Well, she survived! The resilience of this strain has so far made it a very good beginner plant for me. I can very easily tell where I need to improve and how each plant is better than the next as I learn.
The Outcome
Week 16
Harvest
What's on the scales?
4
gram
ounce
Bud dry weight
Harvested
1
Number of plants harvested
Grow Room
0.25
m²
ft²
Grow Room size
0.03
g / watt
16
g / m²
4
g / plant
4
plant / m²
600
watt / m²
Photos & Videos
Weight after drying for several days.
Right before I took her down to weigh, after several days of drying.
When I first hung the bud up to dry.
Weight after drying for several days.
Right before I took her down to weigh, after several days of drying.
Despite the fact that the bud has been drying for several days and has noticeably reduced in size, I still don't feel like it's quite dry. Because of that, I went ahead and rounded down to 4 grams. Most of this bud will be going into baked goods, so when those are done I may throw in some pictures just for fun :)
I have not yet tried any, so I'll update with the consumption-related details later.
UPDATE: I made white chocolate blondies using the trim and a little bit of bud. I thought it would be fun to theme them after the Northern Lights, since that's the strain! You can find a picture above. Honestly, they turned out wonderfully. I measured them to about 1/2 gram of plant matter per blondie. Really though, 1/2 of a blondie will keep me high all day, and 1/4 of one is great for a long evening. I am VERY pleased with the results.
The rest of the bud has been curing in a jar in my room and whenever I open it, it smells curiously of peaches. It's actually wonderful. I'm still smoking through my last harvest so this one has some time to cure yet until I begin smoking it.00
@DeepRoot3d,
Thanks! The ceiling lights in my room are white LEDs so I think that might make them look a bit more blue in pictures, but they are still a cool-toned, sort of webby color. Definitely a bit different that my last plant of the same type. I can't wait to see how they smoke!
You should raise your nute ratio little bit, she is suffering for nutes.. light green leaves not good, it means she doesn't get enough food from soil, and take it from the leaves... ✌️🏼 Good luck..
@420_liquidsun,
Thanks for the tip! I wish I'd seen that before I watered her today. I always worry that I'm giving her too many. I'll pump them up a bit next time and see how she responds!
@CaliGrown,
Thanks! I'm so pleased with how much better this one is turning out compared to my last grow. I'm just counting the days until she's ready to harvest! :)
Good luck! The seedling will be fine maybe that leaf will grow to be deformed, but the treat it well and the rest of the 100s of leaves to come will be fine!
Let's face it babies are ugly I know mine was but he's a gorgeous 2 year old now :)
Good luck🍁
Just wanted to pop in with a quick update. I figured out why her growth slowed down so much! It seems that sometime in the past two weeks, a very angry infestation of white fungus has begun taking over the bottom of the fabric pot. Since she's so close to harvest anyways, I decided to go ahead and just cut her rather than try to fight it and risk losing the bud. At this point, the infestation was contained to the bottom of the pot and hadn't reached the rest of the plant yet, so I think the bud will be fine. She's currently drying, so I'll update with the final harvest stats once she's dry enough to weigh.
Lessons learned:
- I need to be much stricter about emptying the water tray. In the past couple of weeks I've been neglecting it and letting water just sit there. I thought it was okay because the pot is held up way above where the water is, but the fungus still had a good go at her. From now on, I need to keep a firm schedule of watering in the morning and emptying the tray in the evening, without fail. No standing water, ANYWHERE. EVER.
- In the early stages, I need to cater the light more responsively to the plant's growing patterns. She had too little light at first and shot way up, and then to much light because I was trying to prevent further stretching. I will start plants with two lights out of the four and go from there depending on how they react.
- I should start LST much earlier in the plant's life. I started so late this time that she could barely bend, and I definitely think it affected her growth.
- I need to purchase a good magnifier and base my nute schedule on the needs and maturity of the individual plant, rather than following some preset schedule and just reacting as problems arise.
- At least every other watering, I should lift the plant out of the bucket and give her a once over so I can catch any future fungi in the early stages.
Tl;DR: Fungis are not fun guys.