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researchkitty

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which one is your favor
I can never tell the difference with strains. I smoke too much where I dont recognize the subtleties of different strains highs. Everyone else is the experts on what they like, and then they are subjective towards what they like. Its just weed, gets ya high. :)
 

KingIV20

Active Member
Great looking setup kitty! very professional and clean - good work!
How have things at the garden been going lately?
rep and subbed:)
 

researchkitty

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Things are all well. Harvested 22 plants today, and another 6 to be done in the morning. Over 100 plants will be transplanted into flower tomorrow too. Then, the veg room is moving. It's way too cramped in there and difficult to work properly. Probably move that to the room next to it.

I did take pictures, but left the camera at "the office" lol...........
 

researchkitty

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This will be an extremely long photo update.................

2 full days of work (14 hour days!) and trimming, transplanting, new seeds, new mothers, more room work, more

lights, more buckets, more plumbing, more reservoirs, etc........

It was busy!

Here's about 70++ pictures taken throughout the few days......


#01 - First up we make a drying room. Attach a few slabs of wood, drill a few holes into the studs behind drywall for some fisheye hooks, and some heavy duty rope! This room could probably dry about 5-6 Lbs properly. No fans, no light, nothing other than quiet and darkness. If the room was full, there would be a very small fan giving some circulation, but not unless its half full or better.




#02 - Todays tools..... RED BUCKET...... CHECK! BLACK BUCKET......... CHECK! SCISSORS AND POT? CHECK!!




#03 - Each plant we cut will remain one single plant until its fully dried and ready for packaging. Therefore, each plant has a NUMBER SET on EACH!

THIS IS HOW IT WORKS, please read so I dont have to explain it 50 times =) =) The top # (1, 2, 3, 4 in this picture) are the order of which it was harvested. Plant #1 we chopped first, #2 second, etc..... The # under them (36, 76, 24, 31) are their WET WEIGHTS. That's the weight as you see them in the photos freshly chopped.

AFTER they dry, we re-weigh and record the number again below the second number. Then we remove the stem and record the stem weight. That way we know exactly what % was lost due to cure/dry time and can better estimate things in the future.

Plus, its fun. :)




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#07 - By the way, we started with the SMALL plants first. :) There are some that are 10" tall and some that are 60" tall. Here's one of my OG Kush Mommies that finished flowering.



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#09 - From that plant in #07's photo, there's 460g wet.




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#13 - Now on the mid-sized plants. So eacy to chop little ones!




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#18 - Notice the plants are now much larger....... Also notice the wet weight doesnt really change much even on huge plants. The small ones carry so much nugs, the tall ones carry the same but stretched over a larger area and more stem.




#19 - Starting to fill in.




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#28 - Lots of trimmings going to make some washing machine hash with.... Dont worry, will show pics for that too =)




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#31 - On day #2 of the harvest now.




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#34 - I wanted to sample some of the Pineapple Express, so I threw a few nugs in the NESCO Dehydrator for 5 hours on 95(f). Its not a good idea to do this, but gives you a general preview and gives a perfectly solid nug. The nugs will not be as pretty as properly dried nugs, nor will it taste or have the potency, so I guess it was stupid> Fuck it, smoked great! :)




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#39 - While Ms Kitty finishes chopping plants Mr Kitty gets Flower Room B's next 96 buckets and 6 lights ready to rock.




#40 - Boooooooo, empty flower Room A! :)




#41 - Flower Room B is at Week 5 for the tall plants, and all the new ones are starting week #1 today. But we have lots to do first construction wise.................




#42 - .....like add another 48 buckets and hang 3 more lights up.




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#44 - Keep a clean floor! Germs = gross.



#45 - Halfway done with todays transplants.




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#50 - ...meanwhile more is hanging in the dry room




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#52 - That's all of the harvest by the way




#53 - PRETTY PUPPY SLEEPYZ




#54 - 48 more buckets ready, now lets get plants in em




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#56 - There we go! 96 transplants plus another 45 in the same room.




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#58 -Re-potting from party cups to big pots for the next batch.




#59 - OH YA, another 100+ seeds.




#60 - Almost done transplanting in vegg......



#61 - RapidRooter kicks ass




#62 - Mr Kitty got the lights hung, 9000 watts in one room (Flower Room B) with 150 plants. YayyyyyY!




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#65 - ZOMG WHO IS THAT!




#66 - More flower room B




#67 - These are the next batch to get chopped in 3 weeks. They started week 5 a day ago.




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#70 - Done with the seeds




#71 - SCISSOR HASH!




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MediMary

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Just a quick update..........

I tried Humboldt Nutrients "Verde" as part of their Foliar spray as recommended on the manufacturers chart. Ordered a quart which should last me a while in Foliar, and it arrived, except the liquid was all clumpy. It looked really like diarrhea. It liked to clog the sprayers nozzles too.

So, like a good girl, I called Humboldt Nutrients and asked them if it was a bad jug or expired or if I was doing something wrong. The sales staff helped me there, and the man said that the bottle was much older stock and that they've improved the formula since then to use a liquid seaweed instead of clumpy seaweed.

He then suggested that he ship me a new Quart of it for free (32oz). I said hell yea, and now a week later arrives this:




Not only did I get a replacement quart of perfect Verde that isnt clumpy, they also sent SEVEN PINTS (16oz each) of a bunch of their other products. Plus, a poster, 3 owners guides (Almanacs they call em), as well as an unphotographed Secret Jardin Dark Room logo bottle opener/knife. :)

All for free because I had a small, easily fixable problem with a vendor selling me a jug of nutrients that was on a shelf for 3 years at his store. :)

How is THAT for service? :) Thumbs up Humboldt Nutrients. Thanks again.
Thats the kind of customer service Im talking about! :clap:





 

phyzix

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Awesome post, just excellent.

Do you bother to use bleach or similar products to clean? Or do you find you don't need them...
 

WOWgrow

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Awesome update Kitty! Flower room B is gonna look AWESOME in a couple of weeks.

(please god don't let anyone quote that entire post, lol)
 

researchkitty

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Awesome update Kitty! Flower room B is gonna look AWESOME in a couple of weeks.

(please god don't let anyone quote that entire post, lol)
Thanks! :) Yea, I hope nobody quotes all 72 pictures too. Its a lot of scrolling!

Awesome post, just excellent.

Do you bother to use bleach or similar products to clean? Or do you find you don't need them...
Thanks :) The 6 lights worth of new flowering plants are the Grapefruit Diesel x Hijack that your about to harvest in your room right now. :) I'm excited for it having watched your grow!

While this was the first harvest in this new room, no matter where I am I always scrub down the floors with Pine Sol. The shit smells so good and clean. :) Then scrub it again with regular water just to remove anything still there and let it air dry. Replace the buckets that you just washed and wiped dry on your nice dry floor. :)

To date I've never had any insect problem, any fungus problem, or anything like that. Knock on wood of course lol
 

phyzix

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Well you're in for a treat with those, the odor in flowering is dense and fruity. Very pleasant, even with good ventilation.

And thanks for the cleaning tips. Maybe some preventative measures will help me in the future...

I will post next time I sample a bud :bigjoint:
 
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