Strain

Sour Crack Growing it Easy Resistance Strong

The LST girl actually did *really* well! Looking like almost 2.5oz! More than typical for such a small, fast grower.

The Outcome

Week 10 HARVEST What's on the scales? oz g 181.72 Bud dry weight What's on the scales? oz g 6.41 Bud dry weight What's on the scales? oz g 726.88 Bud wet weight What's on the scales? oz g 25.64 Bud wet weight Harvested 2 plants Number of plants harvested Light 190 watt Total light power used Grow Room ft² m² 0.07 Grow Room size Grow Room ft² m² 0.74 Grow Room size

0.02 ounce /watt/plant 8.66 ounce/ft² 3.21 ounce /plant 256.76 watt/ft² 2.7 plant/ft²

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Tastes like

Citrus Pine Sour

Feels like

100% Sativa 0% Indica Positive effects Euphoric Happy Relaxed Negative effects Dry eyes

Nutrients

Chopped the LST girl today. Day 64. She was well ripe and I could have probably chopped her four or five days ago, but I wasn't in a hurry. I also wet trimmed her, something that I haven't done before. It looks like she may deliver close to 2.5oz! My projections have been *Fairly* close. Could be as low as 2oz, but I'm pretty sure it's over that. So that is good news.



Tomorrow I chop Natural Girl, and we'll see what her wet weight is. I wish her luck! I have a feeling that she will come in at a lower wet weight, if only because she'll have a lot more popcorn nugs. LST girl had almost zero popcorn. We'll see.



Edit: Natural Girl got the chop, Day 65! So... It was a complete wash! Sour Crack is such a small plant that under the same conditions, yields are identical when comparing LST vs. A natural grow.



LST Girl, trimmed, Wet - 275.77 Grams

Natural Girl, trimmed, Wet - 276.98 Grams



A difference of 1.21 wet grams, which is negligible.



My verdict - All things being equal, the only advantage of doing LST on a Mephisto Sour Crack is the reduction in size and flatness of canopy. The yields came out the same between the LST plant and the Natural plant to within 1.2 wet grams of bud, and the advantage was actually in favor of the natural girl.



In addition, the natural girl left behind quite a bit more popcorn on her lower branches. I actually put her back into the tent, with maybe ten thin, scraggly, but popcorn encrusted stems sticking out of the dirt, just to see if they bulk up at all before she dies of old age, or sap loss from the chop. Just for giggles, of course.



THE VERDICT - If you have good enough lights, say, what I have, which is 3x Cree Cob 3590's pulling 190w, it doesn't matter whether you run Mephisto Sour Crack LST vs. Natural. It will get enough light to support similar yields.



ADDENDUM, Fifteen days later! - So when I harvested these two girls, I tried a tiny experiment. The LST girl had about ten, four to eight inch or so popcorn stems left, hanging forlornly off the the main stem. Seemed like a bit of a waste, so I fed the pot and threw it back into the grow. I figured "Hey, if she still has a little pep in her, and hasn't started dying, what could be the harm?



Nothing. Nothing could be the harm. Fifteen days later, I harvested her again. She didn't grow new large fan leaves, but she PILED ON crow's feet, stretched her tiny stems, and bulked up her little popcorns into genuine buds! Not only that, she grew about fifteen more stems full of little buds.



And that is how I managed to get four ounces from a single Sour Crack.