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DST

DST

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Surprised the FBs came out airy lad. I have always had rock solid nugs, albeit small ones....but nugs if gold all the same. Ah well, some you lose, and then some you lose lol.
 
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ghb

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DST said:
Surprised the FBs came out airy lad. I have always had rock solid nugs, albeit small ones....but nugs if gold all the same. Ah well, some you lose, and then some you lose lol.
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plant was over 6ft tall ( the plant its self not the pot included) this is not ideal for growing dense buds imo. i still got over 10 oz of bud and it hits hard but i defo need to work on the bud size/density, maybe next time we'll strike gold!.
 
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oldman60

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ghb said:
plant was over 6ft tall ( the plant its self not the pot included) this is not ideal for growing dense buds imo. i still got over 10 oz of bud and it hits hard but i defo need to work on the bud size/density, maybe next time we'll strike gold!.
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How much does temp play in bud density? my room stays in the low f70's now and it seems like the buds are
way more dense than last grow at low f80's.

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papapayne

papapayne

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oldman60 said:
How much does temp play in bud density? my room stays in the low f70's now and it seems like the buds are
way more dense than last grow at low f80's.

:peace:
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Temp definitely makes a difference density wise. With co2 you can get away with 80s, but with no co2 80s lessens density. Especially if its coupled with a missed watering
 
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papapayne

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you and me both! going to go and chop the rest of the fireballs tonight and i'll have a smoke of some jd whilst im doing it, should be fun.

been smoking nothing but fb#1 the last two weeks and i must have only smoked a half oz to myself which is about a quarter i would normally smoke, can only manage 2-3 joints a night maximum it is highly potent knockout material god knows what this 10 week stuff is going to be like but will defo have chunkier buds thats for sure


just make sure you do a better job of supporting them than i did, they stretch a fair bit but not in a bad way, they have pretty tight nodes but grow at least double their original size.
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good to know :)
 
ghb

ghb

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i don't even bother trimming any more fuck that!.

like you say, one of these plants on your own trimming to the bone would take you around 4-5 hours. i remove as many fans and stuff that doesn't have resin on it then trim as and when i want after it dries, definitely not ideal but makes life manageable.

even doing this can take up to an hour a plant, starting at 1am and having to be up for work at 7 is a killer but it's just worked out that thats the way i have been doing things lately, seems like i have more and more to do every day, god help those of you with kids. lol
 
papapayne

papapayne

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ghb said:

finally chopped the last 6 plants, there were some big ones in there, couldn't get them through a door if i tried.
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Well fuck me them some sticky frosty bitches brother!

Seems like the JD has some pretty widely varying pheno's...all 3 of my look pretty different from each other and those ones you had!

Anxiously awaiting smoke reports!!
 
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ghb

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all of my flowers came out a lot less dense than usual, i am blaming the old lights i was using and the fact that i never fed them as much as i normally would.

i was expecting the jakes dream to be a bit fluffy due to it being a sativa but even the blue pit and exo came out not as solid as usual, this is how i know i did something wrong.

yield was monumental but quality wasn't up to my usual standards, i must have thrown half a kg of dried bud in the trash. i'm not into making hash these days and that was pretty much all it was good for i realise this was a massive waste and i even had people telling me off for doing so as they would have been happy to smoke or sell it. i just don't like anybody knowing that i don't grow 100% dank lol.

still got near 100 oz of passable buds from 4x 600w lights so the grow was definitely a success. this is the biggest gpw i have had in years, i suppose fluffier buds than usual is the price i pay for being greedy and over vegging the plants. at least i got to experience the flavours and the highs the strains had to offer and i will run them all again because they will at least get a fair shake before i cull the ones i dont want to keep around.

Jakes dream #1+2: both intense sativas, very fruity/spicey like a typical haze if you will, one had bigger buds and one was denser than the other with smaller clusters. both have resin and great bag appeal.
they were both very potent smokes, you have one or two tokes of a joint and it slaps you right in the face, i mean you literally feel your cheeks pulsating and and behind your eyes gets a bit fuzzy. the effect is a quick roller coaster and tends to not have much body to it which is surprising considering the jake blues is the dad. it has the terpene profile that a lot of smokers round these parts go wild for so if i can make it do what i think i can it should enjoy success in my garden.

Fireballs #1+3: one was an 8ft tall beanpole and the other a 5ft bush but both were more or less identical in terms of resin and terps, the shorter plant had ever so slightly less resin but the buds were a lot bigger and i think the overall yield was nearly double that of the taller pheno.
the smell is quite distinguishable, it's is kind of like a fresh baked pastry combined with diesel and a quite sour musty funk. the flavour however is a completely different animal, i was finding it almost tasted like glace cherries, a hell of a lot sweeter than i was expecting. the flavour when it was freshly harvested was nowhere near as strong but after a good cure it has really come out. both plants had very lightweight nugs and pretty much all of the weight was in the resin.

Fireballs #2: this one was the same in terms of aroma but the buds weighed about 5x that of the other two phenos, branches were snapping left, right and centre under their own weight. they were a lot denser but didn't seem to have the same resin content. the flavour is also how it smells, quite chem tasting almost acrid. not the most pleasant sounding but it is an acquired taste, i have some people who preferred it, especially for the fat nugs. it was in between the other two phenos in terms of stretch, definitely a great yielder.

Gringo: this was probably the star of the show for this grow, big fat rocks dripping in resin that no pot head could resist!. the smell is almost identical to the exo with a little more liquorice/ anisette. this finished up the densest of all the plants but i'm still undecided as to what the background is. the high is an unusual one, it is very body dominant and you can only really smoke 1 or 2 joints before it stops having as much of an effect. i have heard it is a CBD cheese and i could well believe it because the i think it is lacking thc, the high is there but it is a lot different to what i'm used to and it doesn't give me a headband like most strains i smoke.

Blue pit and exo have been run more times than i care to remember. they always come out dank and this was no exception, maybe a bit fluffier than usual but dank non the less.
 
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oldman60

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Very nice smoke report, I have 2 of the strains growing now (Jake's and Blue Pit)
and I really appreciate the report and I added a 5th 600 to the room (2nd week of flower)
and temps are staying in the mid-70's I' looking forward to a good harvest although I
found a few "balls" on a couple plants only 3 single flowers were open so not much pollen
got loose I hope.

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oscaroscar

oscaroscar

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Stunning as usual mate.
I'm giving coco a go this round and so far I like it. It's a bit slower growth wise than I'm used to but the flower development is just were it should be for the time they've been flowering.
I am also trying silica but I guess I won't notice that until week five
 
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oldman60

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oscaroscar said:
Stunning as usual mate.
I'm giving coco a go this round and so far I like it. It's a bit slower growth wise than I'm used to but the flower development is just were it should be for the time they've been flowering.
I am also trying silica but I guess I won't notice that until week five
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The silica show's in the strength of the branches and stress resistance.

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