Acapulco Gold 01 - Kind Soil, Organic

I will be improving my ventilation and watering system next time around. I learned a lot about topping, defoliation, and watering properly this time, so I am looking forward to using the experience I gained on this round for the next one. I think with synthetic nutrients, it could have been a better growing experience. This was an all organic grow with Kind Soil hot soil and a very minimal use of Recharge, Mammoth P, and Camg . I did Nugbuckets' Mainlining technique to get 8 even colas. My flowering light cycle was at 11/13 to bring out the individual characteristics of the plant. 11/13 has also been proven to accelerate the flower cycle. Compared to some other Barney’s Farm Acapulco Gold journal’s, the flowering time did seem to be faster. The trichomes were difficult to gauge - there were amber ones early on, a lot of mixed spots of clears/opaques/ambers, and there were still even a bunch of clear ones at the end, but since there were so many ambers at the time, I had to pull the plug. Compared to the Grower’s Choice Blueberry Kush that grew beside here, she did have a larger yield. Although, the Blueberry Kush had only 6 colas because of a wind burn accident where I had to remove 2 of them, and the AG had all 8 of hers. Yet the BK still had taller and thicker colas though. After some calculation of averages from what the BK produced with only 6 colas it would have actually had more, somewhere around 71.65g instead of 53.74g. Aside from all that, the Kind Soil for me isn't super fantastic. It works really well for some people, but I think maybe it lost some of its oomph being shipped to me. I also had a lot of negative pressure in my tent, so it kept things really dry, which also isn't good for living soils. So next time around I will install a better fan that has a temperature controlled variable speed. This will also help with my CO2 retention. I believe fixing these issues will help increase my yields. Also, for “grow room size”, the open space in my tent was much larger than the plant itself, so I think that it is unfair to rank the g/ft^2 size based on tent space, so I used the actual square area of the plant itself for grow room size instead. For example, if I were growing in a 20’ x 20’ basement with a plant that is only 1’ in diameter, it wouldn’t make sense to rate the plant’s production off of the 400ft^2 area. Also check out my Blueberry Kush journal (the clear winner of the two in taste, smell): https://growdiaries.com/diaries/17098-blueberry-kush-01-gcs Nugbuckets' Mainlining technique: https://www.growweedeasy.com/mainlining-nugbuckets Stay tuned for my next grow! "The Church" by the legendary breeder, Green House Seed Co., and "Holy Grail Kush" by the powerhouse breeder DNA Genetics. It will be a "religious experience" - agnostically of course 😜 .