I cooked the brisket, ribs, and pulled pork last night. I had planned on having a few friends over to celebrate Juneteenth but turned lazy, BTW the pulled pork taco I had for lunch was very good. The "Pit Boss" pellet smoker is a great smoker, easy to use, holds temp with little effort, even the wife likes it because it doesn't smell of smoke for weeks after use. The brisket it produces will be…
We are in Tucson for the year (I think), This will be our first Summer in the desert in several years and it is a question of MsBubba and Summer Sun and heat. If we last I will be doing an experiment with growing both Auto and Photo plants outdoors, in the back garden. It is set up to grow 4 Autos and four Photos. The Autos are Durban Poison & Bruce Banner. The Photos are a local grown Thai Nights…
On the road to Houston for a month or till the kids piss me off, trips in a motor home are seldom without drama. The new to me 2002 40' Country Coach Allure did its thing before the trip could begin. The bedroom slide would not retract. As an aside; Slides are a bargain with the devil, when parked they give a feeling of room and make life easier but as with all things there are also tradeoffs. The…
Monday we will do a pre-buy on a 2002 40' Country Coach motorhome. I've been looking for a different MH for awhile. Usually for pre-2006 Foretravel or Country Coach. Lately Country Coach has been the go to. This one is clean, we will see how the pre-buy inspection goes.
In AZ we are allowed 6 plants per adult in the household. My tent and RDWC set up only allows 4 plants to be grown at a time. One crop of four plants and I have more weed and weed byproducts than I can use in a year even with very generous giving it away. In spite of that fact, old habits die hard, I really have a hard time wasting weed by smoking joints or other forms that use a lot of product…
I'm running the last of the 2025 trim through the Bubble hash Process: The process makes more sense the second time, still pretty simple. Here is the first run, I expect there will be two more runs before I'm finished with this bio-mass: This finishes the 2025 crop. It is all harvested, dried and cured, the last of the trim has been processed into Bubble Hash. We will have to see how the Hash is…
I made "Bubble Hash" for the first time. Interesting process, not hard, just steps that need following. Per suggestions from the folks that know what they are doing I ran three wash cycles. You can see the results going left to right and top to bottom on the drying screen: All the usable production is from the 120 micron and the 25 micron bags. There was almost nothing from the 73 micron bag. From…
Gorilla grow tents have one big advantage over other small (5'X5' or less) grow tents. Gorilla tents come with a two foot height extension, 8' v. 6' for other small tents. You run out of headroom very quickly with a 6' tall tent. The RDWC buckets are 15" tall, the LED grow lights need ~1' of headroom for cooling, with a 6' tent that only leaves 45" of grow room for your plants. Bottom line with a…
Trimming is the most miserable job of the grow and there ain't no easy way to do it. A trimmer helps but it sends a lot of good bud to the trim bucket. Good bud (if you have plenty) going to the trim bucket isn't too bad because the trim is going to make bubble hash down the road. BTW I haven't weighed the trim, there is a lot of it, but I did weigh the prime bud and it weighed in just over 5oz…
ILGM put on a good event for growers in Phoenix today. It was enjoyable and a nice way to spend a beautiful Spring day. The goodie bag actually had useful things and the folks doing the presentations knew what they were talking about. The only downside was the drive to and from Phoenix.
What a mess. It will need a day or so before it is ready for next season's crop: One nice thing about ending a grow is the quiet, I haven't measured room dB during a grow but I expect is is over 70-75dB. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week from start to finish. This time a little over 10 weeks, most grows will be a few weeks or even a month or two longer. That's for Auto plants, growing Photo plants you…
Plant #4 is hanging with #2 and #3. In a couple of weeks trimming and curing, the real work of growing, starts. Only top shelf buds will be trimmed and cured, the rest will be used to make bubble hash and rosin. ILGM is having a party in Tempe Saturday afternoon, I'm planning on being there. Say Hi if you see me.
