Harvest & Curing My Drowning tests

[AutoMan]

The recent info posted concerning 'drowning' has me a bit inquisitive....so since I just happen to have 3 Onyx mature autos at 60 days each, thought I'd throw in drowning one of'em just to see what this is all about....The three Onyx involved were all germed and planted into 4" pots, humboldt soil (nuteless) and fed appropriate biobizz nutes along their route to now....reduced nutes past two weeks and started normal light flushing a couple of day ago just as I happened upon the drowning info...Took one of the three Onyx and sit it in a tub of water, where it will stay for 3 days minimun....tric read are all in cloudy range...no amber showing yet and very few clear....I intend to harvest all three Onyx in 3 days unless I note some obvious advantage in letting them go a few more days...
I will post what I see is the difference in bud growth and other variables I look at....id all three as they slowly dry and as they ramp down in RH prior to final jarring per TBM's methods of drying/curing...who I can already thank for my most recent harvest being tastier from the inproved techniques I've employed.
Anyway, these 2 little Onyx are some little stumps with the 3rd being several inches taller...Gonna try to keep a photo diary for comparison so I can just see if there's something to this ole hippy yarn!

 

[JM]

sweet dude! those are looking great! lots of trichs... let us know your results... we love live experiments!

cheers! :smokebuds:

 

[SmashedbyHashish]

Very nice plants...! I read that thread too & was unclear to how it helped w/ cureing. Anxious to here your report.

 

[OldGuy]

Im very interested in this test. After a few of us experimented with the water cure, Im sold on that. Now if this works well......Maybe combining methods? Hhmmm.
Awesome plants... New to the Autos, My brother-in-law has 1 outdoors that looks very puny. I need to take a picture so you can tell us what he did wrong.

 

[shovelheadedkillmachine]

Years ago I had a plant growing up the side of the house and we had a really hot summer that year and I was struggling to keep water up to it so I would put it in a bigger bucket full of water for 24 hours and poke holes thru the soil with a bit of wire. Man, with the heat and the extra water it went ballistic. It plumped right up and about 1 week before it was ready tp pick some asshole stole it. Thats all....

 

[AutoMan]

What a bummer! All that work for nothing !!!!
I've just checked on the test babes....will take a 24 hr pic later so I can check closer on any (if any) physical changes of each of the test subjects. My lights run at night and I changed out the 'drowing water'....last night....I'm also running a molasses test on the #3 onyx.....so it's #1-drowned...#2 normal....#3 Molasses last 3 days.... All three are some fat little stalks of bud .
Hope I can catch a good day and document all this appropriately....

 

[blewjob]

thanks for doing these tests. I'm a little anxious on how its gonna turn out. aloha

 

[AutoMan]

Observation 7-21. These two pics are of the same bud...one being 7-20, the other 7-21...24 hours apart. This is the 'drowned' Onyx. I can def tell a bit of swelling and 'filling in' of the bud structure...looking lovely....I am changing out the tub water every 12 hours. I did a bit of trimming but both pics are taken from the same angle...
I typically fully water/flush the last few days prior to chop and always note bud swell from it....the drowned Onyx does appear to be a bit more swollen than it's 'normal' sister....
As I understand it, drowning will aid in the "cure" process...so of course, THAT info will be forthcoming later....I have a controlled temp drybox ready to dry all three test subjects simultaneously....

 

[AutoMan]

Chopped all three willing subjects.....all three now in drybin, labeled....impressions during trim were....
The drowned Onyx calynx were definitely swollen at least twice the size of the other two test subjects....quite noticably....This was after 3 days of 'drowning'....(as I just happened upon teh drowning thread at the last of this onyx grow...but I can tell so far, it did pay off....at least in the properties noted so far...just hope it translates into more PLUS properties as drying/curing continues....
My thoughts at this point are....check and document how all three of these onyx dry to a preferable state, assuming the drowned one may take a bit longer since it obviously had swollen more...of course I like a longer slow dry....and use TBM's methods of jarring/burping/ etc at various RH plateaus....

 

[The Medicine Man]

Cool! Can't wait to see how those final #'s come out.