Do you even OGKB 2.0 Bro??? Let them eat Cookies!

[Chunkypigs]

So taking down my outdoor just about killed me in my shitty condition.
2 days sitting outside trimming in the cold.
the spread of the bud rot was slow and I wish I could have let them go but deer season is this weekend and I wanted the ECSD and the rest of the Chernobyl.

it's bow season and hunters are always chasing bow shot deer all over creation.
no sign of the property owners but I want to be cleared out just in case they come for the early season.

The ECSD was just starting to swell and put on weight but I smoked some today from the earliest pull and it will work for me in the daytime.
the flavor is poor in the beginning of the joint, that early homegrown flavor but it's decent before you get halfway through. good morning buzz.
I'm going to guess only 8 zips maybe because it was picked early but I'm happy I was able to get some.

the 23rd I grabbed most of the tops after I took this picture.

this is her the following day when I harvested the rest.

last bud I trimmed you can see one nug in the middle that was rotten.
probably not more than 7 grams of rot total and no PM except a tiny bit on fan leaves.
really much cleaner than my indoor usually finishes.

this is what was left on the Chernobyl, the tops were taken about 10 days earlier.

I left 4 cookies out there and looked at them today and they show no stress from the weather so I might leave them a while.
they are small enough that you would have to trip on them to see them.
today was the first time I've smelled them before touching them.
they really grow differently outside.

overall I'd say I'm happy with the harvest, very little energy invested compared to what my indoor runs in labor and electric.

 

[Chunkypigs]

cool article that has had me thinking the last few days when I been laid up.
usually I always preach about harvesting as late as possible but I have PM sensitive plants that I pull early sometimes.

I pulled a big Sour Dubb at 51 days a few weeks ago and it had great aroma and I'm happy with the smoke even though the yield was poor.
I like it better clean rather than letting it get a week more ripe but covered in PM.

I think in hindsight letting the ECSD outdoor go longer would have made up in weight for a little more lost to rot.

the people doing huge outdoor on IC mag tend to vanish at harvest and I've never seen much documentation on how these issues are managed.

http://www.theganjier.com/2014/10/14/my-method-harvest-cannabis-early-for-a-better-overall-crop/

My Method: Harvest Cannabis Early for a Better Overall Crop

By Casey O'Neill @caseyoneill42 · On October 14, 2014

We’ve arrived in the bountiful harvest season. Crops are ripening on the tree, bush, plant and vine. Here on the farm, the cannabis harvest has begun! We start early, believing that an early cutting while the plant still has growth potential encourages a vigorous response. The first rain storm of the season schedules our first cuttings. We top 4 inches of everything that’s chunky.

Literally, the top 4 inches of the bud. We’ll gently separate the flower enough to cut it up so high that we have to hang them on metal hooks made from baling wire, just like Christmas ornaments. A good general rule with plants (so long as they still retain vigorous growth capabilities) is that cutting or harvesting will stimulate the plant, sort of a threat-response. Combine this natural plant response with the energetic, magical, nutritive addition of rainwater and we find that the plants regrow what was taken.

The 3Ds of Harvesting

It’s all about the 3 D’s: Is it Dense, is it Dank, is it Done? You like to have all three, but meeting any two of the criteria creates a sufficient standard for beginning the harvest. There are about as many different methodologies for harvesting cannabis as there are cannabis farmers. My goal is to discuss one set of methods, with the hope of participating in a conversation from which I can learn new things to apply on our farm.

Starting Harvest Early to Strengthen Plants, Improve Quality

In my experience both as a cannabis farmer and a diversified farmer of some three dozen crops, it is generally better to start harvesting early and finish on time, rather than starting on time and finishing late. In a perfect world, all cannabis would be picked at the height of ripeness. We aim to maximize the amount of ideal-window harvesting by starting early. We push the plants to finish more uniformly by removing the spear-points with the first prediction of rain. This allows nature to start us moving on the harvest, avoids some potential for mold and creates a more standardized coverage of sunlight because some of the more outspoken branches have been brought down a bit.

We then harvest in waves once per week or so, because each section of the plant will ripen as it is exposed to sunlight. By starting ahead of the curve, we are able to maintain our harvesting pattern so that the bulk of the crop is harvested at the ideal point in time. Each successive wave has the opportunity to swell and ripen, trichomes exposed to the sun and wind.

Cannabis is a xeric plant, meaning that it developed in desert-like environments. The trichomes are a water-saving adaptation, they grow around the edges of the stomata, protecting the plant from dessication while allowing the conversion of carbon dioxide and oxygen to occur. Cannabis has evolved an effective means of respiration in hot, dry climates (stoma tend to close and plants respire less the hotter the air) by means of trichome formation.

In order to guarantee a maximum of trichome formation, we believe it is important for each layer of the plant to receive a full complement of the natural elements; grown from the soil with water, exposed to the air, kissed by the fire of the sun and caressed by the moon and stars. One of our purposes in starting early and only cutting short chunks of plant each time is to make sure that every bit of the medicine we harvest has achieved its full energetic, spiritual, nutritive and medicinal potential.

How Starting Early Affects Indicas and Sativas

Many of our strains grown to full, late expression are too heavy for the modern consumer. Everything we grow is hybridized, we don’t do any pure-strain indicas or sativas (for various reasons). Our strains that tend toward the heavier, indica dominance, finish earlier than our later sativa dominant strains.

Our tendency to pick early coincides nicely for our indica strains because we prefer an earlier harvest with fewer amber trichomes and more clear to milky ones. This avoids the sedative, opioid effect of the amber trichomes. Our stronger strains contain so much opioid feeling already that we’re focusing on adding a kiss of ephemeral lightness to avoid couch-lock-chip-bag syndrome.

Early Harvest Can Help Plant Fight Mites and Mold

As farmers, the more effectively we begin to harvest while the plant is still growing vigourously, the less we deal with pests and issues. Mites, molds and mildews take advantage of weakened, stressed or dying plants. The cannabis plant is more likely to encounter pests as the season moves along, and as its focus becomes flowering it is less able to defend against them. Living things lose their defenses as they age; the cannabis plant is no exception.

We support the plants with frameworks, remove excess leaf and sweep the insides to promote light and air movement. As the end approaches, we tell each plant to focus its energy by removing the largest, densest tops. This starts our harvest, and just as importantly, creates new light and air movement to the parts of the plant most likely to develop disease issues.

Protecting Your Crop Investment

Beginning the harvest early safeguards the investment in time, energy and money you’ve made by helping to protect your later harvests. Invariably as the season moves along, everything ripens up at once and only so much can be harvested at one time. Growers who start early are more likely to finish with a higher consistency of quality and less weather-damaged product. Weed doesn’t mind getting rained on, but if the plant is dying and has seen several storms, it starts to look like shit.

A Farmer’s Duty to Grow Dank Cannabis

As cannabis farmers, we have a duty to the future of our industry to continue to increase the quality of our product. Every season we refine our techniques, truly getting better with age. We do honor to our cultural heritage by stepping forward as leaders in the industry.

You can put all the crops I grow into one category: Quality. I couldn’t have articulated this until recent conversations with Leo Stone, CEO of Aficionado Seeds. We agreed that a wholehearted focus on quality production is the cornerstone to a genuinely successful enterprise.

Quality is a holistic concept that starts with the health of the land. In order to have healthy farmers, families, communities, we must honor the land and tend it so that we hand greater bounty to our children then we ourselves first encountered. We exist in the cycle of the seasons as farmers, stewards of a powerful plant that has been with humankind for eternity. With our practices, we do honor to our people, our place in timespace and to the Earth, sharing and spreading the love and good energy.

That’s How I Harvest. How About You?

I’ve shared my harvesting process. How do you handle your harvest? You can comment below with your insights and experience.

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

rekon the glue breath x lime are the ones just some perso seeds and enough to return to there home

 

[who dat is]

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That's some pretty quick turn around time! You don't mess around but that's already been established

 

[jw23ck11]

Chunky, been taking Ogkb 65 days and she is amazing but as u recommend I will be taking her over 70 next. The flavor is so unreal. It lingers on your tongue minutes after u smoke. She makes u talk to urself like Damn girl u taste so gooood

 

[heady blunts]

wow i really liked that article. thanks for sharing chunky!

