re: Brightlight's Strain Fest - Organics & LED
Sorry for an even longer lapse since the last update. A few more pictures & wrap up on this year's outdoor garden.....
HARVEST
Outdoor harvest was completed on 10/10. Fans were mostly removed on live plant, then plant cut the next day. Then into garage to hang old school upside down for a few days before going into 2nd stage boxes for another few days. How long depended on plant moisture, bud density & temperatures. Luckily October was not as hot as usual. A couple of seasons ago I also insulated the metal garage door, which keeps garage not higher than low 70's no matter how hot it gets outside. After the box stage untrimmed buds go into 1/2 gal. canning jars to wait for trimming. This year I added Bovedas to the box stage as well as the jars. The result is a very, very slow drying process despite the warm & dry early Fall weather here.
I was told to dry this way after hang a long time ago. It seemed to work well so kept doing it. DJ Short also recommends a similar 2nd stage dry.
THE LAST PLANTS
CHEESEDOG
I wrote some details on this strain last update. It was fun to grow....light green, not too leafy, fat buds from top to bottom, smelled great. I don't even attempt to label the fragrance as I'm lousy at it. My son said raspberry fragrance, which now makes sense & seems right. Effect is pretty strong & getting stronger. As the last plant harvested, it hasn't gotten enough attention yet in the vaporizer.
2 STRAINS NOT YET MENTIONED
SAGE N SOUR
I've wanted to grow this strain for awhile, & it didn't disappoint. Being a Santa Cruz Mtn. guy for a long time, we'd always heard of Big Sur Holy Weed, but even in the pot rich Santa Cruz Mountains, none ever came my way. Supposedly developed by a monk named Perry at some Big Sur monastery. TH's SAGE is supposed to be Big Sur Holy Weed or some close derivative. I love Sour Diesels & TH has a good one as I found out when I grew it's UltraSour inside earlier this year. Sage N Sour probably gets my Power Award this yr. as the strongest & most potent high. The other award is my personal Grower's Choice Award (best overall plant), and that went to the Lost Coast OG. Just a little game I have with my plants each year. Sage n Sour is ridiculously sticky and still hard to trim more than a month since harvest. Sativa style high all the way. To repeat....really, really strong! Definitely not a one & done strain for me.
GIRL SCOUT HAZE COOKIES
This is a Connoisseur Genetics cross of its SSSDH (Ojd cut) & Girl Scout Cookies. I'd grown SSSDH before & wanted to grow more of it, but when I was buying seeds, I went for the cookies cross since I had never even tried cookies of any kind or cut. The plant was tall, narrow, & dark green much like the SSSDH. A bit too leafy for my liking. Never did get any good bud pics while it was growing. The buds are leafy & really sticky like the SnS. I gummed up 6 pairs of shears today trimming 15 grams. Hard work. But it is a potent up type high, quite social, & long lasting. In hindsight, I think I prefer straight up SSSDH, which is close to the "happiest" weed I've ever grown & vaped. Maybe sometimes crosses of 2 good strains end up quite good, but not as good as each parent? IDK...just a thought.
Next time I'll post a few bud pictures, and also an update on my current indoor grow that's about 3 wks. into bloom & starting to be exciting. Thanks to everyone who's visited & posted!!