m0use's FastBuds 420 - Blackberry

*=UPDATE=* Smoke report in, bout one week earlier. *=UPDATE=* I only had 5 LED strip lights not 6, so watts changed from 108, to 90. Don't know how I messed that up. updated my formula at end of this entry below. OK so harvest is here. Smoke Report and effects to follow after cure, Feb 7th ish. This was my first ever indoor grow, and I feel I nailed it by my standards :) Did not do to bad, just under the 1oz a plant in bud I was hoping for. Got to 92% of my goal, and that's good enough for me. The growing tent was a bit tight for me to really get some proper LST going “I feel” and I believe that hurt the yield of the plants I did that to, as the plant I left alone yielded the highest. The tent its self was homemade and not proper in any sense, and the pot size was rather small for my liking, this would have stunted growth a bit. Tent Measured L,W,H, 78cm (30.71"), 49cm (19.29"), 111cm (43.7") I hung the whole plant to dry upside down in the tent with the lights removed, this was seen at the end of last weeks log. They were in darkness three days prior to the chop, and then all dark while drying. I purchased a Thermo-Hygrometer “Mondi Mini 100” and it was measuring the temp while drying between 17-19c “62.6-66.2f” and the RH hovered between 55-68% the first few days. I opened up a little vent I had covered and it normalized RH down to 60-63%. I added a small usb fan in the case and 4 dishes of water on the bottom to keep RH high as my place is dry af. I thought it was going to take at least another halff week to dry by the way it was looking, but when I went to test it out the branches where dry and bent a bit, they did not snap and the buds where dry but not crispy brittle were they just shatter. My previous grows I always mess up the dry and do it too fast. This one I feel was on par. As for the yields they are as follows. I grew 4 plants in a square pattern, bottom right was plant 1, bottom left was plant 2, top left plant 3, top right plant 4, Plant 1 - 23.2g Bud, 6.4g Trim (0.82oz,0.23oz) Plant 2 - 23.4g Bud 5.7g Trim (0.83oz,0.2oz) Plant 3 - 30.6g Bud 7.6g Trim (1.08oz,0.27oz) <Highest Yield Plant 4 - 26.1g Bud 8.3g Trim (0.92oz,0.29oz) =Overall - 103.3g total bud, ave 25.83g a plant. 28g trim ave 7g a plant. Total plant material 131.3g (4.63oz) I’d like to include my trim in my yields as I use it as much as my buds but that does not seem to be how this site works. :( I got my roomie to help me describe the smells we picked up off the buds when they were in their jars. In no particular order our combined results. Plant 1 - Pine, Grape, Berry, Sweet. Plant 2 - Crisp, Clean, Earthy, Citrus. <my fav smelling one> Plant 3 - Berry, Earthy, Sweet, Pungent. Plant 4 - White Wine”grape?”, Diesel, Acidic, Pungent, Citrus <roommates fav smelling one> The different phenotypes from smells above also reflected on the plants themselves. Plant 1 - Most purple out of them all and the shortest plant, had nice density and thickness of buds. Plant 2 - 2nd most purple plant and was ave height tied with plant 4, its buds where just as dense as plant 1 but not as thick. Plant 3 - tallest plant in the group and greenest plant as well. Hint of colour but overall looks green. Dense and thick buds, had the biggest ones out of all of them and even its popcorn nugs where well formed. “Photos show a good amount of purple but not seen the same IRL” Plant 4 - mostly green and tied in height with plant 2, its buds were not that dense and not overly fat either. I have a grams/watt ratio of 1.14 or 0.285grams/watt/plant. However I'm not a huge fan of that ratio as it does not account for time. I made a breakdown of my own below. If you care to view it all my works listed below. In short it cost me 17c in lamp electricity alone per 1g, this is not without its flaws, does not account for fans, water cost, house heating cost, fertilizer, seeds, but it was electricity I was directly using for it alone and nothing else. Other then that this is the end of my first indoor grow and harvest, I will come back once the cure is done and give a smoke report and update on the aromas from the jars. I expect them to evolve and change a bit as time moves on, I do a 3 week cure as long as humidity is stable. I don;t smoke but my roommate will provide me all the details. I will however be making some of this into a tincture and can comment on that when it done. Ave THC 23% Ave