This was my second run of 2 phenos that I cloned from the first seed run. I still have 3 beans left but don't think I'll pop them anytime soon. One of the phenos had fan leaves and sugar leaves dying off soon, however, to be fair the flowers came out dense and frosty. The terpene profile is very subtle on the palate. The fragrance is like pine-sol and skunk which is also very strong during late flower and harvest time. Both phenos have a lot of excess leaves to trim at harvest. I'm probably going to use the majority of this for extracts.
The Outcome
Week 22
Harvest
What's on the scales?
337.5
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
Harvested
7
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
2.32
m²
ft²
Grow Room size
1.07
g / watt
145.31
g / m²
48.21
g / plant
3.01
plant / m²
135.62
watt / m²
Photos & Videos
Drying - Pheno in back was chopped on day 69; front day 77
Pheno 1 - day 69 pre-harvest
Pheno 1 - day 69 pre-harvest
Drying - Pheno in back was chopped on day 69; front day 77
I've been using both of these as a staple in my grow for about 18 months. All throughout veg and early bloom. The biggest downside I've found is high viscosity. Even though the dosages are fractional you'll find yourself wasting product.
This is a solid line up and it runs about half of what Advanced Nutrients costs. For this evaluation I used full strength dosages during feeding. Bloom Khaos is a great foliar and just might make it into my routine.
This was the second grow cycle of the Lemon Skunk genetics. I'm happier with the way the second run turned out compared to the first. My yield was higher and one of the phenotypes turned out some stellar top nugs. This grow took way longer than it should have and I'm to blame for some of it. I think I should have went straight to 5 gallon pots instead of hopping into the 3 gallon pots. This cost me at least 2 weeks of extra veg time, maybe more. This harvest took 21+ days to dry. That's about a week longer than last time. I've had to prepare my report early to enter the Diary of the Month. I did a smoke sesh yesterday morning on a nug that's only been curing for 3 days. I'd much rather wait a month to fire some up and let it cure properly. I didn't get many followers or comments on this grow until it was approaching the end. I got the feeling that most people don't like this strain. I'm not really fond on growing it again for various reasons. Mostly because of the amount of labor involved with the trimming portion of the harvest. Maybe I just got some bad phenotypes. I wasn't really impressed with the way the terpenes touch my palate even though it smells really loud either.
@Sgtoso,nice I am currently doing the same thing in my garden. I was using General Hydroponics line and I was happy with the quality of my flowers, but I was spending so much time mixing from this bottle and then that bottle, i started wondering how commercial farmers could survive with the time of mixing 47 different bottles and the costs associated with it. This round I went with JR Peters Jacks Hydroponic powdered nutrients. It is a 2 part formula that is mixed with Epsom salts for the magnesium necessary to round out the formula. I bought 5 lbs of each part for $50 combined. I would have ordered the 25 lb bags for $100 combined, but I wanted to test it first. While I am only in week 5 of Veg, the plants are loving the salt based nutrients and growing as vigorous as any plants that I have ever run in my garden. If they flower as well as they have been vegging, I will never go back.
@MagicMikesMeds,Yep I'm constantly analyzing my grow as well. I'm convinced my limiting factor is lighting at this point. My harvests are consistent in size so I started to focus on faster turn around. For example I've already germinated seeds for the next round. In the next couple of weeks or so I'll be posting new diaries. They'll be in a separate veg tent while these finish drying. This was a trial with a new (to me) nutrient company. I have samples from another company that I'll be running next summer since this is my next hurdle to tackle. I'm not happy with the cost of Advanced Nutrients so I'm shopping around for a replacement. As far as the even canopy goes I had to sacrifice extra veg time to get it like this. I'll be taking notes on the results to see if it is actually worth the extra effort and time.
@Sgtoso, that is great and hopefully you learned a lot as you went. One of my favorite things is analyzing and improving my garden. I try to uncover limiting factors in the grow and fix them so that the next round in the garden is better then the last. I post bi-weekly garden videos to my YouTube channel. Check it out if you have a chance:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCJiLvEn7XRcH_o3sHd8qbyQ
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