Here Come the Girls - a First Timer's Adventure

Lady Helena

Lady Helena

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Herb Man said:
Great job Lady H.

Had a crazy schedule of late, but great to see on my return that you have almost completed the mission.

I was also thrilled to see your fair hand for the first time :lol:

Great job, well done.
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Herbster! You came back! I missed your mentoring. Was most upset that you disappeared for my harvest. Bilbo Baggins is MIA too.
Been busy smoking your way through all that lovely Kush you have eh? Lucky bugger! Or are you still making teas n shit?

So reasonably successful harvest for a first time, however...a week later and the buds don't look great, I think I may have harvested just a little too soon plus a few other mistakes. I'm going to post a review in a mo.

Anyway, tell me what you're growing now and where's your thread? Lovely to have you back - and thanks for the cheeky rep! Hx
 
Herb Man

Herb Man

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Lady Helena said:
Herbster! You came back! I missed your mentoring. Was most upset that you disappeared for my harvest. Bilbo Baggins is MIA too.
Been busy smoking your way through all that lovely Kush you have eh? Lucky bugger! Or are you still making teas n shit?

So reasonably successful harvest for a first time, however...a week later and the buds don't look great, I think I may have harvested just a little too soon plus a few other mistakes. I'm going to post a review in a mo.

Anyway, tell me what you're growing now and where's your thread? Lovely to have you back - and thanks for the cheeky rep! Hx
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Yeah, I was kind of pissed off that I had missed the harvest in my absence, busy with work life and growing.

I'm on the Kush and the Silver Haze, both great smoke.

The Kush I have left has been in curing now for at least 4 months and blows everyone away (taste, fragrance, potency) great overall smoking experience. I will always have at least one Kush in my grows hence forth.

Still making simple teas n shit.

I'll post you a list of the strains I'm growing tomorrow (there are a good few) I've got 12 plants on the go right now (6 are 1 week old babies) and 1 plant I've just had to pull (would have to be the oldest one wouldn't it) Dude looked like a lady, the most beautiful plant I have ever grown, even more beautiful than Isaacs Dirt Weed a 3 week in flower Fruity Chronic Juice.

Fortunately I have another Fruity Chronic Juice in Flower also, so the back up plan worked (grow two of everything if poss).

You've been diligently putting in work Lady H, in the face of adversity. You deserve the rep and the other two components mentioned.
 
Havek

Havek

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No way thats only 4gs. I'd say at least an oz, probably more. It does shrink when its dried, though. Just use a postal scale and weigh it :)
 
Lady Helena

Lady Helena

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Havek said:
No way thats only 4gs. I'd say at least an oz, probably more. It does shrink when its dried, though. Just use a postal scale and weigh it :)
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Haha, I was kind of joking Havek! It's just the buds are quite 'airy', not dense like the nugs I buy.
 
Havek

Havek

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Lady Helena said:
Haha, I was kind of joking Havek! It's just the buds are quite 'airy', not dense like the nugs I buy.
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That could be a number of things, including strain. I wouldnt say it's an error on your part, everything looked real nice at the end.
 
Lady Helena

Lady Helena

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The Update
So, after the chop I strung up my Little Pieces of Pearl from coat hangers and hung them up in my bedroom - kept it dark, windows open for ventilation. The smell in my room made me feel a bit sick when I went to bed - urgh....next day smell gone. Now smelling faintly of hay/mowed grass - great.

2 days later she felt crispy dry so I put the nugs into jars with my humidity reader-thingy. Soon reading 70% so I took them out again and put them in paper bags and put those in my wardrobe for a couple of days. Then they went back in the jars.

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2 days after that they hit The Zone. Humidity in the jars 61%. Yay - I'm curing!

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I also trimmed off any extra sticks and weighed the nugs.....

36g (thats 1.25 oz in old money) - :clap:

So nowhere near as much as I first imagined (silly newbie), but, it's over an ounce of weed that I grew! Now curing all in one jar...

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Observations & Musings

My buds are airy and fluffy and not dense at all. What's up with that?
I smoked some of Pearl when she hit The Zone. Nice taste, nice high, not intense but doesn't seem to last long...did I chop too early?

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Have noticed now, a few days later, the nugs feel more dense, also they look frostier, smokes a little better. I guess this is why I now have to leave the jar alone and let it improve.

What do you think fellow Adventurers? Do they look like proper nugs?

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A few things to consider re the denseness of my buds:
She's a Sativa and apparently they have 'airier' buds...
She was grown under CFLs (a T5 unit and 6 x 30W bulbs) apart from a week or two of full on sunshine in the garden the last couple of weeks.
I reckon I should have left her a bit longer, maybe another week...
I hadn't watered her for 5 days before I chopped her...I thought it would help the drying process but maybe she would have been 'fatter'...?

Thinking back over the process, Pearl had problems from about the 3rd or 4th week, right after I gave them their first feed, when she got The Claw...always droopy, maybe she had the PH problem from early on and I didn't know and this stunted her growth a bit? Oh I dunno....lot's to think about, lot's to consider...but gosh what a lot I have learnt.

An Homage to Pearl coming next...x
 
Havek

Havek

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Looks good, dense or not. Great job. Weed is weed, right? Now pop another bean and start the next chapter of your horticultural journey! :weed:
 
Lady Helena

Lady Helena

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Lady Helena

Lady Helena

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Herb Man said:
Yeah, I was kind of pissed off that I had missed the harvest in my absence, busy with work life and growing.

I'm on the Kush and the Silver Haze, both great smoke.

The Kush I have left has been in curing now for at least 4 months and blows everyone away (taste, fragrance, potency) great overall smoking experience. I will always have at least one Kush in my grows hence forth.

Still making simple teas n shit.

I'll post you a list of the strains I'm growing tomorrow (there are a good few) I've got 12 plants on the go right now (6 are 1 week old babies) and 1 plant I've just had to pull (would have to be the oldest one wouldn't it) Dude looked like a lady, the most beautiful plant I have ever grown, even more beautiful than Isaacs Dirt Weed a 3 week in flower Fruity Chronic Juice.

Fortunately I have another Fruity Chronic Juice in Flower also, so the back up plan worked (grow two of everything if poss).

You've been diligently putting in work Lady H, in the face of adversity. You deserve the rep and the other two components mentioned.
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Wow, 12 plants on the go, you must have loads of room. I'd love to do one massive grow a year and get enough to last me though but I don't have the space.
Shame you had to pull one. I cracked up at your mention of Issacs Dirt Weed as I'm sure the name of this plant is what made me keep reading your thread originally! Brilliant.

So up next I have my new seeds - Purple Haze and Northern Lights 5 x Haze. Shall I do 2 of each? Have you grown either of these? Any tips? Apart from have a really long holiday before I start that is. x
 
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kroost

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Lady Helena said:
36gs Kroost.
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Over an ounce and a quarter from one plant you had to nurse back to health - Excellent job! Your buds look like mine from the plant I harvested 'early'; those from the one I waited on were denser and tighter. The 'early' buds still work fine, though:bigjoint:. Even better after a couple weeks' cure.
 
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