1/24/22 Day 77 - She’s in the dark. It’s cool in the grow room, mid 60s. I have her humidifier off too - I have no idea if it should be, but my thinking is the dark period is to get her to drink up all her water, getting her ready for drying. I’m thinking I am going to hang her in the little tent, so I can move the filter to the big tent and get ready to drop the last of the LSD beans.
The suspense is killing me here. I’ve looked at her a minimum of twice a day since she sprouted.
It does keep you on your toes. You’ve done a wonderful thing. I lucked out when I started growing with the bags. Best thing ever imo. Cures within a week & is very smokable. Looks like you’re gonna have some very nice smoke.
Thank you! Very kind of you. I got lucky, both in my grow and in finding a great community for help and companionship along the way. Everyone here has been so kind and helpful. Why, it almost doesn’t seem like the internet!
Thanks! I’m reconfiguring both of my tents before the ax comes out. Lucy is taking a vacation in the guest room while she waits. It’s turned into a bigger job than I thought!
1/26/22 Day one of drying. Tent is at 65 degrees and 50% RH. So glad I got the humidifier with the hemostat - it’s keeping very good RH. The house is currently at 29% RH, so I’m pleased. She will likely get colder tonight, it’s going down to 11 degrees.
Pictures from yesterday. I moved the gigantic filter into the 3x3 in preparation for dropping new seeds. I tried suspending it horizontally but the light would have had to be nearly touching the door, so I took it down and rehung it vertically in the corner. You’ll be able to see that I wasn’t kidding about a ridiculously overpowered filter that was in Lucy’s 2x2! I put in the window duct kit and did a test with ventilation. 300W light got the tent up to 81 degrees at 100% (didn’t have my phone so I didn’t check DLI at the pot level, but I know it’s high so unlikely that light will ever run at 100%.) Without the filter and intake fan, it got to 93 last week during a test.
I had put Lucy in the guest room while I worked in the grow room. I took the light out of her tent, cleaned the entire interior with an infant safe sanitizer, and moved the good humidifier to her tent.
Then finally, I did the deed and learned yet another lesson: even small weed plant stems are incredibly tough. I struggled to cut her down. Next time, I’m bringing the lopping shears!
She weighed 9.14 oz wet, hoping for close to 2 when dried. I had set my goal as trying to raise an ounce this time, and I believe I beat it. Time will tell! She will be cured in Grove Bags once she reaches an internal bud moisture of 11%.
1/30/22 - Lucy, my little girl in a rush, the Charlie Brown Xmas Tree that could, is in the Grove bag for curing. She weighed 9.14 wet, and 2.19 oz dried and trimmed. Better than I imagined we could do!
And thanks to everyone who followed and offered advice and encouragement along the way. Feels like this all started 5 minutes ago! It’s been very fun learning this great new hobby - and yes, I’m already started on my second grow!