Hello AFN family,
First, I am an amateur grower and have tried several different techniques to growing. I have spent a ridiculous amount of money switching my grow set ups and am not satisfied with my yields. I am obviously doing something wrong but I am unable to figure out what it is. I have run 5 small grows, from seed to harvest just for my personal use, but the yields that I get is never worth the time, money or effort.
Some history,
1st grow, I used some crappy, so called organic miracle grow soil with 250 true watts of draw using cfl's. The plant stretched like crazy and grew huge but only produces about 22g's dry and I had this plant in veg for about 4 months before flowering it. Fail. this was before I know about ph and organic nutrients. this plant thrived on miracle grow plant food.
(seed was a feminized blue dream).
2nd grow I did some research and purchased a Viparspectra 450 watt led light and used ff ocean forest with fox farm big bloom, grow big and tiger bloom nutrients and just I knew I would get a decent yield. I also ph'ed my water to 6.3. I ended up with about 24 g's dry. after approx. 2 months of veg and 2 months of flower (seed was dinafem cbd fem)
3rd grow was a repeat of the second grow. I focused on making sure my PH, temps and humidity was right, Still
Thanks!