With the weather going to shit by Monday I went out and got the last of the buds so it’s trim jail until it’s done tonight.
Nothing left but her bare bones now.
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Hope global climate change works faster in your entourage 
, if this is just autumn and it is already like that 
in winter you must be chasing polar bears out of your bed … 
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No polar bears but we had a big black bear in the field behind our house last spring. Got the .303 out just in case.
It got colder than usual a little sooner this year but that’s the way it goes up here.
Snip snip go the Fiskars. 
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Did almost a 12 hour run to get her all trimmed up and in the cans. Less than I thought with everything coming in at around 3/4 of a pound dry weight equivalent. (wet Wt. x 0.25). 875g of bud, 365g of wet trim and 36.6g of dry trim. I’d already used 50g of wet bud to make a small batch of cocobudder so there’s that too.
I kept about 12g of assorted bud bits from all over the plant to submit to a lab for potency testing. Only $60 so might go for terpene testing too for another $60. Would be nice to know both. I’ll have to repeat the test once I’ve grown some out indoors and let it go until it’s really finished as it could have used longer than the 9 weeks it got I’m sure. 9 1L can of good medicine in the freezer!
Tore down her little house and pulled the skeleton out of the ground today even tho I felt like I’d been run over by a truck after that session that went until 7am. For some reason my knees really hurt to my back wasn’t bad at all.
After this pic I went and washed out the roots as I plan to cut them all off then dry and grind them to get the medicine supposedly in there too. Should make good tea. I can make a nice fish club out of the base and a good slingshot out of the top.
Now to get the RO unit together, clone some plants, plant some seeds, play in the dugout . . .
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Your a busy man atm Lab, you got a nice big haul of that plant 
I find just sitting for long periods with my arms resting on them while I lean forward and trim, hurts my knees. If I try sitting upright it screws my neck up. I have been looking at neck braces on Amazon to see if they may help my problem deteriorating more.
Best do what you have to in the dug out first before that freezes solid, looking very wintery there now, daughter got snow in Kelowna last week. She said it’s about a month early this year.
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Cheers
G
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If you narrowed the chin and added long red hair flowing out the back that would be close 
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Finally got out in the belly boat yesterday. Was decently warmish and the ice at my launch site had receded so that was out of the way.
Didn’t go as smoothly as I hoped so I ended up spending a couple hours in the icy cold water but had a hot soak in a tub loaded with Epsom Salts right after. Was almost dark by the time it was done.
Sure glad that chore is done for another 5 years or more. I’ll be gone or dead by then I hope.
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Good job you’re not heavier, that little boat looks like it’s right down to the scuppers in the water 
We had our first snow yesterday, was supposed to be less than a cm but ended up being 10cm 
starting to thaw now and we should be back in double digits by Friday. Chaos on the roads no snow ploughs were out had to shut the 2 main bridges in Halifax due to accidents. Same thing happens nearly every year, no one bothers to put their winter tires on until after the first snow.
Chopped my GDP in flower it was done, threw out the 3 GDP clones, as the mites were back 
so now I have no more plants that have previously had mites on them, going to clean up the flower room and veg tent again now, hoping they are just from eggs I missed on the cuttings when I cloned them, although I did give them a thorough check over on their few remaining leaves. So I am concerned that they may be endemic now.
Pulled the male flowering branch out the breeding cab, no pollen I can see in any of the flowers 
I have now put 30 liters of beer to brew in there instead, makes a nice brewing cabinet as well, beer needs a steady temp to ferment compared to wine, the bucket fits perfectly with my little heater in there 
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Hardcore Canadian!! Still harvesting after negative temps, ice one the pond and a bunch of snow!! Love it. Well done!!!
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Lovely spot you have their LabRat my kind of oasis.Here in T.O mother nature is giving us balmy sunny weather for the next week.My south facing balcony at 9:30 with the sun hitting it has the thermoter at 82f.So i got my 2 autos out soaking up the daytime sun .
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supposed to get to the mid 60’s the middle of next week.
Could have used a little more air in the tube but I think I was hauling up the water pipe at the time and that added a lot of weight. I have a 3-tong grapple made out of 3/8" rebar that looks like giant treble hook. Made it a few years ago over at the neighbour’s shop. Wife was taking a few pics from the shore. Lost my rt flipper and had to go back to shore to get another pipe wrench to get the dam foot-valve off the end of the water intake. Tied the f’ers on better and then no problem.
