BIG BUD harvesting help needed (with pics)

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No! Not the big dogs. I agree they look ridiculous in clothes. I wouldn't dare dress up our shepherd. besides my hubby would have a fit. Both my little girls have coats and harness dresses but they are really cute!!!!!
My husband said that if he ever saw any type of garment on the shepherd that he would break every single one of my sewing machines. :evil::lol::lol::lol:

Like I would wanna dress up our big dog. :roll:



Ok...maybe just for halloween. :lol::lol::lol:
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The small ones are the cutest in the clothing though. My guys look ridiculous in clothes. :mrgreen:
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tahoe58

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I really don't meqan to turn this into a cute dog thread....but I have to share this with you'all.....jasper and angie....sitting in a tree....k-i-s-s-i-n-g! hahahahaha

 
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Oh no...please, by all means, do!!!! I LOVE dogs and I really like the people who love their dogs.
Your two are just adorable. And WOW,...their colour couldn't have been a better match. Thats totally adorable. Nice pic and thanks for sharing that. :mrgreen: Love dogs...love 'em....

Is the smaller one a Lhasa Apso???
tahoe58 said:
I really don't meqan to turn this into a cute dog thread....but I have to share this with you'all.....jasper and angie....sitting in a tree....k-i-s-s-i-n-g! hahahahaha

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yup...and a Marema...the bigger one. awesome...totally awesome. I had 6 at one time the Jasper, Buddy (a HUGE golden retriever as big as Japper - that's what my young son called him), Three (a German - Husky cross), Sally, Heidi and Snooker (all small Terrier crosses) - Angie came along after those three went to a better place at 14+ yrs (1999-2000)! Three also left us in 1998 - no sure what happened there - she had been running around all afternoon with the horses playing together with the foals, and then came and laydown on the deck, and .....well, expired!? She was like 12. The circle of life!
 
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Losing them is like losing a very close family member. Its horrible.:cry:
Three couldn't have found a better way to go.
I can't talk about this. :cry::cry::cry:
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yup...and a Marema...the bigger one. awesome...totally awesome. I had 6 at one time the Jasper, Buddy (a HUGE golden retriever as big as Japper - that's what my young son called him), Three (a German - Husky cross), Sally, Heidi and Snooker (all small Terrier crosses) - Angie came along after those three went to a better place at 14+ yrs (1999-2000)! Three also left us in 1998 - no sure what happened there - she had been running around all afternoon with the horses playing together with the foals, and then came and laydown on the deck, and .....well, expired!? She was like 12. The circle of life!
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Ok I am ready to back track and cacth up on this thread. I have finished harvesting all my out door grow and it is awesome.

I'll add pics and show and tell about the end.
 
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Well I panicked when I went to let the dogs outside and saw that! I hadn't even looked out at the lawn to see that it was only frost.

I've put sprouts out in early April and have had heavy frost and they have been perfectly fine so i have no idea why I panicked. They just looked so pathetic. Well you saw the picks so.........

I chopped them down.
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Well i chopped them down and within an hour after coming back from taking the dogs for a walk they looked as healthy as ever. i could have left them longer but so glad i didn't. we've had freezing rain and it hailed about 6 times now :? winter has arrived for sure!!!!!!!

Here is what i learned from this outdoor growing experience:

1/ I will take notes of the exact date I plant the seeds and keep a journal as to when they flower etc. i didn't
2/ i will rotate my plants more often so that the sun gets on all sides of the plants and its branches...had a problem with some buds more done than others
3/ I will try and grow known strains for my area and zoning (all the plants I have ever grown have come from a friend and have been unknowns) makes it more difficult to know when they are ready etc
4/ I will have all the necessary intruments for harvesting
(a proper magnifying glass) I so want to add some of those 'sexy' bud porn pics.;)
5/ Even though I have this intrument I will still use my own common sense and judgement
NOTE: when i first started this post i was wondering what to do about buds being more ripe than others (this is where the rotating of plants comes in) I had a couple of plants, one in particular that I was really confused :confused:about as to when to harvest. the buds smelled awesome,:mrgreen: sparkled in the sunshine:mrgreen: and when I touched them, my fingers instantly stuck together VERY STICKY
The thing is the tops and sides looked done as far as the hairs but others just looked white but cloudy:confused:

some people suggested i cut off the finished parts,others suggested I cut down individual stems. well normally i would have cut the entire plant down since it would have been in a field somewhere but I didn't......

I cut down individual stems. In hindsight I would have cut "this' entire plant down because just the process of cutting off branches here and there put it into a dormant stage and the rest of the plant 'looked' great but I'm sure it regressed or something. It makes sense to me since they are basically in the dying stage already.
(just a thought)



I think there are so many variables to growing, especially outside, that it's almost unfair to ask someone to give you an answer as to when you should harvest

living in Ontario canada we had about 3 weeks of rain and it was difficult keeping these babies thriving PLUS, this in itself, made it a lot harder to determine when to cut them down

I also noticed a HUGE difference in growing plants indoors and growing them outdoors. i didn't have the same opportunity in the past to closely observe all these differences since I always planted on someone elses land (farmland etc)

The leaves do curl and look completely different in the last stages under lights whereas in this cold climate, it just doesn't happen.
there isn't as even lighting when growing outside as indoors you can manipulate the lights to where you want them, so the buds ripen evenly
i use miracle grow BUT I also transplant them to neutral potting soil with nothing added after 4 weeks of flowering
so that I can leach them or flush them properly PLUS I don't like the idea of having added nuts in my buds......

something I never really thought of before but I am an organic chick and want the most natural way there is

And lastly ....I won't freak about frost:roll::?
that was really :dunce::cuss:but the weather here is brutal so i don't regret it.

I now have some known seeds that i am planting probably tomorrow and this time I will start my grow journal when i start the seeds soooooooooooooooooooooo.......
 
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Lacy said:
I love the snow also. In fact I love all the seasons: they're all so different and exciting.
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in tennessee we do not have seasons anymore, just hot and hotter. we used to have several nice snows a year, it has not snowed here in like 7 years...
 
FaCultGen

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that is fantastic...you plan on smoking all that? lol you must be high all winter...and all next season.

you said you never picked them at the right time before...well you certenly did this time.

you should really do an indoor grow, the quality will amaze you.

great job,

Cult
 
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