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Greenview · #1 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 10:52 AM

Hi, everyone!

It's d-day

!

Here're some pics of the "harvest", only 65 grams wet after cleaning the buds for drying. Hatch was right on! He took a look at a picture a week ago and said "looks like you have about 73 grams wet, so maybe 22 dry" and if I hadn't been tasting every day, he'd a been on the bullseye of the bullseye. Amazing. Thanks for your presence, here, bro. You've become my anxiety barometer; if you worry, I know I should worry.

Her trichs looked all cloudy under hps light with an occasional amber, but when I took her out, I could see she was easily 25% amber and had a lot of new green growth and pistils on the lower buds. It looks like she would've made a comeback if I'd left her another week, but I needed the closet for the impatient girls that are in there now, and as it is, she kicks tuckus. Due to all my picking at her, she finished with 3 colitas out of 8 or 9 (I know! A little patience, whoa-oo-hey-yeah, just a little patience-you nugget pilfering squirrel

!). The yield woulda been 3x mas chevere than it is.

Drying-After reading the faqs and posts on it, I've just put them gingerly in a paper bag to dry on a closet shelf. Is this OK? I don't have a drying screen or separate space for drying, so I chose this. Any opinions?

New grow- It's an auspiscious time! Out from under the desk, where they basked in 24h 200cfl watts, I repotted the 2 lowryder 2 feminized (the bigger of which showed her first pistils yesterday!), the skunk haze (sex as yet undetermined) and the Master Kush clone that will go in to flower with those three. In the pics, you see the grow space, about 2 x 2 w/ good height (grown 5 foot sativas in there!), a 250 MH and 250red spec cfl that's mainly on the lowryders (25 and 14 days, now). They'll now go to 18/6 for a week or two to bulk up before flowering the Kush and Haze (25 days, too). I've recently repositioned my fan to graze the tops of the plants while aiming at the light, and that's what helped the mama to regenerate, I think. She was suffering from the heat and change of light type, IMO. Finally realizing that temp and humidity and other considerations I used to take lightly are truly important, I got a humidity/temp gauge and I'm at 76f with the door of the closet opened a bit, 80-81 with it closed; so I'll try to keep it cracked. the humidity climbs from 43% to 50-something if close the door for an hour... best not to leave it closed I guess

. Never had mold or pests, though.

So that's where we stand, folks. Growing up a bit as a grower, though with typical foot-dragging. Oh, for detail junkies; just repotted in Atami light mix, with very little NPK nutrients so i can add the BioBizz fr flowering and leach the remaining nutrients from the Atami Kilo mix (Dutch stuff) and Bio grow that I used for vegging. Don't need to add any nutrients, strong NPK ferts in the soil, so haven't yet, besides one time Root juice. I'll add BioBizz BioBloom, TopMax, Bioheaven and Alg-A-Mic as needed. Also bought a PH pen, so now have accurate PH readings!

No more colorful mess from mixing and testing PH every watering!

All happy news. Happy healing to everyone! gvdawg

siriguejo · #2 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 12:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Greenview

Drying-After reading the faqs and posts on it, I've just put them gingerly in a paper bag to dry on a closet shelf. Is this OK? I don't have a drying screen or separate space for drying, so I chose this. Any opinions?

does your closet have a clothes rack? the bar that you can hang stuff from?

you could hang dry your buds there so they get some air circulation. or use a hanger and some clothespins to pin buds to the hanger and then hang the hanger. more air circulation = better drying, more even drying, less chance for mold.

goocluck

jangel · #3 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 12:38 PM

Yes, you need to dry them out of the bag for a week, on a clothes hanger would do.

If you leave them in the bag freshly cut, they will mold on you sweetie.

I use a bag as well, once they have hung for a week.

You must dry them first somehow, to the point the twigs snap when you bend them.

Then into the paper bag. This is important.

Then keep in the bag for up to 4 weeks and in a jar after that.

Nimbliez · #4 (**permalink**) 11-04-2009, 12:43 PM

Greetings GVdawg

, Drying is the half of the final process. Once that stem produces a noticable 'snap' when you bend it it is dry enough to cure. If you can cure for a minimum of 3 weeks, the smoke and flavour will surprise you. Excellant job on this grow, and may you experience many more to come. Luck and Life
Nim

Greenview · #5 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 08:42 AM

Thanks a lot, you guys. I feel better about them now. As soon as I read your posts I laid them out to dry flat at the top of an open closet and they're drying really fast. I turn them every day, I know it ain't ideal, but it seems to be good. It's getting more potent, too. I'll follow your advice Nimbliez and jangel, thank you for piping in.
GV

barrelhse · #6 (**permalink**) 11-10-2009, 12:05 AM

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Originally Posted by jangel

Yes, you need to dry them out of the bag for a week, on a clothes hanger would do.

If you leave them in the bag freshly cut, they will mold on you sweetie.

I use a bag as well, once they have hung for a week.

You must dry them first somehow, to the point the twigs snap when you bend them.

Then into the paper bag. This is important.

Then keep in the bag for up to 4 weeks and in a jar after that.

Precisely. This is the best of any regimens I've tried in 39 yrs of growing.