The James Gang

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Hippie Crippler update. Day three from chop, at about 45% of harvest weight. 330g to start, 142g now.
82g will be at 25%, then I'll look for it to stop losing weight. It usually settles out around 23% (76g for this) but I wait until it doesn't lose weight for about 12 hours before jarring.
A few times I have gotten it perfect, and it actually gained a little from the rH pack after jarring.
Original pic and todays to show what little shrinkage there has been. Much density.

 

[Hust17]

What’s going on with the DBB babe?

Thank you for updating on her.

 

[H.A.F.]

What’s going on with the DBB babe?

Thank you for updating on her.

New leaves look green and frosty. But happening when it did post-flip it may diminish returns.

 

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Tonight was Hippie feeding.

 

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plants I haven't highlighted.
The scamdemic is stacking like the G13 Genius still no brown pistils - the BHP (lower right) was flipped at the same time and is about 25% browns.

The runt Hippie is plump top to bottom.

 

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Sacred Lotus day 17. I took the dome off, and they have a few hours left until lights out. If they still look good later they move on. Introducing wind other than the exhaust sucking air through is next.
tripod is doing the runty-leaf thing on this node. I think it'll all depend on what happens when I top.
If the whorled stuff transfers to the secondary shoots, it's probably gonna be a dud. Not bad, but lots of little flowers if it's a girl is my guess.

 

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Coty's started yellowing, cups were dry, first feeding. Looking for some growth explosion in the next few days.
I love when they get past babies and become plants

And this tent got fed & soaked.
I took several pics, but it doesn't show up well. The difference between the two RM flower sizes is starting to show.
On the one with a bunch of limbs I pinched off most of the lower buds from the skinny stems. Definite larf with maybe half a dozen pistils total.

G13 Genius...

 

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Hippie Crippler 1 is dry and jarred.

Ended up with 80g of flowers, 11g of stem - under 2g of larf.

Nugs

And tops

 

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Early smoke report - I like it!
Real sharp kerosene smell - not much else for now. The larf ground up beautiful, slow burning in the bowl. Smooth for just-dry, and no grassy taste.
I am going to attempt to twist a fatty, but this stuff is resinous - might be better in a bowl

The Rainbow Man is going to be an easy grow. VERY expressive plants. No guessing when they need water.
This is last night just after feeding

And this morning

Doesn't show as well in the pics, but the leaves on the "bush" plant seem skinnier than those on the 4-top.
All the leaf blades are spindly compared to the other plant. Like it knows it needs to let light get down in there LOL

 

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I spread the 4 shrub tops out to let the other stuff get light. That'll probably get reversed when they start putting on weight.

 

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After 6 hours under vacuum with a 62% pack I re-weighed everything. The tops together lost a total of .08g and the nugs gained .18g - so I think I nailed the dry on this one. Now it's just replacing the fresh air, not worrying about mold. .

 

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Here's the DBB in a nutshell. Only thing I can figure was that it was an everything deficiency because she needed food.
I think the fan leaves have served whatever purpose they might have had, but this will look like a skeleton in a few.
All the new stuff looks good since being fed.

To be honest, I'm just tired of looking at them LOL I think it'll look like a whole new plant, maybe force some of the bud-leaves to pick up the slack

 

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In other news, nothing else is pissed at me.
The Sacred Lotus loved the food, Triumvirate looks like it is going to be a novelty. I have room for cool stuff if it's a girl LOL

A tale of two pruning's for the Rainbow Man. It'll be cool to see the final weight difference.

G13 Genius

Scamdemic

and the BHP

 

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Weird - or cool or something...
I have a little vacuum container for marinating stuff. I use this if there's room for the 1st week after bucking, and I keep it under vacuum to open the pores and allow easier moisture exchange.
I weigh the tops and nugs separate since they dry at a different rate. When I first weighed it, the tops were 44g and the nugs were 34g. After a few days, the tops weigh 43g and the nugs 35g. Same total weight but it shifted LOL

I also finished my 4th can of blackberries and juiced it. Anyone need any?

 

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Update on the DBB. After I fed her and soaked her everything looks mostly normal. The fan-leaves were shot except one or two.
Looks like a new plant

The flowers themselves look fine and super frosty

And the runt Hippie Crippler is in that colorful stage with about 50/50 on the pistils. Racing the G13G to the finish.

 

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The Sacred Lotus are drinking like fish. They have been getting ~200ml each every other day for the past week, and are light and ready for more in 48hrs. I gave them a decent soaking today, and soaking to run-off will be their new thing They've been getting 400-500ppm of big bloom and all the little micro-additives. HLG 135 on full blast, but high.

I lowered the light yesterday to get them in the 20k lumen range, and as they grow they'll get more.

 

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DBB is gone. Found about half a dozen balls, one open

 

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Can I get in trouble for keeping Hippies in a closet?

If you get a chance to run her or any of her crosses it might be worth your effort

Soaked yesterday morning, mostly light this morning. trying to decide whether to just water next or repot.
I am leaning towards the re-pot so they have a little more 'new-dirt-food' to keep them busy for a few days.
By the time they are ready for the next watering they'll get the first top-feed.

 

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All these got soaked this morning, and the Rainbow Man got a fat feeding. Chomping ppm like pac-man.

G13 Genius - just - DAMN!

She is getting a few random ambers already, so this will be a "when it looks done" chop. The trichs will be there.
The brown-to-white pistil ratio is changing fast compared to the HC runt that flipped the same day.
Almost 10 weeks since flip for those two.

The Scamdemic is starting to brown

And I don't know why I was worried about the BHP - she's taking her time and plumping some now - definitely gonna have those long pointy carrot-buds

 

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For the record, the G13 Genius is just a 4-top that I left some extra lower shoots on. No telling how fat or tall the tops would have gotten if I had pruned those away LOL