Re: Bassman's 6th - Blue Planet Nutrients - RDWC - Hi-Defoliation Martian & Master Ku
Finally have some time today to get to the results.
Everything is all cut and dry. I didn't weigh but my guesstimate based on avg per curing jar is around 16-18oz. But I also have an insane amount of trim and bud that wasnt worth trimming. Easily filled 6 one gallon freezer bags. All good stuff to treat mom with her Bhang drink.
Really super unhappy with the end results, but I can only blame myself after adding the Martian Kush in with the Master Kush seeds. It was a bad choice and costly to the entire grow because of the Martian Kush growth characteristics. I could probably make Martian work but to me it's not worth my time to learn it.
I even scrapped the five 2L hempy girls I had going as a fill in.
The quality of smoke for the Martian Kush, according to two friends I had try it both say it's ok. Like good mids, but not great.
The report on the Master Kush was excellent quality, and the best I've grown yet of the Master Kush! Good news on that at least! But I've grown it a bit now and know what to expect for the most part.
Now for lessons learned:
1. Move my hood off center! With a big ass raptor hood and a 1k watt hps, if the light is centered, I'm actually putting plants "behind" the bulb's area of light penetration. When looking up into the hood the receptacle is a good foot deeper into the hood and the bulb doesnt produce any light for 2-3 inches from that. As a result that side of the tent is getting tons less direct light and living off a lot of reflective less penetrative light. FIXED!
2. Don't run my 685 watts of LED in the same room the tent is in! I threw 7 two liter hempy girls into flower about half way through the flowering period of this grow in a closet under my 685w LED. I had some fans to move air around but the heat was insane and as a result the tent saw temps as high as 92f. Once I harvested the tent and moved my Kosher Kush in, I scrapped the 2 L hempy's (all but 2 of Master Kush) and turned off the led. Tent temps went back down to 81-82f max. Perfect for my Kosher Kush. I just don't have a way to keep the temps down with the LED going in the same room.
3. I already knew this, but dont mix strains I am not familiar with or have great confidence in having similar growth characteristics! The tude does mention the Martian Kush stretches a lot. But I didn't expect over 3x and it really hurt the Master Kush yield.
I mentioned early on the Martian's were foxtailing like hell. There's some good solid bud there but that which didnt get perfect light foxtailed skinny ass bud. Pics below of a cpl dried bud show the worst of it.
All of these lessons learned also help to make a good case for why defoliation works well. Areas of great light resulted in great bud. Not shading out one plant through another is even more important than the leaves shading each other out. I lost out on a ton of light penetration this grow and made it worse with high temps slowing the shit out of them too.
Here's some pics from harvest day.
Martian Kush, no lack of frost, but definite lack of density:
Master Kush, much denser:
Martian Kush bud porn to show how odd some of the buds were:
Thanks to all for your support. I'll be closing this journal now and moving on the the next. Kosher Kush!
Here's the link:
Bassmans Kosher Kush - RDWC - 1K - 4 Plant Grow I'll add it to my sig shortly.
