SoilBible · Episodes · Ep 041

Ep 041: Final Dry Weights 10x10: Season One Yield Reveal

· Jeremy reveals the final dry weights for every plant in the 10x10 Season One grow — 3.2 pounds total (51.33 ounces) across three LED quadrants, with per-plant yields for each Branson's Royal Revenge and Halitosis pheno. He walks the jars, shows the flower, and picks his frontrunners: Halitosis #8 (the loudest fuel), Branson's Royal Revenge #9 (aromatic but cannibalized in the 3x3), and Branson's #5 (the underwatered Mountain Compost finicky one that came back with a vengeance). Jeremy introduces the Cannabrush (trim brush) as his favourite trim tool, walks his home-grower trim workflow, and opens the floor to viewer input on Season Two — which mother to run, whether to pull the veggies for a 5-gallon quadrant, and whether to scale containers up to 20-30 gallons.

Topics

total dry weight across three quadrants — 51.33 ounces / 3.2 pounds · per-plant dry weight reveal with quadrant and container context · Branson's Royal Revenge vs Halitosis pheno hunt narrow-down to three finalists · Halitosis #8 vs Branson's #9 vs Branson's #5 frontrunner comparison · cannibalization of stretcher phenos inside the 3x3 no-till bed · effect of over-watering and Mountain Compost on Branson's #5 yield and quality · gluey grease factor and throat-coating flavor as quality markers · Cannabrush trim brush workflow vs trim machines and trim bags · home-grower trim philosophy — gently handled vs golf-balled perfection · larf handling and why the brush speeds up popcorn buds · giveaway — $300 / $200 / $100 BuildASoil gift cards, three winners · Season Two planning — pulling veggies, 5-gallon quadrant, 20-30 gallon scale-up · re-amending the 3x3 Take and Bake no-till bed for round two · clone prep from mother plants currently in 1-gallon under 150W halide · supporting Akwid Dave (Branson's) and Covert Genetics (Halitosis) breeders

Sections

0:00 — 1:35

Intro, giveaway, and today's agenda

Jeremy opens Episode 32 excited to share nugs, announces the giveaway (three BuildASoil gift cards — $300, $200, $100 — name-and-email entry, random number draw), and lays out the agenda: show the yields, show each flower, pick the winners, and open discussion for Season Two of the 10x10. He frames the giveaway as end-of-Season-One appreciation and asks viewers to help shape Season Two.

  1. 1. Announce giveaway with three BuildASoil gift cards ($300 / $200 / $100)
  2. 2. Tell viewers to scroll down, fill name and email, one entry per person
  3. 3. Confirm random number generator will pick three winners
  4. 4. Show the yields list written on a sheet
  5. 5. Give the total yield, then per-plant with flower walkthrough
  6. 6. Tease Season Two discussion at the end and invite viewer comments
1:35 — 3:00

Total yield reveal and Branson's #2 walkthrough

Jeremy reveals the total: 51.33 ounces, 3.2 pounds across three LED quadrants. He stresses they were not going for max yield — this was a pheno hunt to fill head-stash jars — and that the quality is phenomenal. He then pulls the first jar, Branson's Royal Revenge #2, and explains his home-grower trim philosophy: he deliberately does not golf-ball his buds because he likes a gently handled homegrown look that protects the flower and lets the aroma come back when you knock bits off. Branson's #2 shows heavy purple, tons of frost, and clean colour on the break.

  1. 1. Announce total — 51.33 ounces / 3.2 pounds across three LED quadrants
  2. 2. Clarify the goal was pheno hunt and head-stash jars, not max yield
  3. 3. Pick up Branson's Royal Revenge #2 jar
  4. 4. Explain home-grower trim philosophy — gently handled, not golf-balled
  5. 5. Break a nug open on camera to show frost and interior colour
3:00 — 6:20

Frontrunner reveal — Branson's #5, Branson's #9, Halitosis #8

Jeremy names the three finalists he is choosing between. Branson's #5 weighed 3 ounces 11 grams — the lightest of the four Branson's in that quadrant because it was the over-watered Mountain Compost back-right plant he joked about on day one, but it came back with a vengeance with loud, GMO-funk, Long Valley-style purple, throat-coating flavour. Branson's #9 weighed 2 ounces 16 grams in the 3x3 where it got cannibalized by the Halitosis stretchers around it — lighter hue purple, slightly sweeter but still funky, visibly frosty flower; he thinks it would yield on par with others if run independently. Halitosis #8 weighed 7 ounces 19 grams in the 3x3 — great yield, headband-like hidden citrus buried under fuel, extremely potent. These three are the narrowed field.

