Hey everybody this is my first post here, I am a long time reader, I used to read on the OG forums back in the day. This is my second grow, I'm very happy with how it went and I'd like to share it with everybody. I'll give you all a breakdown of the conditions. Please ask me any questions you have, I'd like to give back to the community in anyway possible I've learned so much here. My other references for growing are Jorge Cervantez's book and DVDs. I've been through all of them hundreds of times and would recommend them highly. I am very passionate about growing, I think marijuana is an amazing plant that can change lives and push boundaries in a good way. I am going to post as much information as possible because that is what I love reading on this website. The more pictures and explanation to things the better!!! It's my turn to inspire a few people.

The ladies were grown in a wooden cabinet 5ft tall 1 ft deep 2.5 ft wide. It is a crappy rubbermade wooden cabinet that cost me like $50 on sale. It's not the best quality, but I bought it anyway because of the stealth factor. Be very careful while moving cabinets like this, the wood is shit!!

Lighting: 400 w HPS cooltube. Cooltube was home made using the "bake a round" cylinder method purchased on ebay along with a 120mm 55CFM computer fan in a homemade box pushing air through a 6 inch duct. Fresh cool air was sucked from outside the cab, blown over the lamp and exhausted out the other side of the cabinet, this also helped heat the room a little bit. The cooltube is very safe, reliable and effective: The plants were kept 8 inches away from the light with no heat issues at all.

Growing Medium: All organic mix: 10 parts GH coco coir 3 parts perlite 3 parts organic worm castings

Nutes: Advanced Nutrients Organic Iguana Juice: Grow + Bloom + Carbo Load

Lights on temp was a consistant 25C/77F
Lights off temp was around 15C/59F

Containers: 1 gallon grow bags for 4 weeks then 3 females were transplanted into large 5ish gallon rubbermade container. I drilled holes in the bottom and put a bucket underneath, this made it easy for me to run water through the container for feedings/flushing very easy!! Drainage is very very important, it keeps the roots clean and makes sure the plants are receiving fresh nutrients and flushing all the old used up nutes out into the drain bucket. I plan for about 25% run off during waterings.

I got the seeds from BC Seed King http://www.bcseedking.com/
They have very good prices and crazy fast shipping. I germinated 6/6 in paper towel, put them into 18/6 vegetative growth for 4 weeks and ended up with 3 females. I was expecting 50% female so I was happy with this. The plants were flowered for about 50 days, they could have gone another week or so, but I have to leave for the summer so they come down a few days early.. no worries. During veg growth I fed the plants 100% recommended dose of iguana juice: grow. The plants loved it, they couldnt get enough. I watered with nutes for every watering and they showed no signs of overnuting. During Flowering I used a 100% dose of Iguana Juice: Bloom along with 5mL of Carbo Load per feeding. I nuted them until day 40, then I started flushing with water and 5mL of Carbo Load. I flushed them heavily for about 7 days. They received no water at all for the last 3 days to help with drying, they also spent the last 36hrs of their lives in darkness (I've heard it increases resin production)

I'M LOOKING FOR PREDICTIONS ON THE FINAL DRY WEIGHTS OF THE BUDS AND AMOUNT OF BUBBLEHASH

These are the wet weights of the harvest:

Smallest Cola - 66 grams

Tallest Cola - 105 grams

Fattest Cola - 90 grams

Loose Nugs - 42.5 grams

TOTAL WET WEIGHT OF BUDS = 303.5 GRAMS

Popcorn Buds for Bubblehash - 19 grams

Leaf/Bud Trimmings for Bubblehash - 56.5 grams

TOTAL WET WEIGHT OF BUBBLEHASH MATERIAL = 75.5 GRAMS

I have a 5 gallon 4 bag set of bubblehash bags I purchased on ebay. The bowl of trimmings is in the freezer right now and will stay there overnite to freeze. The coldness of the freezer hardens the resin heads on the trimmings and makes it easier to seperate them from the leaf material. I use a paint mixer on my drill to mix the ice, water and trim in 5 gallon buckets. I'm very excited for this round of bubblehash, I've used the bags twice and I think I have all the tricks figured out. This bud is VERY crystally so I'm optimistic for the results. I'm going to try an experiment this time that I think will help a lot. I can never get all the ice cubes to melt in the water while I'm mixing so I'm going to run the ice cubes through the blender to make them broken up into small pieces. This will cool the trimmings much more effectively and melt faster due to its small size.


