Bagseed & Rubbermaid Grow Box

Spittn4cash

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Hey Spittn, how's the drying and curing going with the buds you picked? My buds are fattening up and I wanted to try to test some. Did your buds change shape or anything after you dried them...looking at the pics, those buds don't look like the buds I get in my bag. Been smoking for years, just always been confused on how these 'buds' turn into BUDS...
The sample buds are curing now, they were pretty crispy when I put them in there but now they're extremely soft and smell a lot like hay or straw. they definitely arent ready to be smoked now.. a little shrinkage did occur, not much tho... but Im guessing thats bcuz I didnt let it dry very long, only like 2 or 3 days. (they went from .6g to .3g)

Plant C


Plant D


Plant E


I think the reason why they dont look like the buds in the bag is bcuz I only harvested the very tip of the bud instead of the whole thing, just so I can let the rest mature incase they werent done

under these CFL's they take forever to fatten up and actually REALLY start budding, it doesnt happen until like the 5th/6th week of 12/12..then they seem to start budding from every shoot!

been gettin some cold nights, the temps dropped to 69*F for a low last night, hope that didnt slow down growth too much...
 

Spittn4cash

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trich's are 75% cloudy/25% clear..harvesting the top third buds either monday or tuesday, Im leaving the bottom buds on so they will finish up.

edit: naa..I just realized the plants are just now recovering from all that pruning I did, Im seeing a lot of new growth that wasnt there a couple days ago so Im gonna hold off on the harvesting, but I dont want to let the THC breakdown on me.
 

Spittn4cash

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Just took some updated bud shots after I've been using Molasses for a couple of day. the buds have really fattened up and are looking more ripe than ever.:mrgreen:

As for those samples, they didnt make it till Sat like I had planned....:roll:

I ran into a lil bad news and was feeling a lil upset so I went ahead and smoked them. they broke down very nicely, kinda fluffy like I was tearing up tissue, but after I broke it all down my fingers were sticky to the touch, like I had some dried up syrup or sugar on them. the three little samples went into the blunt, and it didnt get me shitfaced but I was definitely high.:mrgreen:

They say a persons mood going into the high has a lot to do with how they feel when they are getting high, and Im sure if my circumstances were better this would probably have been the best weed I'd ever smoked.:hump: :hump:

But to make up for those, I harvested 2 buds last night which are hanging to dry right now.

Although they dont have any Amber trich's I feel like they are mature enough to take down my first 1/3 of the plants on monday which will be week 7.

So to prepare for the first harvest, at 11pm tonight (when I'd usually shut the lights off for 12/12) Im gonna shut the lighs off for the next 60 hours (which is 11am monday morning) then monday morning I will harvest the top 1/3 of my plants, the buds I have drying will go into jars, and these buds will hang up. then 5-7 days later I will harvest the second 1/3 of my plants, and put the ones hanging up into jars, and hang these..and so on in that same pattern my harvest is complete.
 

Spittn4cash

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5 Days Ago:


Now:


^^**Thats the Thumb of a 20 something year old man right there...**^^

What I've been using to check out the trich's


^^**See the bottle on the right with the holes punched into the lid, thats what I used to folliar feed, I had a bunch of home-made things that worked great throughout this grow.
 

hearmenow

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Very innovative there, dude. Nicely done. The "fluffy" buds concern me. I've read multiple postings that say that's the biggest risk in using CFLs or having inadequate lighting. Pretty much that's the reason I took my girls outside during flowering. I do not want any popcorn buds. That would be a waste of my patience and money I've spent on this grow. I'm very curious to see how the rest of the harvest turns out. Good luck!
 

Spittn4cash

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thanks for stoppin by fellaz!
Nice grow..
Im about to start my first CFL grow
good luck with your grow, make sure U keep an updated journal on here bcuz we have many members that are very experienced and can definitely give U some great advice when it comes to this growin shyt... what strains are U gonna be growin?

Very innovative there, dude. Nicely done. The "fluffy" buds concern me. I've read multiple postings that say that's the biggest risk in using CFLs or having inadequate lighting. Pretty much that's the reason I took my girls outside during flowering. I do not want any popcorn buds. That would be a waste of my patience and money I've spent on this grow. I'm very curious to see how the rest of the harvest turns out. Good luck!
very true, but
I look at that from a few different perspectives:
1.)They dont take as long to dry. 4-5 days then they can cure, sooner they finish the sooner I can smoke em!

2.)The more dense it is, the more moisture is retained in the center..too much moisture can lead to molding/mildew buds, which an amature grower (like myself) wouldnt know how to handle

I dunno, just trying to look on the bright side I guess..lol

most of the popcorn buds are on the lower parts of the branches, like the very bottom third are gonna be shitty popcorn buds, but the top 2/3 will make some pretty good smoke!

I'll probably figure something to do with the lower buds as they wont be very potent and wont yield much, and keep the tops for my personal stash.