  1. 1. Pull Branson's Royal Revenge #5 — report 3 oz 11 g
  2. 2. Note #5 was the over-watered Mountain Compost back-right plant
  3. 3. Attribute recovery to genetics not watering — loud GMO funk, Long Valley purple
  4. 4. Pull Branson's Royal Revenge #9 — report 2 oz 16 g
  5. 5. Note #9 was cannibalized in the 3x3 but would yield equally if solo
  6. 6. Pull Halitosis #8 — report 7 oz 19 g
  7. 7. Note #8 is fuel-forward headband-adjacent hidden citrus — the current leader
6:20 — 9:17

Halitosis #2, #1, #4 yields and flavor notes

Jeremy walks the rest of the Halitosis lineup. #2 weighed 8 ounces 3 grams — bigger volume in the bin, that gluey grease factor, dense structure, easy to trim, very close runner-up to #8. #1 was in the Earth Box between the two 3x3 plants — reminiscent gluey texture but falls a bit short on odor, still extremely potent, takes you up another level even when you've been smoking all day. #4 was in the 3.0 soil quadrant and yielded less — 4 ounces 8 grams — because the recycled 3.0 was absolutely loaded with nutrients from cover crop running, and because #4's genetics leaned a completely different direction from seed (more round than spear shape, lighter colour, unique smoke burn, super potent, easy to trim).

  1. 1. Pull Halitosis #2 — report 8 oz 3 g, runner-up to #8
  2. 2. Describe greasiness — squeezes and oozes rather than crunches
  3. 3. Pull Halitosis #1 — note it was in the Earth Box between the two 3x3 plants
  4. 4. Call out #1 as potent but short on the aroma vs the winners
  5. 5. Pull Halitosis #4 — report 4 oz 8 g, grown in the 3.0 recycled no-till
  6. 6. Explain 3.0 was loaded with nutrients from cover-crop recycling
  7. 7. Note #4 is rounder rather than spear-shaped and leaned different from seed
9:17 — 11:45

Branson's #1 cannibalization and Branson's #12 big yielder

Branson's #1 is very close to #9 — similar aroma, but #9 wins on odor and that's what Jeremy chases. Branson's #1 was lower yielding, had smaller flowers, was harder to trim, and got cannibalized alongside #9 in the 3x3 — he admits putting a non-stretcher next to a stretcher in the same container was a no-no. Branson's #12 is the biggest yielder of the whole grow at 6 ounces 24 grams out of a 10-gallon container that was top-dressed (started at 7.5 gallons of BuildASoil). Dave liked #12 — cookie-dough doughy notes — but Jeremy finds it falls flat, he wants punch-you-in-the-face. Still, a half pound off a 10-gallon plant is strong, and the 5x5 area it occupied let the canopy spread further than the 3x3 corner plants. Branson's #8 was 7 ounces 19 grams but fruitier and didn't make the cut.

  1. 1. Pull Branson's Royal Revenge #1 — describe it as 9's near-twin
  2. 2. Call out the no-no of planting a non-stretcher next to a stretcher
  3. 3. Pull Branson's Royal Revenge #12 — report 6 oz 24 g, biggest yielder
  4. 4. Note #12 was in a 10-gallon container starting at 7.5 gallons then top-dressed
  5. 5. Note #12 was in a 5x5 area with room to spread canopy
  6. 6. Describe Dave's cookie-dough preference versus Jeremy's punch-in-the-face preference
  7. 7. Pull Branson's Royal Revenge #8 — report 7 oz 19 g, fruitier, didn't make the cut
11:45 — 15:17