CBD 0.8% Found this information on leafly and fatsbuds webpage. Smoke Report Got my roomie to smoke some of plant number 4. It was the most uncharacteristic version of all the Blackberry very diesely and pungent. It got him high with over three quarters of the joint to spare, lots more for later use. High class product comparable to that of the dispensaries around here. Even though the dispensary weed is more dense and crystally it got him just as if not more high according to him. Big fan over all and only complaint is the weed gave him dry mouth. Said the paranoia is normal for high THC strains tends to go away after a bit. Comparing this bud to the trim he smoked all week the taste is different and the high is much more potent. I prefer the smell of the other plants and I'm sure they will result in some berrylishious tastes and aromas. Will make and tincture or two out of a half ounce of buds and gift the rest away. On inhale and exhale there was some coughing but over all a very smooth smoke, smoother then what he was expecting. The high is mainly body with some cerebral effects defiantly kushy and heavily leaning to the indica side of things. He reported that plant 4 has a caramel and woody taste to it but this was not found in the shake witch is more reflective of the average from all the other plants in this harvest. The ash was a mixture of lighter grey and darker spots. The joint was sealed by licking and may have had an impact on how hot it burned but still did the trick. :) Over all roomie rated the weed as 9.5/10 m0use +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Cost + Time Analysis Of Growing Cannabis. m0use’s Breakdown +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Just a FYI, my Math is not the best, I may have made an error below, if u notice it let me know. Light Schedule === 18h on 6h off 5am-11pm-on 11pm-5am-off Cost of kwh with on-peak "20.8c", mid-peak "14.4c" and off-peak "10.1c". === 5am - 7am -- 2hr @10.1c/kwh off-peak 7am - 11am -- 4hr @20.8c/kwh on-peak 11am - 5pm --6hr @14.4c/kwh mid-peak 5pm - 7pm -- 2hr @20.8c/kwh on-peak 7pm - 11pm -- 4hr @10.1c/Kwh off-peak this all boils down to a nice 6hr in every peak period. 6h @10.1c/kwh 6h @20.8c/kwh 6h @14.4c/kwh Lights === LED’s I use are 18w each and I have 5 lamps on an aray. 18w*5 = 90w | 90w/1000 = 0.090Kw Using the previous c/kwh numbers above I can find out the daily cost of the lamps in the 3 peak periods. 6h x 10.1c/kwh = 60.6c/kw * .108 kw = 5.45c off-peak 6h x 20.8c/kwh = 124.8c/kw * .108 kw = 11.23c on-peak 6h x 14.4c/kwh = 86.4c/kw * .108 kw = 7.77c mid-peak The "h" hours and "kw" kilowatts cancel out and we are left with a value of "c" cents per peak period add all the peak periods up and you get your cost of running the lights in cents per day c/d 5.45c + 11.23c + 7.77c = 24.45c/d My grow took 12 weeks and 5 days, or 89 days. almost 13 weeks total. "had a few days of darkness before harvest chop" 89d * 24.45c/d = 2,176.05c ÷ 100 "100c in a dollar" = $21.76 the "d" days cancel out and we are left with a total cost of the lights for my 89day grow. 18h/d lights on * .09kw lights hydro use = 1.62kw/d not too bad for just lights. 144.18kw for the entire grow. Using the regular calculation of grams harvested divided by watts used is not accurate to me, it does not account for all the time the lamps are on, the length of grow to the over all cost. The calculation that makes sense to me is this, harvested dry weight of usable cannabis buds/trim/keif/whatever in grams divided by total kw used. Could also combine it with grams per total single use costs “anything you used only for this grow and wont reuse in the next, or fractions of multi use items like fertilizers if they ½ full” and see how much you’re investing per gram. "kw" ÷ "g" = kw/g "$" ÷ "g" = $/g I have harvested 4.63oz or 131.3g on 144.18kw, this includes buds and trim in mycase. 144.18kw ÷ 131.3g = 1.098kw/g of usable cannabis. I’d still try and aim for under 1kw/g. $21.76 ÷ 131.3g = $0.17g The other ratio would have been, 131.3g to 90w = 1.45g/w about a quarter over the 1 mark and I could go above still with more experience, but where's the cost of hydro? A 90w input vs 1000w would be a whole different ball game.. So in total, it cost me 17c per 1g I grew in electricity alone. Not to bad. legend, kwh = kilowatt per hour kw = kilowatt w = watt h = hour c = cents $ = dollars d = day LED= Light Emitting Diode