Thanks for the luck, I'll need it!
 

hearmenow

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I think you've done great! I followed your grow from the beginning and learned a tip or 2 along the way. I would say you always want thick buds, though. Thick buds=more smoke=more THC but I get what you are saying about new to growing. I'm in the same boat. I just want to be able to enjoy a good smoke at my own hands. I'd also like to be able to show my wife the fruits of my labor and say "see, THIS is why I wanted to grow...now, imagine what we can grow with an HPS light!"....
 

Spittn4cash

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I think you've done great! I followed your grow from the beginning and learned a tip or 2 along the way. I would say you always want thick buds, though. Thick buds=more smoke=more THC but I get what you are saying about new to growing. I'm in the same boat. I just want to be able to enjoy a good smoke at my own hands. I'd also like to be able to show my wife the fruits of my labor and say "see, THIS is why I wanted to grow...now, imagine what we can grow with an HPS light!"....
:lol: :lol: :bigjoint: :grin: :grin:

I hear ya on that!

here are some pix of the 2 buds I clipped for the first **OFFICIAL**harvest last night



^**Thats a coin from I think chuck E cheese...yeah..I dont have any money right now so I couldnt put it next to a quarter..LMAO!..but its about the same size as a quarter**^
they smell so GOOD! I dunno if these will last thru the night, let alone till monday when they're supposed to go into the jar!
 

hearmenow

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LMAO! Nice looking buds. Kinda looks like mine now. Mine have been flowering now for 4 weeks. I was thinking another week or so until I researched a little more and discovered some strains flower for as long as 9 or 10 weeks! :-O So now I will just have to wait and see...still waiting for trichomes to develop.

Enjoy the smoke and make sure you give us a report.
 

Spittn4cash

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Some shots of a few of the buds I picked off in the first harvest.

Thats 2 Buds from each plant on the hangers,and a bud from plant D prior trimming...





They were hanging on the hanger in the closet/grow room, but I found out that light isnt good for drying buds, so now they're in one of my drawers inside of jars Lids off the jar, while the jars are laying on their side) with a fan on them like this:


hopefully they will be dry by friday, then Im gonna put the lids on them and let them cure, and while these are curing, I'll cut off a couple more branches to dry.

More updates then, comments and questions are welcome...
 

Spittn4cash

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Just so no one thinks that was my entire harvest..

I hardly removed anything, in fact this is whats still on the plant:

Upskirt Shot



Group Shot
 

Spittn4cash

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Ta Da, good job man VV
Yeah I know..I still have to give U a big thanks tho, without your guidance I wouldnt have been able to even germinate these babies!

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I switched the clocks back to 10/14 to help these ladies finish up their last week or two here a little faster. I'll keep at 10/14 for the remainder of this week, next week it'll probably end up going on 8/16 or 6/18..havent decided yet, but the longer dark cycles are supposed to speed up the finishing times, and make them explode with crystals. Guess we'll find out...
 

SleepyBuds

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Nice job Spittn....I got a little impatient the other day and pinched off what seemed to be the most insignificant little baby bud at the bottom of the plant, let it sit out for 2 days, and tried it out. I now understand why they tell you don't do go by the hair color, because within 12 hrs of plucking the bud, all the hairs went from white to brown/red. The bud got me a little high, but I could tell it was nowhere near being done. It wasn't thick and developed yet. Another question...did your bud harden and thicken up like bag buds after you let then dry and cure properly? It looks like I have some pretty fatass main colas. Great job man!
 

Spittn4cash

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Nice job Spittn....I got a little impatient the other day and pinched off what seemed to be the most insignificant little baby bud at the bottom of the plant, let it sit out for 2 days, and tried it out. I now understand why they tell you don't do go by the hair color, because within 12 hrs of plucking the bud, all the hairs went from white to brown/red. The bud got me a little high, but I could tell it was nowhere near being done. It wasn't thick and developed yet.
yeah, I think the bottom ones are way less potent than the top ones, the bottom ones being the newer growth. Its like all the buds that dont have trichs on them get you high, but they dont push you over that edge that lets you enjoy the high..its like "ok Im high, but now Im waiting for something to happen..."..and you sit there and then you get a headache for thinkin so hard about your high.

and yea I agree with you about the hairs, mines turned like an orangish yellow, I think it might've been from the molasses or something, i dunno...

but yea its definitely not a good high when you smoke the ones with white hairs or no trich's on them yet. :spew:

Another question...did your bud harden and thicken up like bag buds after you let then dry and cure properly?
they didnt get bigger, they actually shrunk a lil bit...:roll: but they did harden, sorta like a stale piece of bread, the outside is hard but the inside is soft, I'm gonna let them dry till the stem snaps, right now it sorta bends, but if you bend them far enough it will snap..probably another 24hrs till I can jar them. then :joint: :blsmoke: :mrgreen:

:peace:
 

jimbo_jim

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Alrite Spittn nice grow goin so far. I got 200W of CFL's in my grow space on 1 plant and on thurs it will be 5 wks old, but dont know what type of plant it is. But there are loads of bud sites, just they all look really small and shit. Did urs suddenly start fattening up in the later stages or have i just got a shite plant. Also didnt know if the small buds were due to the cfl's
 

Spittn4cash

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Did urs suddenly start fattening up in the later stages or have i just got a shite plant. Also didnt know if the small buds were due to the cfl's
well, around week 4 of 12/12 my budsites decided to show up,

week 5 they started to strech, but very little and also my pistols started to change colors.

