What's in Roddy's Garden Today??

[Rosebud]

Roddy, train wreck is the only shake i will keep. The leaves are full of tricomes and can pack a surprising smoke or hash or tincture. I wouldn't make tincture out of TW..not the sleepy kind.
It is funny when i saw your gj, and said what is in roddys garden, i thought, roddy loaded. And you are..how nice. congrats on the oz's I got 3 or a little less, but not this next grow.

 

[Staffy]

lol ya that is a bush u got there. looks great bro. keep up the good work.

 

[jesuse]

nice work rody theos plants look good you on to a good return budy:2940th_rasta: hapy days

 

[Roddy]

Roddy, train wreck is the only shake i will keep. The leaves are full of tricomes and can pack a surprising smoke or hash or tincture. I wouldn't make tincture out of TW..not the sleepy kind.
It is funny when i saw your gj, and said what is in roddys garden, i thought, roddy loaded. And you are..how nice. congrats on the oz's I got 3 or a little less, but not this next grow.

Figured some nut case was coming in did we?? Well. you were spot on THANKS for stopping in, my friend!!!!

I'm taking it from stem to jar today right after work, we'll know weight then, but the weight of the airy buds thrown in the hash bin was 2oz dried, going into freezer now! That's a good little start, some good hash will come from it since there was so much white covering everything!

 

[Roddy]

lol ya that is a bush u got there. looks great bro. keep up the good work.

A bush indeed! I topped her several times, maybe 8-10! She was really bushy at the start, but grew out more! I had a light feeding the body, but had to bring in more plants to fill the room and made that light an overhead, this could be partial reason for the airy lower buds.

We're getting there though, learning a lot with each grow!

THANKS for stopping in!

 

[Roddy]

nice work rody theos plants look good you on to a good return budy:2940th_rasta: hapy days

THANKS Jesuse!!!

Jarring up the dried product for cure, we'll see how this turns out later!!!! The taste is already there, the gang is raving about it....gotta love that!!!

More light on the way, we're gonna turn that little pantry into a weed paradise, see what Roddy's Garden can grow then!!

 

[Roddy]

OK, all cut from stem and jarred up, she'll be great smoke when cured a bit! Total solid bud weight is 175gr dried which is 6 1/4oz...not bad, but the 2oz of air buds would have been nice to be able to add in.

This is probably my most disappointing harvest to date! The quality of the buds isn't up to my standards or even my previous showings, the harvest low! Makes me want to get things dialed in better, I have to get this worked out so I can provide for at least 3 of us now, with more coming (my son is also a patient now...and I heard I have 2 more are planning to sign me up, 5 will be hard to care for lol)!

Next purchase besides lights is a ventilation system!

eta...smoking a nice joint of her right now, gotta love TW even if it's not as good as I had hoped!!!!

 

[The Hemp Goddess]

You chopped on the 26th and you are jarring up today--only 4 days later? I live in a very arid climate and my buds will not dry out sufficiently in 4 days to jar, especially if they are thick dense colas. I would be for opening the jars several times a day--I just can't think that they are dry enough....

 

[Roddy]

I know what you're saying, but I am smoking one right now, smooth smoke, not hard to light or keep lit!! The last one dried out in 3 days and they were tighter buds.....

All I've dried have dried within 3-4 days! I do open the jars, but only once a day for the first couple weeks, then whenever I remember lol

eta...how long do you usually hang them for?? My stems were all snapping when I cut them off!

 

[Roddy]

Phase two: Pre-cure. This is somewhat like landing your airplane. The trick is to set it down on the runway at just the right angle as you begin to reduce your speed. This is where the mathematics come into play. What you are looking for here is the "feel". When your hanging bud begins to "feel" like it is drying out, but the stems are still flexible, it is time to jar. Don't worry, we will revisit this phase in more detail in a bit..

I followed this right to the "T" and am in the jarring stage.

 

[Roddy]

A quick PM to THG confirmed I was doing this correct, no worries on the drying! Jars are currently sitting in a nice dark safe waiting for the burp, they'll slow cure nicely since I am in no hurry for dope at this time...SWEET!!!

The airy buds irked me to no end, so 'ol Roddy spent some change today, a new 1000w HPS is being added to the pantry as I type! I'll have a total of 3200w! No more air buds if I can help it! If this isn't enough, I can add another 400w as body lighting!

I also priced the ventilation system, have a game plan on adding it and all...just waiting on fundage!

While discussing cooling ideas for the pantry, my local hydro guy gave me an idea that might work, it's kinda like the cooler idea someone posted awhile back (maybe Blackskull). The idea is to dig a hole deep enough to drop a 55gal barrel in below the frost line (at least 4', probably go as deep as 6' or more if you can swing it), have copper tubing inside the barrel coiled around, this leads to an air tube which is sealed to the copper, the plastic air tubing lines the floor and/or walls of the room. A pump inside the barrel pumps water through the copper tubing and up through the air tubing, circulating through the room and back to the barrel.

