I’ve been trying to avoid this update, but I suppose I have to admit that there’s no deus ex machina coming here; the plants still aren’t even particularly close to dry three weeks later. If you want God to laugh at you, tell him your plans. It’s not hot anymore, at least relatively speaking, but the humidity’s still been off the charts. Today’s the first day in ~2 weeks that it’s been under 70% in the house, and it’s better in here than outside. For most of that time it was raining or near 100% humidity.
As far as fridge drying, I decided not to bother with it. I tried drying those seeded GG4 buds in the fridge; after a week in there I took them out, cracked them and germinated them. At least, I tried. Out of the 5 solid-looking seeds I tested, 3 didn’t make it; on one of them the seed cracker obviously failed and crushed the seed rather than cracking. The other two that failed seemed fine, but that’s the most likely candidate I can think of, since if they were inviable from the fridge they all should’ve been inviable - seems like they were crushed rather than cracked because they weren’t dry yet, even after a week in the fridge. Either way, that didn’t seem like it was gonna get it done in time even if it went perfectly. It’s now pretty much impossible, with 12 days to go before the deadline.
I’ll keep the seed plants labeled and move them into another room soon - we need the tent to flower actual living plants now, my partner’s jars have been empty for a month or so and mine are getting there. Worst case, they will definitely be plenty dry by winter. If people are extremely eager to start growing them I may send some out before the co-op boxes, but otherwise I guess you’ll just have to wait a little longer for what seems like the longest, most drawn-out co-op run ever to finally finish up. If you guys are anything like me, at least half the people signed up won’t have room to grow them any time in the near future anyway - my eyes are bigger than my fridge, which itself is much bigger than my grow space.
Buck up little camper the sun will shine again, time to reload and try it again! We are all still rooting for you and success. Don’t take it so hard, as we have all had it happen just hang in there!
Kind of a mini-update… the plants are finally most of the way dry, though we were already gonna be pushing into September, past the deadline - so at this point I figured another week doesn’t matter, since we were already working pretty late yesterday. My partner should be able to finish shucking them within a few more weeks, but we were moving the plants out of the tent to hang somewhere else and a bud dropped in the process. It didn’t crumble as easily as he was hoping, but he broke up that one bud and it seems they’re pretty full of seeds. Looks like about 80 from a bud I’d expect to get one or two bowls out of, normally.
In the meantime, if anyone wants to follow along I’ll be logging my next grow here; I’m growing out the clones of the three females from this run for bud, along with two new GG4 RILs I’m testing and a MAC1 clone. Not much to say about them yet, just flipped the lights yesterday. Really today, I guess, since we worked late yesterday and didn’t actually get the lights off till 10pm - they’re supposed to go off at 7, so they only got about 10 hours of darkness last night. Here’s a group pic to start, of course:
Individuals of the Silver Mountain girls, though they aren’t really too interesting yet. #2 and #5 are the bigger and stretchier ones, #3 was both more compact growth, and is also smaller because my partner was trying to train it and went a bit too far, killing a quarter of the plant or so. It’s only had a week to recover, but hopefully during stretch it’ll be growing back a bit more to compensate for the lost foliage, since the roots weren’t damaged.
The seed plants aren’t moldy still. As far as updates on them, that’s about all I can say. Most of last week was 80-100% humidity outside again, which ends up being about 65-70% in the house. Even if they were dry though, I’m not sure we would’ve had time; my partner and I spent most of the time we did have figuring out the plan for our next grow and moving pots around. He’s training to be able to move 10 gallon pots with just his mind, but in the meantime we still have to carry them. Next week will be transplants, so it won’t be happening then either. Maybe in ~2 weeks, depending on how many rainy days we have between now and then, I’ll push him to finally break them down.
I wasn’t gonna update at all, honestly - that last paragraph felt like it wasn’t really saying much, other than lots of words - but it looks like the server update’s been fixed so we can upload 5 pics at once now. Maybe it was always working in my browser, I can’t really remember whether it was already active last week and I’m not using Tor… Anyway, that’s at least enough that I can post pictures of plants without having to fight the forum software like I was thinking I might, so here goes. Group shot first, of course:
On to the individuals of the Silver Mountain clones. #2 and #5 are still much bigger, but it seems like they all had fairly equal stretch. There’s never all that much when you have this many tops, anyway; stretch is something that happens to big central-cola plants much more than plants that’ve been topped 5 times, in my experience. #3 does seem to have gotten more growth in general, but that’s probably more about having a branch ripped off two weeks ago than genetic differences. Maybe there’s a bit more stretch on #5 than #2, looks like about 5-6 inches of growth last week vs ~4, and also about 4 on #3. They’re just barely starting to flower, as far as seeing pistils, so might still see some stretch over the next week as well. The room still smells mostly “green” - lots of transpirating leaves, not much in the way of buds yet. We’re gonna be focusing a bit more on defol this time as well; my partner just did round one for flower, with two more rounds to come at the end of week 3 and week 5 or 6.
