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05-21-2011, 01:16 AM #1OPSenior Member
Spring crop finished, disappointed. rant
My spring harvest is curing right now, can't say I'm too thrilled with the results, better then nothing but not sure it's worth my troubles.
6 plants started from clones back in late Oct/Nov, I put them in 16 oz cups while I was waiting for my fall crop to finish and in no real hurry with them so I just kept them under what I thought was enough light to keep them from flowering but about a month later they started to show hairs so I got them under brighter lights at night and it took about a month to pull out of the budding cycle which kind of set me back about a month.
After I got them transplanted and going along I had two runts right out of the gates that just took a very long time to grow out, one suffered from root rot and I was only able to save half of it but it probably wasn't worth the waste of space and time to have kept around with hindsight being 20/20, it may have yeilded a 1/4 oz.
Another plant had a strange growing pattern, very long gaps between nodes resulting in long but not a lot of branching, the cola bud developed OK but I could tell it wasn't going to be very big because the next nodes were so far down the stem. It produced decent nuggets on the ends of the branches and some smaller nuggets further down the branches but for the size of the plant the flowering was minimal, I did not clone this plant.
I had another nice looking plant until about a month into flowering it developed either a nute deficiency or lockout, I didn't want to foliar feed it too much which seemed to help but I just couldn't solve the problem before it was a little too late into flowering, It developed nice bud clusters near the top but the bottom branches were very loose buds.
I had two decent finished products but I'm not all that impressed with the final buds, they never got very tight and the yeild is about a 20 oz jar of smokable flowers from each of the four non runts, the runts probably produced half of that combined.
My biggest complaint is the buds are so loose and not compact at all, I finished four of them outside the final 4-5 weeks and kept two inside and finished them in a room with pretty good sunlight all day supplimented with 2 90 W LED's and 4-40x40w flourescent shop lights. I let them go 75-77 days and the trich's were about half milky white and half amber.
I cloned the two healthiest of these and will be giving them a try outside this summer and I'm trying to re-veg their parent plants by leaving them outside with enough vegitation they shouldn't have a problem.
I think my problem is not enough light even though I finished four of them outside, possibly if they had been outside the entire 11 weeks they would have been better but the weather we've had here would have been a problem the first month or so and would have been too cold as well at night for my comfort. My plan was to finish all of them outside but with the one having a problem I was afraid if it went into shock it would have killed it off and the other just wouldn't take to being put outside, it's parent plant died within 4 hours of being put outside last year and I even tried to put this one under shade with short bursts of natural light but it would wilt almost as fast as I moved it.
My total yeild should be about 4-5 loose packed pear jars of bud. They sure seemed a lot tighter on the plant but once the water started to evaporate they loosened up, if that makes any sense. I flushed them every day for about a week then no water the last few days. The smoke is smooth and gives a good buzz so I shouldn't complain I guess but I was really hoping it would be better.
I have seedlings in 32 oz cups 2+ ft tall and I'm trying to figure out how I;m going to keep them below the top of the fence because their stems are already as big as any of the plants I finished. I'm going to just let everything grow outside, I think it's really the best for the plants and a lot easier IMO. I had a guy tell me outdoor bud is worthless, even heard people say don't try passing off that "outdoor shit" as indoor. I just don't think you can even come close to duplicating mother nature as she intended things to be.Purple Daddy Reviewed by Purple Daddy on . Spring crop finished, disappointed. rant My spring harvest is curing right now, can't say I'm too thrilled with the results, better then nothing but not sure it's worth my troubles. 6 plants started from clones back in late Oct/Nov, I put them in 16 oz cups while I was waiting for my fall crop to finish and in no real hurry with them so I just kept them under what I thought was enough light to keep them from flowering but about a month later they started to show hairs so I got them under brighter lights at night and it took about Rating: 5
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