Diary PCBuds mini-grow

[GanjaLion]

Those pics are frosty but I think those were from more inside the plant hehe the ones your showing me, not the buds on the outside. The ones I seen were I think were closer to the light

 

[PCBuds]

Those pics are frosty but I think those were from more inside the plant hehe the ones your showing me, not the buds on the outside. The ones I seen were I think were closer to the light

I'll take a sample from the main cola and take a look.

That's where most of the foxtails were.

I would think that if the trichomes are evaporated or brittle and broken off, it would be from the low RH?
It wasn't extremely hot in the closet and the strips don't get very hot, so I don't think that the light itself was the problem?

 

[PCBuds]

I took a foxtail off.
You can see the yellow pistils...

This is from a part of the bud just underneath the yellow pistils, about 4 mm away...

It looks pretty good to me ?
Even the yellow pistil area has what looks like mature trichomes?

 

[PCBuds]

This is the main cola without the jewelers loupe...

Without the camera flash...

With the flash...

And with my cameras macro lens.
With flash...

Macro without flash...

 

[GanjaLion]

Those all seem to be in tact, maybe this was a leaf instead of a bud and thats why it was effected more by the heat/light. Seems to be many headless gland stalks, if they were just non glandular stalks they would be much more pointy and not so blunt on top. Looks like you didnt lose very many glands on the actual buds though, from those pics

 

[PCBuds]

Those all seem to be in tact, maybe this was a leaf instead of a bud and thats why it was effected more by the heat/light.

Yeah, it was a small leaf close to the bud.
They are easier to remove and flatter so they are easier to take a picture of.

Seems to be many headless gland stalks, if they were just non glandular stalks they would be much more pointy and not so blunt on top.

So do you think that the light/heat evaporated the glands or do you think that they were broken off?
I could have broken them while taking the samples or while handling the plant before that.
I was removing fan leaves and even sugar leaves by just yanking them off and I could have mashed a whole bunch of trichomes while doing that.
My fingers were all sticky even though I didn't grab the buds.

Looks like you didnt lose very many glands on the actual buds though, from those pics

It's a real challenge to take pictures. The camera shakes and it's really hard to get more than a couple trichomes in focus at the same time.

I was initially checking the trichomes for their color and not so much for their condition.

 

[PCBuds]

My seed has cracked.
I should be able to plant her tomorrow.

It's one of ReikoX's newer seeds.

This is the second seed from that batch that I'm growing.

The new seeds I sent are a collaborative effort with my buddy Mr.Sparkle over at overgrow.com. They are Poisoned Rose x Cookie Devil. The Poisoned rose is a cross I made of Red Poison (Sweet Seeds) x Sugar Black Rose (Delicious Seeds). The Cookie Devil is a cross Mr.Sparkle made of Girl Scout Cookies (Fastbuds) x Dark Devil (Sweet Seeds) F2.

 

[GanjaLion]

Its definitely possible some of those were rubbed off by handling. The reason I dont think its from handling and I think its from the heat/light is because the entire trichome stalk wouldve also stuck to your fingers along with the trichomes right next to the damaged ones if you rubbed it. You would need to have really skinny fingers to only touching a few heads without disturbing the other ones in between hehe, anything is possible though. The bud trichomes look all in tact in the close ups though

 

[PCBuds]

My seed is ready to plant...

 

[ReikoX]

Nice, I was thinking of popping a few of those PRCD myself.

 

[PCBuds]

Nice, I was thinking of popping a few of those PRCD myself.

I've got one seed left from the first batch that I'm going to keep.

The other PRCD plant that I grew turned out to be quite small and I don't know why?

I'm sure it wasn't the genetics. Perhaps it was the same PH problem that I had with my last plant?

I'm going to surf through my thread to see if I can figure out what I did with that plant.

I'm getting a little better at surfing through my thread. I still can't get the search to work for me, but I'm getting faster. It can take me over 2 hours to find a picture or info in my thread for reference. I hate technology. It pisses me off!! I'm old and don't get it.


