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hey Hum...look what I found......makes ya wanna grow it just for the name!

Yumbolt

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First Prize Winner High Times Cannabis Cup 2001, Category: Seeds, Indica

Yumbolt brings back that old-fashioned flavor from the fabled hills of Humboldt Co. California. Possessing a sedative stone with an outdoor aroma, she will often induce heavy eyelids with a satisfying smile. From the first toke till the last the taste remains. A producer of large succulent flowers, this girl will qualify for every grower's wants and desires. Cannabis connoisseurs cannot resist her hypnotizing powers. She is believed to have originated from Himalayans of Afghanistan and climatized in the mountains of Humbolt County California in the late 70's. Several generations later in the early 90's we were blessed with the seeds and then propagated them in Holland. Sagarmatha entered her in a Cannabis Cup and received an honorable mention. An outdoor sample from a customer in 2001 had similar charachteristics as the samples smoked in Humbolt in the early 80's.

These nugs often resemble dense, slightly golden frosted pinecones. Another amazing feature is the formation of tunnels of trychromes secreted on the tiny leaves that have curled in on themselves surrounding the tops.

Yumbolt will bring you high up in the hills and let you experience some real Californian sunshine.

• Type: Indica - Sativa, indoor and outdoor
• Start flowering: 4 - 7 internodes
• Flowering time: 60 days
• Average height: 1 meter
• Yield: 350 grams / m² (dried, indoor)
• High: stoney, comfortable and dreamy
• Taste: very sweet

I bought a 600 watt hps and it sucks, got a huge plant...


4 inches tall. i can grow maybe 1 bowl on it.

i'm switching to cfls and then bud with the hps.

and I know hps is for budding but it's a hydrolux with blue spectrum.


I might have missed it but what's the total time frame from start to finish on the cfls ???

happy holidays.

Hellz yea peeps! mastakoosh! Love the avatar of yoda......

Humboldt, keep on growin! Who the F is anyone to tell us we cannot grow a plant on this here planet called earth!

Caught the end of Return of the Jedi a few hours ago.......

Your Grandfather said:

Fish Emulsion does have a..... certain, ambiance about it

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and it smells yummy and makes good health food shakes for humans.haha just noticed your post pimp, thank you. yoda is a cool little green motherfucker. as yoda always told me"carpet on shit like smells it cuz, bong the spill dont" (remember yoda talks backwards hahaha)

Thanks Chiceh, it has been the greatest of holidays for me this year...



Thanks Robbie, some updates bellow also it's hard to say I haven't bought weed in ages and what little bud I do get is pretty sweet, I will have to say a lot better than what I've got growing now, however it's still early yet to actually come to a conclusion.

What I have sampled thus far .. I would pay 30 - 40 bucks an eighth easily and it's definitely a lot better than what I'm smoking now.. shit the last time I bought weed was like 60 bucks an eighth and was the dank, for the 0 K stuff like I'm growing, I would pay 40 - 50 bucks.....

Let's just say, that I'm certain that if you were to smoke some you'd be quite happy, however the high is not quite what I was looking for, the high is more of a couchlock and I'm searching for more of an energetic..



Buds like mine or not I'm sure you'll be happy with your results cow, from what I've seen so far in your journal, looks that you will do quite well, bean and yourself .. keep up the great work!



Yeah I don't think I would personally use the emulsion indoors as I'm basically living with me plants but I'm sure it would be ok in an open area/room..



I live in Humboldt and I haven't even heard of that strain, I don't know anything about strains was never into until I started growing and I was never really into High Times, great mag though, I haven't touched a high times in quite some time but the last article that I've read was a short story submitted called "I Got Stoned/High With Big Foot" the person who submitted it received like 300$, I soo wanted to try and write a short story to submit but at the time my life style would not allow it, learning strains is next on me list..

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nugs often resemble dense, slightly golden frosted pinecones

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That's exactly what mine are like minus the gold color....

Thanks tahoe for sharing that, I will definitely be asking around.



Welcome to rollitup greenweed, thanks for visiting my journal, I do not understand your complaint with the hps, this is the first I've heard it sucks for veg.

I can not tell you the exact time frame as I started with standard fluorescent shop lights and some plants are at different stages but I can tell you that I let bushy, small and mediocre veg for over two months, witch was a big mistake using cfls.

Bushy and small has been flowering for 72 days now, just a bit shy of nine weeks witch seems about right for an indica I am going to be harvesting real soon based on hair color although the buds look like they can go longer to fill in but I do not want to chance over grow........