Halitosis #2 runner-up summary and decision tension

Jeremy revisits Halitosis #2 with a star next to it — it is extremely close to #8 and two friends already took the cut to run outdoor this year. He expects they will be blown away because it yields heavy and has dense structure, easy to trim, loaded with the fuel odor. But #8 still just outpaces it when you pop the jar. He acknowledges the mothers are almost as tall as him in 1-gallon containers under a 150W Rather McMillan halide, begging him to choose. He explains his allegiance — he wants to support Akwid Dave who works for BuildASoil and bred the Branson's Royal Revenge, and he is a long-time follower of Covert Genetics for Halitosis because of the Chem D x I-95 fuel cross. He asks viewers which direction to take into Season Two.

  1. 1. Pull Halitosis #2 again and star it as runner-up to #8
  2. 2. Mention two buddies taking this cut outdoor this year
  3. 3. Declare #8 still wins on first-pop aroma
  4. 4. Show mothers in 1-gallon under 150W halide begging for a decision
  5. 5. Frame the Akwid Dave / Branson's vs Covert Genetics / Halitosis choice
  6. 6. Cite the Chem D x I-95 cross as the reason he followed Covert Genetics
  7. 7. Remind viewers to fill in the giveaway form and tell their friends
15:17 — 19:37

Trimming philosophy and the Cannabrush workflow

Jeremy introduces the Cannabrush — he calls it the trim brush because the word canna triggers payment-processor issues — as the biggest trim game-changer he has ever used. He contrasts it with wet trim machines, dry trim machines, and the $5,000 trim bags that basically just tumble your weed in a circle. He found it at the Emerald Cup, bought one instantly, and was initially mocked for using what looked like a basting brush. He demonstrates the workflow: pull the whole branch out of the dry tub, d-leaf the big ones, stack them, then go branch by branch brushing the crow's feet and fan leaves off with the perfect resistance and grippiness of the brush, so you can knock off leaf without even cutting. Then scissors to buck the nugs off the stock into a glass bowl for jarring. He notes that many growers start by brushing only their larf because it speeds up the popcorn work so dramatically, and that scissor hash collects right on the bristles for easy collection.

  1. 1. Introduce Cannabrush (aka trim brush) and explain the naming workaround
  2. 2. Compare trim machines, dry trimmers, and trim bags as lower quality
  3. 3. Hold a nug with the brush at the perfect resistance and grippiness
  4. 4. Brush off fan leaves and crow's feet — knock them off rather than cut
  5. 5. Pull whole branches out of drying tubs
  6. 6. D-leaf the big fan leaves first and stack the manicured branches
  7. 7. Trim each stacked branch with the brush then buck the nugs with scissors
  8. 8. Spin around to the big glass bowl to collect finished nugs for jars
  9. 9. Use the brush on larf to drastically speed popcorn-bud processing
  10. 10. Pop the built-up scissor hash off the brush bristles periodically
19:37 — 23:31

Season Two discussion — containers, veggies, automation

Jeremy opens the Season Two discussion. Total season yield was 3.2 pounds with about a half pound of trim and larf — those will go to hash. He floats ideas: small containers as an entry level (but he dislikes them because small containers fight busy-life watering schedules), automation with drippers so weekend watering can be skipped on Sundays, pulling the veggies out so a fourth quadrant can become 5-gallon plants (feminized seed drops or Season Two clones), re-amending the 3x3 Take and Bake no-till and adding maybe one ingredient to soup it up, and possibly scaling up from Earth Box comparisons to 20-30 gallon containers or doing 15 vs 30 gallon comparisons with Light vs 3.0 soil. He notices he is undecided, asks viewers to comment, and commits to deciding within a week.

