Dark Devil Auto: A Community Grow Record

What are some of the main/preferred DDA traits? Both Sweet Seeds and Seedsman product pages just talk about the colour and smell/taste, not the effects.

I'd guess that to be a BIG part of the draw (along with the auto-flowering :rolleyes: ) . Around here, people seem to go nuts for purple bud. Even back in the late '80s when any purple bud that appeared locally was (a) indica and (b) rough . Something different, I suppose.

But, from reading some of the mentions of the effect (earlier in this thread and elsewhere), I assume that it's pretty nice, too.
 
DDA is now 14 days old!! Picture coming soon (if I can figure out how to post it! Haha Question....when is best time to top it? 4th node? Or when the 5th node is starting (& clip the small 5th one starting?) thanks in advance for advice friends!!! I'm excited!!!!
 
I'm curious, has anyone had their DDA bud tested for cannabinoid content?

Extra points (lol) for a terpene report.
 
I'm curious, has anyone had their DDA bud tested for cannabinoid content?

Extra points (lol) for a terpene report.

I don't recall a single test result TS. One of these days I'll make that happen. First I need to actually grow some again.

Another month or so and I'll be ready to get started.
 
DDA is now 14 days old!! Picture coming soon (if I can figure out how to post it! Haha Question....when is best time to top it? 4th node? Or when the 5th node is starting (& clip the small 5th one starting?) thanks in advance for advice friends!!! I'm excited!!!!

I always top the fifth node. It works consistently in my garden. I'm excited for you. :hugs:
 
I'd guess that to be a BIG part of the draw (along with the auto-flowering :rolleyes: ) . Around here, people seem to go nuts for purple bud. Even back in the late '80s when any purple bud that appeared locally was (a) indica and (b) rough . Something different, I suppose.

But, from reading some of the mentions of the effect (earlier in this thread and elsewhere), I assume that it's pretty nice, too.

The anticipated euphoric experience is one of delightful friendliness with the cosmos with lots of motivation and energy to do something about the inspiration that comes through. In other words TS, it's a fun ride. :battingeyelashes:

Mr. McCain once described it best as the sativa in his collection that doesn't slice the throat of his motivation.
 
I don't recall a single test result TS. One of these days I'll make that happen. First I need to actually grow some again.

Another month or so and I'll be ready to get started.

I'm hoping mine germinates in the next 36 hours or so, and that I don't mess it up. I chose to not use the oven as an incubator this time, which might help (and which will almost certainly make cleaning the oven easier ;) ), so I won't be accidentally setting the oven to preheat with seeds inside it. I have not seen any activity yet, but I'm a couple days behind schedule. And perhaps mid-50s is a bit (lol) low for incubation. I should probably go back to the damp paper towel on a plate, in a Ziploc baggie thing, this time of year - because it's a lot easier for me to "cat-proof" such a setup than it is to do the same for a cup of water.

I may end up placing one into the oven after all. The ambient (indoor) temperature is a little low, but I suspect that my oven's pilot light keeps that environment a little warmer than would be optimum. I have experienced... I've placed several seeds at a time in there before, and seen one or two germinate rapidly but the rest never do so. And then, of what did germinate, I ended up with less than 80% females.

'twill have to wait until tomorrow though. The oven is at 375°F right now, lol, and it stays way too warm for seeds for a while after I shut it off. And I've learned, to my chagrin, not to leave the door open afterwards for the "free" heat because my cat likes to sit on its door when I do.

Hmm... I'm guessing that the Zamaldelica seed I keep looking at and telling myself, "Not yet, not yet," would do just fine, germinating in the oven. I wonder if I have any other near-landrace African sativas? Z. is, sadly, the only one that springs to mind.

Trouble with hybrids is there's too much work involved in trying to figure out the best environmental conditions to grow them in.

Rambling. I try to hold back, lol, but then the spirit takes hold....
 
I don't recall a single test result TS.

I just double checked, and the breeder (Sweet Seeds) only lists THC and CBD content in the strain's description:
Sweet Seeds said:
Variety SWS38
Indica: 40,31% / Sativa: 55% / Ruderalis: 4,69%
THC: 15-20% · CBD: 0,9%
Indoor Yield: 400-600 g/m2
Outdoor Yield: 50-200 g/plant
Indoor/Outdoor Harvest: 8 ½ desde la germinación
Height: 80-130 cm
Purple Flower: approx. 90% of the specimens

EDIT: I remember wishing that breeders would state THC and CBD content (a wish I still have, where many breeders and strains are concerned :rolleyes: ) . Now I want the full boat.
 
