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mojo said:
haha.. good way to explain the first experience for us new growers
haha.. good way to explain the first experience for us new growers
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gaiusmarius said:
I was just wondering which one to try thx
hmm I see it now.. Would be nice to run along with Arjan's Haze #1 I wanted to try
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sirharrynuggz said:
Running two lights, both switchable MH/HPS. One 600w and one 400w. MH for 10day-2week veg. HPS for 12/12. 200w CFL for cutting/seedling stage.
Just bought an 8 fixture T5 fluorescent that will be used for the moms/cuttings/seedling/veg stage. Will use the big boys for 12/12 only from now on. Started out with digital and had a ballast on one that went out twice. I switched the ballast out to a magnetic and no more probs. When the other goes out, if it ever does, I'll switch that one to a magnetic also. I'm not impressed with whatever little benefit the digital presents. And they're just not as reliable as the magnetic. Just my opinion and I'm not trying to start a digital/magnetic light debate here. I was gung ho on the digital till they started letting me down.
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Posted the following in my "seedlings started" thread so don't get pissed when you get stoned, read this one, then read the other one, then this one... You get my drift. If after two or three hours, you realize you've been reading the same thing in two different threads but you were just too stoned to figure it out, don't get pissed. Just thank me for providing you with hours of cheap entertainment, lmfao. In the sixties, we called it fucking with your head but this time, it was unintentional, lol. 
To keep the humidity level where it needs to be during the curing stage, I'm putting a six inch piece of stem into each jar along the outside of the bud. I slit the stem open on one side along its length and place it into the jar. The remaining moisture in the stem leaches out into jar and lets the humidity fall at a slower rate. This also helps rehydrate any bud that's a little too dry. Outer portions of the bud tend to be a little drier than further in on the nug. With the stem in the jar, no worries. Everything rehydrates and then starts drying/curing in the jars at the same rate. A person could use a little piece of apple or even a piece of orange peel to do it. Anything with a little moisture in it will work. Make absolutely sure though that anything you use is not damp to the touch. You're trying to get a small amount of moisture back into some of the bud, not trying to make the bud visibly moist.
TOO MUCH HUMIDITY in the jars and mold and rot will destroy your whole grow!!!!!! A piece of the stem that the bud was cut off of seems to me the best way to supply the moisture seeing as how this was the moisture the bud was going to use anyway had I left it attached to that same stem. Just makes sense to me and it doesn't change the taste of the bud like apple or orange peel would.
I'm sure this isn't an original idea but I'm calling it mine and ignorance is bliss, lmfao. For any of you that sell weed, if the customer complains about paying for the 6 inch piece of stem in the bottle, tell the customer that it's part of your quality assurance program and you're giving to him for free. Tell the customer why you do it and that it's to keep the bud premo and you'll have a customer for life. Cause nobody else will be doing it and he won't want to buy from anybody else that doesn't do it, lol.
Think marketing, lol.
Just something I decided to try. Don't know if anybody else does it, but it works!!!!!! Just in case anybody else needs the info. I intend to do this every harvest. Just consider the stem in the bottle, my version of "worm in the bottle" tequila, lmfao.
NEVER REHYDRATE BUD BY MISTING THE BUD IN THE JAR WITH WATER!
I'm sorry, just had to put this in here cause it's something that crosses a person's mind when you discover you let your bud dry too long. If you mist water into the jar, the bud at the tops of the jars will get too damp and before this dampness can spread throughout the jar, that bud that got too damp from the misting will begin to rot.
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BTW, for those interested in final yield figures, by packing the jars slowly as the bud on each stem feels ready it's taking me a while to get the totals together. So far though, I've only been packing the White Widow as I harvested that plant a day before the Aurora Indica.
