caddy's Journal #1 - Papaya & Haze 19 x Skunk #1

onthedl0008 · Feb 9, 2009

Wow caddy thats a damn jungle brother..Very nice and very healthy looking wow.
Much respects bro. U should pull down an insane yield as well. damn cant wit to see how this turns out for sure.Great work.

blueybong · Feb 9, 2009

caddy said:
Due to time I had to skip last weeks update for the end of week 4. The clones initially went in around 1/15 so they just finished up week 3.

Here are some pictures showing the bigger plants in the back at end of week 5. They're fattening up nicely.. not as much as I'd hoped when picking these strains.. but definitely nice. I'm going to consider the clones the real batch since I learned a lot and nearly ran out of room on the previous mothers in the back.. they just vegged way too long before flower.

Caddy, you've got the green thumb bro! Super nice!!

caddy · Feb 9, 2009

onthedl0008 said:
Wow caddy thats a damn jungle brother..Very nice and very healthy looking wow.
Much respects bro. U should pull down an insane yield as well. damn cant wit to see how this turns out for sure.Great work.

Thank you sir. I am hoping for at least 4 or 5 ounces. These strains grow much differently than I'm used to and its my first stab at hydroponics.. so we'll see.

blueybong said:
Caddy, you've got the green thumb bro! Super nice!!

As do you! Keep up your good work as well

Elevengrams · Feb 9, 2009

caddy said:
Thank you sir. I am hoping for at least 4 or 5 ounces. These strains grow much differently than I'm used to and its my first stab at hydroponics.. so we'll see.

As do you! Keep up your good work as well

Looking stellar, do you have a pic of the method you used to hang your light I have an indentical setup and wanted to know how you hung your reflector.

Thanks man and keep it :leaf:

caddy · Feb 9, 2009

Elevengrams said:
Looking stellar, do you have a pic of the method you used to hang your light I have an indentical setup and wanted to know how you hung your reflector.

Thanks man and keep it

I did but deleted it when bluey said he had it under control on his end. I'll gladly take another one this evening for you. I'll have it up tomorrow morning.

blueybong · Feb 9, 2009

caddy said:
I did but deleted it when bluey said he had it under control on his end. I'll gladly take another one this evening for you. I'll have it up tomorrow morning.

Caddy, I'd still like to see yours. Mine worked, but because I didn't notch the rail(it sits on top of one of the upper cross bars) it sticks up a little too high, making the top zipper a little tight when closing.

So after this grow, I'm going to notch the slotted rail to fit lower/closer to the bar, allowing me to zipper it close easily.

caddy · Feb 11, 2009

blueybong said:
Caddy, I'd still like to see yours. Mine worked, but because I didn't notch the rail(it sits on top of one of the upper cross bars) it sticks up a little too high, making the top zipper a little tight when closing.

So after this grow, I'm going to notch the slotted rail to fit lower/closer to the bar, allowing me to zipper it close easily.

Here are the requested pictures. The right side notches were what was already on the bar itself. The left side I took a strong pair of metal snips and cut about 1/2" into the bar in two spots on each side. All I had left was the "tab" in the middle of those cuts. I used plyers to bend it back and forth to break it out which creates the bracket/notch that goes over each side of the top frame bar.

blueybong · Feb 11, 2009

caddy said:
Here are the requested pictures. The right side notches were what was already on the bar itself. The left side I took a strong pair of metal snips and cut about 1/2" into the bar in two spots on each side. All I had left was the "tab" in the middle of those cuts. I used plyers to bend it back and forth to break it out which creates the bracket/notch that goes over each side of the top frame bar.

Excellent! Thanks Caddy!

Elevengrams · Feb 11, 2009

caddy said:
Here are the requested pictures. The right side notches were what was already on the bar itself. The left side I took a strong pair of metal snips and cut about 1/2" into the bar in two spots on each side. All I had left was the "tab" in the middle of those cuts. I used plyers to bend it back and forth to break it out which creates the bracket/notch that goes over each side of the top frame bar.

Awesome thanks for posting

caddy · Feb 16, 2009

Here we are with another picture installment of the flowering progress.

The big tub in the back is at at the end of week 6. The 14 clones are just finished with week 4. I would imagine in another 2 or 3 weeks I will begin cutting another 25 clones from the 2 mothers of each strain growing in the veg cabinet.

That would buy me 4 more weeks with the current clones and then I can have two full tubes with 20 fresh clones going at once (leaving 5 left overs just in case some die).

The big tub in the back is currently on 360mL of Overdrive as its additive to sensi bloom.

Onto the pics..

blueybong · Feb 16, 2009

Holy shit Batman, this dude knows his shit!!!

Wow Caddy, you're grow is sweet!

caddy · Feb 17, 2009

blueybong said:
Holy shit Batman, this dude knows his shit!!!

