[Greenadian]

Those plants are starting to bulk up now Kit Kat!!!
Great work!!! Feel freeto take a lot of pictures
to share with us LOL
Cheers

[Kit Kat]

Man, life went to hell on me for a bit there. A week being sick, family emergencies, internet went out and then my camera busted last week, think the cats go to it. Seemed like everything was conspiring to keep me from posting (probably a good thing, really).

Here are the pictures from day 56:

[Kit Kat]

And a few more:

[Kit Kat]

Chopped everything on day 63 and 64, picked up a new camera and a nifty Eye-Fi card so it automatically sends the pictures back to my computer over wifi, definitely like that feature.



I wired this 4" S&P to the low setting and stuck it on my 6" Phresh filter to blow out of the tent into the general room and keep it closed up tight - there's an rH meter sitting at the very top of the tent on the middle support bars and it's shown a steady 70F and 50% rH since Sunday.

Going to leave them hanging there until Friday or so and check, hoping for a nice even dry this way. Hardly any air flow in the tent with the fan running, just enough to keep things moving and suck the smell out.

[Kit Kat]

In retrospect, there were a few major mistakes this run that I won't do again next time:

* Followed the H&G schedule as recommended and gave my ladies a pretty strong N overdose that manifested in weeks 4 and 5, next time I won't run A&B past 1.2EC regardless of what the schedule says.

* Didn't use any screens. This was bloody terrible. I wasn't able to really get in there much after week 6, and the swelling caused some branches that weren't tied to the stakes to fall into the light and burn. Ontop of that the canopy was wild, uneven, and hard to work with/see what was going on at at glance.

* Didn't gradually remove fans after stretch - looking back at my notes instead of spending 5-6 days like I had planned, somehow I ended up doing a pretty big strip down on each donut in a night each and they definitely stalled for awhile after doing that.

* Didn't have a filtered, active intake. I was using passive intakes (my open window) and this was fine up until the complex gardeners came in to start doing their job again - they spent a good Saturday cruising around ripping the place up and the next night when I was poking around I noticed some mites on the lower leaves. Hot Pest Strips set on the muffin fans kept a minimal outbreak from spreading, but I'd rather not worry about it in the future.

Edit: One more, not sure whether this was enough yet but in week 8 I cut the A&B to half strength, and all of week 9 was just RO water. After looking at how everything yellowed down I'm thinking it should've just been RO for two weeks.

[Anti]

Nice work!

Good to see you back around. Nice work.

[Kit Kat]

Thanks y'all! Looking forward to a smoke test. I dried some of the 'oops' nugs from the initial trim in the oven but that was an awful idea after actually burning it. Once properly dried this oughta keep me going until I move and get set up in a new place...

...where I'm going to try one of these suckers full up with either Pre-98 Bubba, or Ganesh. Haven't decided which yet.

[Anti]

Originally Posted by Kit Kat

I dried some of the 'oops' nugs from the initial trim in the oven but that was an awful idea after actually burning it.

When I want to oven dry something because I am desperate to smoke, I set the oven on a very low temp (100F) and then I set an alarm for every hour or so to see how things are coming.

It will still be harsh as fuck when you quick dry it, but it beats looking at a pound of herb you can't smoke.

[Kit Kat]

I might grab a branch and try that elsewhere - I did 170F (lowest I could get it) with a wood spoon propping the door open and it was crispy after an hour. Now I have this plate of tempting looking nugs that feel like death is coming for me when smoked.