Week 6 I noticed more stretching and the buds fattened up a lil, some of the budsites that stretched started to fill in and the crystals had just started forming.



week 7 they were heavy with crystyals, most of them were cloudy, few clear, the tops got bigger and bigger (reaching for light), and it feels like the longer I let them grow the bigger they are gonna get.


^^ even tho that looks like one large cola, its actually a small cola with a bunch of budsites under neath it


in the pic below:
the red line shows what is actually the top cola, which is only like an inch and a half long.

the green lines represents where the fan leaves used to be before I trimmed them off.

The budsites above the fan leaves bunch together and make that branch look like one long cola.

So even tho your buds might not be fattening up, and getting longer, look below it at the nodes where you see fan leaves coming from the main branch, thats where bud is gonna come from.

also it depends on the strain. the plant above is mostly indica, so it stretched on me early on, but my sativa plant is on week 7 as well and can easily grow another week or two. everyday I look and they always have new thick white pistols and barely any crystals on them.
 

Spittn4cash

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Last night my fiance and I smoked those buds I've been drying and curing for a while.

Results:

Plant C
I think it needed a lil more time to cure, very harsh, barely got us high. The Molasses gave the bud a very disgusting taste, it almost tasted as bad as it smells.. It wasnt completely dry bcuz we had to keep lighting it over and over till it stayed lit. The high lasted about 20 mins, which only included munchies and couch lock, not very fun.. but its ok, at least I got SOME bud outta this plant, I was thinking it was gonna be a male or hermie in the begining bcuz it looked as if it stressed itself out. It was always droopy no matter what, and it had the exact same living conditions as the rest..maybe it was just bad genetics? Well for some reason over the last couple of days Plant C looked as if it were dying, maybe it just gave up living, but it looks pretty bad so I decided to just chop off everything except for the best 2 buds on there, just to let them mature in hopes of some more potent weed.

This is whats left on plant C



Bud 1


(Pics were taken using the same camera, what a difference! lol)
Bud2



Plant D
was very dry..it had been curing for 3 or 4 days when we smoked it, and broke down and burned very easily. it was packed with crystals inside the buds even tho it didnt show very many on the outside. It had a slight molasses taste to it, very harsh and disgusting as well...The high was a creeper..it doesnt hit you at first. After the first couple of puffs, we were just very quiet and focused on the waterfall we were sitting in, watching the water go around us and make its way to the bottom. We watched an ant crawl onto a rock and fall into the water(yeah its that weird..)... then once we finished the blunt in the park, we decided to walk back to the car, then it hit me.....BAM! lol

It was scary, all of a sudden I got paranoid, bcuz people were walking around the park! Once we got back to the car, we sat there for about 20mins staring at the sky, and talking about how much we love each other..lol.. she was in on the driver seat and wanted to pull off...but as soon as she had touched her foot to the pedal her leg began to twitch..and she just kept laughing...and laughing.. and laughing..she was so exhausted form laughing so much she just sat there, staring into the sun. we both experienced an extreme head rush later on where it seemed like a train was going by, but it was the blood rushing to our head. then we realized that plant D had gotten us pretty ripped. It was a slight couch lock afterwards, followed by the munchies..good thing taco bell is right around the corner...lol

This is whats left on plant D





Plant E
The sativa...all I could say was "wow....this was the BABY!"
Plant E gets us soo fucking high! its like as soon as you hit it, your lungs tighten up, and makes you hold the hit until you relax. Then the second hit gives you a burst of energy and makes everything seem like a movie..from the music to the sunset, plant E makes everything more enjoyable. It puts you in a good mood and keeps u there for about 3 hours! I kept wanting to get up and dance, but I couldnt move my feet, and when I did, they felt like they were made of bricks! It made every topic we talked about more entertaining and hilariously funny. slight munchies afterward, no couch lock. you dont even realize you arent high anymore until you realize everything you gotta do the next day or week(s).

This is whats left on plant E




all of the high's were different, but the one thing they had in common was they were very coherent, you can talk, walk, understand, listen and think with these highs so it would be good for a wake and bake. I purposely left bud on the plant to mature, and I can tell these have potential to get a LOT stronger.. I'll be back with more updates as they occur.
 

SleepyBuds

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Nice job man. Yeah that first plant looked pretty weak (the one that didn't get u high), but the others looked good and I'm glad to hear of the good results. What did the trichs look like before this harvest? Let us know how much longer u keep the buds on these plants and how those turn out. Also, do you have anymore of this harvest still curing? Keep us up to date on those too. Good job man!
 
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