WhiteRhino + Feeding Line Test | LedCherryBerry

[LedCherryBerry]

"There can be only one!"

*Snip* *Snip* *Snip* *Clip* *Snip*...

[LedCherryBerry]

Day 119, Harvest. 

Goddamn she was leafy!
Took me 2.5 hours of snipping before getting the hang of it. 
Either way, i wanted to wait until tomorrow, but some of the colas bent under their own weigh, and didn't want to risk losing them. 

No more words.
Let's jump into it.


Highlander's Canopy

 

Highlander, side view 1

 

Highlander, side view 2

 

Highlander, true color cola


Highlander, flower close up

 

Highlander, more flowers

 

Highlander, mighty stalk

 

Her last breath, before the snipping

 

Harvest, leafy hell

 

Harvest, popcorn colas

 

Harvest, Fat colas


I'll see y'all in 5 days. By then, i'll bottle them up and start curing them for another 15 days.

Cheers!

[g22]

Nice plant buddy 

[evolution666]

Really good job bro... Yeah this is a hell of plant this Highlander and your harvest looks great (nice buds, cool colours,...).

Cheers & respect my friend !

 

Evolution666

[LedCherryBerry]

2 hours ago, evolution666 said:

Really good job bro... Yeah this is a hell of plant this Highlander and your harvest looks great (nice buds, cool colours,...).

Cheers & respect my friend !

 

Evolution666

Thank you man.

As the drying process endures, i'm noticing a huge drop in bud thickness. 
I can already tell i'm not going to surpass the 80g threshold. Yet something tells me it's worth it (25% potential)..

It's quite a cool plant to grow, not too hard to LST and definitely chilly as i've not encountered major difficulties.
Yet, i believe i could've produced way more just by using a bigger pot.
All experience, next grow i'll try to use a 30L instead of a 18L.

Anyway, since i barely can keep my hands off of weed, i tried rolling up a small joint of her sugar leaves.
Smoke isn't as harsh as i expected, and it definitely made me high.
Effect was very social in the first hour, then subsided to a calm and relaxing couchlock. 
If the sugar leaves give me this effect.. I honestly cannot imagine the buds themselves.


Curing process will begin this thursday.
I'll see y'all by then for 1st weigh and some Jar porn.
Cheers!

[Onionland]

In love with the Highlander

 

Great report.

 

Enjoy your harvest @LedCherryBerry

 

All the best

[LedCherryBerry]

I just realized i should've used a black bed sheet instead of a white one. Flash wouldn't reflect, maybe a bit better focus.. Mehh, next time.

Anyway thank you @Onionland, i hope too i'll enjoy it.
By far, the unpleasant "fresh cut grass" smell has attenuated to the point that smelling a single bud gives you an idea of how she'll smell later on..
Which, imo, it's a good one: fruity, tendency to citrus, very pungent, makes my nose itchy
Maybe it'll change later on.. 

As for the drying process, i have a question, which is more like a curiosity of mine.
Do you guys add any active fan in the tent? 
At the moment, i have the intake-outtake extractor fans on 24 hrs a day, and 2 wall-mounted fans active 12/24.
My concern is that too little ventilation (no fans) will cause mold even if i'm using the extractors, cause overall little air moves..
But also too much ventilation can fuck up the drying process, speeding it up and it's a thing i don't want for taste reasons.

So.. What do you guys do?
 

[g22]

I read that the best way is to hang your plant in the tent in the dark with only the extractor and no ventilator never just extract the air to the moment you can break the branch and hear the branch break like a dry wood and than cure in plastic zipbag or paper bag or in glaass jar for month

[g22]

With plastic zipbag and glass jars you need to let them open everyday 15minute the first 2-3weeks and move them a littel to let humidity go out plastic bag are more simpel for that its watt i read on many site 

[gasmeter]

Great job man it was a really interesting grow I am glad you continued to update your journal to the end, I love how you have built your own lighting and the sound proofing.

As they say necessity is the mother of invention, if you have the motivation you will find a way to achieve your goals.

Enjoy your harvest and the fruit of your labour, it is well earned and deserved.

Gasmeter

Likkle more

[LedCherryBerry]

11 hours ago, g22 said:

I read that the best way is to hang your plant in the tent in the dark with only the extractor and no ventilator never just extract the air to the moment you can break the branch and hear the branch break like a dry wood and than cure in plastic zipbag or paper bag or in glaass jar for month

Ok, so i'll go shut off the fans.. Don't want my weed to become brittle
Thanks for the hint!

