The final #tweeds update is upon us and in summary, Cheetah Piss appears to have messed it up for everyone by 'experimenting'. I'm keeping the resulting bud (duh), but a bunch of it is a seedy mess.

To recap, I'm new at this and doing it poorly but enthusiastically and with way too much automation.
โ€‹โ€‹ After the flip and disposing of a male Cheetah Piss, I had two Duct Tape plants and a single Cheetah Piss left in the tent from the #legalizationday seed haul. (All girls. I checked them. A lot.)

We initially harvested the biggest Duct Tape, and took just the main kola off the little one so that we could get an extra week or two on the lower buds and on Cheetah Piss. (The grow light is too small.) There wasn't any sign of trouble until after the rest of DT2 and all of Cheetah Piss came down. It looks like Cheetah Piss went nanners behind the bleachers with part of the little Duct Tape. (Maybe we will find seeds in all of the DT, but so far it seems to be only the little one
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I'm going to do some light remodeling in the room before the next grow, so the tents are coming down. Before they go back, I'll wipe them down and sanitize and whatever else the internet says to do to get rid of the pollen.

Overall it was a good grow. The new soil didn't seem to harm them, and "kinda weed" came out. As a bonus, I got much better ideas on training for next time, and I'll get a better schedule assembled. We might not even do new lights. 3 large plants was too large, but 1-2 smaller plants will be fine. I do need to start by creating a better calendar and plan than I had. There was no excuse for letting them get that big before the flip.

We sampled some mostly-cured Duct Tape popcorn bud yesterday and it was not the strongest, but nice enough. All three plants have been super sticky, so there is that. Those seeds are disappointing though.

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We were exhausted yesterday, so instead we took down Duct Tape 2 this morning pre-sunrise. There wasn't as much as I had thought, and she was in rough shape. (The main cola came down in the first run, so it is already on to curing.) She got a less detailed wet trim than her sister, and is now hanging in the dry tent. We spotted a mature seed โ€‹โ€‹ but I'm hoping it'll be OK. There was no sign of male flowers on either plant during harvest, and the Cheetah Piss still looks clean ๐Ÿคž
The dishtowel humidity wick is working great. The exhaust fan "dehumidifier" is running every 30 minutes or so, and the tent is staying nicely between 57% and 67%.

Dashboard pic is the traffic light monitors and the drying tent environmental graph. No camera in the drying tent, let the girl have her privacy.

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Its time for a #tweeds update! I guess it was actually time like a week ago but whatever. Shush.

Grow tent starting population was two Duct Tape plants (heavy indica) and a Cheetah Piss (sativa). I intentionally over-grew the Duct Tape ladies to get a deeeeep couch lock effect. We middle aged folk need winter weed to address pain more than we need to make game night more fun. (The Cheetah Piss is just aging slower.)

Last week we harvested the larger Duct Tape, and she went into jars yesterday. (I took full branches through a peroxide dip and drip, then a basic wet hand trim and into the tent. This is only my second run, and I got basically nothing the first time except experience.)

The brand new dry tent is nice, but just as I got set up winter flipped my humidity problem around. Nothing I did got the humidity above 50%, much less the desired 65. I'll be building a wick humidifier with a clean (peroxide-rinsed) towel before tonight's harvest to see if that helps. Worst case, I guess I can plumb the grow tent exhaust into the drying tent. Both tents have humidity-driven exhaust fans, and the grow tent and lung room both have dehumidifiers. The grow tent is nicely managed even on watering days but I just don't have a good way to bring clean wet air into the dry tent.

Tonight the remaining Duct Tape (top-right of the picture) comes down, and the Cheetah Piss (foreground and left) gets all the light and love for a few more days before her turn. More in alt.

Even though I gave away sooo many seeds, I've still got a bunch to choose from for the next run. I'll post a poll soon - I need to sprout 2 for the tent (plus a spare in case of males) and 1 to go be a friend's houseplant. The theme of the next run is going to be Pruning Hell. I need to get more experience, and the houseplant needs to be super bushy so that she doesn't need tons of maintenance. (There are autos in my pile, but I'm sticking with photos.)
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Plants update time!

I got a pocket microscope yesterday and now you won't see me for a week. (But I'll see EVERYTHING!)

Jokes aside, I got a great look at some trichomes on the larger of the Duct Tape
#tweeds. Super neat! I'll try to get pics later.

Even though there is lots going on with the primates, I can't ignore the plants. They won't keep waiting for me. The first project is tearing down the
#hydrotower. The vine is basically dead, so I harvested the final tiny cucumber last night after all the adventures wound down. Today I'll repot the two basil plants, toss the dead cucumber vine, recycle the used juice into the potted plants and see if any of the (porous) printed parts can be saved. I have hopes that I can scrub/soak the crap out, then varnish it and maybe not have to reprint them next time.

