Hello Everyone!
I`m excited to say I have finished my party cup!
1st Cup Done! Not the winner, but a beauty!!!
Welcome to the end of a journey! This was my first but NOT last Party Cup!
First the facts:
- 2wks germinate/seedling w CFL in Growdrobe.
- 3wks Veg w CFL in Growdrobe.
- 7wks Flower w HPS in Flower Closet.
- 12 wks or 84 days from seed.
Soil was a hand mix 3 bags basic soil to 1 bag perlite. Optimum Hydroponics base line with Supermax B1, cal-max, bud ignitor, big bud, over drive, floral nectar and some superthrive. Grown in a custom Air-pruning party cup.
She is entered in the Weed as Art category under the medicinal side.
My guess is she will yield 17.5g dry, would be nice to get 21 or more though. Once the buds have been dried a few days I will weigh them b4 going in the jars.
I was planning on letting her go longer, but the trich`s kina snuck up on me and I already had 10% Amber so it was ready a lil` early. I`m not sure If anyone else experiences early harvest times (week or 2) due to the small container size forcing the plant to mature quicker? not sure. My first Ak-47 too, so maybe its just the genetics.
The fan leaves also started to yellow and die off slightly, Looked like she was nearing the end.
One weird thing is almost each bud site had 1 (what looked like) male flower during the second half of flower. But these all turned out to be more pistols cause they opened up and spitted lots more white hairs! She tried hard to find some!!!
The trichome`s were 10% Clear, 80% Cloudy, 10% Amber. The point during the inspection where I was a clear, cloudy and amber tric right beside each other is when I made my decision. I tried without success to get a pic of it, it looked soo cool.
Root Mass:
I was very surprised when I examined the root mass, I thought there was going to be a MASS of just root once it came out. But Nope, The air-pruning really did its job!!! It is hard to tell from the pics, but the roots were coming out directly from the center of the cup in all directions to the holes in the screen. No circles at all and no roots wrapped around the cup in any direction. LOTs of area to still grow too....... I figured it was root bound and that there would be very little soil matter left in the cup.
This has led me to believe that with air-pruning your root systems are using way more of the inside space of the medium and not just wrapping around the outside of it. Very cool..... means the root systems could have grown MUCH longer before coming root bound.
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Harvest:
So, since this plant`s ripening suck up on me, I decided to try something new. I decided to try drowning /boiling. The first thing I did was pour 4 L`s of boiling water through the party cup. Then boiled the cup standing up on the stove for a while. After boiling the leaves all curled up and twisted, some had colour change too. She looked hurtin!
I then put it in darkness for 24 hrs. This morning I then chopped it at the base and am hanging it for air-dry till its dry enough for curing.
Next plans for Flower Closet!
Here are some pics of my Jinn clones going into flowering 3 days early
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Now on to the AK47 Party Cup Porn!!!!!!
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I can blame that on cold temps though. Good luck, try not to woop me to badly! XD I had an idea that might help you and maybe benefit other party cup growers. As you said, the air pots dry out really quickly, so why not make a drip system on a timer? Ever hour drip enough to moisten the dirt, and no more sad plants. 
I don't have the resources to pull this off, but it's just an idea. 
