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I wish I could get more consistent size plants but with running multiple strains it's kind of hard. I'm running all taller, larger growing plants this time around so it's working out alright. I have 3 different strains and ended up with 1 large plant and 1 smaller plant out of each strain due to crowding. All of these plants want to be big. My larger sour diesel is still having trouble and has been dropping leaves the whole time. It's still growing alright but will suffer some in yield. The smaller sour d is developing nicely. Both blue dreams are doing well, one is a monster of a plant. The larger headband is fine, the smaller one is between the big blue blue dream and the big sour d so it got shaded out and won't produce much.
Don't think I've quoted myself before, but wanted to clarify what I meant by not much. I'm guessing 2 ounces off of it at this point. I'm aiming for at least 4 ounces each. The bigger plants shouldn't have trouble hitting 4 each. I would need 6 ounces each to hit 1 gpw with only the six plants in there (if my math is right). The setup allows for some movement but not enough. I would like to be able to move them back a bit more from the bulb since a few are about 6 inches away. I think stacked 1000's and more distance to the bulbs for a bigger canopy would produce really well in this type of setup. Monocropping would also help a lot with keeping the plants evenly spaced.
The sour d that was having trouble decided it was ready to be done. After about 2 days of flushing it started to dry itself. I've never had that happen before. It was just ready. Several branches just died off and started to dry out. I gave it a week flush and took it down. The rest get 2 weeks flush.
The original diesel (headband) and the sour diesel are definitely very similar. I've found the sour diesel to make smaller more sativa like buds, but with more trichomes. The headband seems to make larger, rounder, denser buds but slightly less trichomes. I think the headband will yield well. They both are getting beat by the blue dream though. Blue dream looks like the best one I've found for vertical so far. Nice round, dense, frosty buds, and lots of them.
I love Blue Deam Gardenbug, but I see some yellowing leaves....possibly some Cal - Mag deficiancy? THe only reason I say that is that your plants look exactly like mine before I started adding some Cal-Mag....changed my grow overnight. Not trying to piss on your parade actually trying to help ;-)
Ended up around a pound of good quality.
I put anything less than good into the pile for hash when trimming.
Done with the dwc and onto coco for the next round.