Okay, well harvest is done. This was a full week of bloom, so i will post harvest pics all at once when appropriate. They are hang drying. I cut each limb below fork, so they simply rest in place and balance out.
These plants are awesome, but not perfect. Leaf monsters for sure, but gooey and expect some potency and taste out of these. I haven't spent that long removing fan leaves in a long, long time. Hoping for 1/2 lbs from these 2 plants. The #4 plant was harvested a while back and that's some poopey weed i won't even include in the final weight, but 30-40g nonetheless.
I have my lights listed as 200W, but they are probably running closer to 180w. That would be around ~1.5g/w which is what i want as a minimum once i gain a bit more consistency and experience. Since i did not make good use of space, I should be able to exceed 1.5g/watt very easily in future. This crop was 1 plant short and had 1 mutant.. I did not fill space properly.
for 360w-400w in 12.5sq ft., I'm thinking a full run instead of 1/2 box could hit 600-700grams. 2g/watt is within reach with the right genetics. 1.5g/watt is a good minmum expectation.
I left the plant in 62-64F for 12+ hours on harvest day. I didn't wake up early enough to pull it from the light. I wanted it to go back through a dark period and harvest with as little photosynthesis occurring as possible. In that time the leaves turned purple. It does not take long, lol. It got extra gooey too. I am not saying this as an argument for or against light deprevation at end.. the real answer requires equipment most of us do not have to understand the actual benefit, if any. THC% may incrase, but if it is only due to the plant losing mass, which is inevitable if you depreive it of light, that would increast THC%, but not mass of THC in plant.. merely greater proportion of total because the plant is losing mass faster elsewhere. So, it's a complicated question that requires more than tunnel vision on the trichomes or other external appearances.
FYI - Harvest week is coming in ~3 weeks from this update, give or take. It'll be dry after ~14 days, but want to give this time for a good taste report. It deserves the respect.