Pictures and questions, outdoor grow

Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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You can buy frost nets. (google em) Put it on every night just in case. being close to a brick wall and concrete the radiant heat will also help.

Drying doesnt take to long. Allot of us only dry for about 4 days and start the cure early. This may suit you- see the many curing threads.

Im a bit older to (lots of us on here are). Dont kid yourself you (and ur wife) will smoke more than you think. Maybe a Saturday night deal? Great for any aches and pains, menopause and sex life to name a few. No hangover and a fun evening is nice.

GL with the rest of the grow. Dont be afraid of harvesting a little early either. It aint the end of the world and you have more than enough to last you a year or two just having the odd joint.
 
freewanderer04

freewanderer04

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Chicago Mike said:
I've done the reading kind of extensively- thanks! At night my wife watches Joe kenda and I jack around on here, mostly reading.

If this thing makes it to full maturity I'm completely lost on where to do the initial drying. I mean I can jar the shit in our bedroom, but to hang and dry seems out of the question. I made some wire shelves inside copy paper boxes a few weeks ago but it's clear now I would need probably fifteen of them. I have a heated garage, but it's attached to the house. It's finished so nice it's like a part of the house. Keep the bike in there, have vintage video games etc. Not the place I'd like to have to seal off from the world or stink up. Will ha e to do though I guess.
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With all that factored in you may want to invest in a hanging drying net rack.
 

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Fireman57

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ktmac20 said:
A lot of those buds have a greyish appearance that looks familiarly like rot....I am no expert but you may want to look into that! It may just be the pic! Just a suggestion...

Cheers
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Thanks. Yea it's the picture. Not a good pic. Was showing for CM on size of harvest from much smaller plant than his. Most buds were purple with red "hairs" but just kind of tossed on the table many upside down. Smell was fantastic.
 
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THE KONASSURE

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Lucky Luke said:
Umm..what? Who told you that? Yes, you should sheer em as they will get uncomfortable in summer but they wont necessarily die. You city folk crack me up sometimes..lol
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I met a sheep farmer on a plane once

He said he it costs around 49p to sheer his sheep and he gets 50p for each`s wool

So only reason he sheers is they pass out and can die in the summer.

Everytime I see anyone growing on TV there taking off some leaf and feeding it to their fucking Dog !
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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THE KONASSURE said:
I met a sheep farmer on a plane once

He said he it costs around 49p to sheer his sheep and he gets 50p for each`s wool

So only reason he sheers is they pass out and can die in the summer.

Everytime I see anyone growing on TV there taking off some leaf and feeding it to their fucking Dog !
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if he is only getting 50p per fleece, he sucks at anything to do with sheep.... Avg 10 pound per fleece (Australian fleece) at around $1:50 per pound. Much money in fleece. In niche markets, there is no upper limit as to what wool can sell for.
He lied
 
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THE KONASSURE

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Lucky Luke said:
if he is only getting 50p per fleece, he sucks at anything to do with sheep.... Avg 10 pound per fleece (Australian fleece) at around $1:50 per pound. Much money in fleece. In niche markets, there is no upper limit as to what wool can sell for.
He lied
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Maybe he was just a shitty english sheep farmer who mostly grows them for the meat money then ?
 
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THE KONASSURE

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Lucky Luke said:
Like most sheep farmers do... lambs are worth approx 560 cents a Kg at market atm.
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Well I have a taste for large upper buds and no space in my trim bag for all that fan leaf, so 80% of it`s gotta go by the last 2 weeks or you just have too much to hack off at harvest
 
Budley Doright

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Chicago Mike said:
Tell me about it! Regardless of my obvious amateur and absent grower skills, just by reading and seeing this site I can see this shrub is something special! Other than trimming it (which I shouldn't have) I still haven't done anything other than take pictures of it. I really want to see it come to complete fruition. It's a mission at this point. I believe (ignorantly) it can withstand a light freeze just cause the 35° nights have done nothing to it. Didn't even have a droopy leaf. I think it'll make it through!
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Yes they can handle a bit of frost but not a lot IMG_3016.JPG. And as for bud rot, some more than others so just keep checking, it typically starts in by the stalk so pull them back and check, I have no bud rot at all right now and that plant in the pic has been hit twice now with morning frost, still growing and putting in weight :).
 
