SuperSkunk Manifold

[H.A.F.]

Oh i know better than to base my plants off yours , way too many variables at play to even consider that lol

I think i am gonna stick with the plan we discussed, i will let the Atomic go longest.

I will chop 3 of the fruit punch at different stages of finished. I love me some couch lock, so leaving one or two till amber wont kill me either lol

I honestly think i still got 3 weeks left atleast, the tops are looking developed ofcourse, but everything below the very tops are still throwing white pistils everywhere and have very little red hairs.

Yup, I started seeing a few brown pistils below the canopy - which is why I made my guess. I know it isn't ready today. Other than that it's a guess.

Mine are still white on the outside, but remember that those parts are away from the light. I have some reds on almost everything the light hits directly including lower, but on the inside parts, so I'm thinking the rest will follow shortly.

 

[H.A.F.]

It's tough to get pictures of what you are actually seeing. In 2 days the tops are about half red, and the ones that aren't are really spindly like it won't be long. The lower stuff still has mostly thick pistils.

 

[H.A.F.]

Thinking out loud:

I looked back through here and Feb 5th was my first mention of a red pistil, but I wasn't sure if it was a leaf tip (wasn't)

Hippie-rule of 21 days puts the "prime" harvest date at the 26th. I won't chop before that. I think for me (now that they are getting there) it will be based more on leaf health. Sometimes you can actually watch the sugar die on the leaf if the nute excess or deficiency gets bad.

I am watering tonight, which puts either the next watering or feeding at about the 21st, so I actually have no decision to make as far as the future of this plant until then. - If at that point it looks like it is a few days from harvest it should be pretty evident.

So at that point I can either water again with no nutes, or give her another feeding and push her farther along.

I can tell good weed from bad, but I have never been the connoisseur to the point that flushing to get rid of the chemical taste ever made a difference to me. Doing it to plump up the buds and kill off leaves in the process is a different question.

So you starve the nutes, get the buds frostier trying to attract more pollen and do their job.
But if they already look tasty, how much will you really gain by starving her, to get frost, rather than feeding her and encouraging growth and trying NOT to kill leaves, or better yet, harvest the bitch because it is good - and start flowering your next plant sooner?

 

[H.A.F.]

Anyway...
FREE WEED!!!
Here is an update specifically for @Blakey so I don't clog up @diggs99 's thread.

That pic I posted that had the one weird shoot out of the top basically ended up like growing a regular plant because I effed it up.
It is healthy as hell, and has a trunk the size of my pinky already. This is from a set I took 12/9, (plant I harvested New Years day) and it took until 12/27 to see roots in a solo-cup and transplant - so far so good. It took forever for them to produce shoots because I didn't remove the small week3 buds. I thought the new shoots somehow came out of those buds or something.
I didn't know shite, and all the damn videos you find are about how to get them rooted. Yeah, I DID that part, NOW WHAT!

Live and learn, 1/27 - 2/9 on these snip-to-root, but only a week later I have the shoots going. The other thing I just did a few days ago was to start snipping away the old leaves. I found a few shoots trying to grow that were hidden. I don't think you'll have that issue on a re-veg like you are doing, but it does help for regular flower-clones.

 

[H.A.F.]

The other thing on the monster-crop clones is that you cant keep them dry-ish like a seedling where you try to encourage root growth. like giving it a cup here and a pint there. This grow I have put them on the same "soak-&-dry" schedule as the other clone. They don't drink as much, but it also compensates for the evaporation, and the multiple shoots it is trying to develop. We'll see if it works, but so far so good.

 

[H.A.F.]

I did a closer inspection, and once you get past the leaves getting direct light the most, it's not that bad.

Since I am just doing this for me, that damn "hobby grower" like I hear some bitching about why push it? So I am trying just raising my lights. It is a 260qb, so why should I try to get it as close as possible and keep the heat right on the edge? Listening to "how to get fatter buds" from people online.

