Howdy Al.

Just sending some SOG love your way.



Thank you for the inspiration!

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Noice woik. My only suggestion would be to rotate your lights 90 degrees. The light pattern of a horizontal fixture is somewhere between oblong and rectangular, perpendicular to the lamp tube. The way you have the fixtures oriented now, your light pattern ends are on the floor, when they could be putting some light down on the adjacent trays.

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Get a harvest every 2 weeks - A batch of clones in rockwool - Al B. Gone

Hey Al,
Don't know if you come in here any more, but...

I just harvested the bulk of my crop. I had a few that were done early and when I dried them in the bud dryer i built they ended up smelling like hay. I really dont want that to happen to the buds I just cut. Any ideas on fixing this? I just read a thread from FDD about "The other side of the coin: Quick Drying". Old thread and I didn't find the answer I was looking for. Thanks in advance. Hope all is well.
DS

If you read FDD's commentary all the way through that thread, you'll find that he eventually built his own bud dryer and uses it to dry his buds now.

A bud dryer simply will not be the cause of anything 'smelling like hay.' If buds come out of a dryer 'smelling like hay' then they'd do the same if the buds were hang dried. A properly operating bud dryer which holds air temp to 29C max will dry in about 3 days, accomplishing exactly the same thing as hang drying except preventing any possibility of mould, which is common in hang drying.

A few things could have happened to yield buds with poor flavour. Buds which yield rich, perfumey smoke have lots of resin compared to the cellulose leaf matter content. If one harvests so prematurely that the majority of the material is comprised primarily of leaf, which has very little resin compared to the mass of cellulose plant matter, buds will be harsh to smoke and have poor flavour. Poor quality DNA could also have yielded buds with low resin content.

On thing is certain, a properly operating bud dryer, built to perform as I specified, won't cause this problem.

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Get a harvest every 2 weeks - A batch of clones in rockwool - Al B. Gone

I never thought the dryer would cause it. Just wondering if my process was off a bit. the dryer I built works great. Dry buds in three days. I am fairly certain that the fact that I had a dirty hermie pollenate my crop is the main reason for the poor quality of the product. I had a few plants that grew out to their potential and they are nice with only a few seeds. Man it is a tough reality to put more than two months work into seedy bud. Oh well. Lesson learned and now I got a zillion seeds. Thanks for the time Al.

Hi Al, I just wanted to thank you for your post on "harvest a pound every two weeks." Your thread had encouraged me on how to set up my first grow.

Do you mind checking out my thread and also helping me out by pointing out in the right direction with your awesome knowledge?

New Grower, Please Help

Thanks, you're a G!

Al b., thanks for confirming my intuition that organics have no place in my res despite the constant barrage of bad advice from hydro store workers and friends whom have jumped on the organics bandwagon.

Regarding the hay smell; I'm still a newb here so take this at face value.... but after my 1st grow (Bagseed, 600W, FauxAero w/ bubbler, almost 1/2 lb yield) I noticed that while still wet the buds smelled great, stunk up the whole house. Tried to trim a bud while it was wet and it gunked up the scissors in resin real quick. Upon reaching proper dryness they had that hay smell a bit, but after a few days of curing it seems like the Hay smell dissapated and the proper stank came back a little. I dunno, maybe its all just in my head.

I know the "wet hay" smell you are referring to. Like you said, it goes away after a couple days curing.

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AL-B can i get some info on H2o2 this is my grow...Gods Gift and Sour Bubble CFL Grow... and I wanted to start mixing nutrilife's 29% h2o2... any input?

Use 2ml/gallon of the 29%. Add directly to reservoir. Close enough for govt.work

I don't have anything nice to say about CFLs. Upgrade to a real light ASAP. Environment is everything. HPS and a proper fan are a must for anyone who wants nice dense nugs. I can't tell you the number of CFL growers i've seen get to a disappointing end and move up to real lights for the second round.

Good luck, friend.

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