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Congrats!! and congrats to wife of your youth to hanging in there and learning from you. May you be successful in providing to those who need medicine and cannot grow their own. Your posts have been informative and entertaining...come back next grow!!
...and you're 50% done, you say? :D :D :DQuote:
Originally Posted by oldhaole
you gon' be gloatin' fer loooong time :hippy:
and well deserved, it is!
p.s. but aw, come on. throw us one more picture before you're all, all done. pleeeease?
Seventy % in. Damn....What a year.
Now some yields. #3 the wide one gave 3 lbs +. My biggest #1 took top spot with 5 lbs 4 ozs. I got pics of this beast I want to show but can't....probably for the better. :wtf:
All the framed plants (regrows) are in. The little knock down re grow yielded a lb. She was less than 4 ft tall...a fuckin pound. :thumbsup:
My patients walked away with 4 1/2 lbs each. Wife of my youth pulled my guess 13-15 lbs. Who knows? She will be done trimming by next year. Add my take and the house is netting 40 lbs...easy.
And I did this staying within legal plant counts. The cops checked me out from the air. And left me alone. Set for the year.
We have about 1000 hrs of trimmimg in. Have yet to find a seed.
This has been the perfect season. I've gone bigger in my much younger days. But the way this fell so easily into place was unreal. No drag out harvest, no rip offs, no fags, no wammies, no bugs, no mold, great sun, all add up to my first legal harvest. Ain't MMJ great?
Im happy for you my friend, i know you worked your ass off all summer to pull that big ass yield in:thumbsup:. So have you thought of how your going to out do it next year, lol. Your lucky you dont gotta trim, its taking me 4 hours to just fill just one jar. I trim them one last time before putting it in jars, but theres very little to nothing, but still coming off the branches. BTW il bet you had one hell of a strung up bunch of weed drying, lol. Can ya hear the ol stoner 20 miles down wind saying ''man im telin ya, i smell weed'', lol.
This thread really needs to be a Sticky in the outdoor grow section for sure:thumbsup:
Great show my friend:rasta:
The madness is over.... Just took a stroll through my now denuded garden. Of my 28 holes, 11 are still going. Two multi pounders, and the eight are clones. The rest are done and in.
The rest should be easy. I'm stage harvesting #9 last one to finnish. Just taking my sweet time doing it too. We have had convection showers for the last 4 days and #9 does not mold. Put her in next year's long season line up.
It was a hectic last three weeks. Total chaos. My house looks like somebody rolled a gernade into it. I grossly overestimated trimming time. Total was more like 300 hours so far.
Trimming was fun... in a sick way. When I did this in my younger years, before I was married, I had a crew of Japaneese girls that did good work amung other perverted things. So with wifey permission I tracked them down. Got two to come back to work. They still trim like banchees. Just 20 years older and married...bummer. :(
Patients got their cut and promptly got on flights to the mainland. They are so gone. I hope it works out for them, but I still have their licences until the end of the year. This was always a one trick pony, So who knows what next year will bring.
Today, For the first time in 8 weeks,I will go bodysurfing. Just to get away. Then its back to the grindstone. It will take another month to finish.
Superior!
One question.
What's the best time to start seeds outdoors , and the best time to move cuttings out?
OK, so dat's 2 questions.
Can't count, but I know who to ask, yah?:D
Mahalo nui
Weeze
Some shit I learned this year.
Best time to start seeds outdoors? To answer that I need to know your goal for the year. On this log I started my re grows in early Febuary. If I started them in Jan, they would jump to 5 ft and bud totally, which messes up the chances to re-grow.
So if you want to go the re grow route plant in mid to late Feb. By April/May the tops should be takable. Leave a few unbudded branches behind, and your good for the rest of long season.
If you are using mainland seeds plant in April. They react differently to our growing season and tend to go off early. It worked out well for me this year because I got to harvest those 7 early, and at my leisure, before all the local re grows went off at once, burrying me.
Moving cuttings... If they have adjusted to the photoperiod Late April is good. Put them out too early and they will try to bud, that will slow things down til they figure out weather they want to go short or long. By April they should go straight to vege mode.
Once again, what do you want to do that year? The above planting times are what I used (or should have) on this years log. My goal was to push as much weight as I possibly could out of my garden. For that, re grows were the logical choise. Done correctly, re grows can and do yield huge. But they are not built to support weight, so you must frame them up and tie the branches in place because they will not handle rain weight at all. Many are a disaster waiting to happen. So if you can monitor them daily go for regrows. If they are out of your control, forget them, wait a month, then plant. No regrows then.
I consider this year to be an anomoly. Tail end of el nino, Not a single hurricane in the Central Pacific this year, no cabbage moths (drought killed them off) just one heavy rain, at a great time before buds, and almost a month of solid sun to finish. I could not have scripted this year better.
Now if only I could post some pics....Bummer.
You just gave me exactly what I needed.:cool:
Credible, personal, knowledge is priceless, and other than a gift, is very hard-won.
Mahalo nui my fren'.
I one ya one, or ten.
Jus 'started 5 G. of Christmas-berry mead.
And another 5 G. of mixed grapes n cherry wine.
Come join da Hawaiian inebriatti fo' a sunset or two.
Aloha,
Wee, (li'l smarter now), 'zard
I owe you. Dude, you were the first person to befriend me on this board. My only wish is that you lived on Maui....Think of the Safety meetings we could have. :D
You may have forgotten, but I haven't, you and Moody 420 were the first people to answer the first question I asked on this board. You didn't know me from Adam, yet you took time to answer my question. Thank you.
Knowledge should be shared. There is no reason to make mistakes twice. If I can help anyone on this board I am a happy camper.
This is not my first rodeo. This whole log thing is so cool, because before I was forced to do this in the shadows. Now I can bring everybody into my world. And I get to show off...yea I can be an asshole at times though.
The last season has been the most fun I have had in 20 years. To know that I still have it is thrilling. To pull what I did is what I call "full teeth" harvest.
I will be over to see you when I renew. And I look foreward to meet you in person. If I can help you out in any way, don't be shy.
Your Friend
OH
This pisses me off. Every time I make some dumb ass statement about how everything is going well the shit hits the fan. The past 5 days suck. Once I brought the big ones in we had a weather shift. A cold front dug down and dragged across the state. Almost a week of 100% humidity 24/7. If the cali girls were still alive they would be big fuzzy balls of rot by now.
As things stand the garden has 2 big plants I have been taking my own sweet time stage harvesting. About half of each is still there, and I wander down there each day and bring in a pile of buds. There are also 3 clones of the wide one and 3 clones of the big one out there in the rain too.
One of this years major goals was to create a rot resistant plant. Last short season I crossed some of my better Sativs strains with a Thai male. Then backcrossed them again. Planted the seeds, they grew into monsters. Four of them yielded 3+ lbs each. One gave 5lbs 4 ozs. No mold or rot. But the weather was perfect so I could not say the Thai genes had any effect.
Well, I just took the tour in the rain and there is no mold. None. Nada.
I know this means nothing to you all. But for me it's big. I now have a clue on how to pull big harvests regardless of humidity or rain. This will also go into part 2 of my next grow log. Short season is here, and that is when I get to fuck around and create new strains. BWHAHAHAHA. This will be fun.
This grow log is almost done. I have a ton of pics I will EVENTUALY post. Still have 8 holes with plants or clones that need to dry out. I will leave one in and spray water on it each day to force it to mold. Stress test it to distruction.
After I digest this harvest I will also have individual yield numbers and totals. They will go in this log. And i will finish with my fuck ups and triumphs, and what I learned over the last year. So I ain't dead yet. We may learn something still.
Later
OH