Glueberry OG - Organic Outdoor

This grow was fun and rewarding. Right from the start, these girls showed their great genetics by sprouting faster than anything I've ever seen. They were extremely eager! For the first time, I tried mainlining as well as cloning. It was great to only need to use 2 seeds and get 3 great plants of equal yield. #1 and her clone (#3) ended up being slightly more wispy, yet #2 was a much denser bud. I never had a single sign of powdery mildew, and believe me, these plants went through extreme rain, extreme heat and everything inbetween, as well as insanely high humidity levels. I maybe lost 2% of my yield to bud rot - which is very acceptable. I had to harvest slightly earlier than I thought to prevent further bud rot, but I'm more of a sativa, cerebral head high lover (with a good whack of body buzz too), so I didn't want loads of amber trichomes - so these turned out perfect for me. My thoughts on mainlining: Does it increase yield? Considering that #1 and #3 (it's clone which had no training) yielded the same amount of bud, I'd say no. In fact, if you consider the veg time you lose when mainlining, after all that topping and sidenode snipping, defoliation etc - I believe a regularly grown plant would have yielded much, much more. But - do I think it's worth doing? Absolutely. Reason being, you get a lower sitting plant with less larfy buds. There's more airflow so there's less chance of mildew and rot and you also get a 360 degree view of your plant. I could inspect the buds closely and easily and picked up on issues much better than if the plant was a towering monster that I couldn't reach the top of it to inspect. I feel like the quality of the bud is more consistent doing it this way. The strain is notably thirsty, #1 seemed to just not get enough nutes from my medium and feeds and started yellowing the fan leaves early on. The other 2 never seemed to have that problem though. 70L of medium may have been too little as well, so I may need to consider bigger grow bags for next season, like 100L +. The early yellowing could have also been a sign of her being root bound. I would imagine the indoor guys and girls could push more trichome development from this bud and get even more gooey menaces out of theirs, but for outdoor growers in challenging climates, this is a fantastic choice! I'm super happy with how these turned out. As the world goes crazy stockpiling hand sanitizer and toilet paper, I've been able to stock up on an awesome smoke :) I highly recommend this to all indoor and outdoor growers. There is an auto version of this as well which I'm sure is great as well. Thank you to Dutch Passion, for creating this marvel and to the Grow Diary community for following along - and all the words of encouragement. Cheers, fellow growers - and be safe out there.