Colorado Growers Thread

[Bud Spleefman]

Kelly a really good way to rehydrate dried out buds is with a leaf or two off a live, growing plant, usually I use some lower branches off one of my mothers.. even better if you can snip the same strain.

 

[cobcoop]

Super Lemon Haze @ 47 daze

 

[Balazar]

anything with more moisture than the bud that's too dry can rehydrate. I use orange peals some times or even just a piece of bread. However if you use food like a slice of apple it can mold. Foods will always kinda color the taste of the bud with the flavor of the food. Kinda like when you put some Chinese in the fridge next to a sandwich and the sandwich ends up tasting (and smelling) like general tao's chicken. A leaf off of a living plant is a good idea, and so is putting it in a jar with some bud that needs a little drying. What ever you use if you keep the bud and that item in the same container that is sealed air tight for long enough they will reach equilibrium. That is to say they will have the same amount of moisture per density. So if its really crispy dry you may have to get a new orange peal after a day or two because the bud won't be able to wick any more moisture from the orange peal once the two have reached equilibrium.

 

[Balazar]

: was a really post. This Sweat Pineapple is sweat and fruity tasting. It's also an uplifting rambling on for hours sativa! Well I'm gonna stop rambling and go listen to some now.

 

[guest123]

for best flavor and smoothest smoke:

Hang the whole plant in a small closet and keep door shut and have NO fans or air circulation. My plants hang for an average of 2 sometimes 3 weeks. When the stems barely start to crack when you bend them, then it's time to trim. Trim leaves off and place everything in a large tub with the large stems still attached. Then I open the tub to let breathe for a minute or two for a a few days. Then i trim every bud off of the branch and place into tupperware for my patients and the rest in mason jars for me

Trimming wet is not ideal IMO because it forces the buds to dry too quickly

Haven't seen any one using that technique in a few years!

Definitely the best way to trim for quality IMO, but quite a bit of labor though.... easier to remove large shade leaves before plant is pulled down, though even this speeds the drying process a bit.

I always left the stem on for the whole 3 week cure if I was trying to handle it carefully.... you tried both ways?

 

[alphaguru]

here is some blue hash plant nugs im smoking on now.
i was given a tip about re hydrating the buds (that i dried to quickly) with lemon peals.
seems to be working nicely for me, but as i mentioned before i cant really 'taste' a huge difference (i have also had 3 nose surgeries so my taste is alittle off)

i just put 2 more blue hash 'clones' (not sure i would call a plant with ~4ft of roots a clone) into my small flowering cab. hope to pull some more clones in a day or two as a few people here have asked for them. plus i want to try and improve on my last grow.

here is my other tent with my diy tubs in it.
i seemed to have a problem with nute burn at only 225ish ppm.
so i flushed them for a few days and lowered it, hopefully they are ok.
day 1:

day 9:

hey kelly looking awesome. Those cuts are looking really healthy.

here's what the sugar berry is lookin like this time around. Day 40



enjoy that alpha diesel tooo

 

[orpanic]

Kelly and Alpha,
Looking GOOD. What is the info on that sugar berry again?
Glad to see many on the boards.

 

[alphaguru]

its a cross done by joeyweed

dj shorts blueberry x brothers grimm sugar blossoms

oh yea kelly I also noticed that you moved the AD, just keep in mind that it stretches quite a bit and will end up as tall if not tall that the SB's.

 

[fishinnutt]

The Sugarberry is looking really nice.

 

[funkfingers]

That's a nice looking little DIY set-up you got there kelly What kind of nutes are you using? Are you running Co2?
Small spaces like that can be really productive with adequate ventilation/ intake. With as detail orientated as you seem to be, I don't see why your trees wouldn't keep getting better and better.( Not that they already don't look good).

funk

 

[FoCo(No.Co)]

Hey Alpha,

Have you grown out any of Joey's other gear? I have one c99xbb that just popped out its first pistols, and I also have a "Moonshadow" with yet unidentified sex.

These are the first F1 seeds I have ever grown, and I've got to decide wether to start more of Joey's seeds or pick up clones. Are F1's really noticeably more vigorous? Anything else you can tell me is much appreciated.

 

[fishinnutt]

Joey's Ak99 is an amazing plant in my opinion.

 

[Kelly.]

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[cobcoop]

Plants have a genetically predetermined limit on how much they can produce, but you usually won't come near that limit indoors, so vegging by height, based on your room's height limit, is a good way to go. Some strains will stretch more than others in flower so you need to get a feel for that first before deciding which height to veg them to. Hope that helps a little.

 

[Kelly.]

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[alphaguru]

Hey kelly
I usually veg for one month or less.

The sugar berry is capable of 4+ oz per plant under 1000w watts, so I would guess 60% of that for a 600w.

veg them to 3/4 the size you want the sugar to end up at and just let the alpha follow as it will end at about ideal height as well.

9 weeks, although I am still finishing my first run in hydro with the AD, So if there is latency in the flower time due to change in setup (soil vs hydro) I will let you know

just smoked some absolutley fire honey oil. Me and all my friends have been completely hooked on this shit and it sure is delicious



haha and recently I went to buy some cans of luciene butane from the tobacco shop and they told me I could only buy 2 10oz cans at a time. This was in boulder so I'm guessing that people have been going around and buying like 15 cans of butane at a time, which I guess won't be happening any longer

 

[cobcoop]

i think that my limiting factor would be the 600w right?

Well in terms of yield there are a lot of limiting factors, light being a major one. But if you are not doing any kind of training or anything (I like to top once or twice and let them do their thing) then you want to account for your height limitations when vegging. I think a good rule of thumb is that the plant can stretch an extra 2/3 of it's height during flower.

Nice pic Alpha

 

[funkfingers]

i have a question about veg time that hopefully some of the pros can help with.
i would imagine that there is a point were the plants will only produce so much bud weight.
for example, im running a 600w tent, even if i veg for 6 months i will only get X amount of weight at harvest.
obviously a plant vegged for 1 week will not produce as much as a plant vegged for 6 months, so i was wondering if anyone knows the 'limit' of veg time with a 600w?
hopefully that makes sense.... lol


edit:
maybe a better question would be how long do you veg for?
do you try to fill up the grow space, or just veg for a few weeks and get an extra harvest per year?

Veg time should be dependent on the space available. Depending on the size of plant, you should give at least 1 square foot per plant, the larger the plant (Width wise) The more square feet per plant. Remember most strains will stretch to at least double their height from veg to flower. I personally like to veg my plants for as long as they would be in flower. This gives me plenty of time to bend stalks and produce a bush like plant, that under a screen produces really well. In veg, I try to give each plant it's own area so that one doesn't take over the whole canopy, and shade out others.

The way that the mmj laws here in colorado work, It's nearly impossible to run a perpetual crop without being the caregiver for at least 5 people, So I understand why some veg for short periods of time . Although growing some outright trees might be an option as well, even though if done right you will end up with way more than 2oz of usable meds.

 

[RockyMountainHi]

I just heard of a MMJ rally going on down at the capitol right now.

DAMMIT!

I would have been there if I had known.

I'll edit in a link here as soon as I find one.

 

[Paco]

it started at 645 am!!!!