Wow Caddy, you're grow is sweet!

Thank you

On another note I think I'm going to cut down and harvest the one papaya plant that was pollinated. It has nearly 100% red/brown pistils now. Unfortunately I thought I had more time to get a 30x jewelers loupe but apparently not.

I see more and more seeds popping out of its buds and based on feeling the flowers I'm thinking its time.. If I cut it down tonight it would be a couple days shy of a full 7 weeks flowering. Anyone have thoughts on this?

The other plants still have a couple (maybe 3) weeks left to go, they're looking great.

Elevengrams · Feb 17, 2009

Its a jungle in there, looking like some hella good shit.

caddy · Mar 2, 2009

I skipped the initial week 7 pictures simply because I was being lazy. We're now exactly at the end of week 8 for all plants in the big tub.

I harvested the one Papaya plant last night and gave it a good trim, it is now hanging in optimal environment for air dry before cure. I'm going to analyze the the 4 remaining plants of Haze 19xskunk 1 tonight to see if I'm ready to also harvest those.

Just by the few flowers I took early on the papaya and drying, I got a good amount of seeds out of the buds I took early. I can only imagine whats to come with the rest of the plant drying, haha. None the less I'd expect the one papaya plant to yeild about 1.5oz, maybe 2, dry. I'll take pictures of those drying this evening.

I'll keep you all posted as the clones keep going, presently they are at about 44 days flowering and will continue going past 8 and into 9 weeks.

caddy · Mar 4, 2009

Here are some random pictures of the grow-op thus far. Only one plant harvested up to this point and it was the surviving Papaya that was pollinated.

Photos In order..

Papaya plant harvested - middle and right branches have brought in about 95 grams after 4 days of hang drying and so far 2 in a jar, still yet to weigh the big flowers grouped on the far left. A nice decent hash ball using gumby bucket method with the small amount of clippings from the only harvested plant and some other 'trim' while making room for more light on the plants.

The rest are just random shots of the 4 beautiful Haze 19 x Skunk 1 plants in various stages of finishing. I'm going to let them keep going for a while and let the plant/trichs tell me when is time. Some of them are turning nicely and others seem to have a week or two left based on coloring/trichs.. I'll play it by ear.

These buds are all like huge at knots and as thick a round as I could have hoped.. They're packed like bricks and getting bigger every day- As for the papaya plant those buds were a little more wispy since it got pollinated, nonetheless it did turn out some beauties, but nothing like these. Unfortunately by down sizing the original image and attaching it the real idea of how much sugar is on these won't come across in attached photos :/

blueybong · Mar 4, 2009

Beautiful!! Absolutely beautiful!!

:clap:

onthedl0008 · Mar 4, 2009

Caddy man looking awesome as usual. Nice hash ball.Tried my hand at a little myself.
Started a new one up.Changed alot of things. Great to see urs full steam ahead as usual. Good stuff.

caddy · Mar 6, 2009

The first report on the harvested papaya plant is pretty good. So far after a week hang drying along with paper bags, its now been in jars for 4 more days.. lost a lot of weight. At the present moment the one plant has brought in a dry 3oz.

The curing process is only beginning but I don't think much more weight is going to shed off of where they're at now with the conditions they're drying in.. As they cure and smell better I'll keep reporting on this batch/strain. A few main tops and branches will be coming down from the haze19xskunk1 tonight and tomorrow while the rest remain to finish equally in the same state as the ones I am cutting.

Hope all is well with everyone.

caddy · Mar 11, 2009

Well I let an additional week and a half go by bringing a total staggered harvest time from 8 weeks to 9.5 weeks in stages branch by branch as they were done.

I know I got about 3 ounces bone dry off the one Papaya plant and so far all the haze 19 x skunk 1 is drying curing so I wont bother throw many of their figures around yet. I will however show a handful of the branches, tops & cola's that are coming out of the tent.

Since I harvested branch by branch at different times I never got a whole group shot of everything hanging or laying next to each other from every plant.. These are just randoms as I had the camera by me.. More or less a preview of what came out of the grow op.. Once its all as dry as it gets with a good curing I'll post a final weight. You saw the papaya harvest that brought 3 dry solid ounces a little bit above this post.. now its time for some big ones that completely dwarfed the papaya buds & plant size in general. Here are about 5 or 6 very large branches. I still have 4 huge branches to take down that are as big or bigger than the largest ones seen here already harvested and being trimmed. By looking at the papaya plant size and yeild and seeing what is left to dry, and yet to be cut down.. I've definitely got at least a pound or just shy of that.

blueybong · Mar 11, 2009

Wow!!! Holy shit those are some big, thick & beautiful buds!!

You got some nice weight there!!! :clap:

Cheers!!

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