Right now I've got 5 jars packed with WW bud. They're quart mason jars and an ounce of dried bud fits nicely into each one without flattening the bud. Each jar with the exception of one holds the aforementioned 1 ounce. The fifth jar has the top half of the top cola in it and weighs 1.25 ounces. So I've got 5.25 ounces of bud dried and curing in jars. And I'm only about half way finished with the WW. I'm anticipating about 10-12 ounces of smokable bud from the WW at this rate. The Aurora Indica's yield is going to be a lot less than the WW. I'm thinking at this point it'll be about 6-7 ounces of smokable bud from the AI.
To keep the humidity level where it needs to be during the curing stage, I'm putting a six inch piece of stem into each jar along the outside of the bud. I slit the stem open on one side along its length and place it into the jar. The remaining moisture in the stem leaches out into jar and lets the humidity fall at a slower rate. This also helps rehydrate any bud that's a little too dry. Outer portions of the bud tend to be a little drier than further in on the nug. With the stem in the jar, no worries. Everything rehydrates and then starts drying/curing in the jars at the same rate. A person could use a little piece of apple or even a piece of orange peel to do it. Anything with a little moisture in it will work. Make absolutely sure though that anything you use is not damp to the touch. You're trying to get a small amount of moisture back into some of the bud, not trying to make the bud visibly moist.
TOO MUCH HUMIDITY in the jars and mold and rot will destroy your whole grow!!!!!! A piece of the stem that the bud was cut off of seems to me the best way to supply the moisture seeing as how this was the moisture the bud was going to use anyway had I left it attached to that same stem. Just makes sense to me and it doesn't change the taste of the bud like apple or orange peel would.
I'm sure this isn't an original idea but I'm calling it mine and ignorance is bliss, lmfao. For any of you that sell weed, if the customer complains about paying for the 6 inch piece of stem in the bottle, tell the customer that it's part of your quality assurance program and you're giving to him for free. Tell the customer why you do it and that it's to keep the bud premo and you'll have a customer for life. Cause nobody else will be doing it and he won't want to buy from anybody else that doesn't do it, lol.
Think marketing, lol.
Just something I decided to try. Don't know if anybody else does it, but it works!!!!!! Just in case anybody else needs the info. I intend to do this every harvest. Just consider the stem in the bottle, my version of "worm in the bottle" tequila, lmfao.
NEVER REHYDRATE BUD BY MISTING THE BUD IN THE JAR WITH WATER!
I'm sorry, just had to put this in here cause it's something that crosses a person's mind when you discover you let your bud dry too long. If you mist water into the jar, the bud at the tops of the jars will get too damp and before this dampness can spread throughout the jar, that bud that got too damp from the misting will begin to rot.
Peace
BTW, for those interested in final yield figures, by packing the jars slowly as the bud on each stem feels ready it's taking me a while to get the totals together. So far though, I've only been packing the White Widow as I harvested that plant a day before the Aurora Indica.
Right now I've got 5 jars packed with WW bud. They're quart mason jars and an ounce of dried bud fits nicely into each one without flattening the bud. Each jar with the exception of one holds the aforementioned 1 ounce. The fifth jar has the top half of the top cola in it and weighs 1.25 ounces. So I've got 5.25 ounces of bud dried and curing in jars. And I'm only about half way finished with the WW. I'm anticipating about 10-12 ounces of smokable bud from the WW at this rate. The Aurora Indica's yield is going to be a lot less than the WW. I'm thinking at this point it'll be about 6-7 ounces of smokable bud from the AI.
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THat shit looks so good man. Nice job
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PuttPutt33 said:
Thanks PuttPutt33.
Final weights for the White Widow are:
16.65 ounces = 472g
The following pictures were taken today. The moms are coming along nicely, recovering from the harvest and gearing up to switch from flower to re-veg.
Mason jars in the pictures:
Quart jars have an ounce each in them with the exception of the jar containing the top 1/3 of the top cola and it weighs 1.125 ounces. The pint jars each have 0.5 ounces in them and one has 0.65 ounces in it. One of the pint jars was left in the grow room and didn't make it into the picture.
I'm definitely glad I decided to keep the Widow as a mom. Really happy with what she did in both quality and qauntity.
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