Tuesday, April 2, 2024

More Short Rows

 To make the mods and ready the tent for next season's grow I need to harvest the last two plants from the current grow. For reasons only the Cannabis gods know these two ain't going there.  Two weeks ago I figured from the grow history and the plants appearance they had at most a couple weeks to finish. Two weeks later they are still at least two weeks out, maybe more:


 Two weeks ago the Stigmas were white with a few (very few) amber ones, today the white/amber ratio is unchanged.  The Trichrome story is the same, most are cloudy but amber ones are rare.

One difference of concern, both plants have started "foxtailing", the one on the right more than the other.  


The classic reason for foxtailing is the tent is too damn hot. Temp control has been a battle. The tent has two exhaust ports with fans and two air inlets also with fans. One of the inlets was the AC unit and one of the exhaust ports was used by the AC unit. The problem with that setup was the heat from the exhaust duct work negated the cool air from the AC unit. The easy answer is; move the AC unit and duct work outside the tent.

To do that was the cause of major butt scratching, some orders shipped from Home Depot, building a frame to hold the duct work to the AC unit, and a lucky glance at the shop's 8" Jointer. The jointer's dust collection plenum looked to be perfect for the AC unit.

It was, and now works a treat with the AC unit and duct work outside the tent. A few minutes online and a new jointer plenum is on the way. Joy to the world.


It ain't pretty but it works. About the only downside I know of is the built in thermostat doesn't work.

Did I ever tell you about the time I used duct (100mph) tape to fix the horizontal stabilizer on the plane so I could fly it to the repair shop?

Once the last two go the pan will come out and cleaned, the tent will be "bombed", and a couple of small changes to the aux equipment in the tent. The last big change will be setting up the RDWC four grow bucket system.

Long post, maybe because I made gummies today from FECO. The FECO was planned to have around 2500mg of THC giving about 50mg/gummy. From the effect of the "test" gummy I tried I believe we hit the mark.  
    

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