oh good morning one and all, high winds outside, strong coffee and trimming inside. perfect. Humidity outside has been super low aiding in the drying process as everything save for one last kwazulu is in jars and indeed it has been a light haul of quality bud. Quite happy to be frank about it.
1.8 ounces of kwazulu. Rolled a joint w one bud yesterday, took 3 sessions to finish it, pure mango carrot flavored sativa intensity, with a two month cure it will be AAA smoke.
Lemon Grape, burnt rubber funk, an hour head rush that body stones you into the couch soon thereafter.
pollinated and non pollinated group shot. its a very modest haul of just over 4.3 ounces of herb but each strain smokes like hash, super smooth. The Gorrila Breath is tops for this, tastes like blonde morrocan hash with that thick oily smoke from the bowl. the densest of the buds I imagine this would be ridiculous in a resin press and seeing as i have 4 in the flower room in more soil w a longer veg time that this last one i aim to find out.
There are some great takeaways fro. this grow for me, which plants give the most for volume technique (Gorrila Breath yes, lemon grape no) which is a space hog (Gorrila Breath all day long) how much you can get w a very minimal feeding schedule lol not much. (Also I've noticed the more root restricted plants flowered the fastest, matured the fastest. Anomaly? Thoughts?) Using a budgetgrowlights.com product vastly improved plant quality. huge difference in trich productions and bud quality. I had roughly 4 weeks of intense cold outside keeping the tent often in low 60°f temps so i battled that a bit and no doubt kept production down too.
So ive made sure that
. 1)all the plants in flower now have larger containers
2) All on a Big Buds feeding program w stronger cal mag, micronutrients influence
3) trimming the lower third much harder, sooner.
4) this was a straight FFOF soil, now all plants are in a 60/40 FFOF/ Mothers Coco Perlite mix to aid in the root development. I also innoculated the soil much more heavily w mycos this time.
Any observation to add?
lemon grape trim for the cannabutter efforts.
Gorrila Breath... lol i didn't label my clones lol am pretty certain based on leaf and the fact that GB is the only plant I've grown this year w red sugar leaf stems... ive got 5 Gorrila Breaths in flower ive just come to realize and a sixth about to transplant into a ten gallon in veg. LMFAO... oh shit.. well good, in a 3g w minimal veg my GB produced almost 1.6 ounces dried bud, now w 5 of them in 5 to 7 gallons with longer veg behind them they "should" hit a 2 ounce mark w the feeding schedule and added root space, rolling the dice for 5 to 10 ounces. we will see!
G Breath about to go into the ten gallon. All plants harvested w crystaline structured rocks in soil exhibited strong root development it was quite noticeable. So I'm going to keep on w it. 5 hula dancer clones begin to push roots.
The time of the Dankness approaches w plants at 3.5 to 2.5 weeks of flower.
So very blessed to have this grow and this forum.
I am a plant lover and acquisition and protection of unique seed stock is something that I advocate for. i urge you to aquire, and without dilution breed these landrace stocks - wild and cultivated - to preserve them and their integrity. Every day there are monsanto reps, carghill reps major Agricultural bemoths, plus Major Pharma reps and yes even bill gates has people out in THE MOST REMOTE places in the globe, looking to corner the genetics. FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS. never mind the money influence on rural original seed stock growers to dilute old stock w modern hybrids (a problem in it's own) the real threat are the bastards in suits. Shit herb in overpriced plastic containers at a dispensary is largely the future.
Like WallStreetBets fucking up Hedge funds to the tune of billions of dollars (fucking delicious) I URGE YOU to fuck up big Agra, big Pharma and Big Money buying and breeding rare seed stocks and freely distributing seeds to those who will do the same. THIS is how we win the fight against thier bullshit monopolies.
not just talking, 240 Kwazulu seeds are but one effort. Ive Malawi Gold coming - from Afropip's original collection no less (stoked. so. fucking. stoked) Tashkurgan ( Afghanistan landrace hashplant) and Afghan 90 (original 1990 Dutch seed stock collected in Afghanistan and stored till now) all on the way, plus more purchases coming. including wild stock seeds, the source of all the plants we've enjoyed and perfected well over 10,000 to possibly 26,000 years of cultivation and sharing. May we continue our ancestors wise work and giving ways. It's up to us.
this journal and its first grow, is now completed. The second grow is well established and may get its own journal in time but this one is done and has served it's purpose well.
Thank you one and all.
Namasté,
yogi.