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Well, it's all chopped now. Boevo's guess of 2oz per plant was actually very close.
According to my scale (it's a cheapy hanging balance type, I've got a digital one coming) I harvested a total of 162 grams. That doesn't count the tasters I stole from the plants before the actual harvesting started (which I staggered between 65 and 95 days). Had I not smoked from them before harvest I bet I would have gotten 170g (6oz). Regardless, I'm super happy with these results. It's making it easy it easy to justify the money and time I put into setup.
145g of the 162g total actually made it from the plant, to my hang drying box (cardboard box), to a jar. The missing oz+ got its self smoked before it made it to a jar.
I found I lost 78.5% of the weight of a freshly cut and manicured cola to dehydration and stems. In other words, after cutting and manicuring a cola for hang drying, I could expect to eventually jar 21.5% of it's weight.
This double headed cola just ended a week of hang drying and is about to get de-stemmed for jarring. I wouldn't tear open a bud to get the stem out, but I would remove as much stem material as possible before going into jars.
Here's a pile of stems from a jarring session. And those little Fiskers clippers are just the right thing.
Here's some shots of the stem structure LST produced for me.
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So yeah. I feel like this is a big success for me. 5 3/4 oz off a 250w first grow? That's WAY better than I was expecting when I started.
Thanks for all the great post on LST im going to try it with a Sativa dom variety i found in a bag seed didnt LST on my first and i ended up with a main cola 28".
I could have sworn I posted mine in here. Owell, this is from my first grow. Turned out male but hey, I got to try some crazy shit out on it (LST, Top, FIM, SuperCrop... yes all of this. Veg'd for 1.5months and really only got just barely out of the pots).
i allways LST if im doing 4 plants in my 1m sq budbox . i use a 400w digi and grow in coco with canna nutes ect ect .
my yeilds are between 15oz and 17 and a half oz with 2 or 4 LSTed plants .
heres my grow im just finishing now . theres 4 sour diesel clones
vegged for 3 weeks (10" tall when flowered )
hes 1 of my runs of exodus psychosis . 6 plants canna nutes and a 400w digi .
my yeild from this grow was 17oz and a cpl of grams .