slabhead's late season

[slabhead]

Howdy all! I just discovered this great forum earlier this year. Since I was reluctant to post anything at first I did a lot of reading and lurking. Some of you may have seen my Termite Problem thread <yep that'd be me> and some of my replys trying to help out any fellow growers. Anyhoo, I figured I'd try my hand at this new age journal business and post what I got left in Slabhead's 2008 Grow.
About me? Well, can't say much but I've been growing since the mid 1970's. My first "grow journal" was a collection of Polaroids, pressed leaves, and a hand drawn calender that I marked my important grow dates on. Wish I still had that old three ring binder.
Anyhoo, if anyone wants to post here I won't object as long as it doesn't get out of hand.

 

[slabhead]

Since it is Trichome Tuesday I decided to carry the magnifying glass with me while I watered with the molasses today. I've got two different grows miles apart for security reasons. If you've ever been totally ripped you understand what I'm talking about. My first grow is the creek bottom bonanza. I'll tell you about the other one later.
The creek bottom is pretty wild. In fact I jumped 2 wild hogs this morning on the way in. Glad they ran off since I was so laden with equipment I left the rifle. Snakes are everywhere (mainly cottonmouth water mocassins and copperheads) so I go in slow. I have a good year round deep pool in a bend that I get my water from. Lots of trees and a few natural clearings made this my favorite spot.
It started raining on me so I didn't take as many pics as I would have.

 

[slabhead]

My other spot is not as big but since I have to haul in water I'm kinda glad. It's an old overgrown pasture that's mainly inhabited by just about all of the grasshoppers in the area. Also a healthy poulation of skunks. In fact one plant is so close to a burrow I get major skunkage when I'm working it. It's higher ground and dries out more. I don't think I'll use it next year. The drought this summer almost killed me!!!

 

[slabhead]

Looks like Ike is gonna pay a visit. The local weatherman is saying 6 to 8 inches of rain and 55 to 75 mph winds tomorrow. The girls are starting to look really great and I'm on the fence on "weather" to harvest or take a chance. Damn

 

[misshestermoffitt]

Damn they look really nice. I'd be scared about that weather rolling in too.

Hope you get it worked out. Damn hurricianes.

 

[LakeRat]

You better harvest early before that hurricane ruins your crop. Really looks good

 

[slabhead]

You better harvest early before that hurricane ruins your crop. Really looks good

I did. I got all the big mature plants but left the ones that were late to flower. I don't know if I should have maybe chanced letting more of them ride out Hurricane Ike since we didn't get hammered like some areas did. But the winds were 55 to 60 mph and lots of rain for several days. So since I got a nice skunky harvest I feel better than if I'd gotten a lot of molded sandy buds with half the trichomes washed away. Hung up for 5 days and in cure now. Ohhh ooo that smell...

A few pics of the ones left behind... (Lighting was crappy that day)

 

[slabhead]

Damn they look really nice. I'd be scared about that weather rolling in too.

Hope you get it worked out. Damn hurricianes.

Thank you for the comment. Too bad I wasn't able to get another few weeks on them but after I started seeing the damage Ike was doing on the coast I decided to harvest. I got some nice sticky smoke curing right now since I harvested all of the mature ladies before the storm hit.

 

[slabhead]

I see a lot of folks here dissect the colas for drying. I've always hung up my entire plant for a few days to a week. As the outer buds start to dry I'll snip those off and let the rest hang until I'm down to just the main cola(s). As they dry and are snipped off as needed I trim off the fan leaves and put them into the wide mouth mason jars for curing. It's a process that takes several days but it's something I enjoy. Getting that sticky sweet smell on my fingers and watching my stash grow. I wished I'd taken more pics as the process went along. I'll do that next journal...

 

[misshestermoffitt]

So did you get them all in before the storm? If not the ones that were left out, how did they do? I hope they're OK.

It would just suck to have your hard work all hurricianed up like that. I feel bad for you and all the other hurriciane growers out there.

 

[mersaides]

I love your plant is beautiful !!!!

 

[slabhead]

So did you get them all in before the storm? If not the ones that were left out, how did they do? I hope they're OK.

It would just suck to have your hard work all hurricianed up like that. I feel bad for you and all the other hurriciane growers out there.

I can only imagine all the fine grows that got destroyed after seeing that news footage for miles and miles inland.

I had left 5 in the ground that were late bloomers that had not filled out yet but got the bulk in before the Hurricane got too close. It was still a cat 1 about 25 miles south of me so that was all I could bear. I feel like more of them could have weathered the storm but I just didn't want to take that chance at the time. There were big trees and large branches already breaking it was gutwrenching. I would have been kicking my own ass if those big fat mature buds had gotten damaged or suffered bud rot.

However, the ones left behind did remarkably well.(pics above) There were a few broken lower branches and quite a few bruised and missing fan leaves but none of them were toppled or destroyed. It truely is an amazing weed

Now to keep loving those sweet ladies for the final harvest.

 

[slabhead]

I made a trip through to check on the straglers today. The ones left when I harvested my fat girls before hurricane Ike hit. They seem to need nutes so I guess I'll hit them once or twice more before starting the molasses. It's wierd going in to check on them with all the others gone. But I guess I won't have to worry about the skunk den. Looks like Wiley E Coyote took care of him.

 

[misshestermoffitt]

They do look good. I'm glad the storm didn't tear them up.

Too bad about the skunks, they probably kept people away from your grow while covering the smell of it at the same time.

 

[slabhead]

Thank you. At first I was a little worried about growing so near a skunk den, but like you said it had its benefits. I bet your ladies are doing good too. I'll drop over to see them.

 

[slabhead]

Pretty much got everything I cut down dried and on cure. Today will probably be the last day for airing the jars. Thought I'd put up a few pics before they go back to bed.

 

[misshestermoffitt]

What is that 13 mason jars full? Nice, I'm envious of your harvest.

 

[slabhead]

LOL, that's some of them. I didn't want them all rolling outta the chair like humpty dumpty. That would have made me


BTW, Your frosty lady is doing well.

 

[slabhead]

I had a chance to make a molasses feed and am glad these late bloomers are doing ok.

 

[slabhead]

Also had made a molasses run to the other spot a few days ago...check out my little helper.