This is said to cool a room cheaply, the ground temp is around 50 degrees year round, the air cools the water which flows through the tubing and (in theory) cools the room. Since I have a Michigan basement, I am thinking I could dig a hole a few feet deep and do this there....cool without all the digging lol!

Thoughts?? Anyone ever try something like this, does it work?

 

[Roddy]

Ended up having to remove one of the 400w MH's, circuit couldn't handle that much power! OK, down to 2800w, but she's bright in the bud room lol, suntans come free!

While moving things around, I had a chance to really check out the LSD....WOW! This gal is chock full of buds top to bottom, all lemony pledge smelling and sticky as can be! Main cola is around 18" long and now about the width of a banana...a long, lemony pledge, sticky green banana...she has a few similar colas which are around 12" each...this gal really promises to be a good plant! For that matter, the OG Kush is coming along nicely as well, her buds are filling right in!

It truly is a big jungle in there, shortest plant being 50" lol....but it's a well-lit jungle!!! We'll see how this works out!

 

[rotten_socks420]

Good job roddy!! The whole copper thing seems like alot of work.... You couldnt just upgrade ur fans to move more air in and out? Maybe an air conditioner? I got one for free today so the 90-100 degree temps this summer cant touch this

 

[Roddy]

Personally, I don't see me doing this, but it is an option for those trying to cut back on the power bills!! Doesn't sound like much work really, just the digging part...

and THANKS, my friend!!!!

 

[rotten_socks420]

Yea in that sense i can see how it would be worth it, I dunno call me lazy or modern or whatever you want but i got an air conditioner hahahah I love being able to talk to people about this stuff with out a worry

 

[Rosebud]

Can you believe what we do to grow this plant that some call a weed? The hobby quickly becomes consuming, digging a 5 foot hole in my basement, no problem. :doh:
Your at the fun part now, enjoy Rod.

 

[Roddy]

LOL RS I'll be going the a/c route myself...if I can get power to it lol!!! Not lazy, we're just wise!!

I know Rosie, I even thought about digging the floor out to give me more headroom so I can grow down there (it's cooler in summer, but only 5.5' ceilings, so no room for big girls)...crazy! THANKS, my friend!!

It's really exciting to look into that room these days, 8 beasts all showing various signs of budding from the LSD and OG being a few weeks away to the Kandy Kush being in first week...and everything in between!! The buds smiling back at me when I look in really lifts my spirits seeings how I used to worry about being able to afford buying the next bag...of schwag weed at that! And nevermind the inevitable dry spell over the summer...OUCH!

Ahhhh, life is good!!!

and...did I mention the 10+ oz of killer dope curing or waiting to be smoked??? SWEET!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Rosebud]

it is pretty shocking the first time you realize you have an honest to goodness stash. It makes me smile.

 

[Roddy]

It is indeed, Rosie, a nice shock!!!!

Pics of the OG and LSD since I have them out of the room to re-arrange a bit...

OG Kush, she went into budding 3/23, went into soil 2/1. She has an obvious problem or two, I just cannot get her straightened out and decided she'll have to do as is! Yes, yield will suffer, but so has my head from the migraines trying to deal with her!

Cola shot....she's a bit skimpy, but I am not unhappy! Great looking buds, tons of trichs and really sticky!

Back away a bit, she's a little bigger than she appeared before lol....just not huge! Nice tight buds on her! She's a total of 58" tall, about 30" around +/-

Here's a sugar shot, would have been better with a darker background! Not bad....

Now, here's my LSD forest!!! TONS of spear-like buds on this bad beast, and all lemony-pledge sweet smelling!

As I've been reporting, she has 18" + colas on her never topped body, nice and sticky!

I've taken clones of both the LSD and OG, they are about 20" tall and bushy now, waiting for room to bud! These will really produce some quality stuff! Imagine a forest of spears.....

Figured I'd show you the right side of my bud room...attack of the monster stretch beasts!!! KK in the foreground, just into budding and stretching to the light rapidly....not much more headroom, sooooo... The one in the back left is White Widow at about 3 weeks budding. The one beside her and really hard to tell is GWS...really budding up heavily at 3 weeks or so. Last is another OG all stretched and crazy...

 

[Roddy]

Note to self....timers don't like too much power forced through them!

Had to replace the timer since it burned up due to overload. I bought 2 timers, so no issues now lol!

OG and LSD are really bulking up now, heading into the final stretch! I am really happy I have clones of these two!