Thanks PIMP, lol star wars series was pretty cool, I like the first few episodes best and yeah nice avatar masta I have a few yoda pics lying around but yours beats any of mine, it's now in me favs, you definitely come up with some great avatars...







Bad & Good News! what would you like to learn first?




Ok bad news first,



F*cking mediocre split,

I went to check out the girls soon after lights had turned on and was amazed .. not surprised to find one of mediocres buds laying on the floor, I panicked, I immediately thought .. take her to the operating table and tie her up, then I noticed that she was not only laying there on the ground but has split her seems, freakin sirens went off in my head, I had to do something fast, I took the initial plan into action, while trying to untie the already tied cola I dropped it and split three of them.

You should of seen it, I took her out of the closet and rushed her to the watering table, was like rushing some one to the emergency room, as she sat there all mutilated I thought there was no hope, so I went ahead and hung the three broken colas, tied up the rest and stuck her back into closet, she will more than likely be harvested along with bushy and small or shortly after..





Now for the good news,


Now that I'm planning to harvest the rest of the plants around the same time, this will give me room for the bubblegum sooner than expected, right now they seem to be doing ok but I'm thinking the sooner I repot and put them under more lights that they will start shooting, I need more plants to continue the cycle of weed/harvests.. as it stands I'm a bit off schedule.




Three colas hanging,

The next day,

If you look at them, looks like three small plants, wicth is exactly what I'm going to be doing from now on not topping and growing smaller plants... at least until I get a hid.

I'm coming to the conclusion, that the CFL light are not adequate for growing strong vibrant plants no matter how many lights you got, I'm thinking this may have not of happened if I were using a hid but again I can not be certain as I've never grown with.

On my other hand,

I am completely satisfied as I'm only growing for myself and will probably continue to use the cfl for flowering for some time to come, I would like to try a small "SOG" (sea of green) using them...

Note To Self: .. Grow smaller plants if using CFL...

Trimmed off larger leaves,

Aftermath,

Well there's me fingerprints, come get me if you want me...

Fingers and scissors got sticky as hell and it was only like 10 minutes of work, I didn't want to wash my hands but had to so that I could handle the camera properly as it is I got the trigger a bit sticky, will have to get some rubbin alcohol to clean..

One last close up budshot,

As you can see by the hairs that she had some time to go, however I think she'll be just fine to smoke...

I have been really busy lately and this mishap had to occur in the most wrong time .. while my family are hear, I had to cover up the smell and by doing so I used some of that AXE body spray because it's pretty nasty, bought a can one time thinking I'd have a flock of chicks around me.... seem to have made them disappear, I told the family that I spilled a whole bottle of cologne on the floor, proving this to them, simply spill a bit of water on the carpet and spray a bit of cologne into it, definitely does the trick for emergency purposes... Nobody suspected a thing....

All family should be gone by tomorrow and then cut cut cut, hang hang, trim trim trim....



PS: If I haven't visited your journal lately I do apologize but I have been freaking busy, hopefully things will slow down soon hear after the new year...





Until Next Time!

humboldt the man with the plan. thanks for the avatar compliments. good to hear about your medical prowess in saving your girl. buds look good. i read your post but forgot when you are going to harvest the rest? soon? dont be so humble haha, the buds look delicious and you are a hell of a grower lol. EDIT-i see you have some family like what i had to deal with haha. except my family had to stay in the grow room. so in like a couples of days i harvested, disassembled the grow room, cleaned and hid the harvest before my pops came in haha.

your patch job on the damaged plant looks good!! that pic with all 3 plants is amazing,they look so good!! i hope my plant turns out that good!! your buds are huge.....CFL's for the win!! your plants are living proof that it can be done with nothing but cfl's

damn dude i bet u were FREAKIN when u saw ur girl like that. but congrats on the grow dude u did really really really good! u thinkin about gettin some hids?

Hum!! Stems breaking !!! WOW. At least you know you have some dense stuff there

That one cola looks huge too!!! Nice grow!!!

hey man....good job on the rebound! challenging circumstances (plants breaking and family around....) .....you walked on through it...with your head up.....good job! your nugs look great...I love the pics close up and of your fingers! hahahahaha....

Yes all always! No matter what, keep that head up and think positive. Nothing can hold us down....

Yoda, was him for halloween in 83 or 84....

knowledgeable am I, learning his wisdom, I am...



I do not have any problem eating nugs straight-up....little 100 percent juice to wash it down and we all good .

Oh man great story, glad to hear you "saved" her......lol. And those colas look bangin!! How long you plan on drying them for? And whats gonna be your curing strategie? Cant believe this grow is nearing its end......Ill be here for it!

