So I’m roughly 50 days on “squirrel girl” (long story), and my other 2 girls are budding good but squirrel girl is really late. I’ll need to move her outside so I can take down the LED and start the dry/cure steps on the other 2. Indoor temp and humidity 80 and 60%.
Outside I’ve set up a small shelter with grow panels for the top. This is to protect against pouring rain but still let sunlight in. Temps and humidity this time of year run 75-92 and 55-75%. I will bury the bottom 1/3 of the fabric pot over a bed of masonry sand to keep the roots cool and for drainage. Note the bottom 1/3 of the fabric pot is Nature’s Living Soils mixture that has all the nutes. I will carry water to her and plan to increase the amount to account for higher temps. Planning to move her outside in the next day or 2. Will post pics then.
I’d appreciate any other advice anyone may have that could be helpful.
I take a bamboo rod and place it on top of the tent with half hanging over the side.
Place something on the rod to hold it down.
Then I hang my plants on them to dry.
You don’t need 100% dark to dry them. Just not direct sunlight.
So the tent continues to be a grow space and the plants dry in the same room.
Your plan sounds fine, but your moving a live plant which is prone to more problems than the drying plant. Do you have no other space to dry your harvest?
Are they all this old?
Have any photos?
Are they all the same age?
If these are the same plants from your other threads you are nowhere near ready to harvest. You have a long way to go still.
All the same age, squirrel girl was dug up at start of veg by squirrel and most likely stress/stunted for a 2-3 week recovery.
Not enough room to keep everything together.
I have pics of the area on this forum under the topic title “GG AF late flower “.
Thanks for your reply!
This is just a friendly suggestion. If you stick to one thread instead of starting a new one each time then we can give better advice. Simply tag a couple people to get attention.
That lets us see the history and progress without having to ask the same questions all over again.
Your plants look very good. Hope they get really big for you.
I forgot to mention that I figure I’m about 30-40 day to harvest on the other 2. That is if my calculations are right.
Thank you for the thread advice.
On average its 9 weeks from the start of flowering. 12-14 weeks total is normal.
When you see the flowering times on different seeds its Flowering time, not total time.
And those numbers are always the shortest possible and not typical. Add 2 weeks to the flowering time plus the vegging time and thats normal.
For autos I figure 100 days start to finish, but the plant will be the final factor. Once the trichomes start to become totally cloudy then I plan the harvest.
I appreciate you knowledge. It made me go back and check. 8/31 will be 98 days! I had planned the month of September for dry/cure. Got grove bags, and mason jars, Boveda packs, and a moisture meter for my sanity.
Its a fun hobby. We have gotten creative with the whole process. We start plants in a repurposed armoire for the first 4 weeks. Move them to the tent to flower. Then we have a pantry we hang the plants in to dry/cure. Smell is not an issue as we dont have visitors and no close neighbors.
We’ve got everything packed into a 2x3 closet within our 9x9 office. Family is over often but we’ve been freshening the air outside the office and using a 6” carbon filter vented thru a window. So far no one has noticed any smell. Oder is a little strong in the closet and office but not nearly as bad since we added the carbon filter.
Looks like she is finally starting to flower!
We think so too! Let’s see what real sunshine does for her.
