A Turkey In The Hay 🦃

[Pipecarver]

Last time I trimmed was early September of 21, not counting one of those little plants I grew outside last year that I tossed to the deer

I cut it all at once, tore everything down, packed it up, called the realtor and sold the beach house in that same month

Even the deer wouldn't eat the handful of plants I grew out in the garden last year, as they were so heavily treated for mites

I'm going to have a big problem here with hemp russet mites, they are apparently out here in the hay in force

I'm going to have to run a preemptive preventative maintenance schedule

I gotta get a few auto's going outside this year. I've never grown them outside here, tried a few indoors but I'd rather do fem Photo's. Our weather just sucks but every 4-5-6 years we get a nice one and I could flower fine.

I'll still need to build a small green house to shelter them from too much rain but I've built a few A frame tents out of plastic sheets that work okay. I even put in fans to blow through them but powdery mildew hit them & or bud rot so I've stopped outside altogether.....until this year maybe...lol

 

[Beachwalker]

So I (mostly) got my drying situation figured out

A humidifier & ink bird humidity controller took humidity in my little bathroom from 23% to 66 in about an hour

I'm going to have to make some tweaks but that can be done once I get the hanging basket filled with bud

So Chop day will be coming along presently, probably first thing in the morning

 

[Beachwalker]

Those are just nanners, you may get a seed or 2 but they won't amount to much. You can pull the little yellow bananas out pretty easily. Those aren't the flowers we look for around 2 weeks into flower that fk up a whole grow. I think they come from stress, too much light, too cold,?????? Genetics

The OC's are completely loaded with green seeds & seedpods

So I've got three of the four plants harvested, the Onyx crush is loaded with immature green seeds top to bottom, no good for anything but hashish, which isn't the worst thing in the world if you like hash as much as I do.

I won't be buying from GPS again, unfortunately I've got two more of these Onyx Crush growing because of the *poor germination of the Red Beard Platinum Kush (*2/5)

Break time (which means I got to go get firewood) I'll finish the last plant later, also they're doing fine drying in the bathroom but I don't really think I want to tie up my bathroom, I'll come up with a different drying solution by next harvest

Pics to follow

 

[Beachwalker]

Purple Crash was unseeded, but Onyx Crush was loaded with seeds

 

[SiamSam]

Purple Crash was unseeded, but Onyx Crush was loaded with seedsView attachment 91890View attachment 91891

Are you keeping all those bag seeds or sending them to the eternal seed bank in Norway?

 

[stonemason]

Purple Crash was unseeded, but Onyx Crush was loaded with seedsView attachment 91890View attachment 91891

Looks like it will make good hash.

 

[Beachwalker]

Looks like it will make good hash.

Yeah it's not a total waste, I thought about throwing away the two seedlings of it I've got growing but it didn't throw any pollen to the other non-hermies so I guess I'll grow them, I'm so sick of issues with breeders though

 

[stonemason]

Yeah it's not a total waste, I thought about throwing away the two seedlings of it I've got growing but it didn't throw any pollen to the other non-hermies so I guess I'll grow them, I'm so sick of lousy breeders though

The best stuff we grew last year was bred by michagin marijuana seed club. They were a little more expensive, but man they got some fire.old time breeder.if you like hash robby over at nerds genetics breeds for washers.he is an amazing breeder. Kevin has some good hash makeing plants too, okcalyxx is his brand. I'm doing a plant from Kevin right now.the stuff from Irie genetics I'm running this grow seems realy good. Im gona definitely get a pack of thier lemon Jefferies. Been hearing good things about red beards stuff.i think granny gets us a discount. To many choices. so much to grow so little time. To many good breeders to screw around with those seeds from gps. I'm with you though I would run those other two out till the end. You can never have enough hash.

 

[Beachwalker]

Update: 3/6

Today the seedlings became young plants, they are in the tent under 250 watts of metal halide

They're getting Schultz 20 20 20 at 250 PPM, switching to Masterblend soon

Working to get them up-potted in to 6" squares soon, tomorrow I'll be splitting wood all day, so maybe Friday

I reckon I'll veg 'em at least another month

 

[Beachwalker]

So that happened
(up-potted)

24 hours of heavy rain can make you do crazy things!

