[QUOTE="SICC";4203296]Nothing like good ole sunlight
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Had to make a tough decision to keep my supply going and decided to take perspicacia early so that MsAngel can be given the time she needs to finish. I got to say that my original plans for this perpetual grow have not gone well due to poor yields and for the first time in 2 years since I built this little box to take over from my bigger grow I'm struggling and losing enthusiasm
I've been thinking back and comparing grows at different stages and have come to the one conclusion, that since moving over from
seedplants to clones the yields have just not been the same. Now of course we all know that a seedplant will produce a nice yield even if its grown 12/12 from seed, whereas any clone will need time to veg up in order to match the yield, I would now estimate that a clone once rooted needs at least 2/3 weeks veg time in order to produce the same yield as a seedplant given just a week or so before flowering, the root system is just much faster to establish. Thats not to say that a clone cant outproduce a seedplant once its got its roots down but when turning over plants fast like this a clone is no match for a seedplant. Thats my opinion based on observations over the last 2 years in this box and I'd be interested to hear what you guys think?
So what to do from here? I am seriously considering changing back over to seedplants feminised and a 250 HPS. I'm reluctant to do it but I'm just not optimising my grow at the moment and having to cut down plants before they reach potential. The buds on both Perspicacia and MsAngel look great, very frosty and filling out as I enter week 7 flowering but overall I got to say yield will be poor, maybe 10 to 14g dry per plant although maybe another 2 weeks will see MsAngel top that mark as she bulks up. Agatha is looking more promising as she did get a full 3 week veg period, as did Cynthia, but stems just dont look as solid as I would expect from a seedplant with 3 weeks veg time. Cynthia has just today been pout into 12/12 so again a couple more weeks will tell as she begins her stretch.
Heres some pics of the 3 of them, msAngel starting week 7, Agatha starting week 4 and cynthia starting week 1.
In the meantime I'm doing a lot of thinking and planning about where I go from here, maybe its time to retire that small box and go back to something more efficient in terms of lighting and ventilation as I had previously, and grow larger plants from feminised seeds.
Bottom line is that I'm still smoking my own stuff, but whereas I used to have a couple of jars in reserve most of the time I'm chopping early which really pisses me off to have to do! As with any grow journal things dont always go smoothly and you got to take the rough with the smooth
I'll update again in a weeks time and in the meantime I'm measuring up the storage cupboard you see below as a new grow box. It would be easy to fit a more powerful 100mm Ruck fan to vent straight into the loft above via a carbon filter (these Snow Whites stink tamjam
) and run a 250 HPS in there over just a couple of bigger plants. The space is almost 6' tall by 3' wide by 3.5' deep so my idea is to build a box within the top half of the cupboard and leave a couple of feet of the lower part for storage.
Back soon.