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Organic Grow by BReal (50x50x140)

BReal

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Some harvest photo 😀

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Unfortunatelly a decent portion of the biggest buds was infected by mold, so I have no choice and gonna dispose them later 😭 I guess that humidity exceeded 60% during 1st days of drying. Next time it should be better though, because tent is gonna be a little bit bigger and I'm going to replace the outtake fan with a more efficient one - so it should be easier to pump out extra humidity next time.

This is going to a bin 🥲:

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Here are some buds that were close to the infected but they look fine. I'm gonna keep an eye on them and check if mold is not developing, but I think they should be good..

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Good news is that most of the buds seem to be ok and they are mostly dry already 🥲 so harvest update should appear soon.
 
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Ok... I'm done with drying. Final results:

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Gorilla Cookies Auto: 70 g
Girl Scout Cookies Auto: 104 g

Keep in mind that I had to throw away about 25 g of GCA because it was infested by mold. On top of that I got rid of some lose buds, by mixing them with leftovers from the trimming process - it would be about 10-15 g.

"Leftovers":

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*I'm gonna use it for canna butter most likely 🤤

In other words both plants delivered about 100 g each (200 g total). I think it's a great score considering used space, light and harsh environment during summer heat waves.

GSCA did better overall than GCA and it's noticable when checking buds: most of my GCA buds turned out to be lose/airy. GSCA was healthier, with better mold resistance and easier to trim. However I'm sure that if GCA would grow in a colder environment and if I would manage pH and nutrients better, it would turn out better overall - higher yeild, denser buds and possibly no mold. I won't complain too much though, because I'm happy with the results :good:

Now I just have to check jars every day for a while, let 'em burp once or two times per day and hope that there won't be any mold 🤞

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I'm gonna show some buds close-ups later when they gonna be a little bit more "mature" 🫡
 
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Farmer John said:
Enjoy your beautiful harvest! :)
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Thanks mate :thank you:

I suffer from chronic back pain so I hope it's gonna help me relax my muscles... I already tested it and it helps 😎

This is me enjoying my harvest: 😂
 

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Rocket Soul

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You need to drastically reduce the amount you're feeding them. It looks like soil. What have you been feeding them? I see what looks like top dressing in the early pic.
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With organic soil, nutes already in the soil the amount of nutes drawn is very correlated to vpd, as a user its hard to adjust and you just have to hope the plant and the organic beasties do their job. I prefer hydro with leds, you know whats going and and can adjust. But each one to their own.
Props to @BReal for his choices, especially like the 90cri approach :) great results, both in yield and that look: buds on buds on buds! Nice and hope to see some more next time :)
 
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Hey! Do you remember me? :p

I've been enjoying my harvest for a couple of weeks hehe.. and a part of this experience was cooking :sneaky: I made a few portions of fudgies. The first one turned out crunchy which was ok. Second one turned out to be too hard to chew but it was still edible and every next one was only better. This is the last portion I made - it was chewy and nice over all :)

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BReal

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It's only 20 cm taller compared to the previous one, but these 20 cm makes a decent difference in that scale :oops: I replaced a huge, noisy mixing-fan with 3 smaller pc fans connected in a chain. They are very silent but they move air good enough ;) On top of that I can change the height of these, by using custom aluminium bars I attached :cool: When it comes to air circulation: It's not dead silent unfortunatelly but when you open a window during a day, you can't hear it almost at all.

I replaced previous carbon filter (160-200 m3/h) with a slightly bigger one (240-360 m3/h). I was planning on using a bigger fan, that would be able to move that much air but I wasn't able to squeeze it in :ROFLMAO:

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Fortunately the fan that I've been using, is able to move enough air, so everything should be fine :) Previous carbon filter was doing good job during most of the last grow, but it completly failed to mask smell of buds during drying process, and you could smell a little bit in the last week or two of flowering. I'm hoping for slightly better results this time.