From now on I'm just going to start them in the 6-in pots and skip the 3 inch squares, for one less handling of the plant

They did well under my new lights on the shelf

 

[Beachwalker]

Haven't smoked a joint since early December, not going to start now

5.3 g Hashish

Only two or three grams left in the Kif jar for one more pressing and then I've got to get to shaking!

I can probably find dry ice up here, I might look into it cuz I don't need to shake all that Kif quarter oz at a time, my elbows played from four winters of swinging a pickeroon at firewood
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So I'm going to be pressing hash again seems like all I ever do

And this pressing is going to empty my kif jar so next time I'll be shaking the kif again in my pollen separator, man I hate that

I've got to start doing dry ice extraction cuz I'm never going to do those bags again, I had a set of them years ago, sent the damn things back, what a sloppy mess they are!

 

[steamroller]

I have a tumbler and screens to make kief for hash.
The screens are manual labor and part art but the tumbler is easy peasy.
I have never done ice hash so ?
Here is a thread on tumbling and some of the tumblers different members use.

Kief tumbler

Rosintech 500 dry sift tumbler 150 micron screen Someone asked if it is worth tumbling trim? I had about 2.5 lbs of dried trim. 1100 gms. Tumbled approx 350 gm at a time. Results, tumbled each batch for 12 min with 6 quarters in with each batch. Results were 14 gms of kif or a 1.5% return. A...

budbuilders.org

There some DIY tumblers and one member using a flour sifter/vibrating type tumbler that works pretty well and is cheap.

 

[Beachwalker]

Next town over

 

[Zen_seeker]

Thank you, it's been a long period of inaction so I expected it, but I did push it a bit yesterday.

Hope you're feeling better from your cold!

Still have about half of this to split (it's 5 stack's deep) View attachment 91090

Small bites man. I forget shovelling can be detrimental to our health these days. Splitting woods in that same category.

 

[steamroller]

Next town over View attachment 92304

Very cool but scary also.

 

[Zen_seeker]

I gotta get a few auto's going outside this year. I've never grown them outside here, tried a few indoors but I'd rather do fem Photo's. Our weather just sucks but every 4-5-6 years we get a nice one and I could flower fine.

I'll still need to build a small green house to shelter them from too much rain but I've built a few A frame tents out of plastic sheets that work okay. I even put in fans to blow through them but powdery mildew hit them & or bud rot so I've stopped outside altogether.....until this year maybe...lol

I’ll be trying and auto or two outside this year. Apparently they stay on the shorter side.

 

[Beachwalker]

Small bites man. I forget shovelling can be detrimental to our health these days. Splitting woods in that same category.

Agree, but splitting wood is so much fun!

 

[Beachwalker]

Right!!! So far I've found big cat scat twice, but I think the most concerning was what I'm told is a bear print in the snow 3 ft from my back stairs last November (my foot bottom right for size reference)

By the way that's a Canadian lynx, just saying!

 

[Zen_seeker]

Right!!! So far I've found big cat scat twice, but I think the most concerning was what I'm told is a bear print in the snow 3 ft from my back stairs last November (my foot bottom right for size reference)View attachment 92388

By the way that's a Canadian lynx, just saying!

You north of the border or is it lost?

You must have a lot of rabbits in the area. Or at least you used too.

Been a while since we saw any signs of a bear at either of my parents but fox, coyote, bobcat/lynx and smaller river dwellers take turns being a nuisance. Seems they like my mom’s neighbours chickens.

 

[Beachwalker]

You north of the border or is it lost?

You must have a lot of rabbits in the area. Or at least you used too.

Been a while since we saw any signs of a bear at either of my parents but fox, coyote, bobcat/lynx and smaller river dwellers take turns being a nuisance. Seems they like my mom’s neighbours chickens.

