I've only had two grows. My first, last year, was photo strain called Mastodon from Oregon Green Seeds. I'm a lightweight and pretty much done after one hit. So, don't need much. My Oregon legal four was good but I had to harvest a couple of weeks early due to early onset of continuous rains last year end of Sept. It's strong but doesn't have the indica stone I like. But still smokes and tastes great with a good daytime high. Not good to smoke if I want to go to sleep soon. Anyway, an ounce will last me about a year and I harvested six pounds from my four plants or about 60 years worth. Given that I have all the daytime stash I can use as well as happy friends who I was able to gift, I figured I'd try a high CBD strain this year. I don't have a good camera, so here's a pic of my grow and apologies up front for the poor quality:
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This was taken about 10 days ago.. The cola on the left is MED GOM 1.0 from Southern Oregon Seeds and the one on the right is AK47 freebies they tossed in with my order of the high cbd seed. Both are autos that I started germinating on May 19. All are fem
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This is a wider angle view. Four plants. the ones on the ends are Auto fem AK47 and the ones in the middle are MED GOM. The MED smells really nice spicey-pine The AK one on the far left is about five feet tall. The others are between 3-4 feet tall. Last I looked, still clear and a few cloudy trichs, no amber ones. The hairs were mostly white with a few brown ones. Any thoughts on how you judge harvest date?
So, I'm no experienced grower or connoisseur. I've learned to take advertised flower times as a minimum and autos seem to meet my needs and are easy to grow. I grow mine in my 20 year old no till organic garden bed and am happy with being able to smoke my own.