Trimming The #2 Plant

 Trimming is the most miserable job of the grow and there ain't no easy way to do it. A trimmer helps but it sends a lot of good bud to the trim bucket. Good bud (if you have plenty) going to the trim bucket isn't too bad because the trim is going to make bubble hash down the road. BTW I haven't weighed the trim, there is a lot of it, but I did weigh the prime bud and it weighed in just over 5oz (144g). At 26% THC and 7% CBD it is true top shelf weed and once cured should be a pleasure to smoke. As I usually smoke somewhere around one oz per month (you gotta love bongs), one small auto-flower plant is almost a half year of smoke plus I expect a good amount of Hash. Plant #2 was the smallest of the three. The next two are killer plants with big tight colas and what look like a lot of prime flower.

 I'm curing the prime flower the old fashion way in glass jars and burping often. The good bud but not quite "top shelf" is curing in "TerpLoc" bags. TerpLoc bags do a good job curing with little work. I like little work :-).

Back From ILGM Event In Phoenix

 ILGM put on a good event for growers in Phoenix today. It was enjoyable and a nice way to spend a beautiful Spring day. The goodie bag actually had useful things and the folks doing the presentations knew what they were talking about. The only downside was the drive to and from Phoenix.

Time to Cleanup

 What a mess. It will need a day or so before it is ready for next season's crop:

 One nice thing about ending a grow is the quiet, I haven't measured room dB during a grow but I expect is is over 70-75dB. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from start to finish. This time a little over 10 weeks, most grows will be a few weeks or even a month or two longer. That's for Auto plants, growing Photo plants you get a slight 6 hour per day sound break for the first 4 or so weeks followed by a 12 hour/day break once they are in Flower mode.

2024-2025 Grow Harvested

 Plant #4 is hanging with #2 and #3. In a couple of weeks trimming and curing, the real work of growing, starts. 

Only top shelf buds will be trimmed and cured, the rest will be used to make bubble hash and rosin.

ILGM is having a party in Tempe Saturday afternoon, I'm planning on being there. Say Hi if you see me.

Harvested Plant #3

 Harvested plant #3. I broke 2 branches getting it out of the clutches of plant #4, you see them hanging between #2 and #3. Plant #4 is a monster, it tried to takeover the whole 5'X5' tent and almost did.

I figure #4 needs at least 1 more week, it still has a few white Stigmas in the upper colas. As tight as these buds feel and look, the shimmer of the Trichroms, the amount of rosin transferred to anything that touches the plant. When rescuing #3 from the clutches of #4 I had to reach deep into both plants, my glasses were so coated with rosin I couldn't see thru them. All indications are this is going to be a great crop. My guess is over a kilo of top shelf flower from the three plants, and a ton of trim (well maybe not that much) for Bubble Rosin.

Harvested Plant #2

 Harvested plant #2 at 67 days. I had planned on harvest at 70 days but it was apparent the roots were in trouble, pH was going very acid and requiring lots of pH Up to stay in the required pH range, so I cut it a few days early to remove it from the RCDW system. 

It was ready and a couple or three days would not have made a difference. I think plant #3 is going to be cut this afternoon as well, pretty much the same story as plant #2 but in addition plant #4 is pushing #3 off to the side and taking over it's space. Have I mentioned plant #4 is a monster, well over a cubic meter of bio-mass.

RDWC v. Coco Coir

 Autoflower plants are a different plant v. Photo Period plants and require different growing techniques. Because Auto plants are on a genetic grow schedule any deviation from perfect conditions adversely effect final outcome. Where with photo period plants less than perfect conditions can be made up to some extent  by adding time to the vegetation stage. 

This is not a perfect comparison because the side tent conditions are not the same as in tent conditions but they are close. The side tent DLI is the same as that in the tent, the big difference is RDWC v. Coco. With RDWC you have near perfect control of EC and pH, with soil or Coco not so much and it really shows with Autoflower plants. I have grown in tent and side tent Autoflower plants, both in soil, with little difference in size or production.

The side tent plants are one week behind the in tent RDWC plants. 

The side tent plants:

     The RDWC in tent plants:

 The Bio Mass of the RDWC plants is at least twice maybe even three times that of the Coco plants. The real story will be told once the harvest is completed and the amount of flower and THC level can be measured per plant. Stay around, in a month or so I will know the answer. 

BTW click 'em to big 'em.