SuperSkunk Manifold

[led1k]

Free weed update:
I have the empty solo cup in the new pot to make sure the soil is about the right level. I watered about a pint in each 2 gallon pot, about half right around the cup, then let it soak in a few minutes.

When I pull the cup, I have a spray bottle ready to soak the soil inside if any is dry and to help hold the soil together and keep the hole from filling in, then I dust some Rhize-Up in the hole.

With the split cup, I water it the night before transplant then let it drain for a while (overnight) and it helps the soul stick together without waiting for it to get more rootbound.

I open it halfway then close it, roll it, then open the other side up just to make sure it doesn't stick - then replace your hand for the other side of the cup and roll it out. No turning it upside down, all the roots should just keep going, none torn or damaged, etc.
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Really love the split cup idea. Thank you

 

[H.A.F.]

Really love the split cup idea. Thank you

You cannot use my idea - there is a patent pending.



You should scan back through, I have a few other ideas I have either come up with or stolen.

 

[H.A.F.]

Pretty maids all in a row Proof that I am not completely OCD, because I could line those up nice LOL

 

[H.A.F.]

Brought it out under regular light with the intent to prune some stuff. Got a good pic, didn't prune anything. These pistils are just gradually tanning. Still have to zoom in on a pic to see brown

 

[H.A.F.]

I'm now at 75% for rooting. Last time I got 100% out of 6 but only one thrived.

 

[H.A.F.]

And the above pic and the geometry needed to get everything as much light as possible is why I just dropped $$ for another 135v2 to make full use of my tent. It's only 36x20, but the flower footprint on the 135 is 24x24, and those are always 'max'.

So with 2 I'm set for lights, but the little 4" vivosun fan won't suck that heat, so I had to upgrade the fan as well. I got the lower-end AC Infinity 6". Without all the digital control crap its cheaper than the 4" that has that.

I'll still need a carbon-filter and to cut a hole somewhere in the ceiling before I can turn it into a second flower room if needed, but I have a more in-depth project planned for permanent veg and flower rooms, So I'll have the gear ready when I have the money to tackle that.

 

[H.A.F.]

Really love the split cup idea. Thank you

If you didn't catch it earlier in the thread when I took the clones, I slice the cup before I put dirt in it. I widen the slice into two holes at the very bottom, but when you tape it back together at the top you can control how wide that gap is. The second cup just has the bottom cut out. Light prevention only.

When I do seeds, I have it pretty tight, since there is almost no water involved before I transplant. For the clones it worked better doing the wet-dry-wet thing like on older plants so I widened it up a little, then re-taped it. With the cup wider, it also didn't seat that well in the next cup, so there was natural ventilation and drainage.

 

[H.A.F.]

I tried a different way to do the re-pot as well. Soak your soil in good water (whatever that is for you) first.

After this pic, and getting the morning clones repotted, I made a note that I needed to soak them next watering because the pots were light.

When I checked the 2 still in cups one had a few roots, so I got ready for this evening repot. Instead of putting it in a mostly dry pot I soaked the pot full of soil first. Since it was virgin soil half the water just ran through and there were light/warm/dry spots around the outside of the pot. I dug in there with my hand and it was mostly dry after a gallon ran through it.

Lightbulb! That is going to keep happening until I get it soaked. I poked a bamboo skewer all around and eventually got it soaked, running the same 2 gallons through it until there wasn't much left. I dug out for the cup just to be sure, then put the cup in and used a squeeze bottle to squirt around the cup to make sure the soil was filled in around it. I let it set all day until lights-on. I has also added a little water to the solo cup when I decided to repot.

The moral of the story is that this repot was like plugging a lamp into a socket and took about 30 seconds to push the soil around the solo-cup-plug.

In the future it would be easier to just get the right amount of soil in a bucket and get it soaked first. Not enough water to make mud, but close. then use that to fill the pot to start with.

 

[H.A.F.]

I also had to make labels for my various plants to keep track of stuff. Never had to do THAT before!

Sad news though, I noted dates on the GDP clone that survived. It was almost a month from the time I transplanted to the time I saw the first weird shoot.

 

[diggs99]

man those buds are starting to fatten up and are lookin frosty.

cant wait to see the finished product for this one

 

[H.A.F.]

man those buds are starting to fatten up and are lookin frosty.

cant wait to see the finished product for this one

In that "pretty maids" pic, I just noticed how fat those lower nugs are getting. The 4 on the "lower row" are all coming from a lower shoot that I left. I thought they were early sprouts off the main colas

 

[H.A.F.]

