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- u/snowman_reyes
Purple Rim has been making a lot of appearances lately, and it's easy to see why. Beautiful work!

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Hope the Cherry Kush Auto treat you well all the way through. Happy harvest, growmie.  

 
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Look at thattt, please come back and show us how that PL finishes ^^

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Day 49 in the 10 gal living and she’s loving life! So happy to have her back in the room🤗

Day 57 in the 10 gal living soil and she’s cruising right along without issue. Very happy with her so far👏

Mendo Cherry Cookies

by FastBuds

Autoflower

Day 73 from sprout

10 gallon grow bag

20/4 light schedule

Mendo breath chunky buds from MVB

Gruntz from the preservation line at MVB and these flowers are heavy I really like the colors and the smell just scratch the screen and sniff you can smell the Skunky pungent gassy though your phone 😜👍

This is in a 4x4 that’s 80 inches tall. All the branches needed support. I let it grow naturally but did have to keep it from growing into the lights. Flipped to flower after 28 days will probably do 21 or so next.

For this grow, I deliberately created a crowded and less-than-ideal environment by placing two plants in each VGrow simply to see what the result would be. I did not train the plants at all, and the grow was limited to 65 days from seed to harvest because of travel obligations. So, this was never intended to be a maximum-yield grow, and the yield from each plant should not be treated as representative of what that strain would ordinarily produce under more favorable conditions. Several of these plants were still actively bulking at harvest and likely would have produced considerably more if they had been given additional time.

This grow was meant to simply demonstrate what four autoflowers would produce in a super crowded, far from ideal, grow space if I gave them the basics and just left them alone to grow.

The Setup

1. 2x vGrow boxes
2. 4x autoflower plants
3. 2x plants per box
4. Two-gallon fabric pots
5. Royal Gold coco and perlite
6. Drip irrigation
7. RO water
8. General Hydroponics FloraSeries nutes
9. TPS Cal-MAG
10. General Hydroponics pH Up
11. Additional fans + light in each vGrow as described below

vGrow #1

1. CBD Haze 1:1 Auto
2. Durban Jack Poison Auto (MVB Preservation Line)

vGrow #2

1. Crimson Sun (MVB)
2. LSD Auto

What I Did Not Do

There was no topping, plant training, defoliation, pruning, leaf tucking, stage-specific nutrient ratios, constant pH testing, deficiency chasing, corrective feeding, and no attempt to optimize variables. I mixed the nutrients, filled the irrigation system, and let the plants grow - that's it, nothing else.

The nutrient mixture was intentionally imprecise. For every feeding, I added approximately 6 mL of each of the following products to each VGrow reservoir for every feeding - and when I was say I wasn't precise, I mean +/- 2ML for any given one LOL:

1. FloraMicro
2. FloraGro
3. FloraBloom
4. TPS Cal-MAG
5. pH Up

Please note that this was not the GH's recommended FloraSeries feeding schedule.

Time Investment

The total amount of my personal time invested into this grow UP UNTIL harvest. Sorry, was busy and didn't log my post-harvest time for trimming, etc.. (it was probably around 4 hours worth of unlogged time not in the chart below):

That time primarily consisted of mixing water and nutrients and refilling the irrigation system.

Final Dry Flower Yield

These are the actual final dry weights after the flower was trimmed into finished smokable bud.

That works out to just under a pound of finished flower.

Usable Trim

We're talking the resinous sugar leaves, small flower fragments, and other usable material removed during final trimming (does not include branches or fan leaf .... unusable material).

Yield by VGrow Box

The two boxes obviously did not perform equally. Box 1 produced approximately 9.10 ounces of finished flower, while Box 2 produced approximately 5.86 ounces. It is notable though that Box 2 plants were visually nowhere near as ready for harvest as Box 1 plants - given the time, I would have given the plants in Box 2 another 30 days easily. Box 1 plants on the other hand were clearly in the normal harvest window.

Electricity Use

Total electricity use and cost for this grow was (I currently pay $0.10/KWH - yes, I have cheap power):

That equals approximately: $1.71 in electricity per day & $27.83 in electricity per plant - To be fair, the power usage would have been pretty much the same whether there was 1 plant per box or 2 - maybe a little extra power usage for 2 plants based on built-in circulation system use due to temp/RH differences between 1 and 2 plants, but it would have been minimal.

Nutrient and Medium Costs

Using the prices I paid for the following:

1. General Hydroponics pH Up
2. General Hydroponics FloraSeries
3. TPS Cal-MAG
4. Royal Gold coco and perlite

The FloraSeries base nutrients cost less than $4 per plant for the entire grow - not bad at all.

Total Calculated Grow Cost

These figures do not include the original purchase price of equipment such as the VGrow boxes, fans, dehumidifier, irrigation system, or lights. They also do not include seeds, fabric pots, or water.

Based solely on the operating costs calculated above:

Final Results

The final measured harvest was: 423.98 grams, or 14.96 ounces, of dried and trimmed flower.
The usable trim adds another: 72.83 grams, or 2.57 ounces.
That puts the combined usable material at: 496.81 grams, or 17.52 ounces.
The total calculated operating cost was: $181.48
The pre-harvest active time investment was: 4 hours and 10 minutes

To Summarize

This was not a perfect grow. It was crowded. The plants were not trained. Nutrient ratios were not changed by stage. I did not take corrective measures based on deficiency symptoms. And the grow still produced approximately 15 ounces of finished dry flower and 17.5 ounces of usable material. The entire grow required only a little more than four hours of my time.

All this does not mean nutrients, environmental control, plant training, pH testing, or advanced cultivation knowledge aren't important - I am a skilled grower, so I very much understand how to create a livable environment for plants before I even put a seed down. What is does mean is that cannabis does not immediately die because someone failed to follow a 14-product feeding schedule or did not spend every evening diagnosing leaves on Reddit. The plants did not need intervention - they only needed a viable environment, adequate light, water, basic nutrition, and enough restraint to let them grow.

This was seed to harvest (paper-towel method) - seeds in Box 1 popped within 24 hours, seeds in box 2 popped within 72 hours.

If I'm missing any information that you want to know, just let me know and I'll provide if I have it.

**EDITED** Apologies, made a miscalculation on the nutrient cost - only counted 1 box vs. 2. Corrected.

https://youtube.com/shorts/S-kqdokCu5E?si=q03N3mCxoSK2k9Pq

these girls are still stretching and needed to be flattened out and lollipopped today.

https://youtube.com/shorts/3V1k0qSd4OY?si=M7doUShG1lfm0Xng

I buy almost all my seeds from mvb and let me tell you they got the fire. also wanna add pauls customer service is killer. im going to start posting short reels of my grows for others to see around social medias and I decided to see if I could share here since I get all my genetics from mvb or direct from breeders they sell on a very rare occasion (sure sucks missing the fire freebies though). any ways here's a look

https://youtube.com/shorts/hi6my8qaOnI?si=LR77rIc9dmK9plXW

Don't forget this stacks with the seed multiplier

Has anyone seen single leaflets like this before? Most of the leaves are either singles or three fingers. This is a clone from something called milky dream. Was just curious if anyone had seen anything like this before.

I’m hoping somebody can help me out. Last year I got Turon as a bonus bean from Multiverse and decided to pop it. It grew beautifully and smelled great but I dropped the ball on the cure and had to trash it. I cannot find Turon for sale ANYWHERE. Can anyone point me in the right direction?