 

10 hours ago, gasmeter said:

Great job man it was a really interesting grow I am glad you continued to update your journal to the end, I love how you have built your own lighting and the sound proofing.

As they say necessity is the mother of invention, if you have the motivation you will find a way to achieve your goals.

Enjoy your harvest and the fruit of your labour, it is well earned and deserved.

Gasmeter

Likkle more

Thank you man, appreciate it.
I had necessity over motivation, but it became fun.
As for the completion of the journal.. I could not leave it like this.
It wouldn't have been fair both towards you guys, to me, to the staff that kindly shipped all this stuff to us for free.
And most of all, to the people that will read the journals in the future, or to the people that will peek on them because they're growing WR too.
I mean.. there are 290830928 journals about White Widow.. But White Rhino has 20-30 out there.. and not all of them are done.

Either way.. a couple more days, and maybe i'll perform a test on a non-cured bud.. just to see where this WR takes me
Cheers!

[g22]

Here you can read all the methode to dry and cure your weed they  give right  information they are cannabis aktivist but its in dutch maybe you need use a translator to be short its like a tell you 

Picture number 3 is normaly picture 4 

 

[LedCherryBerry]

Checked today.
Stems bend and then snap, while buds feel dry but not brittle.
I believe i'll bottle them up tomorrow, instead of thursday, and begin curing.
Maybe the bigger buds are going to take a day more than the popcorn ones. 

What i've noticed is that the "grass" smell is almost completely gone, and the buds now give off a somewhat fruity smell.
It's danking up!

[g22]

I think its too fast your temp inside your room is maybe too high slow cooking is better for taste ✌

[LedCherryBerry]

Room temp is 25 during day, 21 during night.
Room RH started saturday at 60% and is now at 51%.
I've put the air conditioner on 21° during day today, so maybe that'll change something.

I'm all against quick drying too, been battling wars with friends on the topic for years.. So having quick drying *issues* is quite ironic.

Either way, i'll see how it goes.
It's possible i haven't produced many buds, so that the drying process is sped up by the increased room in the tent.
I've shut off completely the fans inside.

Thank you all for the cool hints!

[g22]

I think your temp and rh are perfect ✌

[LedCherryBerry]

Maybe it's just her normal time to dry up.
I calculated 6 days, but she'll probably be done in 4. 
Either way, tomorrow i'll check again and bottle them up just in case they're ready.

Cheers!

[LedCherryBerry]

I've tried to snap off a bud from one popcorn cola, and..
It still leaves the stringy tail.

Which is a good thing, i feared i accelerated the drying process a bit too much but apparently i did not.

I'll try to snap a bud tomorrow, and so on until they're done.
Don't want to risk any mold for sure, and since i've got 10 humidipacks ready i might as well leave them to dry one day more.

Cheers!

[Jose.gh]

 

Good work, mate, good buds and very resinous.

I hope the drying will be good and you will be able to enjoy all that smoke in a short time

Greetings! 

[LedCherryBerry]

Drying process is finally over: buds snapped easily from branches.

I've divided them in 3 bottles: 
- Popcorn buds
- Side colas
- Main colas
with the last 2 bottles sharing the same branches, meaning the side colas are actually the smaller flowers of the main colas.

As for the weigh: keeping a precision weigh in the house means you're a dealer.
It's the first item cops will look for (after seeing plants). If i'll ever be busted, at least they don't have the exuse to say: he's got the p.w., he's a dealer.
FYI, i'm not. I grow for personal consumption ONLY.

Either way, i had to use a more rustic version: the pasta weigh!

Pics for your eyes:

 

 

 

 

Now, the weighs.

Popcorn buds (23g):

 

Side Colas (36g):

 

Main Colas (36g):

 

Highlander:

 

 

I'll see you all in 2-3 weeks, when the buds are going to be well-cured, for a smell/taste report, and to end this Journal.

What a journey, it has been.


Cheers!




EDIT: 

Forgot to add final weighs.

Overall, Highlander produced 95 grams of dried buds.
Over 320 W (which i still need to test at the wall for real power consumption) 95g are 0.296 GPW, which isn't bad considering i've been using a horrible homemade setup of 8 led e27 lamps.

