Auto Bubble Gum and Auto Cheese Berry

4/22/2020 - Wanted to originally have everything ready and written up by 4/20 to celebrate our holiday but didn't plan accordingly. Dried in same 20" x 36" grow tent with average 68F and 50% humidity for 6 days. The trimming job took longest time ever for me at 12+ hours and 4x longer than previous harvest. Did watch the entire season 7 of Homeland on Hulu so that killed the time a bit. Last grow only had like 8 branches per plant compared to whatever these had so that's the reason. Colas were getting crispy towards end of trim session so glad I didn't wait until day 7. I did not anticipate the harvest results for these plants and this just proves how stupid my eyeballs are. At most I predicted about 6 oz per plant because the colas, aside from the few towering, glamour shot photos used in diary, seemed undersized. Always thought they would plump up more in the end and droop more. But those tiny buds kept on stacking up during trim and overfilled that big, ugly green salad bowl (used in last harvest) so was getting real excited towards end before weigh-in. Visibly the plants look the same to me, even the same flowery smells came from both. BG's tower buds were at the plumpness level I wanted in the smaller buds, while CB's smaller tower buds were the only ones to noticeably droop. Was initially afraid the light intensity of 100,000 lux (measured on phone app) at the top of canopy was insufficient for the majority of the pint-sized buds at the bottom. Think it only reached to 50000-55000 lux at the lower levels. Could have increased light intensity of grow light but this would have increased temperature in tent to probably upper 80s or even 90F, plus there was already foxtailing going on in some tower buds so didn't want to risk it. Should have used kill-a-watt meter but don't think it went over 250w. Another big difference between the two plants, CB had a lot more airy, larfy buds. Maybe 15% of CB was pure larf, and, if I had a proper system in place, would have separated that into another pile to make hash or something else with. BG plant, though, pure gold and I'd recommend. No larf, colas were petite but solid throughout, and it didn't seem prone to the slight nutrient burn that CB experienced. Really excited to try the new flavors of both plants. Never tried CBD in any form so especially looking forward to the bubble gum (12% thc, high CBD according to seedsman). Also, never had a cheese strain, and not sure if the cheese berry (14% thc) actually counts, but it's going to be a little stronger than BG so there's that. Using a a plastic sterilite container as for burping convenience. Since I didn't expect the yield, and only had 15 mason jars, had to put some of the CB harvest in 36 oz toll house cookie containers. Even still , had to overstuff jars more than recommended capacity but hope the burping bin will relieve any concerns. Humidity in cookie containers shoots up so fast so going to have to make a change in containers soon. Not sure what's going to happen, if anything, to the smells of the combined jars in the bin (11 jars BG and 4 jars CB), but they'll only be there hopefully a week or so then I'll pop the proper metal lids on them. Yield: Yeah, I'm gonna do some mild bragging here. Damn right. BG = 347.71 g = 12.26 oz (didn't even round up!) CB = 267.55 g = 9.43 oz Total = 615.26 g = 21.69 oz Yeah, baby who's the king! This is phenomenal and wholly unexpected. I figured my last grow with two toppings and think 8 main branches was the ideal system to get max yield. They were like baby size baseball bats! They also had the scrog screen which I felt was needed in this grow to reach that potential. On this grow, everything was so tight in there and stacked on each other. Definitely should have used the scrog. Going to take a break from growing a while and enjoy the silence in my room. Haven't tried the harvest yet so sorry if that's what you're looking for. The effects are entirely subjective so don't think my ratings would matter anyhow. Hope this diary was detailed enough for everyone but I'm open to any questions in comments.