I always top the fifth node. It works consistently in my garden. I'm excited for you. :hugs:
Wrote that down.....should be happening within the week! :volcano-smiley:
 
Beautiful flowers my friend!! Well done. I see those autumn like colors!!! Will you let us know effects from her soon. :goodjob::volcano-smiley:

Thanks very much! Yes i will pop back in with some finishing pics and a report for sure.

I wish i could say both my girls looked so good, but my other has been a pain and looks like shes been through the wars!

 
Thanks very much! Yes i will pop back in with some finishing pics and a report for sure.

I wish i could say both my girls looked so good, but my other has been a pain and looks like shes been through the wars!


She'll still be potent. :battingeyelashes: A beautiful couple specimens depecid. :high-five: The leaves are looking just right for their age. I'm hoping they go all spectacular on you in the coming days. It's a wonderful thing to experience.
 
Did I see this one's odor described as "floral" or the like?

If someone lives with CLOSE neighbors, is there any possibility (any at all) that a neighbor would smell DDA growing and think "cannabis?" I was asked if I had an auto-flower seed that would be 100% guaranteed to NOT be recognized as cannabis by odor. The person stated it would be camouflaged by being in a flower garden, but that neighbors routinely passed within 15' of where it would be planted. The only thing I could think of (in my inventory) was the DDA.
 
Smells like "pot," huh? Okay, thanks, I'll tell him that I don't have anything that fits his requirements.
 
Did I see this one's odor described as "floral" or the like?

If someone lives with CLOSE neighbors, is there any possibility (any at all) that a neighbor would smell DDA growing and think "cannabis?" I was asked if I had an auto-flower seed that would be 100% guaranteed to NOT be recognized as cannabis by odor. The person stated it would be camouflaged by being in a flower garden, but that neighbors routinely passed within 15' of where it would be planted. The only thing I could think of (in my inventory) was the DDA.

I might be mistaken but isn't Northern Lights supposed to be good because it doesn't have a strong weed smell? Maybe it's another strain, I can't remember, but there was supposed to be one that's good because it doesn't smell too much.
 
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I might be mistaken but isn't Northern Lights supposed to be good because it doesn't have a strong weed smell? Maybe it's another strain, I can't remember, but there was supposed to be one that's good because it doesn't smell too much.

I don't know about the auto-flowering version, because I've only ever had one of those seeds - and I forgot I'd placed it to soak until it was well beyond too late - but that was my experience with the photoperiodic version. Didn't really smell like much of anything. But my buddy is limited to what he can beg off of friends. Translation: what I have in my "catalog," because he doesn't know anyone else that still grows. And about all I have (in autos) are the DDA, SSDC (I think), a few of Crop King Seeds' White Widow Auto, one of CKS' Trainwreck Autos, and a couple of seeds from a "mixed Auto-Flowers" pack. He's nearly as poor as I am, more or less, so I cannot envision him ordering seeds.

He's willing to try a couple of photoperiodic plants, but will have to hide those in the woods. He has physical... limitations, though, which make this a lot more problematic than simply chucking an auto-flowering plant in his micro-sized garden. And growing decent strains outdoors around here, that's a very uncertain thing due to all the usual reasons (choppers, uncertain weather late in the growing season, choppers, growing season is really too short for all but indicas, choppers, hunters, choppers, "cover" foliage will already have faded before the cannabis is ready to harvest, choppers... Oh, yeah - and choppers. But at least odor will be less of an issue, so now I am going through my list to see what has the shortest (claimed) outdoor flowering time.

I asked, "Realistically, when would you want to be able to harvest?" His answer was, "Oh, not too soon, I guess. As long as I can have them out of the ground before September 1st, I shouldn't have too much to worry about." When I managed to stop laughing, I told him I'd do the best I could, but that he'd have to plan for a longer growing period than that. He used to own over a dozen acres of very rural land, abutting a national forest. Now he lives in town and could practically reach out his bathroom window and grab some of the neighbor's toilet paper if he ever ran out whilst sitting on his commode. He also used to be able to use both his hands. I fear he's in for some disappointment, one way or another. But one can always hope, I suppose. . . .
 
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