First grow Heavyweight Fruit Punch

Update: Day 56 flower

So 8 weeks is up. Well, 8 weeks since the turn. Everyone is doing well, and this has been an interesting week. Since this is my first grow I've been all 'kid before Christmas" b/c it's so close. I've been checking trichs daily like a crackhead looking at a rock through a window. Along with that has been a lot of rubbing up on buds, and with that is the sweet sweet smell of growing bud! What has been interesting this week are the different smells each girl. The tallest, and the one closest to harvest smells sweet. The middle girl smells like pure skunk. The smallest one really has no smell. But to the touch she absolutely smells like pine and fuel. I have no clue where this pheno would come from. She has the best structure of all three, and is also right now a very light green. Very pretty, and she stands out. If anyone has a clue as to where this would come from in a haze x skunk x NL mix please let me know.

Looks like the tallest one still has some time. I'm hoping she's ready by the end of next week. She's still pushing a couple new pistils, and the lower buds still have some time to mature. The middle girl is slowly maturing with pistils turning. The middle and smallest one's calyxes started swelling around day 49. The smallest has probably another 3-4 weeks left. I'm still stumped on the pine/fuel smell....

Here's pics. Bottle pic and one beneath are same plant. First is the largest/most mature, second is middle, and last is the smallest (pine/fuel smell). Group shot last

Looks really good it's almost time good job

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Those buds have really swollen up now. Still seem like plenty of white pistils. So what's happening with the trichomes ? The breeders notes say 8 weeks - but does this include the 1 1/2 wks transition ? Great work ! Almost there...

applejohnny said:

Those buds have really swollen up now. Still seem like plenty of white pistils. So what's happening with the trichomes ? The breeders notes say 8 weeks - but does this include the 1 1/2 wks transition ? Great work ! Almost there...

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The buds on the one in the back right of the group shot and first two cola pics have put on weight this past week. You can't see it in the group shot , but there are branches that are bent WAY over on the left of that plant. Had to tie them back up after the pics.

The other two are just starting to swell up. They will have some really thick colas in a few weeks! They have a good amount of time left though.

Trichs on the tall girl are close. Quite a few amber on the sugar leaves, but just some on the bud, and still around 10% clear (on Wednesday). The other two are still mostly clear.

Heavyweight does say 8 weeks. I'm not sure if that includes the first week of transition. I was showing sex about a week before the flip so I'm not sure if that plays a role in the timing. And it is so damn close to harvesting this one! These days seem like weeks.

Here are all my pics from my grow so far. The pics are named with a number then a date. The first number is the how many days I am into the grow. Note that I started flowering day 40.

Second set

Coming along well Drew!

Just snipped off a tiny piece of bud from one of the colas on the big girl. Looks around 90-95% cloudy, 9-4% clear, 1% amber. I'll check again Sunday.

burnt to shit figgy, but fuck it, flush good and youre still going to have some great smoke

I burnt the shit out of these weeks ago. They've actually bounced back pretty well. Been putting on steady weight since I did flush them.

Figgy said:

Looks around 90-95% cloudy, 9-4% clear, 1% amber. I'll check again Sunday.

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That looks really close. Perhaps wait until the number of amber starts to become more than the number of clear.. But you have to be happy with 90% cloudy ! Wouldn't be a mistake to harvest now in my unexpert opinion....

Are you going to give them complete darkness for a time before harvest ? Harvest one plant at a time or all at once ? My tentative plan is to harvest the main colas and then give the undergrowth a bit more time....and going to use bubble bags to make hash with all the trim.

drew15a said:

Second set

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Thanks for posting those pics Drew ! My flowers look just like yours did at the same stage. Beautiful white/lemon coloured pistils and an amazing smell. Your plants stretched much more than mine - im running 400w HPS so must be the lights. If I were you I'd try and get more light onto them asap. Looking forward to seeing how they bulk up. Guess we're all going to grow HWFP again ? I'm dying to see how it smokes but I estimate 10 more weeks until I've harvested, dried and cured Don't know where I'll get the patience. Next grow will be easier...

Good suggestion on more light. I was thinking that for awhile...going out for some more lights now!

applejohnny said:

That looks really close. Perhaps wait until the number of amber starts to become more than the number of clear.. But you have to be happy with 90% cloudy ! Wouldn't be a mistake to harvest now in my unexpert opinion....

Are you going to give them complete darkness for a time before harvest ? Harvest one plant at a time or all at once ? My tentative plan is to harvest the main colas and then give the undergrowth a bit more time....and going to use bubble bags to make hash with all the trim.

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I'll check Sunday, and if I see a few more amber and a few less clear I'll be chopping. They'll get chopped right before lights on when I do. I'm still debating a full plant or partial chop. The lower popcorn and small buds probably need another 1-2 weeks.

I'll be running a HWFP and a WOS Strawberry Blue early 2015. Going to SCROG those two.

Figgy said:

I burnt the shit out of these weeks ago. They've actually bounced back pretty well. Been putting on steady weight since I did flush them.

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Word, you can definitely tell that the buds are very healthy.

Harvest window is officially open Now I just have to decide when to start the chop

Top half of the big girl is coming down tonight! Sugar leaf trichs are mostly amber with cloudy, and buds are probably 95+% cloudy with around 3% clear and 2% amber. The bottom half will get another 1-2 weeks.

@ Figgy - I am interested to see how you are taking off the top half. Do you literally just cut it at your desired point?

I've heard some people on this forum take a piece of their buds off and "give them a test smoke"; weeks before harvest. Anyone do this? Are you drying it out before smoking I would assume? It would be nice for me since I haven't smoked in a long time and I'm feeling the urge.

Update: Day 60 Flower

Harvested the top half of one girl today! I trimmed her up (will do again before the cure). Weight with large stems was 291g. No clue what it would be without. The scissor hash is fucking awesome! Very intense, smooth, and decently clear head high. Buds are a beautiful dark green with lots of dark pistils and covered in trichs.

I have a dry box I made that I have to use until the tent is available. It hooks up to the intake fan to the tent. I cut off all the bottom buds from the harvested stems which will be smoked while the main stems are drying. Those cut off buds are in a brown paper bag drying as I pull to smoke. Got at least a week or two on the bottom half of this plant, and 2-4 weeks left on the other girls. Pics...


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drew15a said:

@ Figgy - I am interested to see how you are taking off the top half. Do you literally just cut it at your desired point?

I've heard some people on this forum take a piece of their buds off and "give them a test smoke"; weeks before harvest. Anyone do this? Are you drying it out before smoking I would assume? It would be nice for me since I haven't smoked in a long time and I'm feeling the urge.

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I cut right above the buds I wanted to keep going. I've been smoking this for about 3 weeks now. Been picking off buds here and there. It is definitely better the longer it sits. Time to smoke some more scissor hash

So I really underestimated the weight of this bud. The pic is just of most of the top half that was harvested Tuesday. This is minus around 9g I set aside to dry for smoking while the rest cures. Also minus the maybe 5g pulled off her as she was still flowering. She also has at least another oz.+ left to harvest! I'm going to take a guess and say for all 3 girls I will pull over 10oz.