First plant of the year chopped!

Thought I'd share a few pics of a freebie that I harvested today. Strain is G-13 labs "cheese".




For not being an "early" strain she did start flowering early (1st week of July or so).

Trics were mostly cloudy with a few clear. Normally I would have let her go another week or so, but 3 days of rainy cool weather was causing spots of bud rot.

All in all not bad. She was one of my smaller plants, but I'm still hoping she pulls 5-6 zips

Nice!

veggiegardener said:

Nice!

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Thanks. Feels great to have one harvested.

Hoping to take one more toward the end of this week...




As for the rest, they'll need a few more weeks to finish up. Probably a mid September harvest.

Hope everyone's having a good season

those are some phatt colas ! nice call.

Congrats on an early harvest,looks great.the next one really looks good.btw love that pic of the purple bud.was thinking today if you had chopped yet,lol.

Very nice.

TWS said:

those are some phatt colas ! nice call.

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Thank you. Yeah dealing with mold is difficult in a guerrilla situation so I took the easy way out. Lol

Blackvalor said:

Thank you. Yeah dealing with mold is difficult in a guerrilla situation so I took the easy way out. Lol

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Think closer to 1\2 pound.

northeastmarco said:

Congrats on an early harvest,looks great.the next one really looks good.btw love that pic of the purple bud.was thinking today if you had chopped yet,lol.

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I actually had a chance to check on it today. It's looking great. I think the buds have stopped growing, but I haven't had a chance to check the trics.

That one will definitely be coming down soon though

Da Mann said:

Think closer to 1\2 pound.

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A half pound would be amazing. I'll update when I've got the dry weight.

Congrats. Looks great man. I wish I could get early strains like that every year

I've seen plants with that apparent size produce a pound. Could be if the plant is symmetrical.

@tannersmokin247

Thanks for the kind words.

I've got a theory going that its not as much the early flowering genetics as it is pot size and plant maturity.

I started early indoors around May and transplanted in June to 15 gallon fabric pots.

Needless to say my plants reached full potential in the room they were given by July and soon after began flowering. Maybe I'm just crazy but that's what I'm thinking haha.

@veggiegardener

I've never personally seen a 1 lb plant here in the northeast. I've got a couple that I think are in the running, but the structure on this one was funny. I should have taken a couple pics before the chop.

A couple people told me they think root bound plants flower quicker and also older ones like you said. So idk maybe it is true

Blackvalor said:

@tannersmokin247

Thanks for the kind words.

I've got a theory going that its not as much the early flowering genetics as it is pot size and plant maturity.

I started early indoors around May and transplanted in June to 15 gallon fabric pots.

Needless to say my plants reached full potential in the room they were given by July and soon after began flowering. Maybe I'm just crazy but that's what I'm thinking haha.

@veggiegardener

I've never personally seen a 1 lb plant here in the northeast. I've got a couple that I think are in the running, but the structure on this one was funny. I should have taken a couple pics before the chop.

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Definitely a true statement, Bigger pots mean bigger buds. Amazing seeing the differance in weight when you double or triple the container size.

codster25 said:

Definitely a true statement, Bigger pots mean bigger buds. Amazing seeing the differance in weight when you double or triple the container size.

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Agreed. Next year I wouldn't hesitate to run 45 gallon smart pots as opposed to the 15's I did this year.

Harvested another one today and it was a chore... Just one of those plants with lots of leaves and smaller bottom nugs but it will be worth it in the end.

I didn't get too creative with pictures since I was short on time, but the before picture is posted above.



(And yes, those are nugs in a 20 piece box.)

I have one more early plant to harvest. It's actually the purple strain in my avatar picture. Sadly I don't know if it will even be there when I check it... Helicopters were out in full force today and I actually witnessed one hovering over the area I grow in.

Hopefully they missed it ,especially since that one is so nice.great work so far good luck on the next one btw that one is the nicest frisian I have seen so far

northeastmarco said:

Hopefully they missed it ,especially since that one is so nice.great work so far good luck on the next one btw that one is the nicest frisian I have seen so far

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Thanks man. It means a lot to hear that.

It's definitely been my best year so far. Last year I only pulled a little over 2 lbs total and this year I've almost accomplished that with 2 plants.

I'll give that spot a few days to cool down and then I'll go in all covert ops to check it out. Hopefully all is well.

Mm mm kfc and trimming I gotta give you props for guerilla growing. Good luck