Hanfstadt_Hamburg

Quite happy with the results of my first ever grow! In the "experiment", growing in soil won by a -hehe- landslide. Really easy to set up - I simply filled pre-fertilized vegetable soil into a pot. No measuring, no overpriced fertilizer products. Can't beat that. Considering the weather, the plant grew really well. This was in part, because I had it indoors under 84W of grow lights during most of the vegetative phase. The amount of sun we had in Germany this year was sadly miniscule so far. When my apartment started smelling the plant moved outside fulltime and grew there happily until harvest. The hydro plant ran into nutrient issues and the Kratky method really doesn't suit that well for a rapidly growing plant that has a 3 month+ life cycle. It is doable, but the main selling point becomes mood because the "low effort" part doesn't really hold up over that much time. You easily end up running into trouble with the nutrients or the water. A pot with soil seems simpler.

The Pro Organic fertilizer didn't work at all in the Kratky Hydro setup. It rotted away, plant suffered. Now this probably qualifies as a User error, but they still advertise hydroponics usage without warnings. Tripart on the other hand - a mineral based NPK - worked well. Although it was already too late in the growth cycle to change the overall outcome, the one bud the hydro plant had really thickened up in the end.

After drying, the hydro plant's bud smelled a little different. Considering the small amount and the bud rod that was cut away previously, I didn't want to risk anything and threw it away. So the harvest is just about the soil plant. I dried the whole plant except larger fan leaves. As this was an outdoor-ish grew I don't have any specialised equipment. It just had to dry in the room, which averaged 24°C and 60% humidity, probably not ideal. After 10 days it was trimmed and finally weighed. Might still be a little wet though. Final dry weight was 42g, after weighing in wet and untrimmed at 294g.