Gotta start putting my RO rig together now. Picked up some hooks to screw into the cement wall down there after I drill some holes but need to lay everything out on the coffin table to see how it’s all going to fit.
We got freezing rain tonight and a snowfall warning and colder temps coming down too so winter is finally officially here methinks.
Still with the mites eh. Haven’t found any thrips on the flowering girls for a couple weeks but still a few on the veg plants. Very few so I haven’t bothered spraying yet but will be taking cuttings very soon will get all serious on them then.
I’m not getting a sign of balls on my STS branches. Think I’ll try on a whole plant once I have some cuttings rooted and vegging well. Hit them the day before the flip too and see how that works. Fresh batch of the chem as well. I had mixed up the 2-parts a couple months before blending them to make the STS but maybe they can go bad before mixing together but I’m pretty sure they shouldn’t. May increase the silver nitrate for the next batch too. Use 40ml of each to mix up a 500ml batch instead of 25.
Waiting for Trump to lose here. 
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Trump 2020! destruction of the marxist communist demorat party! freedom of the American people!
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Surely you jest.
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LabRat
As a fellow Albertan…I feel your pain bud…
The legal restrictions, the growing challenges, trying to get decent genetics…
I live in Calgary and do both indoor and outdoor growing…My mom has a small farm up near Red Deer so I manage to put a few plants up there as well…
For the past few years I have been experimenting with Autos and they can do very well in Alberta with Great potency…
Ironically, you’ve got a great environment for Autos as you have those long days to get Autos started…
A few keys to remember…
-Don’t transplant Autos…If you want to start them indoors a little early…Plant them in the same pit you intend to finish them in…They aremlike race cars…the more light the better for the first 3-5 week (veg phase) before they automatically flip to flower.
- 2nd try not to prune…instead try to low stress train them by tying branches out of the way to get light to the lower canopy.
You should do just fine…
Take a post hole auger and dig some 18" deep hole in a grassy area along a fence line (nice full sun area) or something and fill with quality dirt… plant some beans there…OR if you are concerned about finishing…bury a 2 gal pot in the dirt with good soil so that you are able to move them later if you’d like.
Just watch out for the critters…As they will snack away before you even get off the ground …perhaps use some chicken wire around the base.
Anyway…If you want to inbox me a safe addy I’ll send you some Auto beans…
Cheers
Toast
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Not wanted in thread.
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No more of this in my thread thanks. Keep that for a political thread somewhere else please.
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I used to live in Calgary too and had my in-laws up near Dead Rear out by Delburne. Got my soil and sheep shit for my first ever indoor grow that got me some buds back in '78 from their farm.
That post hole thing may not work well here. Under 4" of topsoil is a mile of solid clay so each hole would be like using a 5gal pail with no drainage holes. One good thunderstorm would fill them up and drown the roots. The wife has a big flower bed at the south end of the house that I may take over for plants next spring. A few bales of Promix HP along with compost and a few other amendments like I did this year should work well. It’s already raised a bit so has decent drainage.
I know how autos need to be grown for best results and have plenty of seeds to grow a dozen outside now and should have lots more by spring. I will be breeding for fem seeds over the winter so hopefully be able to just plant a couple dozen then cull down to a dozen. When I get around to applying to Hellth Canaduh for our med grows I’m thinking to get the wife’s 6g/day for outdoors only so we’ll be legal for 12 outside. Plus the 4 rec pants so could have 16 out there. A lot to process at harvest tho so can’t go too crazy. Just the one big plant this year was a lot for me to deal with on my own.
I have 12g/day and that will all be for indoors so 49 plants there. That gives me breathing room for breeding projects so I can grow a bunch of each strain and go pheno hunting. I’m concentrating on hi-CBD strains tho also doing some THC ones to make RSO for the wife’s liver tumours.
We got some good news at the eye doctor’s on Tuesday. The wife was getting her annual Glaucoma test as it’s been bad but as she’s been taking RSO for well over 6 months and her eyeball pressure has dropped from 22 to 15 so back in the middle of normal. We were told she could be going blind in a few more years but as pot was first used to reduce eyeball pressure for glaucoma patients decades ago I guess it still works for that. Mine came out at 10 and 11.
She finally gets new scans for her liver tumours on the 26th so hopefully some more good news for Xmas!
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Good news…
Best wishes to you both.
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