You bought a pin!! Isn’t it gorgeous? I was there on Saturday but only to check to see if my sponsors were happy with their vendor booths. Not a big fan of carnivals and such. Funny that I now run one. Ha! It was so hard to learn everything on the fly without any training whatsoever that I planned to quit the day after it ended. LOL. But I felt a huge sense of pride and accomplishment and decided to give it another go for 2024. It’s year-round work, I’ll tell ya. I’ll never take a community event for granted ever again.
Okay, getting ready to upload some pics, just for you!
Okay, at @OlyBoy 's request, here are a few posts with photos of my autos.
First off are my pest issues. This has got to be a leaf miner, yes? These pics are a couple of weeks old (July 30?) and I don’t see any new lines so the IPM I did early July helped. These four plants, all autos, have issues and are in grow bags. I believe they also have thrips, aphids, or mites. My other six don’t seem to have these issues and are set away from this and I’ll post pics of them soon.
Plants 3b & 6b that were in fabric pots didn’t make it. #3b was a Crazy 8s Monster Fruit and #6b was a Widow’s Red Cherry CheeseBake. However, the smaller sizes of these in the 6" pots are doing fine.
Group shot from today, August 12. Not proud of these four. Buggy but I’ll still tend to them. Do more IPM although I’m worried about using stuff at this late stage. Day 85. Autos.
Okay, so these are my smaller autos that I kept in six-inch pots. They did have some leafminer issues on July 9th but that’s gone from using neem, DE, and Mosquito Bits. However, on July 17th, I caught these shots of bugs. Any identification here?
Yes, those are 6" pots and they need watering. I wanted and got smaller plants. I checked some buds and leaves for pests and trichomes. Clear trichomes, so not ready. One bug, not sure what it is. Maybe aphid. The somewhat yellowing of the end of some of the leaves concerns me but I’ve not given them the attention they deserve and I bet they are hungry. It’s time to feed. With these six, I’m no worried about pests or leaf issues. Day 85. I’m thinking … two more weeks?? LOL … isn’t that always the answer?
Anyway, these are my best six autos for the year. Hope you enjoyed the show.
Okay, I have six plants that I’ve started checking trichomes on and checking for bugs with my endoscope. They are all autos and on day 97. I was hoping y’all would advise me on the trichomes?
So far my method is to cut a bud, put it under the scope, seriously look at all sides and insides. Then I wash it and broil it for two minutes and try it.
My next three posts will cover the first three I’ve done so far.
I hate tagging peeps but I need y’all’s advice on if these are ready or not.
By the way, thanks go to @repins12 for the seeds I used this year: #1 Charolette’s Dementia #2 Charolette’s Yester Dream #3 Crazy 8s Monkey Fruit #4 Cuomo’s Arachna Diesel #5 Viuda Blanca Border Jumper #6 Widow’s Red Cherry Cheese Bake
Sorry if I spelled any of those wrong. It was hard to decipher the handwriting on the seed container.
Also thanks to @Slym3r and @TheMadFlascher for sending me the BBP which I did use in this grow. I do think the BBP makes a difference.
Last night’s test was #6 Widow’s Red Cherry Cheese Bake on August 23 Day 96
Seeing lots of cloudy, few amber. Looks like this plant is buggy in the third photo but I could NOT find a bug. So that’s probably just dirt or poo that I was sure to wash off before trying it out.
Long story, but I skipped from #2 to #6 because I couldn’t remember if I did a test or not on Sunday and had them labeled wrong and was going to start over starting with the last one and going up. I’m pretty sure I didn’t test any on Sunday but I did test my new endoscope stand I just got. Really helpful with the shaky hands I inherited from my parents. For ‘scientific’ reasons, though, I’m going to continue with my plan B of starting with #6 and then going 5,4,3,2,1. I’m so weird. Anal-retentive. OCD. You name it, I’m it.
Thanks @nacho151 - I have seen this, but I haven’t gotten to the point where I feel comfortable identifying which mine are. Especially with clear to cloudy. I know it’s obvious, but I still hesitate to call it. I’m trying to go with mostly cloudy with a 20-30% amber.
I feel like you have a day or two atleast that’s my own preference but remember really it’s personal choice if you left them go longer it’s more of a couch lock feeling /Inda-couch but once the majority of trichs are cloudy she’s technically good , but once again it really depends on what your looking for…… also remember check even the lower buds also this is why keeping the canopy decently level is also important
The more darker the trichcomes, the more the couch lock the buzz feels. You have some ambers and cloudiness, the ambers get darker and spread the more of that you see more couch lock sort of buzz.
It could all be a conspiracy who knows baha
