First grow diary:GG4xDreamcatcher

Hope that goes ok. No slip ups! :scream:

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That is some DANK looking bud there!!! Congratulations on your first grow! I promise you will be happy with your results! @Floyd nice looking strain you made! :v:

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Thanks. Just a pollen chuck, but they do look nice. @Dalorean did a very good job with them for sure.
I sent these seeds to others here, maybe they will be inspired to pop some. lol

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Thanks guys for the compliments! I feel so unbelievably proud of my first grow! This is a GOOD strain! So smoke report. I took ONE hit this morning at 7:30, I am still buzzing good at noon, itā€™s a very SMOOTH buzz! NO anxiety whatsoever, which that was part of why I stopped smoking years back, plus I was an alcoholic so That was my thing. But I quit drinking recently thatā€™s why I looked back to the herb Anyways, it is a killer, positive high, itā€™s like this plant absorbed my energy while growing it and they knew exactly what I needed! I even got emotional cuz I was so amazed how PERFECT this bud fits my frenzied brain. Thank you SO MUCH @Floyd for this gift you blessed me with, it means so much to me! And Iā€™ll have extra seeds when I find them if anyone would be down to add this to your portfolio, as a gift or a trade. Got them trimmed and hung. Went with wet trim cuz yes itā€™s just easier and cleaner that way. Iā€™ll put a timer on AC to regulate humidity for the buds. Hereā€™s them all snipped! Kinda like me!(surgery went great, swollen and sore, but allā€™s goodšŸ˜€)

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Looks great! Wait till you see how much those buds shrink when they dry. Lol. Glad you enjoy the smoke. It makes the grow and the waiting all worth while doesnā€™t it?:smiley:
Cant wait to see your next grow. :wink:

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Yes it sure does! Ya I think reikoX mentioned itā€™s painful the first time you see how much they shrinkšŸ˜– Unfortunately I wonā€™t start another grow for a while. The old lady freaks out about it, especially since our state discarded the medical weed bill over a technicality so we have to wait 2 more years to get another vote(SO stupid!!). Sheā€™ll cool off after a while and Iā€™ll start back up hopefully in a few months. Thinking Hindu Kush or Northern lights I got from I49.

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Donā€™t know anything about I 49, but Iā€™ve grown Hindu Kush before and it was pretty good.

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Donā€™t forget to give me a tag when you start up a new one. I enjoyed watching this one.
:v: :cowboy_hat_face:

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So far the drying has been a pain in the ass. Iā€™ve ran the ac on different cycles. Either way I do it, with ac on it gets to 35% humidity, and off, it goes up to 70-80. So Iā€™ve leaned to equal time on/off just to balance it out. Started Saturday afternoon drying so today is day 4-5 depending how you count. Outside of buds are crispy dry. No branches are snapping yet, just bending. The buds do feel spongy to the touch, so I hope Iā€™m not drying out too fast! Cuz I should be jarring at this point with dry outside and spongy inside, and Iā€™ve read mixed stories on small bud stems snap vs bend to be ready for jar. What yā€™all think?? If Iā€™m too dry at this time should I leave ac off for a day and let the buds sit in 70-80% humidity to moisten back up a bit? I feel like Iā€™m butchering this dry!

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If the stems donā€™t have any snap to them yet I would doubt you are too dry. The buds do get very crispy on the outside. Normal. If you do get them all trimmed and jarred and itā€™s too dry you can just throw something in the jar with them. I use fan leaves from vegging plants but I donā€™t imagine you have those. Iā€™ve seen other ideas but canā€™t remember off hand.

Two fan leaves in the jar for an hour or two with a few ounces bumps rh up no problem. I wait 2 hours, remove the leaves, then see where it settles. Repeat if needed.

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Ok so Iā€™m in track then? They smell like cut grass real bad too. But I read here that thatā€™s a good thing it means the chlorophyll is escaping the flowers. I did jar up some smaller branches for experimentation. Was thinking about jarring up one whole plant and let the other two go until stems snap, they just seem real dry to me but itā€™s the first time so I got much to learn. Yup I have no veg foliage.

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Rush rush rush. lol. Donā€™t rush the dry, its important to let them dry long and slow before jarring.

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It good to experiment as you go alongā€¦

Thatā€™s how you learn! :sunglasses: :+1:

Cheers
G

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Well I went to check on them and they were snap dry! Not bend. Snap off. Kinda pissed off they dried so fast, the dip to the 30% humidity dried them out too fast even though the humidity went back up with the ac off of an alternate setting. Only 5 1/2 days of drying. I hope I didnā€™t trap the chlorophyll and stuck with alfalfa weed!!! Hopefully the cure will fix it cuz they sure smell like hay right now. Oh well!!! Most of this will be used for making butter and oils for edibles so I guess it doesnā€™t really matter. Weighed it all out, got 184 grams, so about 6 1/2 oz!!! Thatā€™s double then what I thought it was going to be! So Iā€™m for sure happy with the first grow! @Floyd thank you again for this treat of a strain that was badass to call my first grow, and for all the help youā€™ve given me! Same goes to everyone else who has popped in and helped out, @DefNSmokn. @MoBilly. @Gpaw , @Eagles009 and others whose name I canā€™t think of right now(this is some gooooooooood weed!!) thanks for the fun ride I enjoyed this and will be back at it 2nd week of October With a multi-strain run!!!
Itā€™s just the reflection thereā€™s no moisture in the jars. Sitting at 63% humidity in them

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If your at 63 % you should be fine if they over dried. Youā€™ll know in a week if the smells change .

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Congrats on the haul! 63 rh is great. I wouldnā€™t sweat the 5.5 days. Most of my plants are ready to jar in less time than that. Hopefully that hay smell doesnā€™t stick. Iā€™ve never had a plant smell bad after dry so Iā€™m not sure why that would be.

On the plus side Iā€™m very happy that your satisfied with the smokeā€¦in the end thatā€™s really all that matters.

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Well done!!!
:clap::clap::clap::clap::clap::clap:
That looks like a great harvest!!

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Nice haul! Looking forward to seeing your next grow in October. :smiley: :+1:

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Relax & chillā€¦

You nailed it!! :sunglasses: :+1:

Cheers
G

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How goes the battle @Dalorean ?
Just wanted to see how you are.

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