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Update time... Gals are done doing their thing... bracts have dried and seeds literally falling out. Time for the chop. Slow outdoor dry. All in all I'm pretty pleased with the end results. I have some of the progeny in veg currently, will flip them in a few weeks and see what that Watermelon has passed down...

Depends on your climate. if you are in a very arid area, dry trim. If very humid, you want to remove as much material before you put it to dry, hence wet trim. I wouldn't say one or the other is better.. i use both depending to weather situation.

I start trimming even before I harvest. All the remaining fan and large sugar leaves. Then the largest of what's left wet, and ongoing while drying. By the time the bud is dry enough for the jar, the remaining small sugar leaves are very crispy and break off easily.

When I started growing I started with wet trim and now I always dry trim. I've found it to be much better. Retains terpene profiles far better but yea it does depend on your climate. If you have a high humidity situation it may be better to wet trim. If you check out all the upcoming large scale grow facilities in the US, they all practice dry trim.

Yield is definately going to suffer with the cramped roots, but those colas should still be decent with at least another 6-10 weeks to go.

It can depend on the strain as well. Certain plants just trim easy wet or dry. Swazi gold is a pain to trim dry cause of all the tiny sugar leaves. We have found thru trial and error that we prefer wet trim above dry. As the leaves dry they curl in, making dry trimming a bit of a pita and it takes much longer. We gently rinse/wash the green plant with water and shake off excess before trimming. Less stickyness on your hands and tools. Each to his own. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Looking good@Mambawana Smaller plants/clones for breeding simplify a lot of stuff and they produce enough beans. Just let them mature properly-but you got that covered. Have you got a closed off area to contain pollen? Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Been pondering.....thinking of cutting and sewing a 20-40% shade net cover to fit our tunnel frame. Improved airflow and ventilation is what we're after, would be a good option for summer, we running as is for winter for the experience, just to see. Ĺots of possible modifications in the future. Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Thanks for the input guys. Will take all into consideration. Sent from my SM-A700F using Tapatalk

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Worked a bit on the reservoirs today. Keeping the GDP at it's current happy level of 0.4 EC and now that the Royal Gorilla has recovered I am going to raise the EC to match the GDP at 0.4 EC. Also took some big fan leaves off both plants which were blocking some growth nodes. Pictures below also give an idea of what it looks like when I need access to the reservoir water.

I knew I wasnt alone! I also spend way too much time in the grow room. When I started off I kept on dialing things in and I thought that in time as things get sorted I would spend less time there, but I must be honest it increases. Oh yeah and then I got a greenhouse, I am surprised my wife is still here

They probably have the luxury of a humidity controlled environment too. So for us small scales boys, from the above, it sounds like you would first look at climate like @Prom mentions and secondly look at the plant itself, to see whether the buds have many sugar leaves or not that would make a dry trim difficult, like @Bospatrollie2 says. Climate right now is still quite humid, so one would opt for a wet trim? But then risk less terpene profiles. If that is not desired, then dry trim. One could work a way to maybe dry the harvest at a lower humidity somehow? I usually just hang my harvest in the same tent it grew in with the exhaust system on low and a small fan blowing on low against the side at the bottom of the tent. Although I have always wet trimmed, which I am now considering changing

Nice to hear that they are not suffering from the budrot, yeh this years outdoor season was pretty rof en ombeskof, any buds harvested is good enough result this year! Thinking about the insect netting, could help a lot against these worms, cause like you say its them damn pretty butterflies!

It's still developing, but wicks bubblegum and citrus coming though.

Looks like some good spires starting. Lekker.[emoji16] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

Wow, would love to see her potential in the ground. How's the aroma/s?

1000Hills Nursery Project 2/2020 Pineapple Skunk x Safety Meeting 1 of the best plants from my current indoor run is a Pineapple skunk. So while I have a small window between reset and initiation I decided to carryout a quick breeding project. Here I have a small clone of the chosen pineapple skunk pheno and my watermelon male. I'm going smaller this time as I've found that one single cola produces 100s of seeds. These plants were vegged indoors under 24 hours light and then moved outdoors. Both have started flowering with the male leading the way. I have them seperated and will bring them together to do their thing just before the indoor gals start flowering. I'm excited to see how my boy packs on those clusters over the next few weeks as he was culled early in the last project and will get an extra few more weeks this time round.

Busy harvesting this plant. Running out of storage space. Do you guys prefer wet or dry trimming and why? What's the pros and cons? Sent from my SM-A700F using Tapatalk

Finally in peak flowering. She is proving just as fussy and difficult as a haze can be. She would do very well in the ground up on the highveld, and possibly if it doesnt get too wet should do well in the next 2 months here in the Cape. Her stretch will put her at too difficult to tame indoors, unless you flower early. I'm battling to keep up with her feedings...I have settled on a steady flow of nutes at lower doses instead of feeding once a week, and she is being fed with every watering. Current feed/10l is 45ml Seagro, 20ml MKP. I would have cut the Seagro already but she is munching through N, P and K.

Trying the best I can, thanks@Dank There will always be challenges, but we learn and handle them better. Yeah these ladies of yours are going to deliver. Luckily no budrot yet, but enough spidermites and worms and caterpillars. Caterpillar/worm poop is budrot breeding ground with our humidity. Butterflies might be pretty, but I can't like them anymore....hahaha.[emoji3] Sent from my SM-G900F using Tapatalk

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The best fertiliser in the world, is the farmer's shadow.

I hope I've done it right lol

Had to add the greenhouse girl as well. Unfortunately them bloody mites have gotten to her as you can see from the leaves. If you ever doubted the red spidermite and their damage-those leaves show 7days damage- previous update there was almost nothing. But she has been dosed twice, hopefully those buggers die.