Harvested plant #3. I broke 2 branches getting it out of the clutches of plant #4, you see them hanging between #2 and #3. Plant #4 is a monster, it tried to takeover the whole 5'X5' tent and almost did. I figure #4 needs at least 1 more week, it still has a few white Stigmas in the upper colas. As tight as these buds feel and look, the shimmer of the Trichroms, the amount of rosin transferred to…
Harvested plant #2 at 67 days. I had planned on harvest at 70 days but it was apparent the roots were in trouble, pH was going very acid and requiring lots of pH Up to stay in the required pH range, so I cut it a few days early to remove it from the RCDW system. It was ready and a couple or three days would not have made a difference. I think plant #3 is going to be cut this afternoon as well,…
Autoflower plants are a different plant v. Photo Period plants and require different growing techniques. Because Auto plants are on a genetic grow schedule any deviation from perfect conditions adversely effect final outcome. Where with photo period plants less than perfect conditions can be made up to some extent by adding time to the vegetation stage. This is not a perfect comparison because the…
California Lightworks is offering a free Solarxtreme 820 light to the winner of a drawing. To enter they want a short video testimonial (30sec to 1min) about how your California Lightworks LED lights has improved your growing experience. The offer made me think of what I would say if I made a video. First would be a description of my grow system: A 5'X5'X8' Gorilla Grow Tent with a Solar System…
Click it to big it: Mid week seven, plant #1 (dwarf plant) sugar leaf trichromes. Best guess, ready to harvest late week eight. Plant #2 is a couple of weeks behind, plants #3 and #4 need another week or two after plant #2. This year's grow should be finished by the first week or two of April. Just an aside: Plant #4 is a monster for an autoflower, it fills over a cubic meter of space and is still…
Long story that for everyone's sake I'll cut short. I've used and collected tools from the mid 1970's to almost the present. I've a shop you can barely work in for all the tools. For the last couple of years I've looked for a buyer with no joy. I finally decided to go the eBay route, turns into a near full time job but the tools move and the money ain't too bad. Anyway this is a plug: If you are…
Click it to big it. If you enlarge the photo you can clearly see the trichromes and the Stigmas. Trichromes are all still clear but the Stigmas are starting to turn. My best guess is harvest in two to three weeks. This is from the dwarf plant, the other three are about a week behind. I started running two hours of UVB each night to increase trichrome production. The 2025 grow is getting into the…
I have a dwarf plant in pot #1 (24", 61cm tall) and a giant in pot #4 (42", 1070cm tall). I almost killed the dwarf early but decided to let it grow, it didn't grow much but it has an amazing amount of buds. The giant just keeps getting bigger. On Feb 15th I posted the #4 pot's plant was 28" tall, less than a week later it has grown 14" and it is not just getting taller, it has taken over more…
The start of week 5. Harvest in 5 to 9 weeks: The tallest plant in pot #4 is 28" tall. The plant in pot #1 is a dwarf, same age and conditions as the other three plants but small and not getting bigger. The three "normal" plants could double in size before time to harvest. The three Coco Coir plants have been moved to the side of the tent so they could receive necessary DLI.
My auto Water Transfer from holding tank to Central Feed tank has worked like a champ until this AM, four hours before leaving for a two day trip. It never fails to happen when there is nothing you can do about it. It could be one of three things, in order of likelihood: Not enough "Head Pressure" (water in holding tank too low), kink in feed line between holding tank and Central Feed tank, or…
The RDWC plants are ending week three, the Coco Coir plants are starting week three. Coco Coir is kinda like soil but is also a little like hydroponics in it has no nutrients and it does not buffer as well as soil. Like soil, to monitor nutrients and pH you need to measure runoff where with hydroponics both measurements are direct. Other than time the most important factors with a hydroponic grow…
Tent 77F Water 67F EC 2.0 pH 6.3 EC is still a little high but coming down, EC at this stage should be between 1.3 -1.5. Plants look good over all. Plant #2 has some evidence of early over heat on lower leaves and Plant #1 is a dwarf. Plant #1 has had the same feed, light, and conditions as the other three, it is just going to be small. Plant #4 has huge Indica leaves and a main stem to go with…
Tent 77F @ 0100 MT water 68F EC 1.94 pH 6.4 DLI 35/18 Added 5ml pH down, will check pH this afternoon. I'm working to bring pH < 6.0 for a couple of weeks then slowly back up to < 6.5. I'll hold DLI for another week then take it to between 45DLI and 55DLI. and hold it there until the last couple or three weeks when I add in 3 hours of UV/day and take DLI back under 30 DLI. EC is slightly below…