Old Valyeria - Cream & Cheese CBD

Experimented with LST vs natural growth. LST plant grew 3-4x more roots (pictured), thicker stalk and produced about 4x as much as the plant left to natural growth. I also wanted to demonstrate that one could jump into growing without a bunch of specialty equipment or nutes. I grew a very long time ago and am still deciding how I want to invest in this. I used some inexpensive, blurple, listed as 600w LED grow lights (80 watts actual draw) that I picked up for 40-50% off at amazon. I used commonly available garden center center nutes, and an earth box that I already had filled with Jiffy Seed Starter, perlite, worm casings and bone meal. There wasn’t anything tricky about this grow. I watered the soil from the top more than I should have and ended up with a fungus gnat problem. I took care of the gnats with yellow fly tape and the addition peroxide over the root zone killed the larvae. The buds got so heavy that they started weighting down the branches. I was impressed with how heavy and dense they were when I was trimming them down. Most of this bud is going to be used in making medicinal infusions so I only trimmed off the green parts and all the stem. If it had much sugar on the small leaves, I left it. The 4 biggest buds were trimmed tighter and reserved for smoking. Dried at 55% humidity and 74°F. The buds will be going into cvaults with 62% Boveda packs for the cure. 1st sample smoke, 8 days after harvest was so unexpectedly SMOOOOTH, no negatives. Should be amazing after cure. Taste was creamy cheese. Seemed a little strong to the nose, but was such a smooth tasty smoke. Very laid back, not a head high, but a wonderful buzz and full body relaxation. This will make good medicine. The yield on the LST plant was impressive. She would have taken up as much space as I could have provided her. I’ll be using LST going forward for sure!! I’m on a tight budget, but will be researching better lighting and nutes to maximize my yields in the future.