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Delps8

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Previous grow. Two Gelato autos, Mary and Jeff.

Started with four seedlings, Jeff crowded the others out. Mary yielded 273gm, per below. Jeff's yielded a lot but it was fox tailed. There was about 100 linear feet of branches on Jeff.

I've kept the harvest from Jeff in ¼ pound bags and I give it to a neighbor how has serious back issues. There were three ¼ pound bags plus a few ounce bags. I didn't weigh the first bag I gave him but the one I gave him last week was 5 ounces and the one I have left is 182 gm - the bag (21gm) - the hygrometer (16) = 145 gm.

I tried just canting the light so that I could get light on both plants. After about two weeks of Mary not getting much light, I gave up and bought the little Vipar Spectra.

The main light is the X3.

I've only done three grows but I'm seeing a distinct correlation between lotsa light and lotsa weed. I'm sure Dr. Bugbee is relieved that I agree with him. :-)

[time passes]
From the grow journal:

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Horselover fat

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Delps8 said:
"got pics" - hundreds. :-)

Oops - it was 729 gm, not 790. Yield per square meter was 947gm.

There were two plants in the tent, "Chris" (Everet) and Wilma (Rudolph). Like her namesake, Wilma had problems throughout and she yielded very little compared to Chris.

The grow ran 119 days, germination to chopping Chris. I didn't chop some of Wilma because there was simply no point. Similarly, per the light data (next posting), I turned down the light in late flower because there was simply no reason to run the light at 320 - there was so much weed in the tent that it wasn't worth the very small increase in cost to run at 320 vs 270 watts.

Per the light data, it wasn't until 6/8/22 that I finally decided to "turn it up to 11" re. lighting. I've gathered a lot of data over the past 18 months re. grow lighting but even up to 6/8/22 I was in the "45 mols is about all you need" mindset. I knew about light saturation point, etc., etc. but I still didn't change until I was watching one of the DeBacco videos (again) where he just laid out the data that I'd read a long time before. I finally got my head out of my ass and went to > 60 mols soon after.

In addition to not giving "max light" for the first part of the grow, I had thrips but managed to kill them off. Also, like a newbie fool, "Nah, I don't need a trellis." Won't make that mistake again.

Two of Chris' branches fell out of the tent so I used a Vipar Spectra XS-1500 to light them. I had the Vipar Spectra from a previous grow when one of the plants (next posting, last photo) ended up growing much larger than the other plant. I did not keep data about the yield from those two branches but they were not as prodigious as the branches under the main light.



Here's the data from the yield tab in my Excel grow journal:

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Pictures of the grow:


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Pictures from the harvest:

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That's quite a bit of plant. Though not all fits the tent
 
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Delps8

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Horselover fat said:
That's quite a bit of plant. Though not all fits the tent
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Yeh, that would have been like pushing people in to subway cars in Tokyo.

The newbie mistake was thinking that the plants wouldn't need a trellis. As the colas started to mature, the branches started to topple over so I put paracord under two of them and then hung the Vipar Spectra from the ceiling of the garage. The others needed paracord, as well.
 
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