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Issue #482 - Sunday, July 11, 2021
Dear Fellow Grower,
In today's issue...
- It's almost harvest time again in our house which means we've got proper harvesting techniques on the brain. If you want to make sure you're harvesting your buds at the perfect time (the harvest window) this article will arm you with the pertinent knowledge. The best part is it's just pictures!
- Check out my list of the 5 best LEDs so far in 2021! Learn what yields and bud quality to expect from each light, along with pros and cons!
- Harvest day for the Spider Farmer vs Mars Hydro grow journal! Check out the bud pictures and see plants drying!
- Not only are we getting tons of trophy pics, but you're going crazy on the production value! Backdrops, mood-setting darkness, warm camera tones; you growers are doing it right! Check out the Trophy Picture of the week section to see what I mean!
Nebula Haze & Sirius Fourside (founders of GrowWeedEasy.com)
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
~Eleanor Roosevelt
Ready-To-Harvest
Cannabis Picture Gallery
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Harvest cannabis buds at the right time for the highest potency, yields, and best effects!
Cannabis buds can come in all shapes and sizes Although variety is the spice of life, it can make it a little confusing to know when to harvest your buds based on how your plants look. But if you harvest when buds are ready, you’ll get the best yields and potency, so it’s a good idea to try to harvest at the right time if you can.
When buds first appear on your plant, they look like little round puffs of hair. Each bud is made up of many white hairs (“pistils”) that stick straight out.
Not Ready
Baby buds (budlets) look like a ball of white hairs. These buds have many weeks to go!
Still Not Ready
As the marijuana plant buds get closer to harvest, they thicken, and those white pistils start to darken and curl up. You’ll notice your buds are slowly getting thicker and denser. However, if you still have a lot of straight white pistils, like this bud, you know you still have a few weeks to go.
Ready to Harvest!
You’re in the weed harvest window when most of the pistils have darkened and curled in. However, sometimes it’s a little challenging to identify when buds are ready since each plant is different, and buds can look very different at harvest time. So today, I want to share lots and lots of pictures of many different cannabis buds that are ready to harvest so you can see the full gamut of variation.
A bud is ready to harvest when most of the hairs darken and curl in
- indoor plants
- outdoor plants
- autoflowering buds
- unusual colors
- heat-damaged buds
- and more!
5 Best LED Grow Lights 2021
(Yields, Speed, & Bud Quality)
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LEDs have overtaken HPS and other HIDs as the best cannabis grow light for nearly all home growers. Although there are some situations where LECs or HPS are a great choice (for example in a cold space where the heat of the lights is a positive thing, or if you’re making concentrates and want to use special bulbs to increase trichome production and terpene levels/smells), generally most home growers will be happiest with
LEDs.
(including pictures of plants, yield estimates, and what bud quality to expect!)
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Spider Farmer vs Mars Hydro LED grow journal update
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Plants from the Mars Hydro LEDs drying in the tent they were grown in
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Ah, harvest day. So satisfying and exciting.
Here is the Spider Farmer tent just before harvest
Pacific Punch under Spider Farmer LED (left plant)
Amnesia Lemon under Spider Farmer LED (middle plant)
Zweet Inzanity under Spider Farmer (right plant)
Here is the Mars Hydro tent. If you click on the pictures you may be able to see all the strings from plant yo-yos I used to hold the heavy buds up
Pacific Punch under Mars Hydro LED (left plant)
The Pacific Punch buds were super sparkly and purple in both tents. Genetics makes a huge difference in bud appearance
Amnesia Lemon under Mars Hydro LED (middle plant).
Zweet Inzanity from the Mars Hydro tent. This strain always comes out sparkly and yields well
This is exciting! I have an AC and a dehumidifier to keep the room at 60°F and 60% humidity while they're drying. I hung buds from inside the tent with the exhaust fan turned to the lowert setting for gentle airflow. I've found this environment provides consistently great results even if you're drying a lot of buds at once.
Typically buds take about 10 days to dry in this setup, so chances are I won't have an update for you next week's newsletter since they won't be dry yet. However, the week after will have final dry weight results, and the week after that we should have the cannabinoid and terpene lab results back.
I'm actually a little amazed at just how similar the two tents and all the buds look. I've done side-by-side grows before with clones, and usually, there are at least some visible differences. I can't wait to see what the scale and lab results have to say. One thing for sure is both these lights performed awesomely!
Love,
Nebula
P.S. Check out the grow journal on our website to learn more about this grow.
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"Hello to all at GWE.
I'm on my second grow now, my first was just a blind attempt without any guidance, I did alright.
On my second attempt I thought I'd look for some advice, there is loads out there but, I found your site to be the the best for me. The information on your site, is quick, concise and full of useful information.
I can't thank you guys enough. Keep up the great work."
~Dejay
That means a lot; thanks for the vote of confidence. 👍 ~Sirius
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~James
Hey, Ma! We're killing it! 🤘 ~Sirius
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~Ken
Bowls, you say? Looks like we have a fellow pipe/bong enthusiast. ~Sirius
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"Garlic Sherbert, 8 and 9 weeks grown in Black Gold Organic, amended with Dr Earth and worm castings. 7g fabric pot on a SWICK. (sub-irrigated planter) fabric bag sitting on top of a plant riser with wicking rope draped over it. Easy peasy water only."
~Hash Hound
You grew beautiful plants and took beautiful pictures. Beautiful. ~Sirius
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"Northern Lights x Big Bud auto. Currently in week [5] of Veg. Germinated June 2, 2021. You may follow along on Grow Diaries (link)"
~Mother
I love the story-like nature of your pictures. It's like we got to watch it grow up! ~Sirius
"Week 7 flower. Gorilla skunk, Super sugar Cookies and Alien Nightmare all grown in gh flora trio with calmag added."
~Spragoo
I love the lighting (or lack thereof) almost as much as I love the weed. This is weed in a sinister mood! 😈 ~Sirius
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whole.
- Why are my buds taking forever to mature? - I get it. You're still a super important person, but now you have even more super important things to do. You can't be bothered with buds that don't know how to pick up the pace. Learn why your bud is lazy and how to remedy the situation.
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I'll be honest with you, when I first started growing, I struggled. Now, it is my mission to make it easier for new growers to get started as well as help advanced growers get bigger, better yields with less time and money. We update/add articles every week and have built a comprehensive growing resource. Anyone and everyone can grow if they want to! If we all share the knowledge there's more buds in the world for everyone
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Sirius Fourside:
Sirius Fourside is a hobbyist grower who has gained the bulk of his experience growing in water as a medium (deep water culture, bubbleponics).
"Growing cannabis can be a relaxing hobby in and of itself, but it also saves you money and keeps you from having to deal with shady characters. Cannabis is much easier to grow than people give it credit for, and growing in water doesn't increase the difficulty much, if any. But whether you want to grow in water, coco, or a different medium, we'll show you how easy it can be!"
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