@diggs99 , if you have plants of the same strain that behave differently towards harvest, or that you harvest at separate times, keep them separate. I can confirm from my two GDP's that were harvested a week apart.

The early one is an immediate head high, then you start about 15 projects maybe finishing one

The one that went full-term for me is a couchlock watch a full season of something on the TV - I'll have to get some pics next time I grind a bud, but it has strong pistils! I break the bud into pieces to check for seeds (LOL) then grind. The green all falls through, but usually there is a bowl-full of nothing but red-hairs that don't fall through

For me "full term" is all brown pistils, and all milky trichomes with about 10-20% amber on the tops.
The tops mature faster, and this ensures that even the larfy stuff has few clear trichomes left.
From everything I have read a "milky" or opaque trichome is at its peak of potency.
Amber trichomes are like brown bananas - overripe.
The only thing I have not been able to find is "Do trichomes lose potency after they die???"

If you find it anywhere, let me know!

 

[diggs99]

well if looking at the 3 fruit punch is any indicator, it seems FP2 is gonna finish earlier than her sisters, meanwhile FP3 looks to be running in 3rd place of that race. She seems more on pace with the Atomic, who i expect to be the last to finish.

 

[H.A.F.]

well if looking at the 3 fruit punch is any indicator, it seems FP2 is gonna finish earlier than her sisters, meanwhile FP3 looks to be running in 3rd place of that race. She seems more on pace with the Atomic, who i expect to be the last to finish.

So even if you harvest each at a different time, but at the exact same 'ripeness', there's still a good chance they will have different effects.

After they cure, do a test and see. If they are all the same, you can dump them together and forget it

 

[diggs99]

So even if you harvest each at a different time, but at the exact same 'ripeness', there's still a good chance they will have different effects.

After they cure, do a test and see. If they are all the same, you can dump them together and forget it

Yep will def do as you say, keep all phenos separate , that was my plan anyway, so i can look back and remember which plant im smoking lol

 

[H.A.F.]

Pro-tip - rubbing alcohol wipes sharpie off of almost anything. Keep notes on your storage containers.

I put the harvest date, start cure date, a 'calendar' on the top to check off for burping (7 days, then an additional day for the end of each 3 weeks) as well as the strain.

 

[H.A.F.]

Today was gardening day. I set up the seed-mat with thermostat, and a double CFL with tin pie-pans as a shield on 2 tv-tables with hinges use as braces to hook them to the wall temporarily Redneck ingenuity LOL

I started seeds for peppers, tomatoes, and herbs, but left a spot for my rootless clone.

 

[H.A.F.]

SMOKE REPORT: (long post since I didn't grow it on here)
Today was 'full-cure' for my non-herm Grandaddy Purple (by ILGM).

It was my first manifold, and even with the issues in flower, I rocked the harvest. The nute issue hit hard and fast, because of the heat (out of town for 2 days, fed before I left "to be safe"...) and I ended up giving all the fan leaves a crew cut to salvage what was left of them.

Harvested New Years Day and it was super dense. After the 7-day dry all the nugs were pretty dry to the touch

but when I jarred it with an inkbird it was still about 72%rH so I laid it out on my dry-sift screen and (covered) and it took several more days.

The stuff in the top right is what I set aside to smoke a.s.a.p. while the rest dried a little more


Today's result:

I knew from the stuff I tried early that the hairs on these had some super-power. I ground 2 smaller nugs, and the grinder looked like this after one nug

The upper right is the stuff I tapped out of the top of the grinder - after getting only the lower right amount ground - which produced the amount of kief you see in the upper left. DAMN!

Smooth, sweet, but not really a strong taste or smell. It smells like what weed smells like - which is good! I can't pick out a definitive terpene when it is ground. In the jar it has a fresh clover smell.
I did get the 'tingle-shiver' after the second hit LOL

Not real energetic, but not couch-locked. The mind is active, good evening weed I think. I have gotten up and done several things while writing this when I remember something I need to check LOL​

 

[diggs99]

That was a quick and fun rundown on that plant, those buds turned out beautiful

 

[Gollyboy]

Fair play them buds look fantastic and how much size the one you got flowering now we taking up