Nothing drastic but I changed the distance about 6"

 

[diggs99]

they are beefing up nicely

 

[H.A.F.]

Also thinking about the random stuff I posted above, the GDP clone is flipping as we speak.

 

[H.A.F.]

And the triplets have the 2 135's to themselves. I raised them also.
Now it's just watching temps, and maybe lowering them a little to keep it mid-70's
Yes, those are onions...

 

[H.A.F.]

 

[H.A.F.]

We'll see if it makes any difference, but I am doing nothing special to the GDP clone. No flush (hasn't had but a few veg feeds) and no flower feed yet. Watered this morning, and next feed will be a 'first week of flower' feed. I am seeing if any of that stuff just adds stress, or is a necessary part of the whole gig - since I am not trying to force-feed nutes for maximum whatever...

 

[H.A.F.]

On this pic you can see the browns poking out of the lower parts.

 

[H.A.F.]

Polar vortex went through

Actually, I've seen much frostier, but those lower pistils on the big buds and the tops of the lower buds are all showing reds. Looks to be ripening evenly.

 

[H.A.F.]

I think I will have more skunk than I know what to do with.

And considering this, I think I may just let this current skunk harvest goooooo looooong. I thinknthe room will be crowded and harvested early for these, so I'll have both early and couch-lock in quantity LOL

 

[H.A.F.]

My invention. First I came up with the idea so I could weigh whole limbs (during drying) without laying them in a bowl. With the addition of a kitchen scale I can weigh a whole plant, just change the hook.

When I harvest I wash the buds, and afterward you need a fan blowing on them until they dry back off.
So before that I clean and weigh each limb to make sure I am not putting excess moisture in the drying room with them.

I also know that you can expect to keep 20% of your cleaned harvest weight. I think that factors in stems, but I have weighed a handful of dried stems after snipping off buds, and they really don't weigh as much as you'd think.

Using that math, if I know what the starting weight was, I can monitor the drying progress by weight. Once it gets to about 30% I get rid of any exposed stems, sort it by general size, and check the rH of each.

I shoot for 62% since that is what the Boveda packs I use are. If it is 70% or above, I toss it back on the drying screen.

Once I get it in the 60's I jar it and start burping and checking rH with an inkbird. I'll leave it on the drying rack a little less each day for it to air out before getting re-jarred. Make sure the packs are not in the jar when you check the humidity! Air it out first, and the jar, then put it back in and check. Feel it when you have it out. It should feel dry before you trust it to the burp-a-week curing.

Using the 62% packs I have yet to have mold issues.​

 

[H.A.F.]

I did a little spreading on this one. I have been neglecting her because I hate messing with them in flower, but there were fat buds touching each other

 

[H.A.F.]

If it hasn't been mentioned, I am retired. I am an outside person, but it has been cold and rainy out so screw that!

I have been planning and working on upgrades. I'll detail my drying "closet" when I get the upgrade on it finished.

 

[diggs99]

Nice updates as usual Haf

the invention is cool, i didnt realize you were a bid washer, ive watched pigeons420 do it on youtube with lemon juice and baking soda.

I too have stopped messing with my girls since the stretch finished, but am also seeing alot of buds covering buds, im thinking i may carefully tie down a few branches to open up a few spots

 

[H.A.F.]

Nice updates as usual Haf

the invention is cool, i didnt realize you were a bid washer, ive watched pigeons420 do it on youtube with lemon juice and baking soda.

I too have stopped messing with my girls since the stretch finished, but am also seeing alot of buds covering buds, im thinking i may carefully tie down a few branches to open up a few spots

If it was summer and high humidity I would be more concerned, but I don't think there is any possibility of mold or bud-rot in 30% rH

But as they transpire and release moisture naturally, touching buds can be an issue. Even if there is no mold or rot, they just don't get ripe right.

 

[diggs99]

Ya i hear you

I am still having to run my humdifier with lights on to keep RH up to 45-50%

if i shut it off the rh drops to like 25-30 in there, but the issue then obviously is the temps rising