Re: Icemud's Grow 8.0 - New Intelligent-Gro LED - 2 x IGRO-228 LED - Testing And Revi
Hey Everyone!!!
Well today marks the end of the line for my Intelligent Gro Generation 1 Test Grow. I harvested the remaining 2 Black Cherry Cola's today, washed, trimmed and hung to dry. I have to say, this BCC smells amazing, very floral like a blue dream, but with a heavy grape/cherry smell to it... This one is going to taste amazing!!! Also the BCC was the heaviest yielding plants out of the group, I haven't weighed anything yet and will do a final weigh in and smoke report once all the buds are done drying and have at least a week or 2 of curing underway.
I also will at that time give my final impressions of using the Intelligent Gro series 1 lights.
I was curious to see when transplanting today and remixing my soil, how the roots were from this past grow. At first I was thinking that the early finish, the smaller yield was contributed to no roots in the soil... Well when I pulled the roots out of all of the plants, this definitely was not the case. The roots were developed well on all 7 plants so my original suspicion of the roots dying off was not the case.
I have been doing a lot of reading lately regarding the dimming functions, dimming light and flowering photoperiods and I think that the dimming in flowering also may have contributed to less yield than I typically get, even considering the lockout. I read numerous studies done regarding photosynthesis yield and daylength in flowering and from what I have read, high intensity lighting, and actually 13 hours of light produces the highest yields along with higher Cannabinoid profiles, however 12 hour actuallly produces slightly better THC content but about 20% less yield. Therefore I think the dimming on flowering may be why my yield seems much lower than normal.
On a positive side though, the buds this grow I believe may be my best yet in terms of fragrance, trichome production and hopefully taste and strength. I did try a somewhat dry bud of the Ogiesel and I have to say of the 3-4 times I have grown Ogiesel under different lights, this time it tastes the best, is much stickier with trichomes, and has a much stronger high. So potency was great
Well like I said, these are just my thoughts so far on this grow and after I weigh everything out I will do a final yield report, grams per watt and such, as well as smoke report and updated bud photos
I want to say thank you to Intelligent Gro for allowing me the opportunity to be sponsored, and to allow me to try your lights in public for everyone to see. I think Danky Dave is a really nice guy and I do believe he stands behind his products very well and puts the customer first. I also see good things with my Intelligent Gro 2 journal being the improved spectrum and higher umol output.
I want to also thank all of you 420 Members who have followed along with this grow, contributed to its popularity, success and interesting nature
You guys rock!!! I love doing these grows and hopefully will continue to test products for the 420 community
Today I spent repotting all my mothers for my breeding project as well as transplanting my new clones : blue dream, GDP, Purple Urkle and Churchberry.
I will not be starting a new journal for a while because I want to focus on my Generation 2 grow, and my breeding project that has been waiting for me to clean up everything and get some room.
I will not be proceeding with Cherry Pie as one of my strains, I have run it about 3x now and even though the buds grow large and look impressive, the taste, smell and high are not up to my standards, so I will be killing off my 2 cherry pie moms unless I can find someone locally that wants them, or unless I decide to throw them in my breeding project and see what happens. I hesitate doing this since I really am not happy with the strain/cut I have, I don't even think its worth keeping at all since I have so many other strains that are much better that deserve its spot.
Well here are today's photos of the Black Cherry Cola Harvest.
