My Lovely Buds - Dried and Cured Buds and Stash - International Cannagraphic Magazine Forums

Elevator Man · 10-27-2006, 06:58 PM

I've been documenting a grow thread of all my mother plants over the last few months here: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=33057

I finally harvested them all on the 15th-17th of this month, and here are some shots of the best buds, dried out and curing nicely.

Northern Lights X Big Bud:

CrissCross:

G13:

Mystery Strain:

Purple and Green Flo:

Green Flo:

motaco · 10-27-2006, 07:23 PM

Those are all very pretty. Congrats man. You nl BB looks much nicer than alot of them I've seen. Must've gotten a good pheno.

SEEDYNONO · 10-27-2006, 07:35 PM

great looking nugs!

how do you dry your harvest? do you chop the plants on the wet side or dry side? buds looks great.. i can never get mine to get all the chlorophyl out of the leaves.. i think i may try chopping wet and hope slower dry time helps with that.

Elevator Man · 10-27-2006, 08:54 PM

I usually do the first trim immediately - all shade leaves with visible stalks, and bud leaves with no resin are cut off and discarded. Then I trim them again to get all the bud leaf with resin attached - just to the bud line.
After about five days hanging, they're dry enough to be manicured again, and removed from the branches. After another couple of days air-drying, I give them one final manicure, just to really get them tight, and put them in the jars. They've only been in the jars for five days so far.
You don't need to be that fussy, but as I'm making bubblehash, there's now an extra incentive to get those buds trimmed right down.

The NL X BB is a great pheno - I had to wrestle it from the clutches of some tight hippy I know, and it was the worst-looking clone I've ever got. It took me a month just to get it to grow new leaves. But it's a great plant - smells similar to my 'mystery' strain, but softer and sweeter and less fuel-like - more earthy/yeasty. And it's not too couchy either, although it's usually the last one of the night for me.
My only complaint (and it's hardly a complaint), is that when you do it SCROG-style, it can't really cope with the number of buds. I think it prefers to do a few very large colas rather than lots of smaller ones. However, they were all perfectly done, and are rock-hard.

The mystery strain I'm becoming more and more convinced is some kind of diesel/kush offshoot, rather than an NL variant - now I've read up and seen a lot more pics of the diesel family, it looks very familar, apart from the faster flower time of mine - 8 weeks maximum. Also it's been around here since around '91, but it's so long ago, the two guys I know who got it have no idea of its origins any more. Shame that - but I'm still using that one as the basis for my first cross - it's so perfect it hardly needs any improvement at all.

Renovatio · 10-27-2006, 10:37 PM

god damn, you bastard those are amazing

narniachronic · 10-27-2006, 11:40 PM

amazing looking buds!! keep up the great work.

robin · 10-30-2006, 01:07 AM

They are making my mouth water,how did it smoke??

10-30-2006, 01:24 AM

Lovely indeed!

:smile:

Elevator Man · 10-30-2006, 02:35 AM

I'm just on the NL X BB and Mystery strain as a combo - delicious! They are similar in taste/smell, and more narcotic than the others. They've taken a while in the jars to really settle down, but the taste and strength of all the varieties are really improving now. The CrissCross is like a spicy/peppery/tangerine smell, whilst the G13 is a kind of weird mix of grapefruit/toffee and meat! The Flo is like apple jam and incense. A bit off-the-wall with the descriptions, but that's what comes into my head...

I don't know about anyone else (I rarely read anyone posting about it), but does anyone 'cocktail' weeds together when smoked? I always find myself mixing them up - with five to choose from there's a lot of permutations!
But as I'm planning to cross Flo with my mystery strain, I've been smoking the two in combination, to try and get a rough idea of what the taste/high might be like - a bit crude, but it's a good enough excuse!

robin · 10-30-2006, 09:31 PM

excellent idea lol,i have seven weeks to wait yet,but counting the days oh and hope my buds end up looking something like yours.

