Timewarp Harvest Report #1: CBD#1 
Zooming us back to early December, my harvest festival began with a partial chop of the CBD#1 at 63 days since floweing began. This is a gorgeous variety with very sturdy growth structure and the cured buds have an earthy, orange peel and slightly chocolatey aroma.
This was a first-time grow of this new variety and I left it untopped which is something I like to do to get a good look at how a plant grows and flowers - and because its pretty.
Due mostly to my incapacity throughout the end of last year, I also left this one “unbottomed”
which, as you will see, was an
excellent thing to do in order to learn to
never do it again 
. Always trim and tidy up the lowers, Amy - especially on this one!
I harvested at 9weeks from pistils in the tops and believe that this was already too late.
Harvest morning kicked off in the usual fashion...
Here’s the splendour of it’s overall shape basking in the sun. Such a great look, in spite of the impending disaster lurking beneath those skirts
A fantastic looking plant that i will be very happy to grow again.
As noted I hadn’t pruned and cleaned up under the skirts at all and so I decided on a partial harvest. I chopped the top cola and first few satellite branches and this is what was left.
I made the perhaps ill-considered decision to let it stay in the sun to ripen for a few days And i wasn’t able to move it inside I overnight. 2 days later ...
That came on quick. I went to work salvaging what i could of that and tossed the rest. The branches fro down under we’re stacked like this
And that bud production happened in almost complete shade. It gives a good indication that this could be a prolific producer.
From the lowers, I salvaged enough rot-free bud to make about 300ml of 12mg/ml topical oil.
Most of the buds from the initial harvest survived ok and I have about 1.5oz of them. And I’m stoked about that because its a really fantastic smoke!
I’ve not really enjoyed the smoking/toking of CBD buds before so this has been a lovely discovery and addition to my jars. The anxiolytic effect was much more obvious to me just from smoking (than with other smoked CBD) and it has a lovely non-high uplifting quality - chilled and happy. It tastes very nice, a bit like the orange chocolate actually, and is just a super, super relaxing
carry-on-about-your-day-with-very-little-worry kind of toke. Extremely friendly. And also a good blend with other THC-potent varieties for a full spectrum effect without getting ripped off your tits - if that’s what is needed, and sometimes it is. Pain relief is also greatly enhanced toking it 1:1 with some THC bud.
I was also assessing this new soil during this grow and my jury is still out. I had a few challenges with gnats and I struggled a bit to get to know this soil and how it handles moisture (and the gnats don’t help with that!). But the gnats weren’t too bad. I am used to a much less dense, and mostly peat, base and while this mix was with a similar base and had tons of perlite, it was just a lot ‘heavier‘ than i’m used to in pots. It also seems very rich in not Irgun and lacking in other things. All the plants I’ve grown in it have sown tip burn and some mineral lack.
It suffered quite a bit from light stress up top too - damn its bright!
For a learning project - about the variety, and about the soil and more about my light - I will say it is, unequivocally, a resounding success. And in the search for more stable and high quality CBD vareties I also feel I have success. Ace do great work ad this CBD is no exception. Just lovely
I am stoked to finally have this one documented in the journal and am looking forward to filling that in for the rest of the 2020 grow over the next couple of days. Candida CD-1 is just full of surprises...
I dont have many critter pics from that time (predictably the camera wasn’t out much) but there is this one - zoomed in on from afar - a male fairy wren leading either 2 females or 2 young ones through the branches with many flicks-o’-the-feather!
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Thanks for hanging in with me while I’ve let the journal be so quiet. Till soon...
