LVSkunkWorx
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Greetings. Two queries WRT harvesting strategy:
What I know of as "gradual harvest". Got turned onto this by a Michigan breeder after 3-4 text-book harvests. Basic idea is rather than picking a date for the harvest, set up a time-window for the harvest, taking the most mature stuff on top at the beginning of the window and (after trimming out the canopy covering the lower stuff), then letting the lesser buds that have been missing the light fatten up and finish a bit more (7-14 additional days), eventually taking the rest. This works great for me because I seem to always be taking the buds at the peak of perfection, rather than simply taking the all on some arbitrary date and putting up with the lesser stuff. I would estimate I get about 10-20% more weight out of it. The thing is, I am doing this in a very simplistic fashion and wondered if any of the more seasoned folks have refined this more than I have (which is not at all). I feel like there is more than can be done with this but something like this takes time to experiment with personally.
The second query is about something else I have come to adopt, the idea of a continual harvest. Again, there may be another term for it but this is what I know. This is simply the idea of keeping say 10 plants, six in bloom, 4 in veg. In my case the 10 are set up in pairs with each pair being of the same age. All plants in my case are about 3 weeks apart in age so when one pair gets harvested from bloom, I take the next-oldest pair in veg and move it to bloom. At any give time there are 3 pairs of plants in bloom 3 weeks apart in harvest-cycle. When something gets taken from veg I make sure I either have clones or seedlings going and move a new pair of (something) to the Autopots that will eventually land in bloom.
Thing is, when managed properly you never have a big harvest but you always have a stream of herb coming in and no matter what you are three weeks from the next harvest. This is some powerful mojo for me.
The problem or query for anyone doing this already is the management or scheduling. I don't quite have enough experience to do this efficiently; I either end up with too much in veg or too little thats "ready" for bloom. If anyone would care to cast some pearls of wisdom my way, I would be most grateful.
Peace
lvsw
What I know of as "gradual harvest". Got turned onto this by a Michigan breeder after 3-4 text-book harvests. Basic idea is rather than picking a date for the harvest, set up a time-window for the harvest, taking the most mature stuff on top at the beginning of the window and (after trimming out the canopy covering the lower stuff), then letting the lesser buds that have been missing the light fatten up and finish a bit more (7-14 additional days), eventually taking the rest. This works great for me because I seem to always be taking the buds at the peak of perfection, rather than simply taking the all on some arbitrary date and putting up with the lesser stuff. I would estimate I get about 10-20% more weight out of it. The thing is, I am doing this in a very simplistic fashion and wondered if any of the more seasoned folks have refined this more than I have (which is not at all). I feel like there is more than can be done with this but something like this takes time to experiment with personally.
The second query is about something else I have come to adopt, the idea of a continual harvest. Again, there may be another term for it but this is what I know. This is simply the idea of keeping say 10 plants, six in bloom, 4 in veg. In my case the 10 are set up in pairs with each pair being of the same age. All plants in my case are about 3 weeks apart in age so when one pair gets harvested from bloom, I take the next-oldest pair in veg and move it to bloom. At any give time there are 3 pairs of plants in bloom 3 weeks apart in harvest-cycle. When something gets taken from veg I make sure I either have clones or seedlings going and move a new pair of (something) to the Autopots that will eventually land in bloom.
Thing is, when managed properly you never have a big harvest but you always have a stream of herb coming in and no matter what you are three weeks from the next harvest. This is some powerful mojo for me.
The problem or query for anyone doing this already is the management or scheduling. I don't quite have enough experience to do this efficiently; I either end up with too much in veg or too little thats "ready" for bloom. If anyone would care to cast some pearls of wisdom my way, I would be most grateful.
Peace
lvsw