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Hi Autofellows and Autoladies.

I've been wallflowering around here for a while. This seems like the most positive cannaforum I've seen, so I signed up.

This is my second completed grow. Recently my best friend and grow partner passed away, and i lost the previous plants to neglect. I had about 3 weeks into 3 Dark Devils and a euforia. I was pretty depressed. I started over with the last DD seed.

I planted in a 7 gallon pot under a viparspectra par600 for veg, and a 600w air cooled hps after flower started. I was Im growing in a 48x24x60 tent to try to contol the humidity, as it's 10% rh in my apartment. I had a hard time balancing the ventilation, the average rh was 23% and temp was 79-81F the whole time. Honestly, I really half assed everything in this grow, I'm still coping with my friends passing. I started growing this summer, out of enchantment with the plant, and my friends need not to spend all his money on bud to deal with a GI disorder. Alot of the time I felt like it was pointless and depressing without my friend. I over watered, underwatered, screwed around with too much or too little fertilizer, "experimented" with different nutes, didn't fill the humidifier, let it get up to 90F a couple times before fixing the problem, let nutrient problems go for too long...There's a whole litany of things I did wrong. I kinda snapped out of it in the last 2 weeks and regained my normal motivation. The plant somehow pulled through. It's about day 58, and the trichs are just about all cloudy, a few amber. I hung it with alot of leaves and stem to slow the drying process, the rh is 40% in there. Ill screw around with the hunidifier and fans trying to raise it, and will probably need advice.

I feel like the process isn't as fun with no one to share it with, so I'll share it with you folks. I will appreciate any feedback or tips, I'm nervous about drying it in this low humidity 20170206_232135.jpg 20170206_225605.jpg 20170206_225241.jpg
 
Glad to see you make it here. Anyone telling you growing is easy is full of it. This looks like a nice yield, the biggest bud looks loaded with resin too. So instead of downing yourself I'd be pretty damn happy with it.

I'm not a drying professional but possibly brown bagging the buds would hold in a little more moisture than just hang drying them. Or prematurely throwing them in jars and burping them more often. Just ideas.
 
Thanks. Yeah, I was getting pretty mopey last night wishing my bro was around. Strangely, his mom called me as I was harvesting. This grow went pretty well considering the abuse the plant put up with. I'm going to build a cob when I have the funds, I'm debating whether to do the Dark Devil again, or try Mephisto Sour Stomper.
 
Welcome to AFN. This place as you've probably seen can offer a lot of support for your growing activities as well as life in general. Enjoy..Check out Live Stoners if your feeling down. Oh, and I agree with the brown paper bags for drying.
 
Hey great to meet you...sorry for the loss of your friend.
Damn that is low humidity!! I deal with low humidity in the winter as well...my grow space was 22% this morning. Agree with the bag drying, it will help low the process and will increase smells. I know a guy that dries his in the fridge in paper bags. He swears the low humidity/cool temps keep the terps inside the bud. He also swears that the food in the fridge doesn't smell like grass.
Good luck on all of you grows!!
 
Thanks guys. I ended up keeping them hanging after hitting several grocery stores and only finding plastic bags.I trialed and errored around with the fans and humidifier and got the rh to 45. Theyre coming along pretty good. I took the smallest larfiest bud off as a tester, chopped it up and let it dry for 6 hrs. I vaped like a pinky tip sized bud that was almost all leaf. I haven't smoked since my last harvest in November, so I have 0 tolerance. Its very uplifting, which is one of the main reasons I chose this strain. I bet the mature buds will be pretty spectacular after they cure.
 
Also, it took me like 10 minutes to figure out how to spell "Larfiest" right, then realized it wasn't a real word and it didn't matter.
 
Larfiest is absolutely a real word. Its got letters.....Consonants AND vowels, I can read it, and comprehend the meaning. If that ain't a word than I'm a gestory phalgamation which is just fine by me.

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Hey pal,

yeah share your grow with us. We love to see new growers succeed and your plants look mighty fine. Do a journal next time and keep it simple, you may be surprised that a simple setup is best for starters, then you add tricks as you develop.

eP.
 
Thanks. Yeah, I was getting pretty mopey last night wishing my bro was around. Strangely, his mom called me as I was harvesting. This grow went pretty well considering the abuse the plant put up with. I'm going to build a cob when I have the funds, I'm debating whether to do the Dark Devil again, or try Mephisto Sour Stomper.

Dark Devil is a sick ass plant bro . Nice harvest to man congrats ! Here's my dark devil I did in a rubbermaid tote in a damaged barn outside in the winter. Temp was 60 the whole time under 150w hps.

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