 

[Chunkypigs]

Chunky, been taking Ogkb 65 days and she is amazing but as u recommend I will be taking her over 70 next. The flavor is so unreal. It lingers on your tongue minutes after u smoke. She makes u talk to urself like Damn girl u taste so gooood

you will find that it's really worth it to give her an extra week.
once she's into the 70+ days the flavor and aroma continue to improve as well as bulking.

I pulled my outdoor Forums friday and the one that was in the ground was badly shaded and under a hemlock and catching dead needles.

it's really weird how she never colored, I think being on the edge of the forest it stayed warmer than the potted ones out in fuller sun and weather.

It could use many more weeks but I wanted out before deer season in this spot.
not ideal but hopefully will still show a buzz.

potted Forum had a real shitty soil mix I improvised at the last minute but it's still pretty.

I have 2 OGKB 2.0's still out that were shorter than the forum and I stuck them deeper into the bush where they were invisible unless stepped on.

they were healthy with no rot trouble yet and handling the low temp and humidity really good.
like to let them go a few more weeks and see what's up.
I'll probably grab a few tops next time to test.
I'm not seeing the frost and stank that the indoor has but it might still come out medicinal in the end and mostly free!

 

[Chunkypigs]

I'm so glad I left my OGKB 2.0s out to test the weather.
she's been through lots of rain the last week but no problems yet.
I figure she's 9 weeks in and I could smell them before I could see them today.
my cookies indoors are sticky early but it seems to take longer outside where I'm at.
If these were tall enough to stick way up I think they would be easy to spot as weed now.

starting to look proper finally.

this is why you never want to throw away runty seedlings.
the slowest worst of a big pop I did in Feb. all her siblings were done before she moved from a solo cup into a gallon and then she was fine.
the flavor on this one is extreme and it's super chunky for cookies.
the OGKB leaning pheno's have crazy potential for terps, frost and flavor.
Panty Breath (Stink Panties x CookieBoi) 8 weeks hoping for another 2-3.

 

[Chunkypigs]

had a the Three pollenated by CookieBoi in the corner that went 12 weeks by accident.

introducing Deliverance (the Three x CookieBoi) sisters loving brothers like cousins. dropping soon.

Do you even Deliverance Bro???

 

[DoubleTripleOG]

had a the Three pollenated by CookieBoi in the corner that went 12 weeks by accident.
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introducing Deliverance (the Three x CookieBoi) sisters loving brothers like cousins. dropping soon.
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Do you even Deliverance Bro???
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You got dem purple OG Cookies yo. Go get WhoDatIs and let's have a sesh, lmao!

 

[bucketswithsoil]

turned 40 a handful of months ago...definitely never ever been a movie person,...lets say this,last movie seen in a theater "what about bob"....lol
i know quite gay,but that was long time ago..haha

but just watched that deliverance prolly 6-8moths ago...pretty badass movie especially for that time frame era...pretty creepy and badass movie i must say..

nevertheless id rather smoke ganja,surf,or fish...
looking good chunky,thats for damn sure...
time to hunker down asshole Matthew is a coming... hopeing for the best...

 

[Avinash.miles]

damn nice colors on those plants, chunky, not lacking trichomes either, good job

 

[HatchBrew]

2.0 OD CA

Chunky buds, gonna be some small oranges.

 

[who dat is]

2.0 OD CA
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Chunky buds, gonna be some small oranges.

Interesting that you don't have more color. Soon enough maybe?

 

[Ganjaganjakush]

turned 40 a handful of months ago...definitely never ever been a movie person,...lets say this,last movie seen in a theater "what about bob"....lol
i know quite gay,but that was long time ago..haha

but just watched that deliverance prolly 6-8moths ago...pretty badass movie especially for that time frame era...pretty creepy and badass movie i must say..

nevertheless id rather smoke ganja,surf,or fish...
looking good chunky,thats for damn sure...
time to hunker down asshole Matthew is a coming... hopeing for the best...

Be safe man, I'll be in Orlando next month, I lived down there for a few years only thing I miss is the nice weather

 

[HatchBrew]

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Interesting that you don't have more color. Soon enough maybe?

HAHAHa

Yeah no color on this one... yet...was gonna leave a couple more weeks. The plant next to it's "purpling" more of a grape-pink than purple. Have a Deep chunk that's almost black.

