Hello fellow hobbiest I just wanted to give a mid week update.
Soooo I wanted to make room for the ladies as the stud has done his job. Monday I gave him a good shake and closed the tent during first light. Tuesday I gave him another shake at first light and closed the tent. I proceeded with collection two hours after shake.
I knew that taking him down early would limit the pollen recovery but being as I already pollenated the tent I didn’t mind a smaller recovery.
I found some left over cardboard and began taping parchment paper to it. I also lined a cardboard box and cut a square big enough for my hand/wrist to fit.
Once all surfaces were free of visible dust I started removing the biggest branches first. I tilt the box over enough to fit my hand holding the branches and covered it with the box. I gave each branch a good shake making sure to rotate as I shook. I would wait 5 seconds or more before tilting the box back up so I could remove my hand.
Very cool project! Looking forward to seeing how you make out. I use to run a lot of kc brains back in the 90s I believe and the keepers k8cked out potent meds that’s for sure. Any us legit distributirs or only Europe for these packs? Best of luck and happy grows
Thank you for joining the ride, Hopefully I can find the one I’m on a search for. The stud was really skunky fairly young so I was hoping he were a she. Not bad news however. Good male in my opinion but I have yet to have first hand experience with any other CC males.
I was unable to find US suppliers that I have purchased from before so I had to purchase International. There may be some distributors in the states I’m just not aware of them.
Cool thank you for the info will have to look around for some kcb seeds. Never fails that early gem out of the bunch ends up being a stud. Hunt continues
Full disclosure - I had a flood Wednesday night/ Thursday morning. I added more 9in carrots to the system for another tent and did not bleed the system properly. Two hours of clean up at 3am was a bit much. I did learn a valuable lesson however. If you are to use the blumat system and wish to add more carrots later I recommend refilling all the previous installed carrots and bleeding the air out of each one. Once that is done I recommend soaking the surrounding carrot. I actually removed the drip line from the ring to make sure it was not dripping before reattaching to the ring. All is well no issues since.
Anyhoo. I wanted to start putting my laminar flow hood together so I did a bit of research. I noticed some fairly high priced ones were constructed with similar framing of my gpu mining rig.
Being that I have two of these with two pieces of acrylic I think I may be off to a good start. I have a few more of these hepa filters on the way so I will decide on the final dimensions shortly.
@StrongerthanDirt Yeah it ended up dumping about 20 gallons into the tent and overflowed to the outside. I’m just glad I was off work the next morning.
Tissue Culture actually. I wanna preserve a lot of different genetics with minimal space. I have a bunch of lab equipment purchased along with all the plant growth regulators so I’ll have an update soon with it all.
That was very nice you had the next day off if it had to happen! Oh very cool. Did not know you need a hood for tc but I love the idea of saving stuff in the space it will allow. Very cool!! Look forward to learning mire through your thread so thanks again for your time and posts🍻
I purchased a cheap makeup cooler I suppose it is, to store my chemicals in but it does not reach the temps I need. I think an actual mini fridge is needed. Temps on these only drop the ambient temp 20 degrees or so. Getting under 50 with this rough this time of year indoor or out.
More to come folks not quite half way yet. I may have to pull a couple days early due to an out of town trip on the 27th but may let it go while I’m away. Happy hump day everyone!
I just want to start off by shouting out those fathers out there taking care of business. Happy Fathers Day!
I noticed a bit of lightening to the leaves possibly from the flood washing away the nutrients so I will top dress again. I am going to water in some rootwise as well to help.
Not too shabby for 30 days into flower with the issues. Looks like all three will have plenty of beans to drop! 🫶
Had a few items arrive. 3 1lr/1000ml beakers and 2 1lr/1000ml wide mouth containers for autoclaving media. Also some really cool breathable containers I can autoclave as well.
I have decided to purchase some frame hardware to join two straight ends together to finish the bottom end on the laminar hood. I went with a 48inch length workspace due to it only being just over a foot deep.
Same same. I’ve been wanting to do it for a while but haven’t been able to get around to it until now. Two more filters on the way along with hardware to finish it out. Electrostatic curtain is around $300 so I will not be doing that for the sidings, I will likely use wood. Fan housing will have to be designed still. Possibly one fan with a baffle between the fan and filters to distribute the air evenly. Or maybe 4 electric fans on a speed controller… to be determined…
Late getting around to this so I’ll just drop some pics. Top dressed with same as last and compost. Watered in with rootwise.
Still notice a bit of color loss so I will run another CT to help them a little. Nice frost happening on all three and the seeds are really stacking the weight on.
I was reading up on KC Brains website and noticed flower times being as low as 6 weeks for indoor. I will likely take them a couple more weeks to ensure seed maturity. I had to add a makeshift trellis to keep buds off of each other and tent walls. 🫶
More to come shortly. I will be away this coming Friday for 10 days so I will do my best with keeping you all informed. Once I have a bean count I will likely do an open wiki for anyone interested. I will keep a select number for further hunting here.
Have a happy and fulfilling week ahead and enjoy what we have left of the weekend!
You pinned it. I’m heading to even hotter weather for a routine trip. I’m hoping to get a couple snips of gg4 and @BogSeeds Lifesaver to culture as well. Fingers crossed.
Enjoy the week ahead all and I hope you had a great weekend! 
I have a bunch of lab equipment purchased along with all the plant growth regulators so I’ll have an update soon with it all.