And i'm quite surprised by this amount, i thought i wouldn't reach 80 (0.25) and that i maybe would have harvested around 60g.
Now i'm just hoping they improve drastically in smell and taste.

BTW, the little joint in the half-coconut was from all the leftovers of branches and snapped buds.
Had the first taste of it yesterday: i went to sleep at 10 PM. 
That shit is absurdly strong.

 

[LedCherryBerry]

Curing process is almost over, as of 10 days since they've been put in Jars.
Smell/Taste report is coming at may 26-27. 
Buds have taken a nice colour, and are very, very compact and hard on touch. 
As of now, they don't crumble yet. As soon as i see crumbling, i'll add the boveda humidipacks.

I'll see you all in 5-6 days.
Peace!

[Jose.gh]

Great job, buddy, good buds! Now.... all that's left to do is smoke...)

[LedCherryBerry]

***TESTING***

[LedCherryBerry]

Ok. Time for a verdict.
After 16 days of curing (21 days with drying), White Rhino is ready to be tested.

Smell
One bud does not give off an intense scent. Smells like good marijuana, but has nothing particular about it. 
When grinded, though, smell intensifies a lot. The trim smells fresh, light, and has both a hint of hash and berries.
The entire jar is another story. Opening the jar for more than 5 seconds fills the room with an aroma of fresh resin.

After 16 days, it feels like it's not at its best. Another test is required in a month.

Taste

Taste, too, isn't exceptional. There's no harshness in smoking it, it feels very light and, again, fresh. 
There's no "grass" feel, it's just very, very light hash tasting. 

I feel that, for it to improve, it may require 1-2 months.

High
Now we're talking. 
This strain has a very specific high, and one that you might not want to underestimate. 
At first, because of its light taste, i smoked a bit more than i should've. 
The high starts off for the first hour as a very creative one. It then subsides in an extremely narcotic one.
High lasts for 4 hours before either collapse on the couch, looking "somewhere" in the wall; collapse before the 4 hour counter, or somehow come back from trance.
Very, very powerful high.

Now, i can't imagine if 1-2 months of curing will increase its potency.. i'm pretty happy with the results i got.


Some pics.
Chosen bud:

 

The trimmed bud:

 

Testing Ensemble:

(with some left-off kept for a future joint)

And special thanks to

Who kindly shipped seeds, nutrients, and supported me throughout this journey.


I feel like this strain requires more testing.
I've used a lower dosage of nutrients, and although i'm very happy with the results i got, i'm also very aware that this strain just explodes in growth.
Because the contest has a limited time, I tried to grow it as large as possible, in the fastest time possible, to fill the entirety of the tent, but i feel like this strain can give much, much more, if left vegetating for much more time.
Of course that would require a bigger tent, as a 60x60 is a really small enviroment.

Either way, it has been a pleasure to grow such a strain. 
Quite easy to grow, no issues with mold and pests, and aside from some PH issues, growth has been pleasuring and chilling enough to let me learn much, much more than i would've thought. 

I'll stop updating until the second test, to see if smell/taste has improved, in a month and a half, so that would be July 10th ish.
Until then.. 

Peace!

[LedCherryBerry]

I think it has really come the time to end this.

First off, i'd like to thank the no longer present user I'm Sal, to which i have to give my most sincere thanks.
Without him warning me over, countless times, of my mistakes, i would've probably never learned anything.
He used to say Less is more, and well, goddammit he was right. Thank you 'pal. I still need to form a code around that saying, though..
Then i'd like to thank @g22 for heavily supporting me during all of this. One of the friendliest and coolest peeps around here.
And well, every single peep that stopped by even reading this shit-hole of a journal. Goddammit, i've corrected myself so many times throughout the journal, i'm sorry it might have been quite the pain to follow

Second of all, i've pulled the rabbit out of the hat. 
She's still holding on her own!

 

Dry weigh is around 9 kg. Some earth fell off, possibly half a kg. 
What amazes me is that when i pull dry plants out of their pots, most of them either crack, crumble or just break. 

GHS BioFeeding really worked great.
In the next grow, i'll try to use the full recommended dosage, and see if that can be a gamechanger.
Also, i'm going to be using a different light, so that's going to be very interesting to see how it develops.




Cool peeps, i'll see you all by then.
Which i actually do not know when it'll be.. But possibly this autumn. 
Until then.. 

Peace!