I’ve taken the Blue Dream as far as I can. Rot is taking over. Gonna harvest Saturday morning so I can get hopefully half of the plant if it didn’t go systemic yet. It is what it is. Sucks, but at least I can chop away some of my stress with it.
Last year we got lucky and all my plants finished at different times. Looking at the 2 skunk plants and the cheese and they are gonna be ready at the same time. I have no idea how or where I’m gonna dry all that bud at once. My drying net rack has 8 tiers that hold a pound wet, well the cheese will probably be 8 pounds wet. All 3 of us think it will fill the entire rack from floor to ceiling. So where do the two 6 and 7 foot skunk plants go? Not the easiest year, but they never are. It is always something isn’t it? Especially outdoors.
You would do exactly what I do… grow for 6 months and work on the rest of your garden for the other 6 lol
The progression of the rest of my garden is hilarious! As I scroll back through this grow, in the background all the planters are weeded, mulched and perfect. The bigger the cannabis gets, the uglier and more overgrown and filled with weeds the rest gets. Noticed it last year when I scrolled through that too! Hahaha! The hotter outside it gets the uglier the planters get. Obviously by budding, I have no energy for anything but the cannabis
Being as this grow is for a whole year, it’s really a drag when you only get 1/2 pound from a 6 foot plant. To indoor growers, it seems great, but you weren’t growing the plants for 6 months either. The Blue Gelato and Blue Dream are just gonna be disappointing. Really glad I love the cheese and skunk as they will make up most of the smoke this year it looks like, especially now that pillars have attacked some of the Orange Goji and bud rot has set in there now.
Dad practically trimmed the gdp and spectral tangerine on the live plants. Gonna be a breeze on Thursday. I told him he only needed to bother with the fans, but he went crazy and boy am I glad. Aside from the Blue Gelato that’s already curing, we are harvesting this year right before the ,sun comes up for the best bud possible. This is gonna be interesting as both Dad and I are night owls. I see a lot of naps in my future and not much real sleep time.
It’s almost driving me crazy that I am having such a hard time describing the smell of the Spectral Tangerine. Do you even remember what it smelled like to you @SamwellBB? At first I thought it smelled citrusy and tangy. Now it smells, very earthy, herbal maybe licorice, black pepper. Kind of like an original Riccola cough drop smell. Maybe even some burnt rubber.
Ooh you guys, the Blue Gelato has me all curious and full of questions tonight…
We were just discussing trichomes… clear, cloudy and amber right? And you guys said that some of you like more of the CBN effects and most of you agreed, amber mostly makes sense for Indicas. Well, my 2 part question is first… If you prefer amber trichs on your Indica, do you also prefer the physical effects of cannabis more than the psychotropic effects? If assuming, it’s both, then shouldn’t a good Indica strain be the perfect blend at peak ripeness aka cloudy?
The reasoning behind all my questions, is simply my fascination with Cannabis and the myriad of different ways it gets you high. And Indica is especially fascinating to me, mainly because it’s hard for me to tolerate. Basically, I’m just kinda jealous y’all get to smoke it. Even if I can get the specific body high I can handle from it the psychotropic effect is too internally directed, then I get intense paranoia. lol I wonder if my anti-depressants have anything to do with it? Hmm… that’s a thought.
Man, I feel ya. Reading your posts sounds like whats going on in my head. it’s right at crunch time and things start happening fast. I spent a good bit of yesterday pre-trimming my two large plants. I’m glad because one was trying to get PM. I had just mentioned to somebody how I hadn’t had any issue with it this year. I was watering them with a hose and that was a no-no. So, I may have to spray the one.
I’m with you on the yard taking a slide once flowering gets going heavy. Plus I started a new batch that stalled out because of the high heat and I’ve been babying them and re-potting but they may all have to finish inside. The rest of the garden area of the yard went to hell. I had it looking pretty good for a while.
I’m worried about all of the trimming I’ll have, too. The problem here is that it’s so dry that the other plants will dry out before you can finish trimming one. I have most in pots and they are much smaller so I’m hoping to maybe knock them out before cutting the large ones… but, I may have to do that exactly backwards… my mind starts spinning about now and I could see that in your posts, too, lol
On top of that my neighborhood ripper wannabes keep driving by my house which makes me nervous…
Oh man! Gman and Tinytuttle are going through that crap in Colorado. Not to mention it snowed until super late in the season, so they had to plant late. I’m telling ya though, if I get ice here, it’s literally the end of the world and we are all gonna die. I’ll warn you if the apocalypse comes.
