Controlled Environment Agriculture by Shrubs

Drella

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great looking nugs bro, i need some of those sour diesel clones, asap! i also love the outdoor garden, got two tomato plants started a couple of days ago, cant wait to eat real tomatoes! good luck on the harvest bro, i start my flush in a couple of days. my harvest should be the same as yours, this one went by quick!
 

Shrubs First

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great looking nugs bro, i need some of those sour diesel clones, asap! i also love the outdoor garden, got two tomato plants started a couple of days ago, cant wait to eat real tomatoes! good luck on the harvest bro, i start my flush in a couple of days. my harvest should be the same as yours, this one went by quick!
Thanks man, I'd be happy to send ya home with some if you were to make a business
trip to Boulder ;)

I just flushed again today, PPM came out at 1200.
 

Shrubs First

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Just gettin ancy on these ladies, I might be choppin em here sooner
than expected. I'l post the pics tomorrow, but they are just lookin so
very ripe, and nice portion of the trichomes have turned amber. More
so on the Purps which is what I was expecting.
 

Shrubs First

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way to go bro hold off if you can lol . harvest time make's all that hard work worth it
I know what you mean, I snipped off a nugget a week ago
and sampled it yesterday, surprisingly it was amazing considering
it hadn't received a single flush. Mow hat they've been flushed
4 times I bet they'll be outstanding!
 

Shrubs First

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Got em for ya right now!

I'm choppin tomorrow for sure. 4pm!

I flushed last night and they came out at 250 ppms, clean enough for me.
 

Shrubs First

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The purps are very hard to photograph without a high quality
camera. Unless my neighbor comes down with his 12MP Digi
Rebel, I won't be gettin any better pictures than the diesel shots
I took.

But I will try to take detailed photo's of my chopping of the plants,
also I will try and take a picture of my root mass'. I believe they
will be the healthiest of my finished plants yet.

Until tomorrow friends. :leaf:
 

Shrubs First

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So I had originally expected to be harvesting on April 26th. That was my call from the beginning.
It is the 22nd and I am chopping. The purps could have been harvestest a week ago! But I did not
want to prematurely chop them, since they had not received a flush yet.

As for the Diesels, they are absolutely mind blowing, I am more than excited to grow a full tent of these
bad ladies. Perfect 10's... Example


Wow, she just looks nasty. the cola's are the largest I've had. I really don't think the picture
does it justice.

The God's Gift, isn't exactly camera friendly, lets just say she is extremely thick and i will be looking
at roughly 1 1/2 oz off of her.

Soma's NYCD. This might be the strain I'm most excited about. Do I think this plant is legitimately a Soma NYCD? No. It does not have the signature Grapefruit smell. However, it has
a sincere flavor of Pineapple, very unique, at the end it almost begins to darken, akin to a tootsie
roll flavor. Very very hard pleasant. Here she is.



As I began chopping (Starting with the purps) I was surprised with the weight these nuggets had.
I do believe that this strain is losing it's vigor after having been cloned so many times,
I really can't explain why I'm not seeing the same production out of these plants as I did with my
original Purp. But I am still pleasantly surprised that it isn't as bad as I was expecting. :-)


Mmm Mmmm

When I moved on to the Diesels. The smell became literally intoxicating. My whole apartment, and
i'm sure my neighbors' as well absolutely reeked. If I were to ever do a full cover write up and
professionally document my work with herb it would be entitled "The Reeking of the Diesels".....
There's nothing you can do about this strain when it's time to trim. People are gonna know you have
herb for miles around. They are nuts! And absolute eye candy.



Especially when you have 7 of them. I am expecting over 2 oz per Diesel plant, which is huge for
a sea of green style grow.



This is the last time these ladies will see the bright lights which come from above. :eyesmoke:bongsmilie









Samples will be had in roughly 8-10 days. I got the ladies drying in my hut because the smell is
so well contained, and the environment is quite easy to control, 68F, 50% RH, and completely dark.

Apparently we're supposed to start posting in our "blog" section, but until this thread is closed by someone
I'll be posting the rest of my progress here. Check back on updates of my mothers which currently
are looking great.

Today I fed them a light mix supplement

Coco A
Coco B
Rhizotonic
Hygrozyme
PPM 650, pH 5.7, Temp 67F

Pics of those little ladies will be coming later.
 

Someguy15

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:eyesmoke:
You hang dry with fan leaves and all? I've tried both full trim then dry and pull fan leaves and dry, but never fan leaves too. Does that slow the drying even more? I know trimming them fresh is much easier, but the taste was slighly better leaving the trim. What do you feel the fan leaves bring to the drying process?
 

Shrubs First

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:eyesmoke:
You hang dry with fan leaves and all? I've tried both full trim then dry and pull fan leaves and dry, but never fan leaves too. Does that slow the drying even more? I know trimming them fresh is much easier, but the taste was slighly better leaving the trim. What do you feel the fan leaves bring to the drying process?
The most natural, even, slow dry you can do, which will allow
for the maximum breakdown of starches, pigments and chlorophyll
is when you leave the plant intact and together, fan leaves and all.

I have had by far the best results in terms of flavor and aroma using
this method. It is my belief that the finished quality of the product
relies heavily on this. The day that I trim them all is the day they get jarred
up. This traps the flavor and aroma in the jar with the buds. If you trim
and then hang dry you risk allowing them to be released and they will
dissipate in to the air.

If you want nuggets that sting the nostrils upon opening the jar, this is the way.
 

Shrubs First

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Drying is going well, branches which I cut a week ago for samples are ready
today. :leaf:

And yes it is much easier to trim when the leaves are wet, but it severely diminishes
finished quality.
 

notoriousb

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Mmmm I knew those diesels would be stanky as fuck :weed: :weed: :weed:

I like your thoughts on drying with all the big fans still on. makes sense and also contributes to the consensus that the longer you can get them to dry, the more quality the end product. Im now sure trimming them then drying is why my last batch finished in 5 days

but Id say it was good run shrubs :clap:
 

Drella

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daymn fine harvest bro, i also had itchy fingers! we cant post on our threads no more? whats up with that?

good luck on the dry. i trim at the beginning because i feel like i hurt less trichomes, as oppossed to trimming when dry. i dry till the stem snaps, and at that point they are so fragile, hope your method produces the stanky danky!
 
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