TEST-2 MATRIX
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TEST CONCLUSION
Overall Difficulty: 5/10
Strains:
- 1x Grandaddy Purple (ScrOG style Flowering)
- 1x Blue Diesel (LST style Flowering) Hermaphroditic flowers emerged at day 54 of flower.
- 2x Green Fluffy Bunnies (Pigmies left over from Test 1)
Enviroment:
- Humidity: 40% to 47%
- Temp: 71f to 79f
- Light Cycle: 12/12
- Light Type: 6x 28w T5HO
- Nutirents: Blue Plaanet Nutrients Elite 3-part with Liquid Blue Bloom Booster
- Grow Type: Hydroponic Ebb and Flow
Total Flower Time:
69 days for GDP
60 for Green Fuffy Bunnies
60 for Blue Diesel (Pulled 1 week early due to Hermie)
Total Harvested Overall:
59.2g = 2.114oz - Total Yield
27.7g = 0.989oz - Smoke 46.8%
31.5g = 1.125oz - Trim 53.2%
Smokable.
19.2g GDP
3g Green Fluffy Bunnies
5.5g Blue Diesel
Trim
16.3g GDP 45.9% for 1.5g Hash
1.2g Green Fluffy Bunnies 28.57%
14g Blue Diesel 71.8% for 1.5g Hash
In terms of TOTAL YIELD per plant:
- GDP was largest at 35.5g
- Blue Diesel 19.5g
- Green Fluffy Bunnies 4.2g
Overall Impression of Test: Improved Success and yield overall. I'm pretty bummed about The turnout of the Blue Diesel, but 0.5g of yellow, and 1g yellow/green hash isn't all bad from total plant weight of 19.5g. I was happy to note that GDP was the top yield in this test run, I was not expecting ScrOG to do as well as it did.
Observations:
Nutirents: Blue Planet Nutrients with the Liquid Blue Bloom Booster seemed to do an adequate job of supplying the nutrients needed throughout the test. Actually overall it was easier to handle and mix than the prior nutrient system I was using. Also, it should be noted that pH was almost always between 5.7 and 5.9 and much more stable than the other brands previously used.
Environment: Stable and predictable changes in ambient temperature and relative humidity were observed and easily handled throughout the flowering cycle. It seems that the Can/Fan installed kept things well in check and stable even with the doors closed 97% of the time.
Lighting:The chosen lighting application proved to be inadequate for this test with the ScrOG delivering 49% of yield in trim. Plant structure stayed tight and compact and well green, even through "the flush" with the exception of the Blue Diesel which was airy and light, and fell apart in the final manicure before curing and delivered a disappointing 71.8% in Hash material very poor yield 28.2% for smokable flowers. This may also be due to the fact that it was pulled a week early due to hermie, but upon close inspection, there was about 12% amber in the trichomes, so she was ready to be pulled.
Reservoir: As far as the nutrient delivery system is concerned, no anomalies were observed. Performance was flawless, and cleaning was easy. With the air stone removed things under the lid stayed much cleaner, and only a small amount of fungus was observed once in the right-side reservoir.
Conclusion:
Although overall success was achieved, there is room for improvement.
- Research other lighting configurations, or light sources either additional, or different.
- Find other means of lowering temperature for "The Purple" bag appeal.
- For future grows, add second circulation fan to keep air moving over all plants throughout the grow space.