Humboldt said:

I'm coming to the conclusion, that the CFL light are not adequate for growing strong vibrant plants no matter how many lights you got, I'm thinking this may have not of happened if I were using a hid but again I can not be certain as I've never grown with.

Note To Self: .. Grow smaller plants if using CFL...

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I'm in agreement.

Hum, as always your stuff looks great. That 1 cola looks like it weighs 9 pounds. Happy New Year bro.

Thanks for the compliments masta, harvest is coming right up, yeah freakin family, if they weren't there it probably would of been a lot less stressful and would probably saved more branches, oh well I guess it was her way of saying take me... but not all of me .. typical female..j/k I thought you had moved your plants when your family came, you decided to harvest instead eh...




Thanks cow but that aint no patch job, I didn't manage to save the three cola branches, the patch job as you called it is only support so the rest of the plant don't split..




Thanks billy, how much do you want to bet? yeah definitely getting a hid, however I don't think I'm in a big hurry specially now that I have bud to smoke, although I wouldn't mind a 400w for the bubblegum, I confused, we'll see....




Thanks jomal, looks can be deceiving, images seem to make objects look larger than they are, all these buds are pretty small actually, dense yes and no.. seems that only the top of the buds got dense and very heavy... when all said and done I will take a picture of the buds next to something to help you all distinguish the sizes.




Thanks tahoe, I hate stress .. instant stress that is, maybe I should practice that more... more pics for your pleasure bellow...




Thanks PIMP, you must be that lil guy on your block..lol.. keep coming back it works!




Hey robbie thanks, I can't believe it's time either, it's been a long but short four months, I'm going to cure by stuffing buds in sealed containers, glass and plastic, for drying I read the following,

For best results, drying should be slow and incorporate circulating, temperate (40 - 60 degrees F.), dry air. When dried slowly, over 2 - 3 weeks, moisture evaporates evenly into the air, yielding uniformly dry buds with minimal THC decomposition. These buds smoke smooth and taste sweet. Tops dried too slowly in humid air (above 80 percent) tend to contract fungus and burn poorly.

To dry, hang tops from drying lines near the ceiling in a dark room with an oscillating fan on the floor. Other growers tack plywood together to form a small room or use a large cardboard box with strings stretched between the walls to form drying lines. Circulate the air in the room/box with an oscillating fan and do not let it blow directly on drying plants, It dries them out too fast. Fungus can become a problem, especially if ventilation is inadequate. Keep constant lookout for any signs of fungus. Light hastens resin decomposition.

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I have them hanging in my bathroom witch is at a constant 57 degrees, blankets over the window, a fan and exhaust running 24 7.. I don't see how you can let them dry for 2 - 3 weeks as they are drying pretty fast as it is under the conditions I stated.. I'm thinking a week tops..

I do plan on trying several different drying and curing methods to help determine the best for me....




I glad you agree Grandfather, if not we may have problems




Thanks wb, 9 pounds I wish, I'll be lucky to get two ounces out of the hole ordeal, sounded good though.. Happy New Year!







One last shot of girls together,

Boy what's left of mediocre is going to be lonely, but she may dig all that light to herself..



The harvest - Busy & Small,

It's kinda sad to harvest these girls but I'm thinking it had to be done, if not later then now...




Bushys roots,

I forgot to take a shot of bushys roots before hand so I dug them up and took as good as shot as I could (just for u YGF)




Bushys last wet budshot,

Stand or sit by for lots of dry shots!




Smalls roots,

I don't know if bushys and smalls roots look good or not as I don't know anything about them but I'm thinking they could be looking better...




Smalls last wet budshot,

Mediocre stand alone,

A few of mediocres side buds,

The buds are sticky as hell as you are able to see in the pic..

Wells guys, I did it, I will leave mediocre in the room by herself for a few days to see if I see a noticeable difference in her growth, I probably will not keep her in there more than a week because I'd like to transfer the bubblegum there but can't until I'm able to disable the 12/12 cycle..

As this is the end of the line for the girls it's not yet the end for the journal... lot's more goodies to come, so please stay tuned!


Happy New Year!


Until Next Time!

CONGRATS HUMBOLDT! stuff looks super stank! wouldnt expect nothing less from ya. great grow man!

Hey man...I've been following your grow for a while. Very impressive mate. You grow fine plants!

Wow those roots and buds look AMAZING....happy new year to you, your fam, and your plants.....or whats left of them!

Wow you really covered all the bases for the new year!!

Root pics for YGF and plenty of bud shots.

I got a quick question for ya. I've heard that you 'cut them off', I notice you have the root balls hanging. My question is, do you think the plant will try to use every bit in there before drying out?