chunks and drop them straight into my new Vapexhale which is astounding, I'll have to do a review.

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Well done man, you've gotten the hang of everything.

Yeah, I too have a hard time finding amber trichs on auto's, no matter the age. And I also can't tell any difference between early and last harvested buds, can be 6 weeks sometimes.

I have some amnesia photos going, I took some clones off one plant at 4 weeks old and flipped at 6 weeks, now they're all ready for harvest with no difference in the looks of the
buds, of course the clones won't yield much , just to show the no difference even with the clones going straight into flower
First the 2 clones, then mom

 

[The Iconoclast]

@Tony21, that's an excellent experiment with the clones, I'll have to give it a go. Autos really lend themselves to us mad scientists. You have discovered the same thing about the trichs and early harvest, there's nothing like finding stuff out for yourself, it's very useful to know this stuff. When ever I've left stuff on the plant after a chop it's only been for a week or two so I've never seen what happens after five weeks, glad I had to go there. I've got three beans in a pot at the moment as the fuckaround part of my current grow, I'm hanging out for some Glueberry, I just got 3/4 oz teaser earlier, and I have a feeling that the OrangeBud could be special too, have you grown that one?

With the three in a pot I have a vision of them intertwining but I don't have a very clear idea I just know I want to see what happens in this situation. The glueberry started life the same as the Think Big and when it went into the garden it did nothing for a couple of weeks then immediately flowered with nice quality chunky buds finished at 8 weeks. But there wasn't much of it only 3/4 of an oz. Now I'm pretty sure the same bean is going to take 12 weeks like normal indoors, so I was wondering what was it that triggered it to flower? I'd like to be able to reproduce that indoors. I mean if it's possible outdoors it must be possible indoors.