The growing large plants, outdoors, thread...

[Wendull C.]

Read the whole thread or you are just scratching at the surface of the knowledge and expertise/experience. You can gain much knowledge growing any out plant. from this thread.

 

[Organic Grower]

Any harvesting tips from the big growers? Do anything special the last couple weeks of maturity? More water? Less water? Chopping techniques? When do you decide she's ready? Start big girls from the top or bottom? De-fanning before chop? After chop? At all? Different for every situation, I know, but let's hear em all!

 

[theJointedOne]

Any harvesting tips from the big growers? Do anything special the last couple weeks of maturity? More water? Less water? Chopping techniques? When do you decide she's ready? Start big girls from the top or bottom? De-fanning before chop? After chop? At all? Different for every situation, I know, but let's hear em all!

Cue the 100 different answers.

IMHO it all varies depending on the situation. So many variables.. So many different mindsets..

 

[jd123]

Anyone else throw a seed in some native soil and a 12 footer blasted out?

Cool picture dank. Before I started composting all my leaves and stems, I used to burn them. My burn pile is a little way out on my property. I went out there to burn one last time before fire season and saw a beautiful 3 foot female growing out of the pile.

Dug her up and put her in my actual garden. Ended up being just shy of a 9 lb. plant

 

[BAKED_BEANZ]

^^ have to be chuffed (happy ) with that jd123

 

[napalisherpa]

2015

2015

Hey guys! Glad to see this thread back open. I just wanted to share a couple pics from this fall. This is a new garden this year. I only used 1 yard mounds, spaced them 13 feet on center, and only watered 20 gallons a plant every other day due to water restrictions. We ended up with a lot of 10 x 10 monsters, and even a couple 12 x 15 Goliath's. Their blue dream, blue dream crossed with tahoe og, and blue dream crossed with straight og. There's also a goji og, and a sunshine daydream in the mix.

 

[napalisherpa]

Mad props and appreciation to Cal Fire for saving so much for so many!

 

[Robrites]

I'd say napalisherpa qualifies for the "The growing large plants, outdoors, thread..."

 

[Yes4Prop215]

nice garden sherpa! will have some pics up soon, just so damn easy to post to IG instead of link phone up to laptop, upload, then reupload to icmag and shit.


so i guess 75% of the garden decided to be ready this week, i had a feeling certain strains would push two more weeks but a whole bunch ended up speed ripening over the last colder week of colder temps and are ready to be picked.

looks like great weather for the next two weeks so some will definately be riding longer enjoying up this sunny october.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

I'm still deleafing wet, it just makes such a big difference in trim for quality of concentrates. when we run our neighbors bags that are filled with dry sugar leaf and trim the concentrates are always whatever, half melt iwe and dark colored shatter, but when we run our 100% popcorn/larf/frostytrim we get some fire that rivals top shelf 5* and light amber wax!

also been doing straight off the vine ice water hash to rosin of a bunch of our popcorn. love having sun grown plants with tons of material to work with, this will be an epic year for hash!

 

[50YardLine]

Doing all dabbable water hash myself this year. Screw BHO, IMO. Too many risks.

 

[milkyjoe]

I'm still deleafing wet, it just makes such a big difference in trim for quality of concentrates. when we run our neighbors bags that are filled with dry sugar leaf and trim the concentrates are always whatever, half melt iwe and dark colored shatter, but when we run our 100% popcorn/larf/frostytrim we get some fire that rivals top shelf 5* and light amber wax!

also been doing straight off the vine ice water hash to rosin of a bunch of our popcorn. love having sun grown plants with tons of material to work with, this will be an epic year for hash!

Do you use a machine to deleaf or hand pluck?

 

[ponolove]

Minions on machines

 

[50YardLine]

 

[50YardLine]

Hope everybody is harvesting quality buds. Enjoy the fruits of your labor fellow large plant growers.

 

[Yes4Prop215]

Do you use a machine to deleaf or hand pluck?

if its a strain i really like and is going to head stash, il hand deleaf it myself. but all of the bulk stuff gets deleafed using the table top trim pros.

just made some of the dankest ice wax we have ever made up here on the hill…fresh frozen coastal collision nugs, came out looking like some 100 a gram BamF wax.

 

[50YardLine]

Ice wax? Is that bubble bags micro planed?

 

[Yes4Prop215]

yea, the nugs were frozen straight away from being picked. then washed through bubble bags with lots and lots of ice. then microplaned, the key we are learning is to get it as dry as possible because theres alot more moisture in it and its easy for it to grease up.

 

[Wendull C.]

How are your yields on that prop? I got 3.5 g of dabable off a two light run. Best I ever made just that yield killed me. I can do lots of live little od this year though and am thinking about doing it that way.

 

[50YardLine]

yea, the nugs were frozen straight away from being picked. then washed through bubble bags with lots and lots of ice. then microplaned, the key we are learning is to get it as dry as possible because theres alot more moisture in it and its easy for it to grease up.

I am really dialing in my process. I buy dry ice, and keep things COLD AND DRY! The dry ice is for the hash that comes out of the bags. That keeps them super cold for the micro-plane.

The ice I use I make myself, with RO water. I use these cubes, and it make a huge difference, IMO. Sharp edges, large, wont melt.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00THPPZCW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

I go 40% the cubes above, and 60% these.....
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011HHW3XQ?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00

I have a couple chest freezers, and I fill up 5 gal buckets as I go. Saves money on ice, which can cost a lot! Especially on a good year. Love the product also, getting mine tested this year. Should be fun.