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Hi folks. So it is that very exciting time for me... the flip to flower I am not looking for monster plants but plants that will range from between 60cm to 80cm, from the stem base to highest top, in final height. Also less jungle more airflow This will be more than enough for me to smoke and a focus on nice big nugs with limited popcorn. Over the weekend I did the final clean up for the veg stage and happy with all the nodes staring at the lights. I will probably clean up once or twice in the early stages of flower. So tonight the timer will go to 12/12 and the real fun starts White Bubblegum White Afghan Skunk Purple Dosidos Jelly Breath Blunicorn Sunset Sherbet Super Silver Haze 98 OSG Cheese Tent view

OSG Cheese JagerPunch Slurricane

its pretty simple actually. i take an airtight jar, large enough to fit a cup of water in it (literally the cup and the water, not a cup of waters worth of water) i start with hot water, seems to work fine - although i have noticed that as long as there is water, it will work, regardless of temp. i place the cup of hot water in the center of my large jar, and then put all the bovidas into the jar, at the bottom of the large jar, around the cup of water. it is important that you dont let the bovida get wet by the water, this will damage the 2 way breathable fabric. and thats it - check in a week and see the condition, and if its all gooey again with no hard bits in it, its ready to go and be used again. be careful that you dont completely forget about them either tho! - bovidas have a weight on them when you buy them, this weight goes right down when the bovida is spent, but the weight climbs back up when its hydrated again, i try stick to no more than 10-20% heavier than the standard weight. 8g bovida dries out to like 5g, i rehydrate to 10g and then reuse. 68g bovida dries out to something like 50g, and ill rehydrate it to 70-75max and reuse

I have found that the sweet spot for my best cured weed has been 6 months, this also correlates with the majority of research I have picked up. The weed us fully decarbed, the THC has not started deteriorating yet, and the bud is super smooth. Only problem is harvesting enough weed that I can cure for long enough!

Sugarpunch OSG Cheese PBB JagerPunch Slurricane

Drying and curing is very important! I do not feel anyone can argue there. Boveda's are awesome though. I ain't got time to burp multiple jars each day, stick a boveda in and be done with it. I rehydrate my bovedas as well when they start drying out - I have yet to have to throw away a Boveda. Unless you have a way to safely rehydrate your bud, I feel you should try avoid overdrying it as it can become harsh (in my experience) and a Boveda will never rehydrate it fully back to the state where it is sticky enough to stick to other bud. Also the way you smoke your bud determines who wet one likes it, personal preference comes into play - just like how it does with biltong. Not everyone likes wet biltong. Some like it dry dry. You will also never get wet biltong in a prepacked bag.

I have 20 months cured weed in jars. Is a different world of smoothness. We made a few curing experiments, 2 weeks, 2 months, 5 months, 9 months, 18 months. After those curing times the weed clearly changed in flavors too, beside getting smoother and smoother to smoke. After 9 months THC starts to slowly decompose, but still hits you very hard. Very little left of the 20 months cured amnesia haze but smell and smoke is just top class.

for us home growers, we will never know lol. the only true test would be a whole harvest (same plant for the whole test) that gets sampled at 10 days 20 days 30 days and so on. i think i saw a study a while back that says the scent and aroma of the bud can improve if kept in a cool environment for a few months, and the bud should be fully decarbed by that point naturally so it could be good. you could even eat the bud and get high after a few months due to that natural slow decarb process there are anecdotes about the bud being smoother, more rounded, a fuller experience to me, its about the same experience as drinking a 3 year old whisky, or a 25 year old whisky - they both taste very similar still, and the one wont get you drunk faster than the other - its more about the subtle nuances that the mature bud can offer you

Day 22 of 12/12. Not much stretch this week. Everything seems to be ok and no signs of any lurking problems.

Beautiful work bro. I will take some pics of my OSG cheese tonight and post here tomorrow. How are they smelling now? I'm getting quite a pungent smell already from my girls and they are only at 3 weeks now.

