Right, I know its a couple of weeks late but here is my final report on this journal.
After the chop all buds were hanging in my tent and stayed there in darkness for 7 days at 18°c and 55% humidity for a nice slow dry, by the end the stems were dry enough to snap clean in half but still a little sticky in the bud (the way I like it) I trimmed all the bud of the stalk and cut into smaller nuggets ready to cure. Oh the smell is beatifull
So here is my final weight off of each plant dried trimmed and ready to smoke! Critical 1. 20 grams Critical 2. 42 grams BA 1. 60 grams BA 2. 88 grams BA 3. 62 grams so all in I have 9.7 ounces.
The BA smokes lovely and is really really strong, tastes a bit fruity with that heavy amnesia taste to it, i tent to keep this for an evening smoke if i want to get anything done in the day that is lol and the critical tastes a little more earthy like a skunk taste but still with notes of citrus and fruit althought his strain is not as strong and more of a heady high so this is my day smoke.
Not bad off of 5 plants on my first grow, the most interesting thing is I can see more potetial from these plants to produce bigger yields and better denser buds with a bit more training and more accurate environment control. So I have just bought a fan speed controller with thermostat to control temp and airflow and a humidifier to keep the humidity up in the all important veg stage and also and ec truncheon to keep a better eye on my nutrient solution and to measure runoff for flushing etc.
None of these plants went to waste and I mean none of it! I made a batch of ice hash with about half a kilo of trim and ended up with a nice sprinkling of hash. Used the old leaves to make some canna butter, then I used all the stalks to make some weed tea which actually tasted quite nice and my misses even tried some haha
Things I did wrong;
Didn't pre soak my coco prior to planting seeds
Transplanted too many times (twice)
Didn't keep humidity high enough
burned plants with 600 HP's, light too close to start with.
Didn't start feeding with cal/mag straight away( the BA seemed to suffer with calcium deficiency)
Things I did right;
Read as much as I could on the AFN website
Started a journal
Wrote everything down on a calendar
Fed plants little and often
Gave a good flush and slow dry
check them twice a day every day, sometimes more lol
So all in all I loved my first grow and already have 5 more BA about 2 weeks old and also have a couple of different strains in 6 litre pots to try them out, I have 1 of Barney's farms tangelo rapido and 1 bomb seeds THC bomb, anyone grown either of these?
And finally I'd just like to say thanks to all the guys on here that have followed my journal and helped me out.
Until next time...
Here are couple of pics of some of finished product. I'll get ones off my camera later and throw them on here
Peace