P.S. I've been listening to the album Demon Days by the band Gorillaz the whole time I was typing this grow report. If you've never heard it before I recommend doing the following immediately:
Rip 2 bongs of your finest stash
Turn this album on your ipod
Go for a walk in the forest with your dog
If you dont have a dog go to the SPCA and get one




I'd love to hear everyones predictions on the final weights. Enjoy the pictures!!!

Around day 40 of Flowering. This is when I started to flush with water and Carbo Load for 7 days.

The middle lady. She is one big beatiful cola packed with rock hard nugs. She's about the same thickness as a beer can

Around day 50 of Flowering. After 7 days of intense flushing and the last 36 hrs of their lives in darkness to enhance resin production. The Fan leaves are showing that the medium has been flushed of all nutrients.

Middle Lady @ Day 50 Flowering

Tall Lady

Short Lady

Fat Lady

Making the Ladies look nice

Scissors, Bowl of Nugs, Container of trimmings for Bubblehash

3 of my favorite things

Life is good in the Nug Bowl uhhhhhhhhhh!!

Stickiest of the Icky. Rick James would be proud

Fan Leaves

Beautiful Flower

Practicing my macro skillz

19 grams (wet) of loose popcorn buds that were chopped up and will be used to make bubblehash

42.5 grams (wet) of nugs

42.5 grams (wet) Looks cozy in there

From left to right, wet weights: 66 grams / 105 grams / 90 grams.

Holla!!!!

Everything hanging up to dry in my grow cabinet. There is a fan running to keep the air circulating and avoid mold.

Cool pic of the trim for bubblehash

This will be bubblehash tommorow!!

This is what I've been smoking while I was growing these ladies. It's grown locally and sold for a very good price.



DONT FORGET TO POST YOUR PREDICTIONS FOR FINAL DRY WEIGHT OF NUGS AND BUBBLEHASH

These are the wet weights of the harvest:

Smallest Cola - 66 grams

Tallest Cola - 105 grams

Fattest Cola - 90 grams

Loose Nugs - 42.5 grams

TOTAL WET WEIGHT OF BUDS = 303.5 GRAMS

Popcorn Buds for Bubblehash - 19 grams

Leaf/Bud Trimmings for Bubblehash - 56.5 grams

TOTAL WET WEIGHT OF BUBBLEHASH MATERIAL = 75.5 GRAMS

Thanks for checking out my grow everybody!!

I'd love to hear your questions and comments. I'll post pics/results for bubblehash tommorow nite after I make it. I'll update a few pics of the nugs as they dry and final weight after about 5 days of drying.

I'm taking a smoke break... I need it

Welcome to rollitup my canadian brother. (sister?)
Looks good, though you harvested a little early for my tastes, its you smoking it so enjoy!!!!

Usually you'll get somewhere between a quarter to a third of wet weight. So with 300 grams wet you should get somewhere around 75-100 grams dry.
As for the bubblehash, thats a really tough question. Say you get a quarter of that 75 grams = 18 grams you'll usually get about a gram of hash per 10 grams of good dry trim, so 1.8 grams of hash would be about right.
Remember this is all guesswork and shouldnt be taken as gospel.

Anyhow, nice plants. Time to get the next grow rolling! =p

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yeah I wish I could have given the plants another 10 days but I have to leave for work and could only flower for 50 days. I think they're still gonna be delicious

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"TOTAL WET WEIGHT OF BUDS = 303.5 GRAMS"

Your final dry weight will be 140-150 grams of couchlockable smoke. Nice job Canada

they were not ready....2 or 3 more weeks early man...sorry

can i come to ur house? ahahaha

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I would say about 2-2 1/2 o'z man... Maybe about 2-31/2g's of bubble hash who knows maybe more...Nice pics man, beautiful plant !

Great grow man. The pics were awesome.

I know they were early. I wish I could have given them a few more weeks but I have to leave for the summer and had to harvest before I leave.

I made some bubblehash today and got some good pics.
Only ended up with about .5 grams but its good stuff

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very nice i would love to hit it, can't wait till mine are done/

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