Liberty Haze

chained

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Hello!

I haven't had time to scratch myself, lately, hence no photos :) Here's a couple that I took a few days ago, to give a bit of perspective. The metal rule you can see is 31cm (12.2047inch) and the colas tower over it. I'm just glad my cooling/airflow has been able to handle the heat from the light, because I've really run out of space. I didn't want the girls to get so close to the light but it has no more movement, it's at the highest point I could mount it. Fortunately the light hood seems to have a good spread and the colas along the edge of the tent, which you can see in the photo, aren't suffering from lack of light.

The two plants at the back of the tent both seem a week or two ahead of the big plant at the front of the tent. Their leaves are all sucked dry by the buds, and the pistils are nearly all red. I can't see amber yet, in the trichomes, but I'm starting to wonder if that's not my vision at fault. Or, you know, I AM new and don't know what I'm looking for. When they change it might jump out at me - I can appreciate that.

I've lowered my PPM to 950. Over the last week I've had some hiccups, and there was a good 3 or 4 days where the plants seemed to take no nutrients from the water at all. It's been very hot and I haven't been able to check on the plants during the days, I feel the stalling might have been due to heat. The reservoir temperatures would have raised significantly on those days, too. I wound up dumping the rez, and putting fresh water and nutes in. The girls are starting to eat again which is great.

The main plant, at the front of most pictures, is starting to turn. It's pistils are drying out and some leaves are, too, but it's nothing like the other two. I'll take some close ups of the buds later but for now...



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DrCannaPath

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Very nice looking bro ... youre going to have a killer hatvest ...... sorry about the little hiccups ya had .... not much longer .... let me see if i can find a good reference for that amber color to help ya out .... btw LH does take a long time to turn those trichomes amber .... what day of 12/12 is it now?
Keep it up bro ;-)

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chained

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Hey Dr, thanks man. It's at 9 weeks today. Here's the best I could do for a close up of what I have. The instances whereby I think I can see amber, I can also see it's likely just reflected light from the HPS.

I can't remember which plant these are a photo of, or if it's the same plant, I took these while I was baked last week... ha! The most advanced of the plants I can see they're mostly cloudy, and that's fine, I just don't know what to expect when they turn amber. That said it looks like they clear out again when they turn amber, so that will help me figure it out... or I won't notice the color and I'll just think it hasn't turned cloudy yet :\

Take a look!



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DrCannaPath

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Oh i see dude .... ya got mostly cloudy .... you could choo now. But its also a bit early since its only 9 weeks. Ya got a couple weeks of ripening to go .... you could chop a couple nugs dry them n sample them ... just dry them faster maybe behind your ps4 or above your fridge where its a bit warmer and itll help dry them faster. You could dry them like that over night n sample them tomorrow. The smoke would ve a bit harsher than cured bud but youll get a feel of the high. With all cloudy, youll get a racing head high thats very trippy. Having some amber helps balance the high a lot i think you should try for yourself a good nug
Its almost done brother dont rush . . Old timers always advise to chop a week after you think its ready hah

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guardiangk

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Just caught up with this. I have been growing LH for awhile now. Lotta fun. Your plants look nice, good job !

I would suggest you look up dry ice extraction before you bubble bag. As someone once told me, you are gonna slap yourself when you see how much you have been wasting.

Cheers !
 

chained

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What's up brother n merry xmas... Hope all is well ... How are the girls so far? Did ya start chopping?
You too, brother.

Man, maybe it's the time of year... It's been a busy time. So, and update.

Since I have last been on I have started chopping from the two older looking plants at the back. I swear I still cannot see amber and have put it down to my vision (I have some vision impairment, and magnification only does so much) because the other signs of aging are there. I had dropped PPM down to 600, previously, but it's now at 250ish. In a couple of days I'll have the time to harvest more, and in that time I'm going to start on the main, big girl at the front. Her colas are all twice as thick as the other plants, and then some. As I have resigned myself to the fact I can't really tell the amber, I'm going to take it all down over the next week. I'd rather her be a little under done than over :)

Here are some pictures taken on Monday
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chained

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And, here's the mess after I hacked away at the back of the tent, yesterday, to remove some of the older looking colas. A lot of the colas back there are skinnier, with strange growth, than the main plant; You may remember the fan leaves had bud growth on the stems? Well, the mutations didn't stop there. Those plants I actually believed to be dead as seedlings, after an accident and I only left them in the tent because I was lazy... One day I sorted the pH issues and they sprang to life but always remained behind in growth - yet apparently further along in age. The stress has resulted in weird growth and as I trimmed I wound up putting a large amount of the buds in to the trim bucket for bubblehash. I have dried some of it - poorly - and smoked it. Still works just fine ;D

These buds are going to be mostly for experimenting with extraction techniques, the main girl at the front it going to be my main smoke.

I'm going to make bubble hash next week. :D

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chained

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Just caught up with this. I have been growing LH for awhile now. Lotta fun. Your plants look nice, good job !

I would suggest you look up dry ice extraction before you bubble bag. As someone once told me, you are gonna slap yourself when you see how much you have been wasting.

Cheers !
Hey mate, welcome.

