Emilya Green
Well-Known Member
My current harvest is not going to be capable of telling me much about droughting or my light experiments of this round. The plants were triply damaged throughout the course of this grow, and I just cant tell for sure that anything is actually as it seems here at the end.
My next round has just gone into the flip (transition) and I plan on doing a side by side on both varieties involved, so we can start to get a handle on this droughting thing. I will be droughting just one plant of each variety to see if we can see a positive result.
The current theory after consulting with my peers and applying logic to the situation, is that added trichomes might be the defence mechanism to an attack on the plant, but what else happens? Can a plant deprived of water just as the buds are doing their final build, also develop its complete flavor and terpene profile? Will the buds finish out smaller than a properly watered and fed plant sitting next to it? Will the potency actually be stronger, or do longer trichomes just make us imagine it is better?
Inquiring minds want to know, and soon we will have a controlled experiment going to try to answer these questions. We have roughly 45 days on the Bushmans and 65 days on the Amnesia. These plants will be much better cared for than these coming out of bloom now, with all eyes on the finish. In time, we will have a much better idea what is going on here while the experiments go on. There were just too many variables this time to know for sure, and bottom line, until I get this batch cured a litte, I still have no idea if the quality will be good enough to imagine that there is a benefit to droughting. At the moment I remain open to a positive result, but still highly skeptical. In 2 to 3 weeks I will be starting to sample this product, dried and cured a bit. The conversation will continue after that and further proof will be a couple of months from now.
My next round has just gone into the flip (transition) and I plan on doing a side by side on both varieties involved, so we can start to get a handle on this droughting thing. I will be droughting just one plant of each variety to see if we can see a positive result.
The current theory after consulting with my peers and applying logic to the situation, is that added trichomes might be the defence mechanism to an attack on the plant, but what else happens? Can a plant deprived of water just as the buds are doing their final build, also develop its complete flavor and terpene profile? Will the buds finish out smaller than a properly watered and fed plant sitting next to it? Will the potency actually be stronger, or do longer trichomes just make us imagine it is better?
Inquiring minds want to know, and soon we will have a controlled experiment going to try to answer these questions. We have roughly 45 days on the Bushmans and 65 days on the Amnesia. These plants will be much better cared for than these coming out of bloom now, with all eyes on the finish. In time, we will have a much better idea what is going on here while the experiments go on. There were just too many variables this time to know for sure, and bottom line, until I get this batch cured a litte, I still have no idea if the quality will be good enough to imagine that there is a benefit to droughting. At the moment I remain open to a positive result, but still highly skeptical. In 2 to 3 weeks I will be starting to sample this product, dried and cured a bit. The conversation will continue after that and further proof will be a couple of months from now.
looks great
Ms. White Widow 