Anyway,.. the seed is planted and domed and I've got all the lights turned up to warm up the closet and a hygrometer under the dome.

It will be interesting to see what kind of lies the hygrometer is going to tell me. Lol
I'll probably just look for condensation on the dome to use as my readings instead. Lol

 

[PCBuds]

My daily weigh in...

I've got about 440 grams total now, so no pound of weed for me.

I wonder if Itsmychoice is going to be closer with his guess of 300 grams?


The buds feel dry and crispy to the touch but the stems are still soft.

I don't think it's going to lose much more water weight??

 

[PCBuds]

The window plant looks good.
The dome is in the closet now.

I like the way she is stalky with close nodes. She may not end up outgrowing her window sill? I don't want to have to top her.

I think that the lights coming in from the side helps to keep her from reaching up?

 

[PCBuds]

I think that the dome got a bit too warm so I unplugged the 3500k side lights.

The RH reading is kind of erroneous but I'm pretty sure the temperature reading is accurate.

What kind of temperature would be optimum?

I taped up the holes in the top of the dome and pushed it into the soil a bit to seal it up better and hopefully hold in more moisture.

 

[PCBuds]

That looks better...

 

[PCBuds]

The other PRCD plant that I grew turned out to be quite small and I don't know why?

I'm sure it wasn't the genetics. Perhaps it was the same PH problem that I had with my last plant?

I'm going to surf through my thread to see if I can figure out what I did with that plant.

I found out about that plant and what happened.

It turns out that I had PH problems with it too and needed to flush it a bunch of times.

I completely forgot about that. Lol

I think that I got a bit carried away with the LITFA?
I didn't just leave my plants alone, I forgot everything about them too.
lol

 

[PCBuds]

That was a nice plant !!

It was smaller but it was more manageable and I could remove it from the closet easily with little risk of damaging it.

It was only 109 grams, so only about 1/4 grams per Watt, but I don't care about that.
It was still plenty of nice weed and very handsome plant !!

 

[PCBuds]

I couldn't help myself and decided to check on my sprout...

I was lucky enough to see a soil mite run right beside the shell.
They are really quick and run and hide as soon as the light hits them.

 

[f-e]

You say you cant give too much light, but go look at the scope pics you took of the trichomes. 75 percent of them are just stalks without heads, cause they are melted off. I wont get into the foxtails and lack of density too, but you seem to have a handle on it better than anybody else around here haha. I better go listen to that space boy you mentioned. Do what you want its your grow, but im sure you misguide alot of people when they wind up on your page, when you make huge claims like you do hehe

Lets be reasonable. Barely a page goes by where he doesn't say he is doing it wrong, or his own way. He tells us just what he is doing, and shows us exactly what is happening. There is no claim he is a master grower, or advice that we should follow him. When he says he is killing it, he is being quite literal. If people misinterpret that, more fool them. This is one of the most updated diaries here and there is stuff going on that nobody else is doing. If what you need is a grow tutorial, this isn't it. It's a decent diary of another brothers grow. Maybe we can do better, but so what. Where is our daily update. What do you actually get from knocking another brother down. A dead forum? It wouldn't matter if everything he did was wrong. We could still learn from it and help him along. Or you could just not look.

Anyone that updates their diary regularly and acts civilly gets my support. (though I do keep out of one, where I put a foot wrong. Socially)

 

[f-e]

Domes seem to be working for you.
If the 440 feels dry, and your RH is so low there, it might be a good idea to get them off the stalk and into a more controlled environment. Perhaps little paper bags, in a bigger plastic bag full of air with a RH meter and a few splashes of water where needed.
What am I saying, it's just one plant. Forget the paper bags. Toss the lot in a flip top bin or something that can give you RH control. The aforementioned bag. Anything. Hold them around 60% if it's not too late. Rotate occasionally, which is easy in a bag. Flick in water if you must.