Beautiful plant and great pictures!
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All caught up bud, you have had some sweet grows and harvests… nice job!! I’ll be following along now.
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Much appreciated! Thanks for stopping in with positivity
Much thanks! Glad you enjoyed!
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Twin City Tittes from our fella Dino Party
Around day 45-47 of 12/12
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Started dark purple buds immediately, but have turned more red, maybe maroon/burgundy.
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Less color, more frost. Smaller buds, but much more dense.
Cant tell their smells apart yet. Both smell zesty citrus and skunk to some degree. Cloned both, will definitely be running a second time to see their full potential. Feel like they had potential for much better yield; I wasn’t anywhere near perfectly dialed in this run.
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They’re looking great.
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That number two pic looks pretty neat, how they smelling at the end?
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Citrus and subtle sourness with some mild musty skunk. Both smell pretty similar now, don’t think I’ll be able to tell then apart until I grind them up a few times, smoke them a few times, which should be happening within the next week
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Hell yeah, so you like fresh nugs wit h out the cure time or do you do it for comparison?
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Eh, I guess I get a little of everything. Try to catch some notes while growing, while hanging/drying, trimming, during/after curing, while it’s old af, etc. I guess what I mean is I’m not great with smells and definitely not great at describing them, so I try to take in all the opportunities to be inspired that I can. Some strains have certain parts more or less prominent at certain points, so I don’t want to miss anything with my lame nose. I think living around growing plants makes me partially “nose-blind” to the subtleties
I usually start grinding up and smoking a little earlier than most, in terms of curing. I’ll try little buds after ~1 week drying/hanging and ~1 week of curing, for sure, but, predictably, it’s usually easiest to tell smell/taste for me closer to the usual 3-4 weeks of cure, but you get different things at different times for different strains.
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Been busy as feck with life’s many responsibilities. Exhausting. Have been neglecting my plants, pictures, and posting. Apologies (to the lovely people out there that always drop by with such kind things to say about my plants - you guys make it all worthwhile!)
Here is what i have been doing:
Slurricane#7 S1 - In House Genetics
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Not my best work, but damn are these genetics shining through anyway. #2 reminds me of a less purple MAC1- Rock hard frost nuggets, tight little pillars, maybe not the best yield, but beauty and power nonetheless
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A couple pics of my old favorite, GMC (G’s Miracle Clone/ G’s Mystery Cut). An unidentified sativa/narrow-leaf dominant star. Absolutely bursting with flavor: citrus, mango, sharpie, shampoo. Finished a few weeks ago, at ~week 9. Fast, dense, potent, but gentle, healing medicine.
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And, in veg, something I am quite excited about: a gift from a very kind member here. Sugar Cane and Deluxe Sugar Cane from In House Genetics. Let them get a tad rootbound; they were just up-potted here. Based on their vigor so far under less than perfect conditions, i have a feeling they are going to blow up now that i’m giving them the space they need.
Sugar Cane
Deluxe Sugar Cane
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I saw an interesting discussion in another thread, and was asked not to share my off-topic pontification there, so i brought it here:
Long term (multiple years+) bud storage in freezer: Why jars over vacuum bags?
There are pros and cons to each method. The most obvious: jars are less space efficient. Yes, this is absolutely true. But saving space with vacuum compression comes at the cost of compressing the bud. I can’t say that compressing the bud has any really obvious negative effects; it doesn’t. It’s just a personal preference thing. I like to keep the structure of the bud intact and true to form. I want fluffy sativas to stay fluffy. I want sticky ones to stay individual colas and foxtails, and not become smashed masses. It is a trade off: do you want space efficiency, or neurotically preserved buds? You can’t have both. I choose the latter. In a jar, you also have the guarantee that individual buds will not get crushed, bent, whatever, in transport or storage.
Strains that i love enough to want to preserve for many years, yeah, i get neurotic about it. I want them as beautiful as the day i chopped them (or finished curing them, whatever) for as long as i can. Im certainly not judging anyone who doesnt employ this method, but also please don’t assume it just never occurred to me to use vacuum/plastic bags. There is method to the semi-literal madness.
Some notes: I am a small time, hobby grower. This is just personal stock, small scale. I’m never freezing pounds of anything. I’m sure this would be a pain to scale up, or do for a business, but then again, why would anyone freeze bud for many years for a business? I agree that you will fill up a freezer fast doing this; it’s never easy to choose, like culling clones 
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You always grow the most interesting stuff, and proceed to excel at it. Always look forward to your updates.
Iv never frozen buds before, and have an empty small freezer in my mini fridge. I’m about to try it!
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Aw, thanks, my friend!! And you always have the best feedback and compliments.
Nice! Since you have extra room, it’s a nice way to preserve anything special you end up with. But if you are just trying to store a lot of just-decent bud for the dry season, I can’t argue with vacuum bags either
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You don’t compress the buds/flowers when you vac seal them man. Nobody wants to spend top dollar on compressed flower. We’re not talking about vac sealing them into bricks or anything. You vac seal right up to the point before the bud gets compressed. Removing as much air as possible for storage is always good. It’s why they purge jars with gas for storage. When flower is grown right, allowed to mature properly before harvest, and given a long slow dry/cure it’s then at its best. Freezing stops degradation. The fridge slows it down quite a bit. Sometimes someone might not have had their money for their packs for a month or so after harvest, so that’s why those packs would go into a freezer instead of the fridge. I hope this helps you understand what we were talking about.
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No thank you
This is my room of respite, per the title. You called me annoying enough to tell me to leave your thread, and then chase me to my own thread? Make up your mind.
Really, I just have no interest in having a debate with someone that emotionally reactive over weed storage methods. Jars … bags… war!!! Lol
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We’re finicky about our flower as well. We haven’t frozen anything, but all of our jars are stored in the fridge. They keep green and terpy for at least a few years. I’ve noticed that the tops have to be replaced quite often to get a decent seal if you’re in and out of them a lot. That thin film of rubber has gotten thinner over the years (shrinkflation?)
Any jar that’s not going to get touched for a while gets vacuum sealed with our Foodsaver. It’s the best way to test the seals as well. I’m running some tests with Grove bags and for the short term, they seem to be working fantastic, but we need more time on them to really figure out the long-term storage benefits.
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@Coda, yes! You do bring up a great weak point of jars- the seal. Absolutely some brands and types seem to last better. I know most brands only certify a seal for the first time, and possibly even in conjunction with a pressure differential (which I have used for other things but never bud, and so far, so good)
In my experience, the first time sealed they hold up a long time, but once you repeatedly open and close it can get sketchy, or 99% sealed rather than 100%.
I also agree nothing wrong with plastic bags/vacuum bags/turkey bags/Grove bags for 95% of use. They’re super useful all around. I can’t count the amount of things I’ve done with them. But if you want to be a weirdo and go full weed museum, I love the feel of jars. Definitely only makes sense to do jars for museum quality buds. Plenty of my stuff sits in plastic too.
Long-long term testing has yet to begin. I think my oldest batch is ~7 years, and is just a few grams. Once it’s been 20, and it’s still coming out eye-watering fresh and true to form, then I’ll feel truly confident lol
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