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i have 3 grows under my belt. i have not really changed things up much and i am happy with the potentcy, bag appeal and smell of the fruits of my labor. i just am not getting the taste i really am looking for and being a bit ocd, that is the pea under my mattress so to speak.
i use roots organix soil in 3 gallon felt pots. the basic nutes i have used are 'gobox' which is by general hydroponics. it is supposed to be organic but i am not totally sold on being organic. i just got it because it was supposed to be a box with veg and bloom nutes. i have aso tried various additives like snow storm ultra, open sesame, beatie blooms and cha ching as well as this mychordzhie or however you spell it stuff(though i used that without the non-organic stuff cause i read that some nutes will kill the mychordizae). i get good yeilds too. about 10 ounces from 2 thai plants in a 4x4x2 mothers tent using 4 4ft ho t5 bulbs and another 100 watts or so of assorted cfl's.
i have grown 6 different strains(la confidential, greenhouse seeds thai, dp master kush, stacked kush, etc) and they all taste basically the same. i get a bit of a metallic taste from the smoke whether i smoke it in a bong or joint. vaping is different. tastes nice vaping. (i wonder if this is a clue too as vaping maybe does not get hot enough to get whatever the metallic taste is out of the bud)
i think my dry and cure is ok. i dry them until the stems just snap then jar them up and monitor the humidity and slowly bring them down to just below 60%. i have some buds stashed that are about a year and a half old. i store with boveda 62 packs. the old smoke tastes like the newer smoke. it is all more potent than i really need and the taste is not horrible, just not primo.
i have some melvanetics buckeye purple coming and i want to grow it right. i am thinking of investing in a 400 w hps for flowering if folks think that might help with taste.
i may have erred and harvested too early on all three grows(not a lot of amber trichs) because i obsess about letting them go too long. if that could be the culprit, please let me know.
thanks in advance...
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i use roots organix soil in 3 gallon felt pots. the basic nutes i have used are 'gobox' which is by general hydroponics. it is supposed to be organic but i am not totally sold on being organic. i just got it because it was supposed to be a box with veg and bloom nutes. i have aso tried various additives like snow storm ultra, open sesame, beatie blooms and cha ching as well as this mychordzhie or however you spell it stuff(though i used that without the non-organic stuff cause i read that some nutes will kill the mychordizae). i get good yeilds too. about 10 ounces from 2 thai plants in a 4x4x2 mothers tent using 4 4ft ho t5 bulbs and another 100 watts or so of assorted cfl's.
i have grown 6 different strains(la confidential, greenhouse seeds thai, dp master kush, stacked kush, etc) and they all taste basically the same. i get a bit of a metallic taste from the smoke whether i smoke it in a bong or joint. vaping is different. tastes nice vaping. (i wonder if this is a clue too as vaping maybe does not get hot enough to get whatever the metallic taste is out of the bud)
i think my dry and cure is ok. i dry them until the stems just snap then jar them up and monitor the humidity and slowly bring them down to just below 60%. i have some buds stashed that are about a year and a half old. i store with boveda 62 packs. the old smoke tastes like the newer smoke. it is all more potent than i really need and the taste is not horrible, just not primo.
i have some melvanetics buckeye purple coming and i want to grow it right. i am thinking of investing in a 400 w hps for flowering if folks think that might help with taste.
i may have erred and harvested too early on all three grows(not a lot of amber trichs) because i obsess about letting them go too long. if that could be the culprit, please let me know.
thanks in advance...
of8