On the
#tweeds (#cannabis) front, the Duct Tape threads went brown last week and I got all worried about harvest, but right on time they popped a million new white trichomes (tiny mushrooms full of drugs.) It'll be at while before they are actually ready. I still need to figure out where to put the 2x2x4 drying tent. The planned spot turns out to be 20" wide (I need 24) and it will probably take two people to move stuff.. I'm not exactly eager to ask for her help. (Not mentioned, the remaining Cheetah Piss is fine. She's sativa and a little small, so she's ripening slower. She's also why I can't dry in the grow tent.)

Finally, I need to get out there* and harvest some
#peppers today. At least 6 reapers and 8 scotch bonnets are ready, plus they might appreciate a little water. (I don't even count the ripe thai fish peppers because it pops dozens of flowers at a cycle and loves masturbation, so I just pull 6-10 of them every time I harvest anyone else. It is a great constant-harvest plant because the peppers are usable anytime after they turn 'normal' green, all the way through super-ripe red.)

* "Out there" is a bay window, but I do plan to get some away time today, chores and primates permitting.
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Got a really nice pic of the #tweeds today so I thought I'd share. They got the first big defoliation underneath just prior. Day 36 of flower, pictured is the remaining Cheetah Piss. (One went male.)
Training is a mess, so it's not as easy as it could be but they're coming along beautifully.
After the overnight led adventure, I wired up a
#homeassistant sensor to compare the schedule to the light (and the wattage) to detect issues.

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Been a while without a Snarkhome update, so here comes a combo update for the Snarkhome, the Peppers and the Tweeds.

โ€‹โ€‹ ๐ŸŒถ๏ธ The peppers are fine. Reaper went back outside after the storm and started 2 more fucking death peppers, bringing the total to like 9. Fishie and the Bonnets are all inside under new lights, finishing off their harvests. I even figured out where to dry the rest of them without accidentally less-lethalling the entire house.

๐Ÿค– In smarthome upgrade news, not so much an upgrade as an angry, cursing replacement of complete trash. Since the last update, I've switched out all of the SwitchBot plugs. Fucking 3 of them went horribly terribly fire-startingly wrong. And did I mention they have no warranty? So now all the grow stuff for the tent, hydrotower, peppers, etc is being controlled by "Third Reality" Zigbee switches instead. (https://amzn.to/3t2w0e0) They have been in for about a week and so far they Just Work. (Bonus, they haven't tried to burn down my house. Not even a little.)
๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ Since I needed a break from not burning down the house, I converted my notify actions to use https://github.com/nimroddolev/chime_tts for the common 'chime, talk, exit-chime' tasks. (Like when the Big Ear regains sight of the cat, it plays a fanfare instead of the normal attention chime before announcing his return and location.) There is some issue now where not all of the speakers go off reliably, but if I go back to targeting them in a group it works. โ€‹โ€‹ I'll just put the helper group back if it gets annoying.

โ€‹โ€‹ Finally, the Tweeds are growing nicely. I did get that back corner somewhat under control yesterday, but it is still extra tall over there. It happens. They'll get defoliated with their next (and first) feeding, probably tomorrow. (They are on fresh happy frog, so no need for food yet.) This lovely weather has the windows open, so my tent climate control is mad at me but so long as it keeps up I don't care.
๐Ÿคž We're on day 24 of flower and all is well. #growyourownmedicine #cannabis #growyourown #tweeds #switchbot #weed #snarkhome #espcam #esphome #piper #homeassistant #smarthome #switchbot #bigear #zigbee #homelab
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I convinced a local friend to take a #cannabis seedling as a houseplant next time I start a grow. I originally suggested it largely to annoy her roomies and friends, many of whom smoke. ๐Ÿ˜ˆ
She promised to get it a timed light so that it forever stays in veg. (If it does accidentally flip, she is ok to deal with it.) I'll use it to practice training and get it nice and bushy for her.
I've got several weeks before I select a seed. First the
#tweeds need to finish growing up.
That one in back just took OFF on me and unfortunately there isn't any room to tuck it. Gonna see what I can do.
And everyone needs a haircut (defoliation)
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Unless I'm mistaken, some room is about to open up in the tent. 
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The #weedlings (now turned to #tweeds) are in school! Not really, but today it turned to fall in the tent. We've still got two Cheetah Piss and two Duct Tape, all from legalization day seeds. Both pics are in the new light, but the #espcam is better at filtering the red.
It turns out that the heat wave outside is not as helpful as I had expected. Lung room is warm, tent is hot but plants are ok.
I did a bit of pruning a few days back, but they weren't trained properly so it's no proper lollypop grow. (Only my second try, after all.)
No nutes since I'm on happy frog.
Criticism welcome.
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