Thanks for the input! Will invest in a bowl trimmer soon.
@Delps8 how long did your GoGo's take? were they as long as mine is? and also... did you get the garlic pheno in any of the two plants?
The bowl trimmer is a bit of a mind "you know what" (don't know if it's OK to drop the F-bomb here) - to drop in a whole bunch of weed, spin it around, spit is around the other way, and it's done. Loosely speaking, it becomes a non-event.
How long to chop? It was 117 days for the smaller plant and 119 days for the bigger one. In the pictures below, there
is a plant on the left but it's been completely overwhelmed by the one on the right (it takes up 20%± of the frontage of the tent and had, interestingly enough, 20%± the yield). The "sidecar" light (a Viper Spectra VS 1500) illuminates two of Chris' branches that fell out of the tent. My two other grows (autos) also took a long time to flower and to get to harvest, and I suspect that part of that is because the reservoir holds 28 gallons of nutes so they plants can "grow fully" for each stage of growth - no science to that, granted. They were topped at days 22 and the first flower wasn't until day 48.
"garlic" - the herb doesn't have much of a "nose". I have no doubt that's due, somewhat, to my lack of experience and expertise in drying and curing but it wouldn't surprise me if it had something to do with yield. I say that because my last grow (Gelatos) was similar in that it had one monster plant that is a really mild smoke but the smaller plant, also on the left side of the res, yielded 161 gm and has some nice taste over tones (three cheers for Grove bags).
BTW, I watched a very interesting video today re. tent temperature. Based on Bugbee and Chandra, I was comfortable with my tent getting into the 80's. Those are great temps for yield but, according to the speaker, a PhD candidate at University of Utah, temps above 80° wreak havoc on cannabinoids.
Some of my notes from the video:
"Temperature - yield increased slightly. CBD and THC plummeted - "cut in half basically". We don't have a good explanation for this right now. We're going to ssee if we can reproduce this and see if we can come up with an explanation for what's going on." IIRC, that discussion is just over halfway through the video.
The video title "Does Hemp Need Extra Water and Fertilizer?"
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The video is a few years old and the speaker opens saying that their research is for "legal cannabis" so their objective is to increased CBD while keeping THC <= 3% so as to comply with federal law re. research. I don't think that makes the results any less informative because he's relaying info about results of the plants and doesn't portray the results in terms of "low THC vs high THC".
This surprised me because Bugbee and Chandra focus so much on net photosynthesis, which equates to yield, where temps in the 80's are demonstrably optimal, yet, based on this video by someone who is one of Bugbee's researchers (I
think he's tied into Bugbee) the news is that temps in the 80's will trash THC levels. Bugbee does not mention that in any of the many videos of his that I've watched. Food for thought, eh?