I’m out there today on the ladder, cutting off half of almost every cola on the Orange Moldy. I turned around and glanced at the shit show that is the Blue nightmare and couldn’t bring myself to look at it today. It’s coming down on Saturday. I’m praying to the universe that it hasn’t gone systemic. If I have it in me tmw after harvesting the Spectral Tangerine and the GDP, I’ll go chop at it some more. Just not today, not today.
The rock and a hard place I’m in is spray BT and risk more bud rot. Or don’t spray and get more caterpillars and bud rot possibly on top of that.
Dad and I sort of reasoned through it . Since the practice plant got pillars despite my weekly sprays and has no bud rot. The 2 skunk plants and the cheese seem to be holding up as far as the humidity and I’ve found a few pillar spots on them and no bud rot and the others will probably have to come down early from bud rot, then I may as well continue the BT sprays. The only thing left to happen to those is maybe bud rot (so far so good) and for certain caterpillars will happen (despite my sprays, they get through) so may as well kill the pillars in the time being. At this point the plants with mold are coming down early anyway. It’s inevitable, so what’s another BT spray or two at this point?
My condolences on your losses in your disappointing struggle with the forces of evil.
Feeling your heart sink with the realization that you have lost significant portions of your hard work can be head spinning and disheartening.
Mother Nature can be quite fickle and vindictive. The odds are that you will have a much better crop next year.
Thank you! No matter how much I prepared myself mentally this year for Mother Nature damaging some of my grow, it’s still heart breaking. I knew before I even started that things happen outside, despite that, us outdoor folks still get our hopes up. Unfortunately, this years events were more than I even anticipated. After all the Covid stuff this year, it would have been nice for Mother Nature to give me a small break. lol
In the end, in a million years I would have not expected the Cheese to get that big, let alone, any of my plants. I think she is gonna be our saving grace this year as far as yield and actual mature bud we can harvest. Knocking on wood. Still have a few weeks to go on her.
I just had the scariest trip to the market. The parking lot for it is always a complete madhouse with no parking, but there is a side street that runs perpendicular to the store front. There is a long winding wheelchair ramp there for disabled access. I park over there. It’s almost a secret spot, but it isn’t.
Anyway, I’m coming out of the store with Dad’s ice. Literally 130 lbs of it, plus two 12 packs of Diet Coke. I know the cart wheels are gonna lock as soon as I get to the bottom near my car which is like 30 feet away or so. Above the wheelchair ramp, is a picnic table at the end of the store. So, I get down the ramp and leave the locked up cart and start loading my car. Mind you, like 10 trips or so, I need to make, when a guy who is sitting at the bench starts screaming and cursing at me. Just in a rage, but he is screaming as if I’m screaming back at him. Obviously at this point I realize he’s mentally ill. I’ve got my mouth zipped, I’m not gonna say anything that’s gonna make this guy jump the railing and physically attack me. That’s how aggressive and scary he was.
So, I’m busting ass trying to get everything into the car as it’s 30 feet from the cart to the car. Suddenly, I hear another man yell out his car window “Hey! If you don’t leave that lady alone, I swear, I will fuck you up!”. At this point, I nod thank you to the guy and I’m getting ready to make a run for the car if need be if the crazy man attacks. The guy in the car pulls out of the driveway after yelling at the crazy guy, jumps out and grabs the rest of my bags out of the cart and helps me load them in. OMG! My Hero!! I was scared shitless. It was a younger black man that helped me. Not enough gentlemen left in the world like that if you ask me, especially millennials. I don’t even know exactly what I said to him as thanks. Something like “Thank you sweetheart, I appreciate you”. Whatever I said truly didn’t express my serious gratitude. I’m still shaking.
I love hearing that theres still descent ppl in the world, sorry to hear about all the bud rot that seems devastating knock on air, wood burns lol the way the country’s looking atm we dont need anymore fires keep up the good fight
Happy growing
Excellent question. Yes. 
all around.
I can just hear his thoughts of your mom 
I guess it’s not a good time for me to re-suggest doing all & any spraying in the morning…?
(sad hugs)