North Central Maine, and we have everything you mentioned here and then some, it's a real eye opener for a city boy like me

Last fall a neighbor reported on FB seeing a pack of 4 or 5 red Timberwolves at the top of my street and about a mile further down the crossroad, no pictures but a bunch of neighbors from around that area chimed in and said they have seen them too, I've heard howling but assumed it was coyotes?

I've never seen a rabbit, I think there's too many hawks and eagles for them to be running around (but I have seen some rabbit tracks in the snow here and there) same with squirrels not too many of them either but we have tons of deer and turkey and God knows what else is out there!

That's my bird feeder

 

[Pipecarver]

We've been up through your area a few times, stayed in Gorham, Bethel, zigzagged through going up and down to Ottawa, I prefer that way although it takes a bit longer than driving through Canada. Well we did anyways, with our dollar now it would be too expensive. In the past it was a bit cheaper with gas,food accommodations and I loved driving through the countryside with all the old farm homes and rolling hills. Much better than driving freeways and I've always had a hankering for Bud, the Usa Bud not our Canadian Bud.

The tall glass bottles on a hot Day...ah yes. last time it cost me almost $400+ for a 24 pack of tall 16oz Bud in bottles. Closer to $500, gas, food,duty,taxes beer and a bottle of Everclear on a 14 hr return trip one hot summer day 2 years ago...Dam I like that Bud, I might make another run this summer if we're not lobbing war heads at one another by then....lol, it was a fun day with my son & 20 joints

 

[Beachwalker]

We've been up through your area a few times, stayed in Gorham, Bethel, zigzagged through going up and down to Ottawa, I prefer that way although it takes a bit longer than driving through Canada. Well we did anyways, with our dollar now it would be too expensive. In the past it was a bit cheaper with gas,food accommodations and I loved driving through the countryside with all the old farm homes and rolling hills. Much better than driving freeways and I've always had a hankering for Bud, the Usa Bud not our Canadian Bud.

The tall glass bottles on a hot Day...ah yes. last time it cost me almost $400+ for a 24 pack of tall 16oz Bud in bottles. Closer to $500, gas, food,duty,taxes beer and a bottle of Everclear on a 14 hr return trip one hot summer day 2 years ago...Dam I like that Bud, I might make another run this summer if we're not lobbing war heads at one another by then....lol, it was a fun day with my son & 20 joints

Let me know if you're passing by this summer!

I drink Miller but I've had my share of tallboy Buds back in Brighton believe me, it was our local drink in our pubs!

You notice I mentioned that was a CANADIAN lynx?? And what's the deal with the Timberwolves?

Maine denies they're here, but tons of people are catching them on their trail cams down here, apparently they're making more illegal border crossings than the Chinese! ()

 

[Zen_seeker]

North Central Maine, and we have everything you mentioned here and then some, it's a real eye opener for a city boy like me

Living the dream. 🪼

Last fall a neighbor reported on FB seeing a pack of 4 or 5 red Timberwolves at the top of my street and about a mile further down the crossroad, no pictures but a bunch of neighbors from around that area chimed in and said they have seen them too, I've heard howling but assumed it was coyotes?

My dads had wolves in his area. Guy across the street hunts them a coyote depending on the rules each year. I’ve gone after his coyotes too. They can spook the horses. One died hung up on the back fence years ago.

I've never seen a rabbit, I think there's too many hawks and eagles for them to be running around (but I have seen some rabbit tracks in the snow here and there) same with squirrels not too many of them either but we have tons of deer and turkey and God knows what else is out there!

They are most active at night. We’ve had them in our yard since just before covid. See them in the late evening or early mornings. Apparently they are all over the neighborhood these days. Son sees them and coyotes while walking the dog in the evenings.

Willow and I had a fox pace us one evening last fall. But my sons seen two coyotes a block from home in our residential street walking the dog at night.

Rabbit in one of our gardens.


We even had one or two deer walking down the middle of the main road over lockdown. That’s nuts in the middle of the city. Little big to hide in parks like the fox or coyotes.

That's my bird feeder View attachment 92390

Very cool. Haven’t seen any in the city since I was a kid. A few at my dads farm. Turkey are always at my moms. Hopping/flying over the river to the fields on the other side. They both have lots of deer.