  1. 1. Quote total yield — 3.2 pounds plus about half a pound of trim and larf
  2. 2. Note trim and larf will go to hash runs
  3. 3. Float small containers with drip automation for weekend watering
  4. 4. Propose pulling veggies from the 4th quadrant entirely
  5. 5. Propose running 2-4 feminized seeds in 5-gallon containers for beginners
  6. 6. Propose re-amending the 3x3 Take and Bake no-till top dress
  7. 7. Propose adding one ingredient to Take and Bake to soup it up slightly
  8. 8. Propose scaling Earth Box quadrant up to 20-30 gallon containers
  9. 9. Propose a 15-gallon vs 30-gallon comparison or Light vs 3.0 soil comparison
  10. 10. Ask viewers to comment and promise to read every one
23:31 — 25:13

Clone timeline and series wrap

Jeremy lays out the workflow dependency: he has to choose a mother, root the clones, plant them in the decided quadrants, and stagger any feminized seed starts to keep the timelines fair. He will make the announcement about both the Season Two plan and the chosen mother within the week. He closes by thanking subscribers, saying the channel is growing, and reinforcing the BuildASoil mission: they will not be a provider that just sells products — they want to share products they know work, which requires continuing to grow themselves. Thumbs up, subscribe, see you next episode.

  1. 1. Choose the mother (Halitosis #8, Branson's #9, or Branson's #5)
  2. 2. Take cuttings and root the clones
  3. 3. Plant the rooted clones in the decided quadrants
  4. 4. Stagger any feminized seed starts for fairness
  5. 5. Announce the Season Two plan publicly within a week
  6. 6. Thank viewers and ask for subscribes and thumbs up

Notable quotes

"51.33 ounces or 3.2 pounds was the total number — we were not going for max yield, but 3.2 pounds across three LED quadrants with very minimal interest and high yield just doing a pheno hunt, I'm really impressed with it."

The top-line Season One reveal — total dry weight across all three LED quadrants

"If I get a nug and it looks like vacuum-packed and all golf-balled out perfectly smooth and there's none of those little leaf structure, I feel like it's just been mistreated and not as high quality."

Jeremy explaining his gently-handled homegrown trim philosophy

"I joked day one — I said oh, look at the one that's all finicky is probably going to be the winner. It was the lightest out of the four in those containers, and that's because of the over-watering, but it came back with a vengeance."

On Branson's #5 — the over-watered Mountain Compost plant that became a frontrunner

"It's clearly these genetics — they're just better. It's loud, like it's got that Long Valley with some more GMO-like funk in it."

Jeremy pushing back on the idea that watering explained Branson's #5 yield

"It can't just smell good — it's got to taste like it smells or have a good translation."

Jeremy's flavor trifecta rule for picking mother candidates

"I would be happy to run both — a little more complex odors on the Branson's Royal Revenge from that combination of genetics, where the Halitosis is straight-up fuel."

Framing the Branson's vs Halitosis decision as a trade-off between complexity and fuel intensity

"If I could pull a half pound off a 10-gallon plant every time, I'm stoked."

On Branson's #12 pulling 6 oz 24 g out of the Light Soil 10-gallon container — the biggest yielder of the run

"All of our recipes work and there are some nuanced differences, but it's kind of like good in equals good out, especially when you're dealing with quality inputs."

Jeremy's bottom-line conclusion on the Season One soil comparison across Take and Bake, 3.0, Light, and Earth Box

Glossary terms from this episode

Bucking · BuildASoil 3.0 · BuildASoil Light Soil · Cannabrush (trim brush) · Cannibalization in a no-till bed · Chem D x I-95 cross · Crow's feet · D-leafing · Earth Box · GMO funk · Grease factor / gluey texture · Head stash · Headband-like hidden citrus · Larf · Long Valley wine purple · Pheno hunt · Quality first trim workflow · Rooted clone workflow · Scissor hash · Spear vs round flower structure · Stretcher vs non-stretcher · Sundown watering · take and bake · Throat coat / flavor translation · Trim run vs flower run (for hash)

Products mentioned

10 Gallon Fabric Container · BuildASoil Take and Bake · BuildASoil Light (soil) · BuildASoil 3.0 · Cannabrush (trim brush) · Branson's Royal Revenge · Halitosis · Mountain Compost · Earth Box sub-irrigated container · 3x3 no-till bed · 1-gallon mother container · Rather McMillan 150W halide · LED grow light (three quadrants) · Drying tubs · Trim scissors · Trim machine (dry) · Trim bag · Drippers (sunday-watering automation) · BuildASoil gift card · Cover crop (for recycling no-till)