I apologize for my lack of updates. The wife and I have began harvesting the hash plant ladies last Sunday. Between her and I both it takes about 10 hours to top shelf trim 2 plants. We basically start around 8-9 AM and trim until 5 or 6 PM with lunch and bathroom breaks. The wife does all the fine detail trimming. I strip the plants of all fan leaves and get the branches as naked as I can with scissors before I clip the branch off. Basically by the time the branch is clipped you're not clipping entire leaves off anymore from the center vein. It's just a haircut from the outside closing in on the flower. Once the branches are removed the wife finishes them off and places finished buds on a large 32 gallon trash can lid. Once it fills I move the buds to one of 2 Hydrofarm STACKIT! drying nets. Sometimes if there's a backup of trimming to do I will hop on and manicure trim with the wife. We've watched fear thy neighbor from season 1 episode 1 all the way through the final episode of the final season. It's entertaining and keeps the mind off the mundane back breaking work of trimming for 10 hours straight. All but 1 of the hash plant ladies have been chopped down, trimmed, and I no longer want to know any of my neighbors
I'll report the final number when I have it next week. 7 plants left to take down. 5 gigantic maui waui's, 1 black widow, and 1 hash plant that needed a little more ripening time are what remains. This time of year with humidity taking a nose dive the buds are drying in about 4 days. 5 at most. This is the 3rd time I have run hash plant and this is the best it has ever turned out. The plant directly under the 660W LED absolutely performed as well as plants of the same strain under the 1000W HID lamps. The flowers were all rock hard and as dense as I've observed on hash plant out of all 3 flower cycles running it. Quantum LED boards are definitely on the level. I will be removing the 450W spider farmer unit from Nursery B and installing it into the flower room directly next to the 660W 'baba Q board. The Grandevo CG and Venerate CG caused absolutely no problems with flavor or burn quality. Out of 3 total attempts this is the best hash plant has ever turned out. The density and potency has improved noticeably. It was a nice final farewell performance for a strain I have grown to despise
Here are some pictures I've taken over the last week from the nurseries and flower room:
Trim drying
Cleared all of the first net already. It dried in about 4 days. Just trim on the bottom. Lots of fucking trim
Including the trim tier all but 3 tiers were filled on both nets from the hash plant ladies that were harvested.
Nurseries:
That big bitch on the front right is Jager. I'm chomping at the bit to empty the flower room, bleach it out, lay out my new 16 MIL 12'x16' tarp, add the 450w Q board you see in the photo below, and move these big bitches in there as soon as I can. I will veg the plants for another 2 weeks to let them bush out a bit more. I will clip clones for the following cycle before the 12/12 flip.
T5 nursery:
25# of calcium nitrate just arrived! The only additional fertilizer I use that is not pictured is Epsom salt. Nothing more other than treating my water with Southern Ag's BFF for sterility.
Blue Dream babies: Transplanting them into hempie buckets next watering.