Nirvana Bubblelicious Waterfarm Scrog in a Secret Jardin Tent 600 Watts

Yeah, all 3 of my girls are bagseed. 2 are more sativa based off the thin, long fingerlike leaves. The one I topped is an indica. All 3 went into 12/12 at the same time, Jan 6th. The indica looks like it will ready in about 2 weeks if I had not taken the top, But now, who knows, I will just watch and see...

The 2 sativa-ish are farther out though 1 that has more indica bud building traits is starting to change it's hairs. The other is really looking like it will go for another 4-6 weeks. really green, dark green, and all the hairs are as white as can be. No swelling to really speak of. But it will be coming down with the other in 2-3 weeks so I can get my Bubblelicious goin....

@ Serapis: I'm definitely interested in seeing how your final product smokes because I lurked around that thread about harvesting earlier. If it's indeed true and you are happy with your results, then I reckon it calls for some celebration. Can't complain about harvesting earlier!

I pulled a lot of leaves off the buds today, mostly the sun leaves from the lower portions of the buds to open up air flow and light. I sense that many of the buds are at prime potency now and I'll have to keep an eye out for degrading THC in the resin heads. The buds that look done are beautiful, but some other readers are encouraging me to let em go longer, so I am, for a few days at most for the center buds directly under the light. The pistils are receding and the calyxes are swollen like crazy. Some of them have dropped resin onto the lower leaves and it has turned dark, almost like oil. I know Nirvana says 8-10 weeks, but I seriously believe that after 7 weeks of 12/12, the ones directly under the light are ready.

bongmarley2009 said:

@ Serapis: I'm definitely interested in seeing how your final product smokes because I lurked around that thread about harvesting earlier. If it's indeed true and you are happy with your results, then I reckon it calls for some celebration. Can't complain about harvesting earlier!

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you've got it, listen to your intuition on this one.

sorry if i ruffled your feathers earlier, peace & love

LOL, no man, I love to debate and I hold no grudges... I think if more topics had both sides presented in an intelligent way, we would all be better off. I enjoyed the discussion.

OldGrowth420 said:

you've got it, listen to your intuition on this one.

sorry if i ruffled your feathers earlier, peace & love

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@ Serapis: 7 weeks into flower and it definitely sounds that the BUBBY's might be ready. I always love it when the pistils start to recede and the calyxes swell. Do you expect to harvest before week 8?

as much as I don't want to, yes. I expect that I'll have to start before completion of 8 weeks... I don't know if hydro made it faster, but they are getting rather done.

bongmarley2009 said:

@ Serapis: 7 weeks into flower and it definitely sounds that the BUBBY's might be ready. I always love it when the pistils start to recede and the calyxes swell. Do you expect to harvest before week 8?

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Looking good serapis! Yeah keep your eye on them krystals... I like to harvest a tad early then most cause I feel I get a better head high when I do.. Its really a personal prefrence kinda thing thoe..

Today is chop day. They have been in the dark now for 3 days to maximize resin production. I'm going to chop while they are in the dark so the leaves don't call down to the roots and ask for sugars for photosynthesis. I'll get some pictures of chop and dry for those of you that are interested and I'll be posting a dry weight total in about a week, after I start the cure.

Ona Crystals and Gel are out, and the Ozone generator is now on 30/30 to help combat the odor while the produce is out of the tent and sans a scrubber. I reached in the other night and turned on my green bulbs and stared at them, they are gorgeous and shiny. I squeezed a bud and it was hard and sticky. My fingers were shiny and sticky. The smell lasted at least for 45 minutes, because I refused to wash it off.

congrats dude cant wait to see some pix

awesome man can't wait to hear the final weight

i've been following along with this grow since the beginning
i have to say this, scotty's and jim's grow have been the best journals i've followed
looked forward everyday to seeing the progress

hope you get the weight you wanted and gl with the vk in your other journal

Congrats mate, sounds like you'll have some great bud Can't wait to hear weight and see pics!

Congrats on the harvest can't wait to see how it turned out!

Thanks to everyone that stuck this thread out. The tent currently has one Pineapple express in it. I've dried the buds from my harvest enough that they can be jarred and cured. The total dry weight of the grow is 1100 grams, or 39 ounces. Only 14 of those are bud. That makes 25 ounces in trim, leaf and pop corn buds. I plan on making a ton of cannabutter.

Lessons learned: Even though I thought I did a good job at defoliation, 2 full paper grocery bags full of leaves at harvest is not good. I'll need to do a much better job of getting light to the plant. I feel that had I been aggressive, early on, I might have taken 1.5 pounds in buds. A lot of the tops that did make it through the screen had airy buds. There were too many leaves up top, blocking sites. This is by far my best harvest yet, however I still feel badly about it, as the next one is easily 9-10 weeks away. I have 2 paper bags full of trim and pop corn buds and 4 half gallon mason jars stuffed full of buds.

Til the next harvest...

damn dude nice harvest. thats allot more then im going to get out of my plants. how far along is the pineapple express?

The PE is about 4 weeks along from seed. It stands about 7" tall and is branching it's ass off, since I FIMed her twice already. All fan leaves blocking branches were removed.

Update:

Please feel free to continue posting in this thread if you wish, I'll remain subscribed and will answer any questions. I went out and bought 4 lbs of butter last night, wow has the cost of butter went sky high. Almost $5 a lb for Land o' Lakes, so I stuck with store brand, same fat content. I've also ordered some mini cupcake foils and some silicone brownie bite molds to make treats. I currently have 3 patients that desire edibles and I have 2 pounds of leaf with sugar on it, and several ounces of sugar leaf trim and pop corn buds.

I also bought some chocolate and white chocolate glaze kits for dipping candies and brownie bites in. I also have some maraschino cherries and dried strawberries for toppers. I intend to give out virgin treats this Xmas, so practicing on my medicinal treats will prepare me nicely. My brownies get rave reviews (they knock me on my ass), but I want to be able to make them look even better and the mini foil cups will have better portion control, as only 1 tblsp of batter goes into each one.

Below is a pic of my curing jars, well, some of them. I wish I had filled all 12 up. After 3.5 days hanging on a string in a dark room, I took all of the bud and placed it in jars and capped them. Inside each jar is a hygrometer. After 12 hours in the jars, the hygrometers were reading about 71-73% RH, so I removed all the bud and placed it on a collapsible dry net for 12 hours. After that, it went back into the jars and the reading is a steady 68%, so it's in the jars for good now. I just have to start a burping routine.

Just for those that want to know how the final days went down, I turned off the lights and I increased Vortex exhaust fan speed with 4 days to go. I quit giving nutrients one week before chop and I quit giving new water 4 days out. The buds were feeling half way dry when I was stripping off the leaves. They were light and the stems were already hollow and dry. I trashed about 4 sets of examination latex gloves while working with the buds. I poured the newspaper I worked over into my kief box and I saw a lot of kief go in the box.

Total weight was almost 40 ounces, of that, 14 was bud and 26 was trim, leaf and pop corn buds. Most of the leaf came from the top canopy, as the lower was defoliated twice, so it has lots of resin heads that I intend to extract. I don't have bubble bags yet, and I don't want to buy them when I can do butter just as easily. I enjoy the break from smoking my medication and eating it is different. I'll post some pics of the sweets I make right here in a week or two.

Forgot to mention, those are half gallon mason jars stuffed with buddage...

Great grow Serapis! You sound like quite the chef, all very yummy. I am sure your patients will be very happy!

Wouldnt that much trim make more than 4 lbs butter, or are you doing bubble, oil, or extracts with it too?

tasty looking jars. good job