It is a long time. Try it with a section and compare it to faster cured bud. I still have some bud thats been curing in mason jars with Boveda packs for well over a year and allthough the colour changes a bit to a more golden brownish green, the terpene profiles and taste only get smoother with time. Effects didn't deteriate at all.

Aw man! I'm actually bummed I didn't see this before the time. Would have been awesome to meet up. I had the honour of being able to perform there, was on at lunch time Saturday. It was so rad! . I really wanted to listen in on all the talks and debates but didn't manage to get much in being involved stage side. Was a really cool expo and hoping to be involved in the Cape Town expo early next year

Watsup guys. So yesterday was the day. We went to the Cannabis expo!!!!!!! It was lots of fun. We saw so many people from different walks of life all in the same place with a passion for the herb. There was cannabis being smoked at an outside venue and also a VIP lounge which there was a guy serving dabs. He had a small selection but it was free an man did that lift a person up. A great observation was even though here were sooooo many people there was not an ounce of shit. I understand that it is not a huge expo but this is still just the beginning phase. As soon as there is clearer legislation and laws set in place, we should see alot more people coming out the woodwork. So it is understandable that there were no seeds or cannabis being sold. I do understand that the expo is more on the bussiness side of the herb. None the less it was an absolute fantastic day. Myself and @John Stonedwell just had to leave our marks.

Uses less bags. I changed my drying procedure a "little", and get the plants to 62% as fast as i can, without using any dehumidifiers or AC. Once i have em on 62% steady for 3 days, take all helpers out of the jar and lock to cure. My over all goal is to never drop below 58% but reach the 62% as quick as i can.

End week update (no balls yet), sprayed down with last Sulphur treatment.

So about four weeks ago we had a harvest and I gave 2 of my friends a few wet trimmed branches of freshly harvested plants to dry and cure on their own. I'm at about two weeks since placing them into jars and burping twice a day. They are really smelling yummy and I will probably start smoking them soon. So we are at his house for a braai and he brings out his jar and its smells like shit. Like cheap outdoor. I realized after talking that he only dried it for a week before placing it into a jar. He said after he put it in the jar it got wet again and again so he would throw it onto a tray to dry for a few minutes every time. He also burped the jars twice every day. You're better of overdrying weed than jarring it with too much moisture in the bud. When you close that jar you lock in the moisture. Big companies freeze-dry cannabis and then jar them with 2-way humidity packs. Just trust me on this one. Dry the plants till you can easily snap the stems. Not kink, not click. Dry snap. You want to slowly dry the plant until it's ready to jar.

Yea, jelly breath is quite a lanky plant. Blunicorn likes to stay on the smaller side and can be quite sensitive. Sent from my Redmi Note 7 Pro using Tapatalk

@John Stonedwell Looking good! Based on my experiences, I would say try keep the Jelly Breath colas as even and flat as possible to maximize yield. It is easy for one cola to get ahead and then with the stretch it leaves all the other behind. Try as much as possible to keep the plant compact and canopy flat with training during the stretch. Also try stake it - good to do this end of week 2 to week 3. For the Blunicorn get rid of any of the lower branches / suckers as which are not at the top of the canopy and clean up the plant nicely at the bottom to prevent an excess of small buds.

The Calcium EDTA, being chelated, won't be leeched by the coco I believe so is available to the plants while the calmag helps buffer the coco slowly. If the coco is properly pre-buffered then calcium shouldn't be as much of an issue and one could continue with normal feeding schedule. Once my coco is buffered, following GHE tri-part chart works well... That being said GHE is also calcium EDTA mainly I believe, I think it is a mix and not just calcium EDTA.

mmm, im not sure his quick mention of the method without a follow up of that specific method is really an answer to it working, maybe try it yourself and let us know? also the Tip - take the pony out before dark period lol - this method would be for okay if you had a plant or 2 - but im not sure its worth it even then.

