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CrazyChemist

Growing Profile:  The Next 'Newbie'
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Strain Profile:   Great for beginners

 

Now, all I can say about this plant is... thank god I got my seeds before Seeds Direct went out of stock. This was a great plant. At $30/15 seeds, it was a bargain by any standards, and on the low end for Mr. Nice genetics. In my limited experience with purchased seeds, this is the one that most closely matches the seed bank description.

I germed 3 seeds, but only one had sprouted by the time mold overtook my Jiffy Pot greenhouse - fortunately, it turned out to be female. I tried to take clones around this time, but there were unavoidable, unforseeable problems that kept me from being able to attend to the garden not long after that. I was able to return to the garden at 6 weeks, and induced flowering at that point. As this was my first serious grow, I wanted to keep the plants small and manageable. Lighting during veg was a bank of 40W fluoro shop lights, the medium was potting soil mixed with kelp, blood and bone meal, along with seabird guano and lime for pH control.

For flowering, she was moved to a 3 gallon pot - yeah, a little big for the plant size, but I didn't want to risk rootbinding her. As they say, soil is too cheap.

Lighting was a 400W HPS, ferts were the above list mixed into the soil, and boosts as needed with EarthJuice Bloom and Maxicrop. She showed her flowers early, at only 3 weeks. I pulled her right at 45 days, as there were a few too many hermie flowers for me to pluck manually. The faq said that late-appearing hermie flowers aren't anything to worry about, won't drop pollen, but there was a slight possibility that they were due to a light leak - I didn't want to take any chances, and she had so many hairs that had turned so I went ahead and harvested her.

As this was the first plant that I harvested, I may be a little partial towards her... Oh my, was I ever impressed by both the taste and potency. The taste is wonderfully earthy - I'm not one who is normally fond of earthy smells, etc., so for me to say that it tastes good means a lot. It leaves a velvety feeling in my mouth, makes me feel like I've been rolling around in piles of fragrant leaves in a forest, wrapped in a velvet blanket by mother earth. Like I said, that's not my usual idea of a good time, but it's a wonderful feeling.

The high is long lasting - my first bowl of it kept me very happy for a good 4-5 hours. It's supposed to be heavily skunk genetically, and the high "mellow", but for me it's been almost trippy. The peripherals of my vision are happily squiggly, but what I'm looking directly at is fine, though everything seems sharper, more clearly focused than usual. Not a sleep-inducer, good for enjoying a pretty day. But, I guess since it does make me feel calm and thinking of forests, mellow might not be too far off as a description.

Oh, forgot yield statistics - the whole grow consisted of 8 plants and gave 5.5 ounces, well over my goal of 4 oz. This plant gave a little over 20g, on the high end of the range for my plants. It could very easily be a very heavy yielder, if I hadn't cut off so many branches for clones that never were and if I had let it veg longer. I will definitely be making a place for this in my garden again - thanks to the 15 seed packs, I have plenty more to try to find that super-special mother - didn't even try to reveg her after the hermie flowers showed. In all fairness, there were no seeds anywhere in the buds, so they were probably the harmless kind, but why risk it when I have 12 more chances?

(Added: Wed Sep 11 2002)

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