Hey there fellow growers,
Here's a quick harvest update from the end of July and I'm just now getting around to thinking that I should share this to complete this blog series for the Mandarine autos and report back.
I ended up having my 2x4 tent setup for the dry, so I fit a hauswiser mesh drying rack in the middle and set a fan to push air from the bottom of the tent. I just ran the 4" exhaust fan and had the humidity set to 60 rH using inkbird humidity controller. Every day I'd go in and rotate the large stems and nugs and sometimes spin the rack as I had it anchored to the very top of the tent.
From what I recall, I think this took about 7 days until I felt they were just dry enough to get it in the trim bin. The nugs overall weren't really as dense as I wanted but the smaller plants that seemed to have gone longer in flower were frostier and a lot more ready.
I do believe I needed to be more on top of the bloom nutrients and that's something I learned from this first run of autos too. The total weight after trimming was about 80 grams from 3 plants, which I realize I could have let them go a little bit longer. I found after keeping these mason jars in a cool dark space and "burping" them once a day for 2 weeks, then it was ready and smelling a lot better. I'd say, after 3 weeks is when the smell was really starting to improve and the humidity was lowering to around 55 and it's smoking pretty good now. :smoking:
Getting the timing down for a perpetual grow is tough, especially when you might run out of space in veg and need to get plants moved into a flower space. I'll keep you all posted on my next run of autos as I'm taking what I learned on this grow and trying to maximize the 4x4 tent space with 6 autos. Those are currently on week 6 of flower and looking good my friends.
If you have any suggestions on how you dry your plants, drop them in the comments and let's chat. I've got a dry climate here so it's a constant battle to not let these dry too fast and I'm sure many have the opposite problem.
Until next time, stay lifted friends.
Here's a quick harvest update from the end of July and I'm just now getting around to thinking that I should share this to complete this blog series for the Mandarine autos and report back.
I ended up having my 2x4 tent setup for the dry, so I fit a hauswiser mesh drying rack in the middle and set a fan to push air from the bottom of the tent. I just ran the 4" exhaust fan and had the humidity set to 60 rH using inkbird humidity controller. Every day I'd go in and rotate the large stems and nugs and sometimes spin the rack as I had it anchored to the very top of the tent.
From what I recall, I think this took about 7 days until I felt they were just dry enough to get it in the trim bin. The nugs overall weren't really as dense as I wanted but the smaller plants that seemed to have gone longer in flower were frostier and a lot more ready.
I do believe I needed to be more on top of the bloom nutrients and that's something I learned from this first run of autos too. The total weight after trimming was about 80 grams from 3 plants, which I realize I could have let them go a little bit longer. I found after keeping these mason jars in a cool dark space and "burping" them once a day for 2 weeks, then it was ready and smelling a lot better. I'd say, after 3 weeks is when the smell was really starting to improve and the humidity was lowering to around 55 and it's smoking pretty good now. :smoking:
Getting the timing down for a perpetual grow is tough, especially when you might run out of space in veg and need to get plants moved into a flower space. I'll keep you all posted on my next run of autos as I'm taking what I learned on this grow and trying to maximize the 4x4 tent space with 6 autos. Those are currently on week 6 of flower and looking good my friends.
If you have any suggestions on how you dry your plants, drop them in the comments and let's chat. I've got a dry climate here so it's a constant battle to not let these dry too fast and I'm sure many have the opposite problem.
Until next time, stay lifted friends.
Cheers fellow growers,
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