hahahah yeah as growers we tend to forget that there are other suppliers around that sell these things! I asked around for these, was told to check the pet shops that stock reptile enclosure stuff, so I did... and found heatmats at a way better price than our grow shops sell them for too so here is the thing brobean, I am having a typical monday over here and will get back to looking for the exact place I got my hygrometers from when I am home tonight, can't seem to find it right now, but what I did find was an offer on amazon that comes down to about R23 to R25 each, but it's a 12 pack and it's coming from the US. that means the whole pack is R273-ish excluding shipping and import fees. they ask $16 for shipping and import fee deposit, this is fucking rediculous, but I hope it means there wont be any import fees when your package reaches customs, but the only way to tell is to place the order and see what they say? the R273 for the pack of 12 plus, and the R256 for shipping all the way from the US is still almost half the price of the R80 for 1. say you wana buy 10 you have to pay R800? craaaaazy

I'm rather interested in this process if you wouldn't mind sharing?

looking good man!! put some of this fire on the home page for us man!

I think the activera product is their addon for coco. But that has nothing to do with calmag.

going through my emails to find you the link real quick, will post you asap I have to mention it was on a website that just links you to suppliers or stockists and had 50 different options with 50 different prices. I had to search quite deep to find that price and it's not to say that it will still be the same, but R80 for one is not something I will pay. a quick bidorbuy search presents ones for R50, already R30 off each. alibaba presents many options gona see if I can find you something

Holy crap, that's a long time . Will the difference really be worth so much extra time?

I agree, have a super skunk showing the same leaf coloring and is starvation. They run on 500 micromole PAR, so not light stress for sure. It still bugs me that you gave each day calmag and ran into issues. Is this a thing with Coco?? You have to feed that much? If i would swap to coco, still using my biobizz fertilizers, what would change on the feeding, what is a must to add for coco? Curious what the coco dudes recommend... not that i plan to swap

You mind sharing a link ? I was looking at getting more for a new drying cupboard and the cheapest I could find was the R80 ones from hydroponics.co.za

what changed your mind about these? I can remember you asking me why I would want to use these when I asked where to get them? I got mine online for R30. hydroshop is crazy with their prices for these.

These little hygrometers and the boveda packs are life savers ! But a freeze dryer ! fresh frozen buds for making dry sift or using it to dry fresh frozen bubble

The Greenhouse Seed Company guys recommend drying very slowly in humidity controlled room for 2-3 weeks then packing into paper bags at 8-10 degrees celsius for 3-5 months to remove the chlorophyl and other particles for the best taste. I personally used the Aeradix humidity controlled bags for curing my last grow and it works perfectly for larger amounts. Paper bags was used with high success 10 years ago and can still be used but if temps are too high it will dry your buds like biltong.

80 rand at hydroponics.co.za no guessing... between 60 and 64%, otherwise you have to do something. No need for a freeze dryer...

Update, dqxslurri got a small Defol, the short pheno is standing out nicely. Smelling fine, quite similar to slurri, some sweet some gas.Will be flipping the bed Tuesday night.

lol yeah but there's a difference between eina and dead hahah but I understand what you mean! avoid them all I got stung on my toe by a scorpion like 2 years back, luckily not a deadly guy but I wouldn't have known that had I not taken photos... the fucker was in my shoe, but to his defence I was working deeeep in the bush up in the mountains with holes in my vellies! here's the fucker that got me almost every year around this time, when it starts heating up, snakes come out. we had that overpopulation situation with puff adders. some times we'll have to move up to 3 of them on a day! check out this chonker we didn't have too many cobras, though I think I spotted a rinkhals once, but he was gone before I could confirm. we did come across this beautiful dosile little cape cobra one day, usually they scurry off when we spot them, but it seemed this guy wanted some company, he curled up on the rake and just kinda chilled with us for a while. was also quite cold that day, so maybe that slowed him down a bit.

Two seeds planted. Two seeds germinated. Two seeds male. This diary is now closed. I'll be planting the rest in the shade house as the nights are getting warmer.