 

[Chunkypigs]

2.0 OD CA
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Chunky buds, gonna be some small oranges.

looks good but that doesn't look like OGKB 2.0 to me in terms of the fan leaves. never know without smelling though.
curious where she came from? so far I'm not really clear what's happening in Cali with her.
got any veg pics? I hope you got passed the real.

the fans sticking out of those look like the platinum cookie clone to me, OGKB like.
OGKB 2.0 leaves don't ever look like OGKB but the smoke is similar in effects.

I sent her out to Humbolt right after I won the cup but she didn't get spread or passed to the Wonderland as I intended.

I'm bummed that it took so long to make it west. the glue moved east much faster with the spread of her at the Cali Cups.

I'm hoping to drop seeds soon so I can afford to travel out to Cali this winter and get her in the right hands so she's available from the big clone farms. hope to get my seeds on some shelves there too. I have not been out there for 3 years now.

I'm making plans to shut my garden down for the winter so I can go stay with a friend in Mass.
if the recreational passes there in Nov I might stay there.
I figure if they make 12 plants legal in every basement I can run the same personal OP with seeds on the side and lose lots of stress.
medical has no plant count there just a cap on weight possessed.
I'm not interested in vending flowers but I'd like to make seeds and quality clones.

my outdoor looks to provide a 5-6 month cushion so I can take a break when I finish the indoor going off.
even the first ECSD I pulled at 7 weeks is good meds.

might try to pull off multiple 12 plant light deps in Mass backyards with a few of the peeps I know back there next year.

I know one guy with a big acreage and pond that's very secluded that could do giant full season trees.

I'm excited about shutting down my garden for a while and traveling and relaxing a bit.
my health is really shitty and I have very little energy for anything besides my grow. it gets old when you don't have any help.
going to keep my moms and dads alive in solo cups and cloner for a 4 months or so.

check out this podcast about harvesting and drying with Kevin from Wonderland. really great info!
https://soundcloud.com/cannabisreport/harvesting-curing-talk-with-kevin-jodrey

 

[HatchBrew]

It should be legit Chunky.

 

[HatchBrew]

Probably have some pics of her vegging on Insta...without phone ATM, but will try and find them.

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Just @'d you on IG of a younger/better pic of it

_____
Won't be lazy, here it is...

 

[HatchBrew]

looks good but that doesn't look like OGKB 2.0 to me in terms of the fan leaves. never know without smelling though.
curious where she came from? so far I'm not really clear what's happening in Cali with her.
got any veg pics? I hope you got passed the real.

the fans sticking out of those look like the platinum cookie clone to me, OGKB like.
OGKB 2.0 leaves don't ever look like OGKB but the smoke is similar in effects.

I sent her out to Humbolt right after I won the cup but she didn't get spread or passed to the Wonderland as I intended.

I'm bummed that it took so long to make it west. the glue moved east much faster with the spread of her at the Cali Cups.

I'm hoping to drop seeds soon so I can afford to travel out to Cali this winter and get her in the right hands so she's available from the big clone farms. hope to get my seeds on some shelves there too. I have not been out there for 3 years now.

I'm making plans to shut my garden down for the winter so I can go stay with a friend in Mass.
if the recreational passes there in Nov I might stay there.
I figure if they make 12 plants legal in every basement I can run the same personal OP with seeds on the side and lose lots of stress.
medical has no plant count there just a cap on weight possessed.
I'm not interested in vending flowers but I'd like to make seeds and quality clones.

my outdoor looks to provide a 5-6 month cushion so I can take a break when I finish the indoor going off.
even the first ECSD I pulled at 7 weeks is good meds.

might try to pull off multiple 12 plant light deps in Mass backyards with a few of the peeps I know back there next year.

I know one guy with a big acreage and pond that's very secluded that could do giant full season trees.

I'm excited about shutting down my garden for a while and traveling and relaxing a bit.
my health is really shitty and I have very little energy for anything besides my grow. it gets old when you don't have any help.
going to keep my moms and dads alive in solo cups and cloner for a 4 months or so.

check out this podcast about harvesting and drying with Kevin from Wonderland. really great info!
https://soundcloud.com/cannabisreport/harvesting-curing-talk-with-kevin-jodrey

That's awesome CP!!! Good to shake it up and find new ventures!!

I'm listening to Kevin ATM. Liking It.