10-27-2006, 06:58 PM	#1
Elevator Man Mentor Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Great Britain Posts: 4,657	My Lovely Buds I've been documenting a grow thread of all my mother plants over the last few months here: https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=33057 I finally harvested them all on the 15th-17th of this month, and here are some shots of the best buds, dried out and curing nicely. Northern Lights X Big Bud: CrissCross: G13: Mystery Strain: Purple and Green Flo: Green Flo:
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10-27-2006, 07:23 PM	#2
motaco Old School Cottonmouth Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: The road to Nowhere. But it's a long way away and it's going day by day so it's alright. Posts: 2,200	Those are all very pretty. Congrats man. You nl BB looks much nicer than alot of them I've seen. Must've gotten a good pheno. __________________ The point I'm trying to make here... is that there there ain't no point to it. Thats all it is. Because there ain't no point. You didn't ask to come here and you sure can't choose how to leave. You don't know when you're going to go. So don't take this shit serious now. You better have some fun and plenty of it. Because when the shit is over and you ask for a refund its too late. All I can tell you is to keep some sunshine on your face. -Mudbone
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10-27-2006, 07:35 PM	#3
SEEDYNONO Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 1,388	great looking nugs! how do you dry your harvest? do you chop the plants on the wet side or dry side? buds looks great.. i can never get mine to get all the chlorophyl out of the leaves.. i think i may try chopping wet and hope slower dry time helps with that. __________________ -"act real as if you know. cause if you show you don't, you wont. if you show you don't, you won't. what's it all about?"
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10-27-2006, 08:54 PM	#4
Elevator Man Mentor Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Great Britain Posts: 4,657	I usually do the first trim immediately - all shade leaves with visible stalks, and bud leaves with no resin are cut off and discarded. Then I trim them again to get all the bud leaf with resin attached - just to the bud line. After about five days hanging, they're dry enough to be manicured again, and removed from the branches. After another couple of days air-drying, I give them one final manicure, just to really get them tight, and put them in the jars. They've only been in the jars for five days so far. You don't need to be that fussy, but as I'm making bubblehash, there's now an extra incentive to get those buds trimmed right down. The NL X BB is a great pheno - I had to wrestle it from the clutches of some tight hippy I know, and it was the worst-looking clone I've ever got. It took me a month just to get it to grow new leaves. But it's a great plant - smells similar to my 'mystery' strain, but softer and sweeter and less fuel-like - more earthy/yeasty. And it's not too couchy either, although it's usually the last one of the night for me. My only complaint (and it's hardly a complaint), is that when you do it SCROG-style, it can't really cope with the number of buds. I think it prefers to do a few very large colas rather than lots of smaller ones. However, they were all perfectly done, and are rock-hard. The mystery strain I'm becoming more and more convinced is some kind of diesel/kush offshoot, rather than an NL variant - now I've read up and seen a lot more pics of the diesel family, it looks very familar, apart from the faster flower time of mine - 8 weeks maximum. Also it's been around here since around '91, but it's so long ago, the two guys I know who got it have no idea of its origins any more. Shame that - but I'm still using that one as the basis for my first cross - it's so perfect it hardly needs any improvement at all.
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10-27-2006, 10:37 PM	#5
Renovatio New Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 6	god damn, you bastard those are amazing
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10-27-2006, 11:40 PM	#6
narniachronic Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 75	amazing looking buds!! keep up the great work.
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10-30-2006, 01:07 AM	#7
robin New Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 5	They are making my mouth water,how did it smoke??
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10-30-2006, 01:24 AM	#8
JimmynitZ Guest Posts: n/a	Lovely indeed! :smile:
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10-30-2006, 02:35 AM	#9
Elevator Man Mentor Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Great Britain Posts: 4,657	I'm just on the NL X BB and Mystery strain as a combo - delicious! They are similar in taste/smell, and more narcotic than the others. They've taken a while in the jars to really settle down, but the taste and strength of all the varieties are really improving now. The CrissCross is like a spicy/peppery/tangerine smell, whilst the G13 is a kind of weird mix of grapefruit/toffee and meat! The Flo is like apple jam and incense. A bit off-the-wall with the descriptions, but that's what comes into my head... I don't know about anyone else (I rarely read anyone posting about it), but does anyone 'cocktail' weeds together when smoked? I always find myself mixing them up - with five to choose from there's a lot of permutations! But as I'm planning to cross Flo with my mystery strain, I've been smoking the two in combination, to try and get a rough idea of what the taste/high might be like - a bit crude, but it's a good enough excuse!
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10-30-2006, 09:31 PM	#10
robin New Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 5	excellent idea lol,i have seven weeks to wait yet,but counting the days oh and hope my buds end up looking something like yours.
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