Chicago Mike

Chicago Mike

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Doesn't seem like the huge chore everyone talks about harvesting this size of a plant, but maybe I'm wrong. After all I haven't any experience with it. I'm planning on approaching the issue with it in mind though. Is there any problem with cutting down two or three branches at a time and dealing with them, waiting til the following day to do three more etc etc until it's finished? Seems like a logical approach, but I keep reading how everyone harvests the whole thing at once in like marathon harvesting days. I watch videos with guys and gals getting all prepared with multiple pairs of gloves, scissors etc. People talk about how essential it is to have two kinds of scissors and spring loaded shears. Forgive my frank opinion being a complete novice, but doesn't it all seem like overkill? I mean I get it if you're harvesting 100lbs or something, but all these fairly small grows seem like they can be handled with ease. Is it ego? Anyways, any truthful advice would be great. I do want to be prepared properly.
 
Lucky Luke

Lucky Luke

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Chicago Mike said:
Doesn't seem like the huge chore everyone talks about harvesting this size of a plant, but maybe I'm wrong. After all I haven't any experience with it. I'm planning on approaching the issue with it in mind though. Is there any problem with cutting down two or three branches at a time and dealing with them, waiting til the following day to do three more etc etc until it's finished? Seems like a logical approach, but I keep reading how everyone harvests the whole thing at once in like marathon harvesting days. I watch videos with guys and gals getting all prepared with multiple pairs of gloves, scissors etc. People talk about how essential it is to have two kinds of scissors and spring loaded shears. Forgive my frank opinion being a complete novice, but doesn't it all seem like overkill? I mean I get it if you're harvesting 100lbs or something, but all these fairly small grows seem like they can be handled with ease. Is it ego? Anyways, any truthful advice would be great. I do want to be prepared properly.
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You certainly can harvest a bit at a time. No problem at all.
If your using scissors for any length of time you do get cramping in the hands so a quality tool does help.. Being leaned over like we usually are when trimming can also give a sore neck, shoulder and back. Some trim roughly (me) and some trim every bit of sugar leaf they can.
The faster the indoor guys can harvest the faster they can have a plant in the space. Out door guys can have allot more to trim due to the size of the plants and in allot of cases the large number of plants. They dont need the space till next year so can be a little slower if they want to. Depends on weather, work and life I spose.

There are also people who roughly wet trim, dry and then dry trim. I do this and find it suites me.
 
Chicago Mike

Chicago Mike

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20161017_174506.jpg 20161017_174527.jpg 20161017_174621.jpg 20161017_174639.jpg My daily update showing the big boys up top and all the little babies around the bottom. For the record, the 50 or so babies around the bottom I bet equal many people's entire harvest far as I can tell from posts on here. They'll probably only be 5% of mine. Sounds cocky as hell, but I'm just in awe. No disrespect to anyone. Btw forecast now shows no frost til December. The stars are aligning!
 
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THE KONASSURE

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I like the fat scissors with the big handle hoops they keep chopping long after the avarage kind gum up

dress makers scissors for doing big buds fast.... spring bonsai ones if your manicuring sub par bud up to nice

That ho`s doing nice...... must be something under your house like some dead indians or something feeding that thing ? lol
 
Chicago Mike

Chicago Mike

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THE KONASSURE said:
I like the fat scissors with the big handle hoops they keep chopping long after the avarage kind gum up

dress makers scissors for doing big buds fast.... spring bonsai ones if your manicuring sub par bud up to nice

That ho`s doing nice...... must be something under your house like some dead indians or something feeding that thing ? lol
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I've owned the property for about ten years. The previous owners died here. He was a nuclear physicist, she was an avid gardener with all kinds of crazy plants growing here. There's even a specimen tree that shouldn't grow north of Arkansas. Had another tree taken down, the tree guy was going nuts over it. If she was doing something special here I can't imagine it would still be in the ground after ten years. I've lived in three houses so far, and everywhere I go my shit does well. People say I have a green thumb. I respond usually with yeah I can run a hose and pull weeds lol.
 
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