2nd Grow - Mega Jackpot under DS XML 650 using DWC

Here's a couple pictures of the nanners I have. The first photo is the nanner I had noticed a few weeks back (not realizing what it was). The second photo is the only other nanner I could find looking through the tent tonight, which is good I suppose. However this one looks like it already opened Sad day, hopefully I'm harvesting before the plant has time to make many seeds, this plant has the smallest buds though, so I suspect that's a hint...




I'm going to attempt to cut them off in case they haven't released their pollen yet.

I have a vacation coming up next week and I needed something to smoke on it so I cut off a few of the lower branches and hung them to dry.



This pretty much confirmed what I was worried about, the buds are so tiny... I wanted to trim about 7 grams off, but I don't think I have that... looks more like 3.5 grams, but we'll see how much it shrinks while it's drying.


A nice macro shot, these buds aren't as frosty as the tops of course, but they still look pretty good!


I've decided to push my harvest back another week as it looks like the buds might be putting on a little bit of weight this week. I'll be out of town and won't be able to check on them so I hope they'll be okay. It'll be a flush week so I don't expect too much can go wrong during it. They'll run out of water about half to 3/4 of the way through the week but I don't think that's going to hurt them any. I'm more worried about PH swings, but again it's the last week of their life so I don't think too much can go wrong.

Week 8 update (Light switched to 12/12 on 7/18/2015)

So it's looking like the buds are putting on some weight this week finally. Nothing too crazy, but it's something. I'm not going to be doing my harvest nest week as originally planned. I'm considering leaving the plants to flush for a week while I'm out of town, or maybe leaving them with nutes and deciding if I want to flush when I get back to keep giving them more time. I have until Wednesday to decide.


Here's a couple of the buds, that have been getting bigger this week. Looking awesome, but still have a long way to go before they're as big as I was expecting or the other plant is at.



Fox tails continue of course.


Here's a couple buds from the plant that has had big buds, they're really looking good, and nice and fat. I wish all the plants looked like this.



Now for some gorgeous macro shots. You'll notice the purple bits have all amber trichomes, the green bits are still milky so I'm not totally sure what to think of that.



Man up close you can barley see any green, it's just a snowy day!

I noticed tonight that the edges on my leaves are starting to curl upwards. I did a search and the common cause for this is heat stress. However I keep my canopy temperature at 75-78 degrees during the day and around 65 at night. Since my temps are in the butter zone I have trouble believing I'm having an issue with heat stress.

Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this?

Some leaves are worse than this, some are better, this is somewhere in the middle.

week 10 update

Nothing really to say this week, I'm out of town and haven't seen my ladies since Wednesday night here's hoping they're doing okay, I didn't have anyone to check on them for me.

I started their flush before I left town so they're on plane water now. I'll be starting the harvest Wednesday if everything goes according to plan.

Harvest Update #1

I harvested the first plant last night, it took almost 7 hours! I really need to get faster at this harvesting thing... however since I am slow I'll be updating this post with the harvests as I go, it's going to take me until at least Saturday to finish

Plant #1 (These numbers are the ID I used to track which plant is which, not the order that they are being harvested in)


The leaves and top buds started to turn a beautiful purple last week. It was really nice getting home to see these shades of purple.



Lower buds are all a light green shade, still sexy though.


Holy foxtails Batman


I'm a bit shocked by this, the difference between color and trichome density between the very top of the bud and what's under the first set of sugar leaves is crazy. This bud is the most evident with this since it was a bit lower on the plant where only the very tip could get direct light.


Now let's wrap up with some photos of the trimmed buds. After seeing this I am much more optimistic about my final weight, this is all from the smallest plant, I'm harvesting from smallest to biggest to allow the most productive plants the most time.




Time to go harvest another plant

here's one of my megas at day 54 your harvest looks great man how many days did you go I was thinking like another 16 days to go maybe a little more

I harvested the first plant on day 82.

I'll have to keep an eye out for a harvest update from you, have you been keeping a journal? Your buds look way bigger than mine, but also a lot less dense, maybe that's just the pics. They look like their going to take a while to trim, maybe longer than mine.

