Hot Diggity's Lab

Chapter 8: Day 83 of 12/12 (Part 1)

We're down to 14 plants left. I was going to try and harvest 4 or 5 each day over the next 3 days but I've decided I'm going to wait and harvest all 14 on Tuesday Morning which will be day 86. All of them can really use just a couple of extra days. In all honesty, many of them can really use another 2 or 3 weeks but I just can't do that right now. Life stuff.

Here is what we have left:
(3) Green Crack from Humboldt Seeds
(2) Amherst Sour Diesel from Humboldt Seeds
(3) Forest Queen x Cobra Lips crosses I made. (Both Bodhi)
(6) Super Silver Hashplant x Cobra Lips crosses I made. (Both Bodhi)

I started tagging them and getting them prepped. All of the difficult ones have already been harvested so these will be really quick. I started breaking the room down a little bit and did some vacuuming. I plan on converting this space into the drying room starting Tuesday. I'll have much more control over temps and humidity than I do in my tent.

Some of my favorites are still going strong! 13 pictures tonight, so 2 posts.

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some of them you could have taken past 100 days?! please specify those. this is incredible, i mean everything, from space, to lights, containers & simple nutes. has the frost level increased to above par yet ? during dry trimming what percentage of resin do you think falls off ? this is/was great, so good it has delayed my sending an email to another great grower like yourself.
 
That's a lot of questions!

Which ones could have gone longer? Hmm... Perhaps all 14 of the remaining ones.
Most of them look pretty ready but when I scope the trich's, they aren't quite there.

Frost level being on par or not. I guess this is very subjective, yes?

I don't seem to have a problem with resin falling off during dry trimming because I keep humidity nice and high. I don't let flowers dry in a super arid environment. If possible, I aim for 60% to 65% RH the entire dry cycle and I let it happen really slowly.

Right now I'm still in winter so my conditions are less than ideal. My ambient air temps are only 55F. I try and oscillate my RH between 50% and 60%. The goal is to prolong the hang dry as long as possible. My target is 8 days for the smaller flowers and 9 or 10 days for the larger more dense ones.

I'm experimenting with a pre-cure that involves breaking the plant down, trimming it thoroughly and placing the flower into pizza boxes on top of parchment paper in the same environment for 2 to 3 days. And into jars after that. I'm not really interested in burping jars several times a day but rather a couple of times a week for 1 week and then let them do their thing.

If you dry in a nice humid environment, then you never need to let them "sweat it out". My 2 cents, for what it's worth.
 
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Chapter 8: Day 84 of 12/12 (Part 1)

As planned, nothing came down this morning. Still have 14 plants. All 14 will be harvested Tuesday Morning, Day 86.
I was able to get the rest of them labeled and prepped. All of them got a final watering. Other than group shots, I was only able to get 4 of the 14 shot tonight. Hopefully I can shoot the other 10 tomorrow night. I might miss a few, but I'll try my best.

I'll do this 1st post with all of the group shots and then follow up with a post for each of the 4 I shot afterwards.

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Chapter 8: Day 85 of 12/12

This is the last night of this grow. I always get a little sad at the very end as I spend so much time with them. This time is especially hard because I'm done working for the next 6 months. I have some life stuff going on and I have some big decisions to make about how I want to proceed with this amazing plant.

I'll be sure to follow up with super hi-res pics of curing flower, but otherwise, this is the last post from me for a while. I spent the final 2 hours of lights on cleaning up the room and prepping it for the drying room.

The only other thing to mention is that I took the best Green Crack plant and did a pre-trim on her. It's kind of a comparison test. I also did it to show, yet again, how amazing small plants can perform. This Green Crack is going to yield ~ 28 grams having a 6" x 6" footprint in a container less than 1 gallon. That's 112 grams per sq/ft with no veg time. Nobody indoors can compete with that. Nobody. I shouldn't even be saying this but fortunately, only 2 or 3 people even read my ramblings.

A few closeups and a few room shots. Like I said, I'll be posting super hi-res closeups later but until then, Diggity out.

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Forest QueenxCobra Misc 1.jpg
SSHxCobra Misc 1.jpg
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Hot Diggity Sog said:
Are they supposed to be hollow? I guess I haven't really noticed. From memory, seems that most stems are slightly hollow. Why...what is that supposed to mean or indicate?
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i just thought in the short time frame to support chunky buds they might be dense stems. but with coco i have had hollow stems before, i attributed the fast growth to hollow stems back then. but shit you do amazing things so i guess it doesnt matter, i am glad i was able to see whats possible, and you have set an impressive benchmark.
 
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