Okay. So we can put a rover on Mars but have invented anyting that does manicuring bud for us?! The manicuring on this mother plant took a littel of 4.5 hours (yikes). I still don't really feel that I have the feel for manicuring just yet but this looks better than my last attempt (still some confusion about what goes when). I basically chopped a crapload of the leaves coming right off of the stem and am storing them in freezer bags for hash or something of the sort (got 2 full ziplock bags of em from this plant alone...the big bags).
Did I luck out or what?! To think, this girl was my last shot at having a female LR2 to make seeds with. I am VERY thankful for getting this mother plant. And the seeds...well, it looks like seeds galoure on this girl. Mostly on certain branches that I intentionally pollinated quite heavily. No definate count on the seeds yet. I will let those buds dry and cure as usual and count when done with this.
In terms of amount. Well...Holy sh%#!! I had no idea that this plant could be this good of a producer. When I started this, I was just hoping for an ounce (lol). I have WAAAAYYY more than that. Granted it will probably lose about 75% of its weight in the dry and cure process but I'll still be over the 2 oz mark by my estimate. All I have to say is, thank you Fox Farm nutes!!! Can't even imagine what Advanced Nutes would do to this baby?!
Pic 1&2) These are pics when I was like 1/4 or 1/3 the way through the chop and manicure. I was pretty blown away already and hadn't even gotten to the beast of the main cola yet. (pic of remainder of plant and the yield from just the portion taken off).
Pics 3&4) There it is. The main cola. That thing is so ridiculously dense the pics don't do it justice. Heavy as hell too! That alone will probably be 1.5 oz itself when dried. The other buds on the plant are a bit whispy. Not too dense. That main cola though. Forget about it! A-rod could use that thing! No seeds on the main cola (intentionally done). Can't wait to start lollipopping these plants on the next grows so they all look like that.
Pic 5) Final result before drying. I don't think I'll need to buy for quite some time.
Pic 6&7) Here's some that I put in for a water cure (ran out of room on the hangers). #7 is the remainder of the plant that I'm really not going to do anything with. I've pulled the seed pods off of it but the buds are just too whispy to do anyting with so I'll just let them go.
The buds are now hanging by...well...hangers in my bathroom (coolest place in my crib). Gotta run to home depot now to buy crap load of absorbent powder as the humidity is over 60% there (yikes). Don't want any mold on these babies. I'll dry them for a couple of days and then put them in paper bags for a few more before putting them in their mason jar homes for a few weeks. The water cure will finish much quicker so I will be posting a smoke report in about 1 week.
This grow was pretty crazy and I certainly fell in love with DWC. Definately came a long way since the aerogarden. I still have the auto bb x auto ak's going. I'll have to do maintenance on them tomorrow (gotta remove the males cause they're sucking up all of the water). For next grow, I have seriosly been considering Ebb and Flow systems like Al B and Gypsy use but I am still undecided. Gotta do more research 1st as these results with this DWC are freakin great and far exceeded my expectations. Feeding, pH, and humidity were much less of an issue this go round. Germinating was a huge problem as was the initial humidity dome stages. Gotta get these parts down solid if I want this to take off more consistently and get my SOG op going.
Thanks to all who participated and checked out this grow. Sorry it took sooo darn long but I finally hit the finish line. Please feel free to leave any comments and suggestions (especially for the manicuring part which probably still needs improvement). Thanks again.
And especially thank you to the mother plant. I have dedicated a post to you my fallen mother in my next post
The only one I don't see signs of gender on yet is the runt of the litter in the previous pictures. This is probably a good sign as I have always been able to identify males quicker than females and they are all the same age. So once again, I cannot just have an easy seed making grow. Has to be suspensful of course! Regardless, I will still keep all 3 males and let them grow their full course to collect pollen. If the runt is a female, no problem cause she'll be in a foursome in that small DWC
. There will be tons of seeds of auto bb x aks. If the last one is a male, i will still grow all out to maturity and collect pollen. Then I'll have a decision to make. I can either 
dunce
. Taller and more full than the other female in this grow. She's shorter than the males. At least for now.
, this combo strain is a 10 week grow...6 more left...I hate being patient.
good job man stop by my new thread when u get a chance