Dusty old filter after 4 months of usage:

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Is it just a closet? 🤔

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No... :devilish:

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Controls on the top:
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Bye, bye my ex-tent! You are going to be missed :comfort:

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Time to open a new chapter... :whee:
 
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NEW grow incoming! Let's go! :whee:


Lemon Cherry Cookies Auto - Fast Buds:

This was yesterday:
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The seed germinated in less than 24 hours... very impressive. All my Fast Buds were always germinating very fast :)

I'm using my own vermicompost - it took me a few months to make this portion :headbange

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pH of the vermicompost itself is high: I don't know the exact value but it's definitelly above 7. I had some problems because of high pH last time. That's why I mixed that with acidic peat moss. I'm not sure if I'm going to get good pH that way - it might be too low after I mixed that but... that's fine. I'm still learning. Time will tell :clock watch:

I put a layer of expanded clay on the bottom for better drainage. Soil mix: about 15% of perlite, and the rest is peat moss and vermicompost with 1:1 ratio :bigeye: Final product looks like that:

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I mixed some mycorrhiza with a soil under the seed.

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And... voila! :biggrin:

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There is a reason why there is a hole in the middle of the bag. The tent is not that high, so I'm limited by height - every cm matters! 😏 Cannabis is a plant that can develop roots from the main trunk, so I'm going bury some part of it to gain about 10 cm :)

Ok... wish me luck 🙏
 
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I assumed that humidity was too low so I put it under a plastic cup on day one, but the seedling didn't like it for some reason, so I removed the cup. Plant developed weird deformation on the leaves. I don't think it's something to worry about though. New leaves look fine to me.

It grows a little bit slowly but it should speed up in a day or two 🤔 Temperature is far from ideal: 26-28°C in the lower part of the tent and about 30°C closer to lamps. It's still an improvement compared to 28-35°C previously, but it's something to work on in the future.

The biggest issue is humidity: 25-30%, but it might be slightly higher on the surface of the pot. And you know what? That's fine because it's not supposed to be perfect and I'm not planning on adding a humidifier - it would destroy pc fans that are not designed for high humidity environment. Also: I don't have much space inside the tent and I'm too lazy to refill it every day 😅

Layer of stones is supposed to slow down evaporation of water and make it a little bit more difficult for pests to access the soil. Not a perfect solution but will do for now :)

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aCBD

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Good luck with your new run! :lurk:
A cheap and effective way to raise the humidity in a small space is to hang a piece of cotton/kitchen towel on a string with the towel sucking up water from the water reservoir.
With air ventilation the water will evaporate faster than just the glasses you're using right now. Hope my description makes sense. :biggrin:
 
Rocket Soul

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If you need to restock on cxbs or new cree cmu cobs i believe they are on offer on arrow electronics right now. Not sure what spectrums but very cheap, last time i looked was a handfull of dollars each.
 
BReal

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aCBD said:
Good luck with your new run! :lurk:
A cheap and effective way to raise the humidity in a small space is to hang a piece of cotton/kitchen towel on a string with the towel sucking up water from the water reservoir.
With air ventilation the water will evaporate faster than just the glasses you're using right now. Hope my description makes sense. :biggrin:
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I was thinking about that :) but I think this idea would be more suitable for a slightly bigger tent where water vapor could spread more even. There is always a risk of mold with wet towels and stuff like that if you overdone it - I remember that there was someone who had this kind of problem after keeping towels wet for a long time.

BUT... if humidity was closer to 20%, I would do it probably 😅 30% is far from ideal but it's not too bad. Thanks for sharing the idea though 🤗

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If you need to restock on cxbs or new cree cmu cobs i believe they are on offer on arrow electronics right now. Not sure what spectrums but very cheap, last time i looked was a handfull of dollars each.
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Thanks for the info :) CREE cobs are expensive. Especially when you import them to my country. Not sure if would need to do that though. It's not that I'm planning to get a bigger tent - for now at least. I was already thinking about replacing cobs with a 150W led lamp in the future - if I would squeeze it inside 😅 I mean: it would fit inside the tent for sure, but maybe it would have to hang a little bit lower because of the carbon filter. My cobs got one huge advantage: they are compact so they can hang on the same height as the filter :)
 
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