HELP! Help needed with Trichomes/harvesting decision

[SimpleGrower12]

Yes, I am beginning to see that people have different preferences. I know I like euphoria and I'm looking for a daytime strain so hopefully I can time it just right.

 

[SimpleGrower12]

Thank you! Another trusted source said a week as well. I'll check with the microscope again and hopefully we will be ready for harvest in just a few more days.

 

[SimpleGrower12]

Much gratitude to all the folks on this forum! We harvested earlier this week and ended up with 3 kg wet from 3 plants. Drying them now!

 

[dropinbiking]

Congrats on the harvest and awesome yield! I'd be so excited if I were you. I'm still quite a few weeks ago. Great job on the grow! What light were you growing under?

 

[BR2K]

Sigh...you set the bar SO HIGH...

 

[SoOrbudgal]

Outstanding job

 

[Gingerbeard]

Same question as dropinbiking. What were you lights and nutes and medium and growing junk SimpleGrower12?

 

[Gingerbeard]

dropinbiking Am I reading that right? You're running 900 watts in a 2x4?

 

[dropinbiking]

Yes, they are just dinky little China LED's. The two together only draw 290 at the wall, and it isn't the best light. I need more honestly.

 

[dropinbiking]

You want well over 50 real watts of blurple light per square foot to come close to strong light, so I'm still a little short, which is why I'm trying not to use 2 feet of my closet.

 

[DingusKhan]

It is definitely okay, in fact very wise, to start your grow light "collection" with small, well researched, calculated increments. As you grow tent, you change light, you can tailor stuff to your tent with several smaller lights.

But if you got a 315CMH, you could be done with it.

 

[Sledrock]

Subtract about 75% of that Wet Weight -so when they're dry you'll have about 1 kilo (2.2 pounds), minus stem weight, of course.

Nice job, especially for a first grow!

After drying about a week, I trim up the buds and THEN weigh, right before I jar them.

 

[dropinbiking]

Knowing what I know now about lights, I wish I would have bought a Mars TS 1000 and been done. Instead I've got two lights drawing more power putting out less than half as efficient light. Not the end of the world, just means I'm stuck with these china LED's. They will make good Veg lights in the future that's forsure.

 

[SimpleGrower12]

I have a full grow journal that I need to finish typing up, but here’s a condensed version.

Lights: 3 viparspectra 600w reflector series in a 4x4 tent (actual power draw 260 watts/light)

Grew from seed in Fox Farm Ocean Forest soil. Popped seeds July 27. Started them under CFLs, then moved to the vipar LEDs 3 weeks later. Vegged for 63 days and flowered for 75 days.

During veg - Compost tea made from composted chicken manure from our backyard chickens. Alfalfa, malted barley, and kelp meal top dressing every other week. Boosted our roots with aloe vera root soaks and Great White mycorrhizae. Added some CalMag. Battled a little nitrogen toxicity.

During flower - Terpinator, general hydroponics’ floralicious plus, koolbloom, biothrive bloom (stopped this halfway through flower), and calmag. Some Fish Shit and mycorrhizae each week. Battled some heat issues and had to open the tent door when the lights were on despite lots of venting and circulation and fans.

I think a real key was that I made an automatic humidifier with a single mistmaker and fan kit from House of Hydro and a humidistat (Willhi brand). Our climate is dry and this made our plants so happy. House of Hydro makes great products - https://youtu.be/DAwnt4rwNJ4

We did a little low stress training in early flower by bending the main growth down and tying down side branches and this made the plants get super bushy and we ended up with lots of nice colas.

Thanks for the love folks! I just did what y’all said to do and listened to my plants. Best of luck to everyone. We grabbed some clones from the plants so we are already on our next round in a new 2x2. Can’t wait to let you know how those go.

 

[SimpleGrower12]

Thank you!

 

[SimpleGrower12]

This is exactly the math I used to decide how many lights to get. 260w/light * 3 lights = 780 watts. 16 sq ft * 50 watts/sq ft = 800 watts. Great advice!

 

[DingusKhan]

Nice job and nice write up, I'm looking forward to the unredacted version. Thanks for sharing it.

 

[SimpleGrower12]

Hello fine people. I finally completed my full grow journal from last summer through winter, with lots of videos and photos. I thought I'd share it here, in case people needed something to pass the time. Should I post it anywhere else? Stay safe everyone!

Super Silver Haze Grow Journal

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Current grow: 3 super silver haze in flower in a 4x4 with 3x600w viparspectra, 1 super silver haze mother in a 2x2 under a 12 inch sunblaster led strip. All SSH from clones. 1 triangle mints, 1 G13 haze, 4 THC bombs from seed, planted 3/25 under 2 cfls. Everything started in root riot cubes and potted into fox farm ocean forest.

 

[JDU]

I agree. My Mars Hydro throw a yellow white light that def makes em look further along than they are.