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October 1st flip…… so, Day 64/65? Trichome shots of front row MTF, and a pic of her outside the tent. Gotta move her to get access to her sister in back and check her out too.

The other MTF - “Little Sister”

I feel like both of these are in the harvest window, but I never really had such a bad ass microscope to check trichomes. All my spidey-senses are saying to pull them.

I re-amended the old Hunza Valley 91 soil and got about 50 gallons tubbed up and cooking.

MissinThe90’sStrains said:

October 1st flip…… so, Day 64/65? Trichome shots of front row MTF, and a pic of her outside the tent. Gotta move her to get access to her sister in back and check her out too.

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She is pretty

Taller pheno first 2 pics. “Little sister” 3rd pic. She gave me a couple footballs and a bunch of solid hand grenades, hidden in that little shrub. Quick removal of fan leaves and the hung the branches to dry. Both plants produced nice solid buds with plenty of frost. Long trichome stalks give them a fuzzy look.

MissinThe90’sStrains said:

Taller pheno first 2 pics. “Little sister” 3rd pic. She gave me a couple footballs and a bunch of solid hand grenades, hidden in that little shrub. Quick removal of fan leaves and the hung the branches to dry. Both plants produced nice solid buds with plenty of frost. Long trichome stalks give them a fuzzy look.

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I determine the quality of the bud by the number of dry stigmas. The fewer dry stigmas during flowering, the better the quality of the product.

There is a false opinion that dry stigmas are ripe stigmas. No - dry stigmas are dead stigmas! In open nature, there are no dry stigmas if the growing conditions are ideal.

Looks can sometimes be deceiving. I have many pictures of really nice looking plants that I just didn’t keep. The final test is always the smoke test, and if they don’t blow me away, they don’t stick around.

MissinThe90’sStrains said:

Looks can sometimes be deceiving.

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We have a lot of competition in our city, my clientele is elite. It's very hard to compete.

Every dry stigma adds bitterness to the taste.

Take my word for it.))

can say it differently: smoking dry stigmas is not tasty. It tastes like mold, but less intense.

And don't think that I can do it all the time!)) No, it's very difficult, especially in the summer.

70-80% of living stigmas is ideal for me indoors.

I saw something similar in your photo above. I responded to it there, on the previous page.

Your fertilizers are wonderful!!.. I can't make such a mixture here))) we don't sell such things here...

@Sedan, there are many different types of mixes that you can make, and different items that you can substitute. Most of these items are a waste product from another industry - ground seed meals from food crop or cosmetics processing, bone, blood, or fish meal from meat and fish processing, animal manure, compost, wood ash, rock dust from mining and commercial gravel production, and ground oyster shells. You can use banana peels for potassium (boil them to make a tea), bloodmeal for nitrogen, and add soft rock phosphate to your soil for Phosphorus.

There should be diverse resources available, but they may be difficult to track down. Just start looking to see what is cheap and plentiful around you, and start looking up NPK and mineral content for such items - Leaves, animal manure or bedding material, corn husks, vegetable and fruit compost, used grains from making beer, used tea or coffee grounds - these garbage items can all be useful.

I started reading these forums and learning. I was disappointed in my expensive bottled fertilizers and bagged soil. I wanted to try something different. I flushed my old salt-filled soil, added castings and amendments to it, and sent it. This is run #4, and each run is a learning experience.

MissinThe90’sStrains said:

bloodmeal for nitrogen, and add soft rock phosphate to your soil for Phosphorus.

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Understand right, друже, we don't have blood flour, and mountains. I live in a metropolis, I can only buy what's in the store.

MissinThe90’sStrains said:

there are many different types of mixes that you can make

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I chose - it's KNF. I have all the ingredients for it. The basis is rice. But I don't know if it will work... because you need to cook it in the forest, bury it and wait until mushrooms form in a box of rice. Then all sorts of mixtures are made from this from the products that I also have. Only after the war.. you will need to go to the forest with a mine detector, even for mushrooms.)) there are mines and various ammunition.. left to our grandchildren.... everything is covered with unexploded ammunition there. And secondly: I hope to live to see the end of the war.))) This is probably the most important thing!

3/4 plants have been cut and hung to dry for a week and then put into tubs with humidity gauges to finish slow drying. I might start trimming tomorrow and moving them to smaller tubs, and then jars in the next few days. The 3 pots of soil have also been amended and are now cooking. The 2nd mix is a little bit stronger than the first one I made a few days ago. I’ll keep slowly ramping up the mix strength until it burns. I have more plants ready to go, but the soil isn’t ready yet, so we wait.

Saints Crossing still remains, and will get taken in the next few days. She didn’t get enough light this round and the soil ran out of food. It’s ok though, I have a backup mom and I’ll dial her in eventually. All in all, a decent run but could have been better.

Pics of some drying MTF buds, taller pheno.