AC Infinity and Gorilla Grow Tents

 Gorilla grow tents have one big advantage over other small (5'X5' or less) grow tents. Gorilla tents come with a two foot height extension, 8' v. 6' for other small tents. You run out of headroom very quickly with a 6' tall tent. The RDWC buckets are 15" tall, the LED grow lights need ~1' of headroom for cooling, with a 6' tent that only leaves 45" of grow room for your plants. Bottom line with a 6' grow tent by the time all the height needs are added together you end up restricted to ~3' of plant growth. With a 8' tall tent your plants can approach 5' if needed.

One problem with a 8' Gorilla tent is no mid level bracing so the tent feels a little unstable to side pressure and for an old fart like me there is nothing to hold onto when moving around inside the tent. AC Infinity has come up with "Mounting Bars" for 4'X4' and 5'X5' grow tents that work with Gorilla tents and they make the tent feel more stable plus give this OF something to hold on to and help maintain balance went working in the tent. 

The mounting bars are hard to see but they run alongside the 6' zipper seam. Now if Gorilla tent would add a controller mounting plate on the front like AC Infinity has or if AC Infinity would offer a two foot extension  I could have a near perfect grow tent.

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.