Well as advertised, you could set your clock to it, you guys all told me here and at first I didn't believe it (very stubborn us old men) but on
DAY 60 already the sea, the screen, and the effort (thanks many
KUDOS to all here as
I stole most everything from folks on this board) is paying off with results. Of course as many have said yield will follow common sence growing techniques so I will leave the end results Watt per Square Foot vs Dry weight will have to wait for another day, however the lessons learned from all those here are forever appriciated. So far the biggest diffrence I can see in what I knew was the right way and what was REALLY the right way is nutrients (of course assuming you have unlimited light) I took the advise of many here and went as much over kill on the Lumens as I could. Since I am
doing SOG as well as SCROG as well as some other work the extra light comes in handy when you need some Veg growth in a hurry. Nothing beats 24/0 under a big halide and with enough fans you can really keep the plants close and promote fast growth. Havent tried the Veg Nutes yet (still stuck on "Old School" Rapid Grow for initial speed 23-19-17 )
BUT THE FIRST RESULTS WITH BAT GUANO AND WORM CASINGS ARE IMPRESSIVE! I have taken the liberty of including some mico-photographs showing the Resin Glands of "beheaded" damsels- I know they were young but couldn't help myself! I used 4 Hours and 48 Hours as two random time amounts to try a quick dry becasue I thought anyone willing to sacrafice a young virgin would want something quick so a few hours vs a couple of days seemed reasonable compared to the usual week or two or three it takes to properly dry marijuana.
My impression of the results of using a quick dry proceedure haven't changed since the Mid 1970's when I first grew, it SUCKED THEN and still does..however now I have the blessing of a microscope and I could see what causes the taiste not to mention POTENCY big time decline, that is when you
quick dry MJ you end up melting the newly formed Resin glands as the Microphotographs show resulting in a
loss of over 75% in some cases. Basically the wonderful THC in the head "shoots it's wad" and evaporates into thin air leaving behind all that wonderful leaf material without any resin in it. As you can see in the pictures the resin is kind of a melted mass all over the surface (4 HRS) . At 48 hrs things inprove dramatically but the loss is still in the 50% area. In the next few days as more of the sea cums into port I will post some shots of some 1 and 2 week dried harvest. I am guessing that if you can manage to preserve 80% of your glands intact your doing OK..of course stretching it out for weeks or months is best..but few have the patience for that -- toodles for now---once again thanks a TON for all the help -- as my first totally inside flying by the seat of me pants grow with them sacred seeds starts to wind down. PS - did learn that CLONES are way more sensitive then little seedlings are they need much TLC in the begining to survive....toodles