Happy Saturday to you too! Yeah, you’ll figure out what works best for you. I keep all my prime buds in mason jars, but I keep my larf and popcorn buds in quarter pound size Grove Bags. I don’t mind burping my good stuff, I actually enjoy it, but I wouldn’t want to have to put in any more effort for the small stuff, so the bags are perfect!
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I had a plant that I trimmed the other day that was very sticky. The next day no more stickiness.
I just pulled another one out of the bag every Branch every bud sticks to your fingers like glue if I threw a bud up against the wall it would stick.
How does it lose it stickiness? Will it come back during cure?
Just curious
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Part of the reason might be that the more you handle them and feel their stickiness, the more sticky trichomes come off or get stuck to your hands. I always try to handle them by the stems and touch the buds as little as possible. Also, being fully dried might reduce the stickiness a little bit as well.
I don’t know if stickiness will come back or not during the cure, but I don’t think so.
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Happy Monday Ron.
Do-Si-Dos Big Girl #2 is currently going into her 17th week from sprout 
(120 days) 13 weeks of flowering.
She’s just now starting to fatten her buds (and I mean just starting) for pistols are 99% still white sticking straight out. She’s got an easy 6 weeks left.
Have you ever heard him an Autoflower going 19 weeks in flower? For the most part she’s very happy and healthy. She’s always had that five yellow leaves at all times illness. I simply give her colmag once a week in a low dose about 125 EC just to keep her at that minimal 5 to 7 leaves of yellowing. It doesn’t seem to bother her and I quit worrying about it as well. She got a little too much cocoa mixed in her happy frog. There’s absolutely no doubt in my mind that was the issue.
Nonetheless it seems like the pH perfect has adjusted to the soil as there’s no major problems.
Personally I don’t care if she goes for 90 weeks as long as she stays happy and healthy and makes up for all the damn nutrients she’s eating 
LOL
I know big girl was on the borderline of one of the longest running Auto for hours ever heard of on this fourm. But this girl is going to far supersede that. It takes about a month for all them pistols to turn and curl in and I would think at least 6 weeks in Bud fattening and ripening.
I can also tell she’s going to be at larfy bitch. I don’t want any more big girls to tell you the truth. Other than their main cola and very tops of side branches come out to be dense. 75% of big girl was Larfy and we’ll go to Future hashmaking I believe the same to be with Do-Si-Dos girl.
This is her main cola (bent over because it’s too tall for the tent)
Big girls main cola at 12 weeks was bigger around than my leg
Here’s a few more shots
She’s lost 90% of her fan leaves due to yellowing and falling off. I guess the benefit of that will come in at drying time. Her sister born the same day has fully ripened turned 100% cloudy on her tricons and it’s slowly reaching the 10% Amber mark. I was going to cut her down Friday I’m just going to let her go for another week
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I hope you have a heavy equipment license to be excavating all that weight!!! You need a hard hat 
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I guess I could have bigger problems huh
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I mean those are great problems to have lol
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Yeah, that would definitely be the slowest auto I’ve seen so far. I think I’ve had a couple that pushed 15 weeks, or maybe even a bit more, but it’s not common at all.
Sorry, I had a really busy day, and my brain isn’t working so well at the moment. I’ll read your post again later on or in the morning.
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Happy Friday buddy 
Despite the incredibly Rocky start to the dry cure process with every thing that could go wrong went wrong the outcome so far has been the one The Sunny side 
With everything in Grove bags for the exception of a few jars, both the jars and the bags are consistently maintaining 58% to 63% RH
Rather than sealing the bags I use masking tape. You never know when you got to open it.
I do not regret the rocky start as it sharpened my pencil very pointy. I think learning from the mistakes will make the next one flawless
You are the best thanks for all your help patience and professionalism. 
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Very glad to hear that! I think the biggest issue you had was finding the proper setting on your moisture meter. Once you got past that it seems like everything went great.
I’ve actually never heat sealed the Grove Bags, and I have some larf and popcorn buds in them for a really long time with no apparent loss of quality at all.
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Do-Si-Dos is really starting to fatten up good. As you can see she’s just starting to get her white hair and is sticking straight out I’d say an easy month left to go she’s 14 weeks in flower already.
She reminds me so much of big girl. Her buds are thick from the bottom to the top every Branch filled
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I think the new pistils look like they’re mostly on foxtails. Almost like she’s starting over again. It’s possible that the main buds underneath might be closer to being done than it looks, but if that’s the case I’m not sure how to handle it.
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Even if they are foxtails she’s still got some time. I don’t mind an extra layer of buds.
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I’m so pissed off right now. After trimming the first dosey doe girl all her buds are foxtails from top to bottom. It’s not like her main buds are foxtails it’s all fox tails. I looked it up it seems like it’s a problem to some and not to others but very common. It has nothing to do with environment it’s the genetics.
Personally I don’t think I’ll ever buy another seed from ILGM
I go look at the big girl left in the tent same thing she’s 100% foxtail no regular bud.
Everything falls apart as soon as you cut it off it’s just thousands of little round balls very hard to see from my pictures but that’s what it is all round baby balls they look like seed pods
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I hear you, I think that is a genetic thing like you said, at least it definitely seems that way. I’ve seen other growers mention very similar results. I haven’t experienced it yet, although that might change in the very near future, lol. My ILGM Wedding Cake has odd buds that look a lot like the buds in your pics above. She’s the only one of my 8 current plants that’s foxtailing, and it kind of looks like the buds are just stacked foxtails, which sounds like what you were saying. I might be wrong, the ILGM Wedding Cake autos have been amongst my favorites for a long time. I’ve seen a few variations, but this one definitely looks different from any of the previous ones I’ve grown.
This is her, does that look like yours?
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That’s exactly what it is stack after stack of foxtails. I knew something was wrong when I went through over 60 buds with my meter and couldn’t get a reading from any one of them because there was nothing to stab into LOL
Lesson learned. In all sincerity I’ve had several issues with their seeds. It’s just time to move on. I got a shitload a fast Bud seeds and I’ve never tried to grow them so I guess I’ll be on them for a while.
Unfortunately yes that’s how mine looks. If you pull back your buds and trying to look inside you’ll see it’ll go all the way to the stem with nothing but foxtails it’s very easy to figure out once the cat’s out of the bag so to speak
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Wow—sorry to hear that sad story. I bought some DSD seeds I was going to use next year. Now maybe I’ll use another strain instead. I don’t want to put a grow at risk of this happening.
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I will say this. The girl that I chopped and just trimmed was only one half of a plant. The rest of the plant I left in the tent for 2 weeks to get more light at the bottom.
After trimming one half of the plant I got a heaping tablespoon of kief. To add to my 10 g jar that I already have.
I can easily ice bath this stuff and get more kief. It’s definitely not going to have any type of bag appeal. I wonder if the smoke is good as regular smoke?
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Personally I wouldn’t let one batch of seeds that have issues prevent me from buying again but this is too many times issue after issue. For me I’m done with ILGM seeds.
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It might smoke really well. Just because it’s low yielding and a little airy doesn’t mean it might not be really good.
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