Fall 2025 Grow

For FastBuds Guava Auto, I got 41.6g wet on the scale (not including all the popcorn buds and trim that I saved to make hash) which is slightly less than my average harvest weight, although if I can get 10g of smokeable bud out of it I'll be happy, considering the plant was topped, grown in only a 2 gallon pot, and had to share the grow space with 5 other plants. The nice thing is it only took about an hour to harvest everything from start-to-finish. The color is beautiful and the aroma is wonderful. Very sticky harvest. While there were plenty of amber trichomes on the sugar leaves, I got impatient waiting for trichomes to turn amber on the buds themselves, and it 85-95% of the trichomes milky/cloudy and after flushing for 2 weeks I felt it was safe to harvest before the plant starts to get stressed out and herm. During trim I actually did find one single seed, but just tossed it. I was surprised at both the color and short stature of the plant, but that's what you get with pheno hunt seeds. The smoke was nice! The plant I grew felt slightly more like an indica because I wanted to just sit and relax but I was enjoying the simplest of things like a breeze on my face and watching the trees sway. But I didn't feel dopey or sleepy at all, so it was pretty well balanced. Measured THC came in lower than expected not only for this plant but for my entire grow. The main cause was likely that THE DIMMER ON MY GROW LIGHT IS BROKEN, which I didn't discover until AFTER harvest! The dimmer looked like it worked, but at max capacity it was only putting out about 230 PPFD where I expected it to be putting out 600+ PPFD, so I unknowingly deprived my plants of light the entire grow. Other possible, but less significant improvements I could make: try to 1) harvest by week 13 max, 2) flush for only 7-10 days max, and 3) try to lock in relative humidity at 45-55% from week 5.

Apple Strudel didn't let me down! I grew this last year too, but this time got more yield; slightly above my average yield for growing autoflowers in 2 gallon pots and topping week 3. It wasn't as exciting as Guava to harvest with its density, aroma, and purpling, but it wasn't frustrating either like Frostbanger was, so I suppose it was an average or above-average harvest. As usual I could have harvested a bunch of lower half popcorn buds, but instead I'll just combined them with the trimmed off sugar leaves to be dried and turned into hash later. Measured THC came in lower than expected not only for this plant but for my entire grow. The main cause was likely that THE DIMMER ON MY GROW LIGHT IS BROKEN, which I didn't discover until AFTER harvest! The dimmer looked like it worked, but at max capacity it was only putting out about 230 PPFD where I expected it to be putting out 600+ PPFD, so I unknowingly deprived my plants of light the entire grow. Other possible, but less significant improvements I could make: try to 1) harvest by week 13 max, 2) flush for only 7-10 days max, and 3) try to lock in relative humidity at 45-55% from week 5.