Lighting Kraken fem. (Buddha seeds), HS1 +DIY, coco
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Can you update us on drying proccess as it is exactly the same method I am planing of doing. I have theory that it will be less smely as the worst smell is realised while triming and handling fresh cutted plant. Am I right? I hope to achieve less noticable smell while drying in grow tent
Im keeping lights on till she fully drains all moisture from the substrate, this time it happened in 4 days - coco is fully dry and i have noticed that she begun to lose her form. By doing it i stress her and she puts out some extra oils before harvest and you get a bit better smell and taste of your final product. After substrate is dry i turn off the lights and keep her well ventilated til shes fully dry.
Less smell because of less manipulations is one of good sides, you may take branches out to manicure one by one fully dried, that is especially important when you live in the city like me. Another good thing is it is much easier to manicure everything, leaf are dry and can be easily removed by hand, while leaving all good stuff untouched.
Bad thing is that it takes more time, especially if your substrate holds bigger amounts of moisture, and it depends how much your plant really drinks per day, for example if you use 20l of substrate which holds up to 12l water and your plant eats only half a litre at the very end, this method would not work. Mine was drinking still ~ 1.5l per day when i stopped watering her, so she managed to eat everything in 4 days (10l of pure coco holds ~6l of water).
One day with lights on left, tomorrow will shoot some photos and leave her in darkness.
And this is almost 2 month plant from window sill, i planned to grow her a long time ago, but Kraken took her time and this new one grows sooo slowly on sill
Will top her strongly and make clone from center + grow base with couple of main stems, will do main lining. That's CBD Crew's CBD Skunk Haze. She will go next, and she will be last in my smaller grow box.
This is day 52. She wants to go under HS1 soooo badly
Tommorow will shoot couple of photos of dying (drying) Kraken.
Im amazed how much chemicals does coco holds, she fed out of them for more than a week, and did not became very yellow or smth. Good thing is that bitterness is fully gone now, flushing for a longer time was a good idea!
Less smell because of less manipulations is one of good sides, you may take branches out to manicure one by one fully dried, that is especially important when you live in the city like me. Another good thing is it is much easier to manicure everything, leaf are dry and can be easily removed by hand, while leaving all good stuff untouched.
Bad thing is that it takes more time, especially if your substrate holds bigger amounts of moisture, and it depends how much your plant really drinks per day, for example if you use 20l of substrate which holds up to 12l water and your plant eats only half a litre at the very end, this method would not work. Mine was drinking still ~ 1.5l per day when i stopped watering her, so she managed to eat everything in 4 days (10l of pure coco holds ~6l of water).
One day with lights on left, tomorrow will shoot some photos and leave her in darkness.
And this is almost 2 month plant from window sill, i planned to grow her a long time ago, but Kraken took her time and this new one grows sooo slowly on sill
Will top her strongly and make clone from center + grow base with couple of main stems, will do main lining. That's CBD Crew's CBD Skunk Haze. She will go next, and she will be last in my smaller grow box. This is day 52. She wants to go under HS1 soooo badly
Tommorow will shoot couple of photos of dying (drying) Kraken.
Im amazed how much chemicals does coco holds, she fed out of them for more than a week, and did not became very yellow or smth. Good thing is that bitterness is fully gone now, flushing for a longer time was a good idea!
Well, that's drying already and has lost big part of volume. Switched off the lights, that ventilator will blow a shit out of her now. Some colas has fallen on their sides, could not manage to hold their weight...
She fully dried out, so i have split everything to 5-10g vacuum bags. Will try to cure this way this time to see how that effects quality.
Final result is 202 grams of clean buds, that's 1,6gpw. Not counting buds i already smoke.
Final result is 202 grams of clean buds, that's 1,6gpw. Not counting buds i already smoke.
Will see bro, just i will smoke most of it alone, so it will take some time for sure. I do not like it dry as gunpowder, just ideal condition for normal grinding and smoking, which she was when packed. It is very good to use by 10 grams at a time, although without air it will not cure. But somehow i think that it will be better to smoke than one from jar without any noticeable taste and smell.. That is why i decided to give it a try. If nothing good - will not do that again, that is hell of a job to pack these, one by one.
