I harvested Aug 1st, did rough trimming, and my 7 plants are now drying upside down in my dark closet. Looks like I'll have about an ounce dry of bud on each plant. That might seem shitty, but I only spent about $100 on the whole op including lights, pots, soil, nutes, seeds, ballasts, and electricity. Half a pound of indoor monster bud for $100? Yes please.
I'm getting more excited as they dry. The bud looked very nice before harvest, but it looks so much better after only 5 days of drying. Extremely sticky and crystally.
My plan is to dry for ~10 days and then cure for the rest of the month. I don't want to wait 30 days to smoke my bud though. I'm starting to wonder just how much of a difference curing will really make. I might cure most of it and test 1/2 an ounce just after drying....for science, of course.
I just finished trimming my little harvest.. I yielded 12 oz from 10 plants in 6 square feet...but this time I weighed the trimmings that I discarded..
I have a ratio of bud-12oz : stems/leaves/popcorn buds-15oz. I was trying to imagine if that would be a ratio that could be improved, and if so, how?.. different strain, new nutrition regimen, more light, etc..it seems to be an easy way to measure just how successful a certain grow has been. Setting certain constants like light and square footage and then playing with the variables like nutrition and flowering time.
The genus Cannabis contains one species, Sativa. The fact that indica and sativa can breed demonstrates that they are not seperate species. But yeah, short of some pretty advanced genetic engineering, I don't think this project is going to take off.