Tvanmunhen
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Pancakes are funny to me too. Can't say I have ever gotten the chance to experience buds like that. I want to now just for the experience. Lol
Rurumo's Mars Hydro FC6500 grow journal
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lusidghost
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I totally agree about the crispiness. I've practically lived off of waffles for the past few months. Now I want some waffle weed.
wakenbake91
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How many weeks were they in flower before unplugging the light?
Rurumo
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11 weeks, which is the fastest group I've flowered in years. 12-14 is most common for me unless it's a pure sativa.
Rurumo
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Thank you Star Dog!
Rurumo
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My plants are now 5 days into drying-they are still fairly moist to the touch....I was worried they would be crispy by now, but they might actually take 10 days to dry, which is always my minimum goal. I've been lucky though with the outside RH, I've been able to keep my indoor rh between 50 and 55% even with my windows open at night. Temps have been awful, 77-84 deg. Drying in the pot ABSOLUTELY slows down the dry-I think these plants would be crispy now if I'd hung them.
Also, I've been considering whether to go with Cherry Bomb for my next grow, or if I should check out the Maruf Black I got from Tony G, or the Hopar Valley #2 from ILE. I just saw Hopar #2 listed on Ace's website, and they have so much good info on the strains in the area. The Hopar Valley sounds incredible, I'd love to visit for tourism and to collect seeds. Anyway, the price is much higher now too: https://www.aceseeds.org/en/brands/indian-landrace-exchange/hoparvalleyselection2regularseeds.html I copied this interesting section:
"It's also, noteworthy that the smell found in these plants were a lot more intense in comparison to possibly any other known landrace variety encountered yet. The shear density of the resin glands on the flowers was outstanding in majority of the cases and the bigger size of those glands only seems to further aid in being able to produce and store higher volumes of (secondary metabolites) cannabinoids and terpenes."
Gosh, now I'm torn....This sounds so promising, I might have to grow these next! This sounds like a great strain to cross the Viet Black or Colombian Gold I'm getting from Snow High later this year. I will also be reproducing it.
Also, I've been considering whether to go with Cherry Bomb for my next grow, or if I should check out the Maruf Black I got from Tony G, or the Hopar Valley #2 from ILE. I just saw Hopar #2 listed on Ace's website, and they have so much good info on the strains in the area. The Hopar Valley sounds incredible, I'd love to visit for tourism and to collect seeds. Anyway, the price is much higher now too: https://www.aceseeds.org/en/brands/indian-landrace-exchange/hoparvalleyselection2regularseeds.html I copied this interesting section:
"It's also, noteworthy that the smell found in these plants were a lot more intense in comparison to possibly any other known landrace variety encountered yet. The shear density of the resin glands on the flowers was outstanding in majority of the cases and the bigger size of those glands only seems to further aid in being able to produce and store higher volumes of (secondary metabolites) cannabinoids and terpenes."
Gosh, now I'm torn....This sounds so promising, I might have to grow these next! This sounds like a great strain to cross the Viet Black or Colombian Gold I'm getting from Snow High later this year. I will also be reproducing it.
wakenbake91
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Word, I used to always pulled my plants right at 8 weeks or maybe 9 if I was feeling patient . About 3-4 harvests ago I actually let them go a little over 10 weeks and I will never pull plants early EVER again lol. Its such a waste to take them that early, once I finally had my first ripe (or ripe to me) plant, I knew immediately that I had left a LOT on the table over the years.
They look bomb af btw
Rurumo
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Ripe bud is amazing! I'm glad your eyes have been opened to the possibilities. It's sad when you think of all the tens of thousands of people growing bud in this country who are harvesting prematurely, so I love seeing comments like yours.Word, I used to always pulled my plants right at 8 weeks or maybe 9 if I was feeling patient . About 3-4 harvests ago I actually let them go a little over 10 weeks and I will never pull plants early EVER again lol. Its such a waste to take them that early, once I finally had my first ripe (or ripe to me) plant, I knew immediately that I had left a LOT on the table over the years.
They look bomb af btw
Rurumo
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If you guys haven't seen SMT69's Hazeman Strawberry Cough grow journal, it's one of my favorites here, he did just an incredible job managing them. I like how he kept them in solo cups until one week from 12/12, did an extreme defol/transplanted them, then flipped one week later. I like this idea a lot to control plants you know will be big sativa beasts. The blumats were very cool too. Anyway, I didn't want to necro the thread, but wanted to share it for people who haven't seen it. https://www.rollitup.org/t/hazemans-strawberry-cough.982264/
Tvanmunhen
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I have some free Mac-1 seeds that I got from Golden ticket Seed company. I think this technique with Coco would be perfect to find a good pheno out of the pack. Thank you for the read!
Rurumo
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Yes, I like how he grew the entire pack, I wish I could do that every time! His methods also struck me as perfect for pheno hunting. Kind of makes me want to try Blumats out too.
Rurumo
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I've been talking a lot about HpLVd these days on the forums and have been reading up on the various viroids affecting agricultural crops, and I found one really interesting thing. Vircon S and 10% bleach solution are two of the most effective ways to disinfect tools contaminated with the viroid, but one other substance is almost equally effective: a 20% dry nonfat milk solution. Now, you can't just cut an infected plant, dip your scissors in milk, and then move onto the next plant. Honestly, I wouldn't even do that with a strong bleach solution-it's best to let the tools soak for 10 min. But the nice thing about having dry nonfat milk is an option is that, for home use, you don't want an open container of 10% bleach around-that will make your house reek for ages. Milk on the other hand is totally inoffensive. It's also economical if you just mix up enough to soak your blades in-20 grams of nonfat milk to 100 ml water, for example. Here are the two studies I'm talking about: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4312592/ and https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS-09-14-0929-RE. I just find this to be extremely interesting, I had no idea that milk is a potent antiviral, but it makes sense doesn't it?
Brawndo G
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Flame sterilizing with a torch works as well. Much faster and less messy than using an oxidizer imo.
Rurumo
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Yes, I'm glad you brought that up. I experimented with a butane torch meant for kitchen use and just decided against it for myself. I just found using separate labelled pruning scissors to be the quickest and safest in practice. The torch is very cool though and is definitely one way you can go.
blueberrymilkshake
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blueberrymilkshake
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I will try to remember that when I'm spamming relevant gifs 
Brawndo G
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Always best to do it the way that works best for you.
I use a scalpel and mini propane torch. The blade gets red hot in about 10 seconds.
Rurumo
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I do love scalpels, I've totally switched over from razors. I use one disposable scalpel head for each type of clone, then just throw them out so I don't have to bother with sterilization. Once you start paying attention to isolating plants, you realize there are so many ways you could have spread HpLVd to the other cuts, I'm still working on my procedures.
I can't find any data on citric acid and viroids, but I do know that a 6% citric acid solution is registered as a hospital level disinfectant, and I wish someone would test it against viroids, since it's so widely available and relatively harmless compared to bleach.