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PC Grow DWC:My First Grow

JlMH4LPERT

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DAY63 Flower : HARVEST!

DAY63 Flower : HARVEST!



Sheila (large plant) and Little Jerry Seinfeld (seedling) before the cut...



Our freshly cut buds in the bottom left picture you can compare Little Jerry
vs Sheila



Plants post harvest in case, I trained them after this picture and raise them to the light and the remaining buds will see 12/12 for a couple weeks and will hopefully fill in. I trimmed the stems down as close to the next budsites as possible...



So its nothing to brag about but here is the much anticipated harvest fresh cut and ready for curing... We wont know for sure the official weight since we will be water curing but id say just under a 1/2 if air cured.


So my first taste (or lack there of) of water cure is also going to be our first harvest, a sacrifice well worth it for its stealthiness especially with a road trip in my near future. Buds are completley submerged in water and held suspended in our bucket by closepins.

The freshly trimmed buds smell absolutely wonderful plus a planty smell and at 100x I can still see fields of the trichs intact on the bud (scoped out some of my boys local bought sour diesel today and its sad to say that my trichs were looking much nicer than his were):D

Rkrone, we have about 24 hours for a nice dry... what would you think are our options for drying?​
 
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Guest

well i would have to say a heat source of some kind because common sense says that plant matter that has sat in water for the last week will not air dry in 24 hrs....i have never had to push it to dry within 24 hrs so i am a little lost o solutions, steam drying is always an option and if done correctly is very effective.


this method is mainly utilized when wanting to get a quick sampler bud and smoke it pretty much right off the branch so its safe to assume that this will indeed work for you guys.
steam dry technique

i have tried this method and it does work very well, however the size of your beginning product shrinks drastically during this process, no potency is lost it just looks smaller than when you started.
 
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Sammet

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Jim and Dwight, congratulations on your grow - it's been a pleasure to watch :) good luck in the future guys and I hope we see you around with another soon. k+

arf You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to JlMH4LPERT again.
 

JlMH4LPERT

Member
WaterCure Day2

WaterCure Day2


This is the first of 6 water swaps in the cure, before/after shots

(Don't make the mistake of dumping the water out the window its stinky)
 

JlMH4LPERT

Member
WaterCure Day3

WaterCure Day3

gettin around halfway there and im getting antsy... :joint: no pics today water looked slightly darker than yesterdays before dumping. when the buds were out of the water (while we changed the water) we smelled the buds and can only describe it as a "cucumber-like smell". But so far so good buds have been totally submerged and in a dark place (except when we get nosy).

looking forward to a smooth smoke...
 
I just read the entire thing, it reminds me of my last grow, MICRO style!

Keep up the good work, and tell us how it smokes..

thanks,
le4chnation
 

JlMH4LPERT

Member
WaterCure Day4

WaterCure Day4


Before dump/after water change

Buds still smell like what i can describe as cucumber smell water being dumped smells like bud/freshcut grass...
 

JlMH4LPERT

Member
WaterCure Day5

WaterCure Day5

Ok so our buds smell kinda nasty... and so does the water, and i dont mean the good kinda stink but the kind that smells like chlorophyl...



Todays water change before/after shots (waste water seems less green today)



Quick shot of the buds on Day5, which I have not been checking until today but are now sinking in the water.
 

JlMH4LPERT

Member
WaterCure Day6

WaterCure Day6


Before/after shot this is the last water change before drying... thinking a hot place and a box fan can do the trick in one day...



Our buds out the of water (looking darker and smaller today)

I dried out a bud today and gave it a puff, def nice clean smoke leaving some white ash only in the bottom of the bowl :D As for taste, nothing to brag about but certainly nothing to complain about. Exhaled smoke smelled of trace amounts of smoke but can be easily masked by just about any smell.
 

JlMH4LPERT

Member
Finale... Pt1

Finale... Pt1

Ok so my bad im gettin ready for a big trip as you guys know and the water cure was a complete sucess!

On the last night (about 6 hours before hung dry) someone in the room was eating a clementine, our buds still smelled like pickles/cucmbers so we got experimental with the peals and put about half of the clementine peel into the water and viola! we have a smooth smoke with a citrus twist.

as for the smoke report... i think our buds were prematurely harvested but needed to be anyways but do however do the trick. It makes you want to get up and go for a walk its kind of an unexpected high but is def more of a "headie" experience to it.

So we had this celebration in which we took pictures unfortuneatly not on my cam so will post pics soon...

Thanks for our your help you guys and Dwight will be finishing the rest of the grow so def tune in for finale Pt2!
 
G

Guest

i know exactly what you mean about the clear-up high...what i found is really nice is to mix it with some local lower grade stuff and voila the intense stone and none of the tired down after effects
 

Sammet

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heh, I know about that high too - my poor hermie twilight smokes like that, shame it's super weak :(
 

kovenant

Member
great grow story, and great success with your 1st micro grow. just read the whole thing... probably while you're out on your road trip! this makes me sit on the edge of my seat anticipating each step of my own 1st grow. im in veg and behind on updating... so this inspires me to get my updating done asap. :)

awesome job gents. enjoy!

:headbange
 
Ok, I'll be the one finishing off the second harvest. She's made the stressful trip and is now resting comfortably in her new home. Last few days have been crazy, light schedule got screwed up a few times, had to take a car ride, etc. But she's ok now and I'll be getting some pictures up relatively soon.
 
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JlMH4LPERT

Member
How can you distinguish the difference between a hemp plant and a thc producing cannabis plant?

In my travels i came across this plant...
(picture posted soon)
 
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