Thanks and yeah, it’s nuts. I just had a fun little interaction this morning where I came out to water and the hummingbird came over to me, and once it had my attention it flew over to the feeder and hovered while looking right at me, then sat perched on a nearby branch. Mine as well get a cat so that it can wake me up and tell when it needs to be fed too! So I get him squared away… only to notice a big beautiful butterfly just chilling right on one of the cannabis plants.
Good luck with yours.
This cold air and moisture is new so I’m actually encountering bud rot on BluGlu #4. Those lovely dense colas were a little too dense for this humid patch we’ve had. Again, it didn’t ruin the year and I’m learning effective counter measures so it’s kind of a gift. They have mature seeds too and most of sugar leaf trichomes are just turning amber so we’re good.
@AMunkFromCupertino I am going to pop a autoflower seed this week, so could you tell me the Chrysal Alesco Mix ratio you used , so i can mix some up when the time comes.
I used 250ml of distilled water and 1.25ml of alesco. Sprayed within 30 min of mixing them together. Had bananas in three weeks. Good luck with your auto run!
I can imagine it being pretty frustrating if you were to lose a whole harvest to bud rot. These ladies are producing seeds that are good, and the damage is grams instead of ounces, so I’m happy.
There is always the option of harvesting early before it can take over.
I’d removed a few grams of bud rot on the thicker colas of BluGlu #4 the other day, but the tips of those sections are browning up a bit. That’s why I cut off all the thicker colas this morning, did a fan leaf removal, cut them into individual chicken nugget sized buds and threw away any that were starting to have any sign of discoloration that could even be mistaken as anything but healthy.
Lost several more grams but saved about 4 oz of colas that were about two weeks from amber trichomes. At least double that still on the bush.
Smells are more in line with the GG4 side. Generic “musk”…no citrus, no gas. The mother GG4 had the same and then it intensified in the final two weeks. Curious to see if that changes as the rest of it matures.
This thing is gnarly. It’s what I was selecting for…the Blue Dream gave it size and girth, and the GG4 brought dense nugs that even LOOK like they mean business on the medicinal front. I’ve collected a dozen healthy looking seeds and am anticipating another several dozen after harvest is done and I begin the year round holiday season I call “Let’s see what’s in the grinder today”.
Honey Glaze got taken down completely last night and put into the auto dryer. She was 99% done. It’s like La Guardia here this year so anybody that I can get down onto the ground and out off my radar screen…
Put Honey Glaze into this new drying tech I’m trying this year.
Then grove bags (the terp lock ones…I’m testing curing in them and curing other buds in jars as usual to see what works better for me).
I ran two of the Moroccan Lion auto plants in it, and the El Diablo auto and Triangle Kush auto. So that’s four samples, so far.
Yeah, it definitely works best with smaller buds… as opposed to large colas. Cotton ball size is optimal. The layers are stackable, but there is a limit to everything. The autos I put on a single tray and they are a little more than 1oz dried. Since the green plastic layers don’t weigh much, it’s not causing any harm if you put a bud in there that’s too fat for the next layer to lie flush… but the bud will have a little squish to it. Since the centers of each layer are removable, it’s all about sacrificing horizontal drying space for vertical bud space, with bigger bud sizes present.
Here’s my take … If you’re going for that ‘artisan experience’ to your cannabis drying, this ain’t it. This is to get something dry in 4 days. I live in a warm and dry climate, so it’s about the same as if I hung them in a bathroom with a fan going (80F is average room temperature where I am - I don’t have cooling - and this machine is set to 80F). It has a carbon filter that actually seems to help a bit, but isn’t full proof. Like, if you put the machine in a side room off the kitchen… walking by that room with the door shut… no filter might give you a whiff… but not with the carbon filter on… but entering that side room even with the carbon filter on would probably have a scent.
So I get the same drying experience from this machine that I would get from my natural environment.
I’m drying things in this that are primarily being harvested for seeds. The bar is low. It works well for that. I like that the seeds fall through the crevices of each plastic layer and collect at the bottom on a removable plastic plate - as opposed to me hunting for the fallen seeds all over the floor of the room. The cannabis flower is still curing so I can’t say what the smoke is like from the flowers I dried in it, but I’ll bet it makes good cannabis for infusing butter, regardless.
