GR's Fall '19 Coco Grow

[gr865]

I have a couple questions/thoughts when you get a second.

I want to increase my canopy area/yield without increasing my footprint. Vertical growing seems a good way to do that as I already scrog the full footprint of the tent. A 4*4 tent filled on 3 sides 3 ft tall would be ≈36sq ft, a massive increase over it's traditional 16sq ft. On paper. Not sure how that translates to real world growing though.

Do you actually get more canopy area on a vertical than scrogging the tent footprint? Or is it limited by the amount of light available? I thought you had mentioned similar yields between the two growing methods.

When you do verticals is it only three walls of the tent?
How long are your veg times?

I use 5 individual screens, 41x 21 or 6 sqft/ screen, so approx. 30 sqft of grow area.
This pic is without the screen attached to the frames.


I use the screens so I can remove the plants from the tent to work on them. Here are 5 screens with Big Buddha Cheese.


This grow was 23 zips of smokable jarred buds and about 7 zips of untrimmed buds for making FECO.

Yes, I do get about the same running horizontal as I do running vertical, but the ease of working on the plant is much better with vertical because it is hard to get to the plants to trim them horizontal.
And here is the 5 plant vertical Barneys Farm LSD, This grow was 26.5 zips smokable jarred buds and I think it was 6.5 zips of untrimmed buds.


Con't.

 

[gr865]

This was a single plant Monster Crop I did in 18'. 18.8 zips


Here is a post from a lady in Australia I think.
She had not seen vertical before so I showed her the difference.
Anna, Happy 420 to ya!
This is a horizontal grow, lights hung in the horizontal position.

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• gr865
• Apr 13, 2018

This is a vertical grow, lights hung bare bulb vertically.

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• gr865
• Jan 14, 2018

This is a look straight down, there are two lamps hung there.

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• gr865
• Dec 19, 2017

I use 5 screens and attach the plant to the screens

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• gr865
• Jan 14, 2018

Here is a look from the outside looking into the tent.

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• gr865
• Dec 21, 2017

This is a pic of the one of the plants at day 21 of flower, this is the day that I defoliate the plants.

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• gr865
• Dec 14, 2017

Another pic looking down, the plants are in veg in this pic.

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• gr865
• Dec 5, 2017

Anna, I hope this explains vertical, you can Google it and find a lot of info on this growing technique.

GR

 

[gr865]

Update: Day 63 of 12/12

Started flush on Monday for the BlueBerry and Original Skunk #1, hand watering twice a light cycle as compared to the irrigation cycle which is 4 times a light cycle. 125 ppm @ 6.0 pH. Will be turning on the irrigation to these four plants tonight and begin flushing the G13 Haze also. Not sure exactly when I will harvest both the BB and OS#1 are 75% +/- cloudy to clear, not seeing any amber trichs yet. The BB is Indica dom while the OS#1 is Sativa dom, so I expect I will be harvesting the BB first and give the OS#1 a few more days. Maybe start harvest mid-week or so.

Con't

 

[gr865]

It's a jungle in the 4x4!

And the show goes on!

 

[gr865]

Harvested one of the Original Skunk #1 yesterday. Was not ready, some cloudy mostly clear. So I stopped at that one plant, and going to give them a few more days.
This plant should yield about 3 zips.

 

[gr865]

Day 70 12/12

Harvesting everything today, taking a break at present. Got 4 down and three to go.

Con't in next post.

 

[gr865]

Con't from previous post.

Super Cropped three thim in 4 inches and it still wanted to stand up above the crowd.

 

[Old Salt]

Looks like you are well into a good harvest.

 

[Preston9mm]

Congrats on the harvest!


That's a whole lotta bud!

 

[SherlokOhmz]

That is one sticky looking thumb! Lots of fat colas in there, your scales gonna get a workout. Well done!

 

[gr865]

Some final pics from this harvest, feel heavy but don't think I will reach my goal of 1 gram/Watt, thinking somewhere around 20 zips.
I believe it was @scrogster who call them Donkey Dicks,

Now get a good drying and start the cure, going to make some good smoke, good Rosin and good FECO/CCO.

 

[Nicholas Flamel]

Wow luv the looks of them buds. Congrats

 

[gr865]

So, Saturday I placed the one plant harvested on last Wednesday, the Skunk, in a plastic trash bag for 36 hrs. Today, after removing them from the bag yesterday and let them sit on the drying rack,I cut the buds off the stem, put them in quart jars to begin the curing process.
Two ounces 14 grams in the jars, just shy of my guess of 3 zips. This was the smallest of all the plants, so weight is going to be OK. During training of the plants I broke two mains completely off, dropped the light on them so It could have been 4 plus zips. This one along with the other Skunk have smaller buds than the remaining plants.
So harvest is looking promising after all.
Just took this one out of the jar, letting it dry for a 1/ 2 hour of so, and going to sample it.

 

[gr865]

Today after, 4 days hanging, 36 hours in a plastic bag, then hung for another 36 hours, I cut the buds off the branches.
26.95 zips of jarred buds, starting cure, so weight should drop a bit, but not unhappy. That would be 1.2 grams/watt. This is about my usually haul, from 24 to 26.5 zips per grow.

The buds are not as tight as I usually get but I think that is because of the heat in the tent, ran out of room and the plants got too close to the lamps. But I am happy with the weight, will take some of the fluffy buds and make FECO.

 

[gr865]

16 quart jars and 3 one half gallon jars, all full, some have more cannabis in them than they should. Some quarts have 50 plus grams, and the 1/2 gallons have 90 plus grams. Don't like filling them that full but was short of jars, so I worry about mold, airing them daily. Going to pick up another case of quart jars.

Here is the start to next grow. The 5 plants in the 2 gallon smart pots will be used in a vertical grow, 4 Triple Cheese and one Ayashauasca Purple. The plants in the Solo cups are going to my assistant for his grow.

 

[Zincite]

Nice haul GR. Setting the bar high. congrats.

 

[gr865]

Nice haul GR. Setting the bar high. congrats.

Sort of disappointed, the weight is there but the buds overall are light and airy. This is a first for me as all my grow have been good tight buds.
Now that being said, I will be making a lot of Rosin for Decarbing and FECO/CCO for caps and editables.

 

[gr865]

Well thanks to all you folks who came along for the ride.
I will be starting a new journal for this next 5 plant vertical grow.
Hope y'all can come along on this trip!
Will do a smoke report after these ladies are cured.

 

[d42zero]

Sort of disappointed, the weight is there but the buds overall are light and airy.

I feel exactly the same about a grow I just did... one plant was looking PRIMO and grew gigantic 'donkey dicks' lol. Here's one after a rough trim:

I got ten of these (this one's the biggest), and ended up with about 7.5oz from the one plant. The buds are covered in beautiful sugar and the smoke is great, but when dried and cured they ended up really fluffy and soft... when chopped up to smoke it shrinks in size (as opposed to denser weed that fluffs up) but goes super sticky.

So I feel kind of like you.. I'm happy with the yield and love how it smokes, but I was just a little disappointed in the texture as I've always associated tight nuggety buds with good weed. Maybe I'm just not used to getting really fresh weed?

Anyways if you come across any ideas as to what might have caused that, please share them if you don't mind

Your grow seems to have gone exactly how I want my next one to go, so I hope you don't mind me using this as a template for my next one in a couple of months!