Grow #2: Lemon Zkittles & Strawberry banana in Soil

[Captain Beefheart]

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[Bulls]

Hey Lordy, Plants look fantastic mate. You will be busy boy trimming them. Such a nice variety of smokes and by the sounds of it the all gonna be delicious. Sorry to hear about the bud rot but ..shit happens..especially in Rainy places like Wales I bet you can't wait to get these chopped mate, been long flowering. Can't wait to read your review after they been cured

[ohlordyeah_420]

Hey Lordy, Plants look fantastic mate. You will be busy boy trimming them. Such a nice variety of smokes and by the sounds of it the all gonna be delicious. Sorry to hear about the bud rot but ..shit happens..especially in Rainy places like Wales I bet you can't wait to get these chopped mate, been long flowering. Can't wait to read your review after they been cured

Thanks mate. Haven't had a lot of issues so can't complain about losing 1 bud.
At the end I'll do a 'lessons learned' post to share what mistakes I've made and learnt from.

[ohlordyeah_420]

"Well, it's a struggle every day we're stressing, but what's a life without dedication?" - Rebelution - 'Feeling alright'



So close I can almost taste it.
I started chopping Sunday and hanging them in cardboard wardrobe boxes. There's two boxes with two layers, the bottom layer is of smaller branches and buds held by an Octokush and the top layer is a series of wires that branches are hung or pegged to. I stuck white tape to all the lemon zkittles indica pheno so we can tell the difference for smoking. One box contained the LZ and the other the SB (didn't separate these as they looked and smelt pretty identical).
There's a small fan blowing through the bottom of both boxes, where I've cut doorways through out so air can pass through. I covered the small gap at the top with a sheet so it can still breathe. The humidty in the box was a whopping 80% the first day! The second day a dehumidifer turned up and dropped it down the 65 over night. It's still lowering now. Aiming for 50-60% humidity and around 20-22C in the room which is pretty easy at the moment.
Aiming for a 10-14 day dry followed by a lot of hand trimming using kief collecting trays. The Missus loves it, she sticks a podcast on and will sit and trim happily for hours like an old woman knitting.


OCTOKUSH

[GMO]

Very nice work there mate, looks sticky as dude

Smashing job!

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[GMO]

Very nice work there mate, looks sticky as dude

Smashing job!

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[ohlordyeah_420]

After 7 days drying I did the test method outlined in keeno's drying and curing post and they were 70% humidity. So back in to drying they go. Looks like it'll be 10-12 day dry. Nice and slow. Buds looks healthy and sparkly. I just want to taste the damn stuff so bad

[ohlordyeah_420]

Lessons learnt this grow:

Add supports early. Trying to tie a droopy budded branch is hard work when it's covered in sticky flowers.

proper drainagethe oven grills the soil pots sat on did not support the plant after watering so they still sat in their juices. Using planks of wood now.

humidity control I need to get myself a dehumidifier for flowering time and a wet vac (getting both from screwfix) to suck up all that run off.

summer temps growing in a loft during the summer sucks but it is doable.

In trimming hell at the moment. Did 5 ozs of lemon zkittles (sativa pheno) and 1.3 Oz of strawberry banana last night.

Humidity is spot on throughout drying though. 9/10 day dry.

[Nanook]

oofftttt, just seen these have been chopped, they look great well done :)

[Bulls]

Can't wait to see the final result and some bud porn photos!