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Greetings all,
I have recently finished my first indoor grow! I grew DNA Lemon Skunk and Paradise Nebula, both hydroponically using the Lucas formula with GH products. I have dried the harvest (5 oz. from one Nebula, 4 oz. from one Lemon Skunk, all under 1 400W HPS), and am in the curing process now. Just for info purposes, I flushed for two weeks... I dried the buds on hangars in a dark closet for a week, paper bags for three days, at which point the buds seemed a bit over-dry. I put everything in mason jars, added a fan leaf to each jar for a day and the moisture content seems correct now (dry, but still enough moisture not to crumble into dust).
While I cure I'm smoking only high-quality shake and popcorn buds. I can't yet complain about smell and taste as I am only in my second week of curing, but it does seem weird that I can't really smell the buds without handling them or squeezing them. If they have a smell it's a bit like hay or grass, not so much like POT. If I handle them or squeeze them, I get lots of fragrance. The taste for both is pretty mild and tasty, a bit floral, and gets me quite high, but I guess I was expecting to be floored, and I feel a bit let down. Like I said, another week or two in cure and that may get better, but I was thinking about trying soil for my next grow after my current batch in flower (Kali Mist), because if everything I have read about soil/organic grows having superior taste and smell to hydro/synthetic nutes.
My question is whether there is a benefit to going organic only on the flower cycle? Does anyone out there do that? I guess I want to try it this way because my whole grow room setup is designed for hydro. I like the low maintenance for vegetating, and am wondering if I switch to soil and organics just for flower if I will reap all the benefits in terms of flavor and smell? I'm not considering this for anything other reason than enhancing taste and smell of the final product.
Thanks in advance for your input!
Sliv
I have recently finished my first indoor grow! I grew DNA Lemon Skunk and Paradise Nebula, both hydroponically using the Lucas formula with GH products. I have dried the harvest (5 oz. from one Nebula, 4 oz. from one Lemon Skunk, all under 1 400W HPS), and am in the curing process now. Just for info purposes, I flushed for two weeks... I dried the buds on hangars in a dark closet for a week, paper bags for three days, at which point the buds seemed a bit over-dry. I put everything in mason jars, added a fan leaf to each jar for a day and the moisture content seems correct now (dry, but still enough moisture not to crumble into dust).
While I cure I'm smoking only high-quality shake and popcorn buds. I can't yet complain about smell and taste as I am only in my second week of curing, but it does seem weird that I can't really smell the buds without handling them or squeezing them. If they have a smell it's a bit like hay or grass, not so much like POT. If I handle them or squeeze them, I get lots of fragrance. The taste for both is pretty mild and tasty, a bit floral, and gets me quite high, but I guess I was expecting to be floored, and I feel a bit let down. Like I said, another week or two in cure and that may get better, but I was thinking about trying soil for my next grow after my current batch in flower (Kali Mist), because if everything I have read about soil/organic grows having superior taste and smell to hydro/synthetic nutes.
My question is whether there is a benefit to going organic only on the flower cycle? Does anyone out there do that? I guess I want to try it this way because my whole grow room setup is designed for hydro. I like the low maintenance for vegetating, and am wondering if I switch to soil and organics just for flower if I will reap all the benefits in terms of flavor and smell? I'm not considering this for anything other reason than enhancing taste and smell of the final product.
Thanks in advance for your input!
Sliv
