I started my Lucky Charms at only ~7w and had the best root development so far compared to the other grows with more light.
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I got another couple of heavily JLo plants bucked off and put into paper bags. These are heavily seeded and will just stay in the paper bags until they are bone dry. Seeds are heavy, but one plant was 135 grams and the other one, it was topped, was 95 grams. The runt I trimmed a couple days ago was about 55 grams and the Durban Poison I took early was only 35 grams. I have three more plants to go through, hopefully tonight I’ll get to those.
I found a small little bird seed recycler on Etsy. The price was low enough, I went ahead and bought it. If it works well for my purposes, it could save me quite a bit of time sorting all these seeds.
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Let us know if it works well! I’d trade money for time.
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Please post a pic of seed sorter 
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I’ll post pics when it gets here if it works for our purposes. 
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Got the last three plants chopped up and in paper bags. Now it’s time to get this show going. I transplanted two ICookies clones (left) and four Cherry Tart clones (center and right) into the beds and watered them in with some coconut water. I then set my timers to 12/12, set my Bluefish to “Veg” settings (75% of max), and finally configured the Pulse grow monitor to match my light levels and target VPD.
I started sampling the JLO to determine, by bioassay, if there is THC in these buds. I decided to pull out my tiny bong and load a one hitter bowl. The first one I tried, JLO 4, definitely had THC. I will also be doing Beam’s test to see which, if any, of these plants also has CBD. My Juanita la Lagrimosa mother was a 1:1 THC to CBD ratio, I would like to stabilize this in the auto form.
It’s pretty difficult to determine my GPW because I use a dimmer. I did some math to average out the wattage of my lights, and it looks like I used just over 900 kWh for this grow. I vegged for 28 days with an average ~12 kWh / day, I flowered them for 42 days on full power with an average of ~11 kWh / day, and the last 14 days I cut the power to ~8 kWh / day. My max cost for a kWh is $0.12 during peak hours, so the lighting cost is ~$110 for this whole grow. I got the following dry weights for all nine plants for a total of ~740 grams.
- JLO 3 - 80 g
- JLO 4 - 135 g
- JLO 5 - 95 g
- JLO 8 - 115 g
- JLO 9 - 185 g
- Skywalker Kush x JLO - 10 g
- JLO 13 - 55 g
- Durban Poison x JLO - 35 g
- Zak Haze x JLO - 30 g
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Free Seed Friday
This is just like it sounds, each Friday I will be giving away free seeds. The way this works is I will post up three packs of seeds. The first three people to comment “dibs” will win a pack.
This week, up for grabs are three packs of Skywalker Kush x JLO. These are regular photoperiod plants.
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Dibs. and more characters
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Yeee, I’d like to be in
!!! dibs!!
“dibs”
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Can I get 1 please? Dibs
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You didn’t comment “dibs”!
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sorry dibs
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Nice, @vesti @Abbbian and @darkillusion shoot me a DM with a shipping address and I’ll get them out. Stay tuned next week folks.
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@ReikoX, you said and really meant it! Fun Fridays!!! Love it! May good things get back to you in double!!!
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Very generous of you
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Hey, @ReikoX, thanks for adding a little excitement to the winter doldrums here in the northeast!
Very generous my friend, thanks!
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it was 39 f here that is exciting in itself 
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Ran the Beam’s test on the six female plants. First I decarbed the samples in the oven at 240°F for 40 minutes. I used cupcake tins to keep it nice and tidy.
Next, I weighed out 1.5 grams into a paper cup and added 60 ml of denatured alcohol. After setting for about 10 minutes, I added about 1 ml of to the snap top tube with a piece of activated charcoal in it.
I then added about 10 drops of reagent (95 ml denatured alcohol to 5 grams of KOH) to the snap top tube and waited about 10 minutes. Samples labeled 3 and 5 turned purple, indicating they had some CBD in them.
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