Swanky's Yield Thread... what can this t8+cfl setup produce

SwankyDank

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DISCLAIMER: Swanky makes no claims to guru status, monster yields, or anything that might mascarade as bragging... this is an "at the end of the day, it is what it is" thread. All results are posted solely for the express purpose of seeing how yields progress from the first grow on into the future.
 

SwankyDank

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For convenience I'm parking all final results in this one thread with links to the main grow journal.

Feel free to post snark, sarcasm, hatred, love, support, and what-not-and-what-have-you.

I would love to see some of you get your own yield threads going so we can all see how each of us kicks out the jams with fluorescent.
 
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Humanrob

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Two plants, 28g of tasty Skunk-Haze Sativa, but then my cure was bad and most of it went bye-bye.
so that us other noobs might learn from your mistake (cause I've made so many on my first grow, I've lost count) -- how did you blow the cure?

my first grow is about about two weeks from being done. I had two rooms and messed one up but the other is looking good, and I'd really, really, really like to not fuck it up after all this time...
 

SwankyDank

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so that us other noobs might learn from your mistake (cause I've made so many on my first grow, I've lost count) -- how did you blow the cure?
The bud went bad when I was fighting off the flu and didn't open the jars for 7 or 8 days. I wasn't motivated enough to do it and figured it had already been curing for a week anyways so it was probably alright to leave it alone. Afterwards the smell had an obvious mustiness to it and some visible white patches. Part of the problem was that the bud wasn't quite dry enough when I put it in the jars. It dried three days and should have gone at least five.

I have also found that the strain effects dry and cure time. Loose/open bud like the Haze I'm growing is dry and ready to cure in 4-5 days. The Skunk-Haze takes 5-6 because of tighter buds. The Critical needs at least 6 days. The same is true for curing... the Haze is ready sooner than the Skunk-Haze which is ready sooner then the Critical.

I have learned the most about curing from experience. There is no way to learn how to analyze the smell of a cure by reading or looking at pictures. The smell changes and diminishes as the cure progresses. At a certain point it stabilizes and it smells about the same over the course of a few days. This is when I consider it finished. At that point I stop opening the jars every day.
 

Humanrob

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Thanks for that info -- I'll be feeling my way through my first cure before long and can use all the help I can get.
 

SwankyDank

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Royal Queen, Critical, Feminized, 4 Clones

https://www.rollitup.org/t/t8-cfl-critical-round-two.864682/#post-11590319

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43g of bud. 84g of trim and small stuff. About 100g of smokeable bud but over half of it is too small and will work better for edibles.

I thought there was going to be more prime bud but it didn't turn out that way. I think these were trained too much, creating too many smaller buds. These plants all had multiple colas, anywhere from 5-8. Next round I will try for two main shoots and see if that changes the harvest.
 

SwankyDank

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Harvested two more plants, too lazy to take pictures:
Both yielded 16g of decent sized nugs, for a total of 32g.
The smaller stuff and trim weighed out at 34g a piece, total of 68 g.
Two plants, 100g of quality, usable bud.

It looks like this is a good indication of what the current setup is capable of producing.

I run 8 plants on a continuous rotation with 4-5 different strains so I never harvest all 8 at once but I'm comfortable saying that per eight plants I can consistently pull the 16g nugs + 34g frosty small stuff for hash and/or cooking. This gives an average of 400g for 8 plants with approx 400w.
 
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SwankyDank

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Seeds: 40-50 days
Clones: 30-40

I'm going to start vegging longer to try and increase yields.

70 days from seeds.
50 days for clones.
 
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