I will do, I'm going to be trying any method I'm capable of trying :)
 

dafez

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And, here's the mess after I hacked away at the back of the tent, yesterday, to remove some of the older looking colas. A lot of the colas back there are skinnier, with strange growth, than the main plant; You may remember the fan leaves had bud growth on the stems? Well, the mutations didn't stop there. Those plants I actually believed to be dead as seedlings, after an accident and I only left them in the tent because I was lazy... One day I sorted the pH issues and they sprang to life but always remained behind in growth - yet apparently further along in age. The stress has resulted in weird growth and as I trimmed I wound up putting a large amount of the buds in to the trim bucket for bubblehash. I have dried some of it - poorly - and smoked it. Still works just fine ;D

These buds are going to be mostly for experimenting with extraction techniques, the main girl at the front it going to be my main smoke.

I'm going to make bubble hash next week. :D

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nice!
 

green217

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And, here's the mess after I hacked away at the back of the tent, yesterday, to remove some of the older looking colas. A lot of the colas back there are skinnier, with strange growth, than the main plant; You may remember the fan leaves had bud growth on the stems? Well, the mutations didn't stop there. Those plants I actually believed to be dead as seedlings, after an accident and I only left them in the tent because I was lazy... One day I sorted the pH issues and they sprang to life but always remained behind in growth - yet apparently further along in age. The stress has resulted in weird growth and as I trimmed I wound up putting a large amount of the buds in to the trim bucket for bubblehash. I have dried some of it - poorly - and smoked it. Still works just fine ;D

These buds are going to be mostly for experimenting with extraction techniques, the main girl at the front it going to be my main smoke.

I'm going to make bubble hash next week. :D

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IME the trichs will get more Amber after u dry them.
They look ready to me
 

chained

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Awesome bro ... just awesome .... dont worry too much now about the amber ... good luck with the harvest coming soon and let us know how it goes ... dude your house is probably already stinking badly but wait its going to get better haha heaven ;-)

Check out my current TriStrain grow:
https://www.rollitup.org/index.php?threads/883569/
Thanks mate, and thanks for all the help along the way. I'll leave some curing indefinitely and if you're ever in Australia we'll hit it. ;)
As you said in your thread, every second has been worth it. These things are 10/11 weeks flowering now and are the biggest buds I've ever seen in the flesh... and I grew them! :D

I've set up my spare 1m by 1m tent, fitting extraction fan and ducting in this week- it's now going to be my drying tent. At the moment, the first growth I've cut off is now hanging up. I took some the day before, too, but as luck would have it it was followed by a super hot dry day which I didnt account for... My house was 30C+ and 20%- humidity which turned the little bit I'd taken into straw. The cooling is sorted now and what you see above is hanging up in that area pictured. It should be okay. The tent will be ready by the time I harvest the rest in a few days.

I've been smoking it today. I'm damn baked, mate, ha ha!
 

chained

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Bravo, all that patience is about to pay off!!
They have been flowering a minute now!
Thanks, mate! :) I look at the first pictures I posted and back then it seemed like I had such a long journey ahead. Suddenly I'm realizing I don't own enough mason jars!

IME the trichs will get more Amber after u dry them.
They look ready to me
Thanks for the input, yeah I think they're bang on. Maybe I'm just hoping, but in two days... chop chop!
 

chained

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Hi RIU :)

So, the last of it is still drying...

I turned the HPS off this week and left about a quarter of what was left, growing inside, in the dark for 48 hours - I want to see if it makes a difference to the end product.

I've been smoking so damn much this last week. Ha ha. It smokes very smooth, almost like vaping, with no harsh throat at all. I was worried because I didn't 'flush' as such and had my fingers crossed I could take care of the taste in the dry/cure process. The first half has turned out just fine - even the stuff that got dried in one day due to a heat problem, it smells a little like hay but it still tastes good and is smooth. I've made some bubblehash [because I ran out of room in the freezer for containers of trim/small buds] and that's been fun. :D


I don't know how much weed I have, I don't own scales but it's a lot. For me it is, any way. Roughly 4/5 of the tent was like the attached photos, with some super freaks that didn't turn out as well in pictures, or the pictures wound up with too much other identifying stuff in the photos... but you get the idea. It was a lot more work than I thought it would be to harvest and by about half way through all the smaller buds that I would, on any given normal day, smoke happily I just hacked off in to the bubblehash container. I probably wouldn't have done that to much of it had I been using scales and keeping track.

When it's all dried up and in jars I'll take a picture :)

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chained

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Whats up bro ... so sorry been mia .... i guess you been super busy enjoying the fruit of your hard work hah chears brother ... if im ever in australia we are going to smoke together for sure

Check out my current TriStrain grow:
https://www.rollitup.org/index.php?threads/883569/

Hey, bro.

Mate, after I got all this weed in Jars... I took 4 weeks off work, loaded up a 4x4 with my dogs, weed, camping gear and I've been driving half way around Australia getting baked and watching sunsets. Ha ha ha you think you went MIA?

I'm just adjusting to being back in town, now, and getting digital again. I hope everything's cool for you, man, I'll pop in to your thread and see what's been going on. :)
 
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