sdboltdude
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Just cut the tops off one of my plants
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FirstCavApache64
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They look sweet, bet that feels great. I'm chopping in the morning so I cant sleep. Congratulations on such a nice harvest.
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sdboltdude
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Did you harvest.?
FirstCavApache64
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No, I'm a disabled veteran and my back just wasn't having it on Saturday. Sometimes I just have to work with what I can do. It worked out for the best I think because they tweaked our weather forecast and now I'm going to get 6 days of sun with zero chance of rain to finish the girls up. I did a standing trim on the smaller one and I'm going to slowly trim the bigger two down so I don't have to try and do quite as much trimming on chop day and just take it easy the day before so I can get through the chop.
sdboltdude
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Thanks for serving brother
Glad you got a couple extra days of sunlight to finish your girls up
FirstCavApache64
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All the men in my family have been in the Army going back to the Civil War when one of our Irish ancestors enlisted with the Union Army after fleeing the potato famine in Ireland. Ever since then most of us have done service in the Army. My dad's a Korean War veteran, grandad's a Korean and WW 2 veteran, uncle was two tours in Vietnam as Special Forces and Army Ranger and I was an Apache helicopter crew chief for the First Cav Division until 2002. We're all a little touched in the head as they say down here. Luckily for me all my vet buddies have been growing in DC since they went legal and showed me the basics back then. All my family lives up there except me so I have had grows up there for years learning how to grow and now that it's legal here in VA I can finally have plants here at home. This was my first outdoor grow ever and it was eye opening for sure. I need to cut down some trees for more direct sunlight next year and I'm doing super autos that take about 120 days and get about 5 feet. They're yields are way more than I need with 4 plants and they'll be done by early to mid September at the latest which eliminates all this late season bud rot and rain drama from my life. I'll save the killer photo stuff for indoors where I'm in control of much more environment. I just wish the Veterans Administration would accept cannabis as medicine so I could use my VA benefits to get medical marijuana like they do in Canada. Then again it would be government weed so I'd probably pass. Hope the rest of your chop goes well and your tops dry and cure as good as they look.
NewEnglandFarmer
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Your family has a proud honorable tradition, thank you.
Glad you have a week of sun coming up. Here in Maine after a wet start to October we've been having lots of sun and this week is supposed to be in the seventies. I've got 3 left in the ground and 4 in fabric pots. They're about done I'll be harvesting one each morning.
So your last post raises a question...last year I ended up with more than I need so planned to give a bunch away to vets. But after numerous tries I haven't been able to connect with any. Tried a national vet cannabis group, struck out. Tried the local VFW chaplain, said he'd bring it up at meetings but nothing yet. How do I connect with vets, especially those who have a hard time affording their meds?
Glad you have a week of sun coming up. Here in Maine after a wet start to October we've been having lots of sun and this week is supposed to be in the seventies. I've got 3 left in the ground and 4 in fabric pots. They're about done I'll be harvesting one each morning.
So your last post raises a question...last year I ended up with more than I need so planned to give a bunch away to vets. But after numerous tries I haven't been able to connect with any. Tried a national vet cannabis group, struck out. Tried the local VFW chaplain, said he'd bring it up at meetings but nothing yet. How do I connect with vets, especially those who have a hard time affording their meds?
sdboltdude
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Thanks for sharing a little more about and your family history.
Did clones this year next year from seed
Trying some auto sounds good (guick bud)
But still want some bushes..
sdboltdude
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Mabe a local dispensary would be able to help you out since they have the right license you never know
FirstCavApache64
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The dispensary idea sounds good. In DC there's a bunch of delivery services that operate in a gray area and Virginia doesn't have retail sales yet so I'm not familiar with a good way to get in touch with vet's outside my own circle. I'm kind of a hermit, which is why I live way out in the boonies and not up in DC. Let me see if any of them know a national group that has a contact. It's so cool you want to help out with meds. 4/20 in DC every year there's free pre rolls and seeds for veterans everywhere. Cannabis people are a really generous group as a whole. I know the VFW has a motorcycle riding club and I'm betting if your area has a chapter those guys are gonna be more receptive than the chaplain. They are all veteran motorcycle riders and when I was active duty I was riding with a different club and knew some of them. Good guys, and I'm some of them would appreciate the help.
NewEnglandFarmer
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Thanks. I did connect with a national group focused on medicinal cannabis for vets but they sort of blew me off. One issue is that to stay legal it would have to be vets in my state since I can't ship any. But there must be plenty of vets here who rely on mj but struggle to afford the dispensary prices. I could talk to local dispensaries but since I'd basically be undermining their business not sure how helpful they'd be. I'll see if there's a motorcycle club. I also posted on some vet forums but nothing yet. Sorry to sidetrack your thread here, back to more pictures and updates of plants.
Here's my trusty canine guarding the goods. We're in a wonderful Indian summer now up here, perfect for finishing up these last few plants. Those are all Cherry Wines here (high CBD variety, I also grew regular mj in a nearby plot on my land):
Here's my trusty canine guarding the goods. We're in a wonderful Indian summer now up here, perfect for finishing up these last few plants. Those are all Cherry Wines here (high CBD variety, I also grew regular mj in a nearby plot on my land):
FirstCavApache64
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I love the plant structure of those, they're so open. I've never tried a CBD strain before but I probably should. They look great.
NewEnglandFarmer
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Cherry Wine is great, excellent medicine. As far as structure, part of that is I topped them each twice early so they end up with a whole lot of midsized colas. Also pruned out the bottoms in July and at this point a lot of leaves are gone too. No question, they're nice looking plants.
FirstCavApache64
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After you topped them the first time how long do you wait, or how many nodes? I really like the shape of the plant. I want bushes and not trees. I can't handle another 7 footer. SDboltdude I am sorry for hijacking your thread but hopefully you won't mind too much and after this I promise I'll stop with the questions in your thread. Thanks
NewEnglandFarmer
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It was the 4th or fifth node first, then again in June, and again in early July. And as you can see from the pics I have space between plants so there's plenty of light on all sides and air circulation too (that's key for keeping botrytis at bay). That closest one is still 7 feet...but there are training techniques you can use that would reduce that.
FirstCavApache64
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I've been growing for four years indoors so I know how to lst and train a plant but I just really like the symmetry of your plants. They looked like globes so I figured it was done in a calculated method like 5th node and then wait every so many nodes to top.. I just didn't get to start until July this year so I had no veg growth to work with. Hopefully with what I learned this year and some tree work I'll get some better shrubs next year. Thanks for sharing your techniques on how much you top.