Dezracers' First Journal

I know how it is. If I start harvest at 9wks I wont be done till 11 weeks and that is just on the cabinet with 5 plants...LOL. I have to essentially try to do 1-2 at a time. Between work, wife, 10yo, and 7mo old and all the other stuff it gets a bit cramped on "free" time... LOL Its all good though. Plants can always wait a little. Balance is whats important I tell myself.

I will typically take them all within a few days of starting but that's when I have a more even canopy to work with. These got away from me a little at a critical time so I never got a screen in place. I could have controlled the height much better if I'd managed to my screen in there. There are much worse problems that I could have so I won;t complain. I'm happy with this grow and how it looks like it will turn out.
I haven't had much for buds below the screen since I started using the thing. I have now had two runs in a row where I neglected to get the screen in there and have had issues. Last time I did not really trim much off in the way of leaves and had more larf than I would like. It looks like there will be much less this time

really looking good buddy.

Thank you

They are all starting to lean on one another now and I don;t have nay way of tying them up more than they are already. I may have to just chop them before I really think they are ready or I might end up with an even bigger mess on my hands. 59 days and counting

hope you dont have to cut them to early that would suck.

I was able to find some creative angles to tie them off to hooks on the walls. I can't say how long it will work for but it's working for now

Dezracer said:

I was able to find some creative angles to tie them off to hooks on the walls. I can't say how long it will work for but it's working for now

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Doesn't have to.last.too much longer I imagine dez. . Looks good!

Well, today is the end of week 8 and tomorrow begins week 9. I'm going to be really busy this weekend now with a WORCS series race and my son's football so I will chop next week or next weekend, depending on how they all look. Right now I'd say there's about a third of them that look ready to me and the others look like they could still go another week or so. I was sure there had to be light leaks or something else causing them to run long but I can't find anything.

I started the chop last night and worked on it early this morning. Here's most of the crop but there's still a few plants in the flower room. I might leave them until Sunday or monday in the dark and then chop them too. Yield is only looking like it will be on the low side for me but there's very little fluff. My trim tray isn't even full yet.

I am trimming the JOG right now and I am getting all OCD on the trim after seeing Flaming Pie's artful trim jobs. It is very relaxing when you can just take your time and watch TV. Not like the hellish pace I followed when we had the Malawi monster bush and chopped her all at once!

I just gave ,mine a rough initial trim. I'll trim it up tighter after it's mostly dry.

I cleared out the flower room and hung the drying rack. In a couple more days I'll do the final trim and put the buds in the rack. I can see what is solid and what is airy pretty well now that it's drying up and am happy with the results.

This weather is so crazy - figures it would hit while we are drying!

Tell me about it. I turned my fans off to keep them from drying too fast. They're looking pretty good right now though.

The Scott's seemed too crispy but now after a few days in the jar it is smelling kine!

that's good news. My buds aren't really getting crispy yet. I would like to see them take a few more days to dry and am thinking of putting them all in the drying rack now that it's hung.

I got 94% humidity up here today. Also not the greatest for drying

For real. That is not good conditions at all.

EDIT: I snipped the buds all off of the branches and put them in the drying rack. This is much better for me and hopefully better for the buds. There is a little more airy bud than I thought but it's still a good harvest. Overall not too bad for a single 600 running horizontal over a 3x3 me thinks.

I ended up jarring them up already. I ended up putting them in the rack Tuesday after checking on them and seeing they were crispier than I thought. I haven't weighed anything but I like how the jars look.