That’s a nice tent ! Once I renew my lease I’ll probably invest in a larger soil bed and maybe a larger tent. Just seems easier to walks inside of lol !
Looking good my dude. Going to be a lot of seed separating did you get to build the tool for it ?
Looks like I missed last week… the plants continued to grow, surprisingly enough. The seed plants continued to hang, also not surprisingly. We’ll see if I can get my partner to spend some time with them today. The sensi run is starting week 4, and I moved up another clone of Silver Mountain #5 because we didn’t have enough 10 gallon pots to transplant her and she’s getting fairly big for 3g. That was last week, so she’s 2 weeks behind and starting week 2 now. They’re getting defoliated right now, but I took pics before that started and I’m lazy, so those are the pics you’ll be getting. As usual, group first:
Individuals… didn’t even notice it last week, but the grid format appears to have disappeared. Maybe it’s buried in a menu somewhere, and I’ll be adventurous enough to go looking for it another time, but right now it looks like we don’t get nice manageable thumbnail sizes anymore even for pic dumps like this. Ah well. They’re flowering like I was expecting based on the seed run; #2 and 5 are stretchy, with large buds that are probably pretty fluffy, while #3 is staying more compact with very slightly smaller buds that probably won’t be as fluffy. Looks like #3 could be the winner on yield despite being smaller, we’ll have to see; dense buds definitely make a difference on that, though. I messed up the order of the pics, but I think I’ve managed to sort them out so I’m posting these in order… which, looking back at the last few posts, seems to be 2->5->3. May as well stick with that, I guess.
Update time! Starting week 5; the smaller Silver Mountain #5 that was just starting to flower is back in veg, because that’s also the plant that had an accident during transplant and we lost the other clone. That was actually last week, so it was only a week into flower and shouldn’t be too stressful. Everything else is going generally as planned. Here’s the group pic:
Individuals; #2 and #5 still seem pretty similar, with #2 maybe flowering a tiny bit faster based on the pistils. #3 is starting to stand out as a fast flowerer, most of the pistils are turning dark already. I wondered if we were having trouble with leftover pollen at first, but none of the other plants are turning, which they should be if they were all accidentally pollinated. I sprayed pretty thoroughly between runs, so I’d be surprised if any was left viable. We’ll find out in a few weeks if I’m wrong, I guess.
Update time… starting week 6 today, I guess? I was about to put 7, then corrected myself to 5 (which is still wrong), but the plants probably don’t care if I can count. Maybe next week I’ll decide to count it in binary just to switch things up and keep myself confused, dunno. Anyway, I apparently switched the lights over on 8/25, so that is what it is. Here’s the group pic:
Individuals… #3 has almost entirely red pistils by now, and #5 is starting to turn. #2 still only has a few, so I’m guessing it’ll probably be the longest-flowering despite having less stretch than #5. We’ll see; in the end, potency is gonna make the decision for me on which one, if any, to keep. The other Silver Mountains I’ve run have been pretty inconsistent on that, with some of them I wouldn’t be surprised to see it was actually 5% THC, never mind 15-25%. One of them seems like it was actually better on the raw THC than most of our GG4 RIL grows have been, but whichever one it was I didn’t manage to keep a clone; we’ll see how these three come out.
Starting week 7, so I guess that means it’s update time - might as well toss up a few pics. They smell much stronger this time than on the seeded run, not just when I’m doing defol or knocking branches around but every time I step into the room; more of a flowery, perfumey smell this time than woody. Apparently that’s the ocimene, which I’m hoping is a good sign for the effects. Anyway, group pic first:
Pistils on all three are done, so it looks like killing the males at week 6 was the right call on the seed run; wouldn’t have gotten anything else out of them at that point. At this point all three are just gonna be swelling for the last few weeks, I guess; we’ll have to start checking the crystals on #3 soon, the way it’s looking. It might actually be done by 8 weeks, if we’re lucky.
Lookin good man! Ive read varieties with ocimene have a lot of medical benefits, a lot of dynasty genetics strains have it. Bet youre psyched to finish them up - doing the OP and then clones after for bud is a long process!
It’s not hot anymore, at least relatively speaking, but the humidity’s still been off the charts. Today’s the first day in ~2 weeks that it’s been under 70% in the house, and it’s better in here than outside. For most of that time it was raining or near 100% humidity.
If you guys are anything like me, at least half the people signed up won’t have room to grow them any time in the near future anyway - my eyes are bigger than my fridge, which itself is much bigger than my grow space.
will shine again, time to reload and try it again! We are all still rooting for you and success. Don’t take it so hard, as we have all had it happen just hang in there! 
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Next week will be transplants, so it won’t be happening then either. Maybe in ~2 weeks, depending on how many rainy days we have between now and then, I’ll push him to finally break them down.
Anyway, that’s at least enough that I can post pictures of plants without having to fight the forum software like I was thinking I might, so here goes. Group shot first, of course:
As usual, group first:
Everything else is going generally as planned. Here’s the group pic:
