Well the experiment has come to an end..
This year I made a bloombox, this is a box that can be covered to create light deprivation to flower pants anytime you want to instead of waiting for the nature. I learnt many things, mainly the fact being that the neighbours tall trees take nearly all the sunlight!
Here's some point that I would change next time
- Be able to water the plants from the bottom to create longer roots, and to use the goodness in the soil.
- Start the flowering 2-3 weeks earlier to still use the high sun.
- Don't let them stretch like I do, from not checking on them regularly enough - this created too much shade.
- Should have watered them a bit more.
I learnt how the plastic of a greenhouse disperses the light over the plants more evenly, especially if there's tall tress in front of the sun and lights partially coming through the gaps of the branches and in the beginning I wasn't covering them in the day time because I wanted the wind to make them stronger. I actually doubled up the see through plastic to make it less see through and the light was definitely less concentrated, when you looked up at the sky from inside it was just a huge white light instead of separate rays of light.
Here's an old photo of when I first put them into the box.
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They were grown in shopping baskets from various supermarkets and stores. I had put 2 in each just because I had enough clones to do so. They had 66% cow poo soil and 33% normal potting soil and I used clay balls instead if perlite in the mix because perlite isn't so available here.the also had clay balls layered in the bottom and again on the top as some kind of mulch and moisture retainment. They also had an added fertilizer mix from Plagron in the soil and all nutes were organic.
This year's summer was constantly hot and not much rain, and I could have watered the Mazars much more because they ended up being tiny straggly buds with a million stems, nothing like the mother it was cloned from! I believe this was the heat, and the fact the I couldn't water them from the bottom and so the roots weren't huge.
I tried my first SCROG and here's the first net I used. I couldn't find the bigger size but it was ok for this experiment!
I gave them LST training also (this is just standard for when I grow a weed plant.)
Later on in the grow, here is when I should have started the flowering..
The plants created no shade for each other and from the LST there was around 300 heads there. At this time it was so hot I didn't want to go out in the sun and also a friend came to visit so I took attention away from them, and then they stretched!
Here's from flowering, you can see they have stretched way too much and have tiny flowers
And the sun had already gone back down mostly behind tall trees..
I did get a harvest though! And here they are hanging up. They are now in for curing in boxes since a few days. The Mazar has become dedicated to be used in the vape as the flowers are just ridiculously small and the CBD Critical Cure there is around 100g of semi decent buds. They were harvested a bit early due to bud rot beginning, but still some smoke is better than mold!
The ones on the left row are the decent Critical buds and on the right row are the Mazars
Here's some fresh pics of the harvest as I need to change the air in the boxes and let them breath.. I haven't bothered to trim them and will just trim before grinding up for the volcano
The Mazar "Thank the gods for the Volcano" Mix!
The CBD Critical Cure
Before and after a trim of a bud
This is VERY sticky and oily. So much so that I thought this was the Mazar and that somehow I had labelled them wrong!
Changing the air for an hour before I put it back in to cure :)
I have an Acapulco Gold and a Cbd Critical Cure growing outdoors as they were clones and there was no room in the bloombox for them , so i was going to leave them to flower naturally, but they haven't started properly even now, and so that means that they wont finish flowering in 8 weeks from now. I don't think its possible to do it naturally here, before the snow comes!
Anyway, luckily a friend has room in his place for them! We managed to get just one there already and I still have the critical here. It was a mission to get them to his place as they are huge and stinking hahahah but anyway no one needs to know more about that! I told him to come over and showed him them, and we decided that a 50/50 split on the harvest would be fair.
I forgot to take a pic of the Acapulco Gold before it went but here's the Critical Cure!
added 10l watering can for scale, they were both this size
Well its been emotional! I don't have secure enough electric to start an indoor grow :( I could start one but them it could be we have no electric and so its not worth it.. Ill wait until next year until the next time!
Of course I'll still be supporting 