The buds on my plants are super dense like rock hard I do have a journal in the newbie central I'll be posting an update soon but seems more like I have about thirty days on my megas

But keep posting harvesting pics I love seeing it looks like you'll have a decent one I'm hoping that I do cause the buds are big and dense so has my very curious

have you gotten anymore harvest pics of your crop i love to see how your buds come out because some of the buds off your smallest plant look kinda like mine this one i lollipopped and it sas a late bloomer

Harvest Update #2 Day 83

Well it turns out I was mistaken about which plant was the smallest. Plant #4 turned out to be quite a bit smaller than #1, still not a bad harvest though. I'm actually not surprised this one was smaller as she was the runt of the group in veg.

Plant #4


I've noticed the last couple weeks the leaves up top have been staying nearly vertical which seems weird to me, I never did try to figure out if this was a deficiency or anything.


The final harvest from plant #4, I'm guessing it's maybe 2/3 of the weight I got from plant #1.


I won't have time to harvest anything tonight, but hopefully I'll be wrapping up tomorrow night, Sunday at the latest. Stay tuned, the best two plants are yet to come!

Milo 420 said:

The buds on my plants are super dense like rock hard I do have a journal in the newbie central I'll be posting an update soon but seems more like I have about thirty days on my megas

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Nice! I hope they come out well. Mega's seem to be a slow plant, that's for sure.

Milo 420 said:

have you gotten anymore harvest pics of your crop i love to see how your buds come out because some of the buds off your smallest plant look kinda like mine this one i lollipopped and it sas a late bloomer View attachment 3512721View attachment 3512722

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That looks like my buds did that weren't under direct light, either on an edge or down a bit lower on the plant. My main colas looked quite a bit frostier and had started to turn a beautiful shade of purple in the last few weeks of the grow.

these are some of my other megas these things are frosty as Hell

Yeah I love how frosty this strain is, it's so beautiful.

Harvest Update #3 Day 85

Plant #2

After pulling this plant out of the room, it became very clear she was the biggest plant in the room by quite a bit. It's buds were as tiny as the other plants, but it had much better node spacing and overall was just a bigger plant.


I really love the colors I ended up with, I wish the purple carried further down the plant though.


One thing I'm surprised by is how much like bamboo weed is. Every stem is totally hollow, wasn't expecting that as I've never seen this in the weed I've bought.


Such frosty sticky buds, can't wait to smoke these. I just wish they had some decent size to them.


Here's the final harvest from plant #2.


Lastly let's take a look at the entire harvest so far. This is plants #1, #2, and #4.


Tonight I'll wrap up by harvesting my favorite plant! It's smaller than I thought it was, but it is the only plant that ever put weight on it's buds. I'm also hoping to have the final dry weight for plant #1 tonight, stay tuned!

Harvest Update #4 Day 86

Plant #3

Wow this one is gorgeous, I was definitely right about it being my favorite! It's nice to see what this strain can actually do when it's not so stressed out. I think this plant may have also been better pruned allowing it to focus more energy on fewer buds.


The colors on this one are really great. I wish the leaves weren't so damaged so i could have dried one out to frame from my first grow.






Here's the final harvest from plant #3. I think this one easily had the most weight out of the group, but I'll find out when everything is weighed up.


I'm so happy to see some properly sized buds. The others plants are so dry that they aren't looking much size as they dry, so if that happens here these are going to be fantastically big dense buds. They're like rocks now, so I have high hopes!






I'll wrap up with some glamour shots / stoner porn.
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I'm blown away with how much resin these girls have when zoomed in on, I'm gonna be hiiiiiighhhhh.




Once everything dries out I'll let you know the final weight! Anyone want to take some guesses? I'm thinking a 1/4 pound not it's not what I was hoping for, but I'm pretty impressed with myself for being such a noob. I can't wait till next time, when it's even better!

Final Harvest Update

Well I weighed everything up tonight and I'll say it's not shabby!

Plant #1: 43 grams
Plant #2: 56 grams
Plant #3: 73 grams
Plant #4: 27 grams (the buds looked as disappointing as the weight)

Total yeild: 199 grams | 7.1 oz

Here's some pictures from the weigh in.

Plant #2, 56 grams




Plant #3, 73 grams!



Here's one of my favorite buds, can't wait for it to cure so I can smoke it!


Some macro shots of the above bud, man this thing is frosty.




Here's the final harvest all together, I didn't quite hit the half pound goal I hoped for, but hey 7 ounces for a noob doesn't feel too bad.