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One of the last PROJECT 27 UPDATES!
Chop, chop, chop...I deliberately flipped this grow early to keep it little lower and smaller...lower it was, smaller it was not!
It seems that the plants were smaller but the density is amazing. As I have deconstructed this canopy each section has been a bit better than my expectations. The overall size, density, and quality of the nugs has been very pleasing. I'm used to growing mainly airy sativas so these more-commercial and especially more-indica plants are nicely nuggy. Each batch I trim yields a super nice pile of finished buds. At this point I'm very, very happy with project 27!
First up are the two autos...Wild Thailand Ryder was the breed. They were late plug-ins to fill an empty bucket as some will recall. Neither of them were ever much more than weeds I'm afraid...though in the end, they produced some quality, sticky bud, just not very much.
Once trimmed up, the two main colas were very solid and stinky. Not sure they were worth the effort but better than nothing in that pot I guess. I have thought about doing an all-auto run...these two were in there partly to give an idea of the number of plants necessary...from these results it would have to be a lot. Maybe three or even four per bucket, not really sure if I want to bet an entire run on these little freaks. Still not impressed with autos, sorry.
So nice finished results from the Big Nugs Fast plants...the five of them yielded a ton of sticky nugs, it will be jars worth of finished frosty colas.
For the record, Big Nugs Fast could be called Average Nugs In About The Same Time because the variety was no faster nor any bigger really. The buds aren't what I would call "nugs" but they are stocky enough, certainly good volume and nice development down the branches. Overall, the amount of prime buds was enough to rate the variety a good value to grow. I haven't smoked any yet so we'll see if it's awesome, shitty, or somewhere in between...that's really all that matters, isn't it?
So then I was down to the last Hyena Berry, and Big Blue.
The Hyena Berry on this side was a really good plant. It also had sensitive fan leaves especially up high, which yellowed and fried much earlier than other varieties, though the buds themselves are just fine, healthy and juicy. Lots of branches so heavy they can't stand up and just laid over in a pile from their own weight for the last few weeks...nice.
The Hyena Berry was a cross between Plush Berry and Cheese Berry. Both varieties were very sweet, tasty, and stony. The resulting cross looks like some tasty shit indeed. The buds are very solid and frosty, once I got trimming they went from ugly ducklings to beauties.
The last Hyena Berry made it all worthwhile! It produced this delicious pile of finished chunkers.
So now, only the Polyploid and the Blue Hyena stood on the beach at Iwo Jima. The last. The best?
I though it was cool that Blue photo bombed Polly in her last official photo. So much we can learn from plants.
I chopped the strange poly bud, noting the enlarged stem was four or five times as thick as normal, and also hollow. The nugs further down on the branch were normal. Just a strange thing, a polyploid. If I had a bigger, non-secret operation I would have tried to clone that branch and see if we could make it into a whole plant. Poly-plant...hmmmm. We'll have to wait for another opportunity for that. But I will smoke this bud eventually and who knows, maybe it will give me some sort of super power. I'll take invisibility.
So now, we were down to the final, and most impressive by far, member of the PROJECT 27 garden...Blue Hyena.
This is one of the top ten plants I have ever grown, and I've grown a few.
She came from a bud of the original Blue Hyena from the final tiny stash, which I cracked to smoke and help contemplate what to put in an empty bucket, a week late...the huge seed simply flew out and bounced across my kitchen floor as I recall, low off the fridge and back to my feet. I felt it was a cosmic sign at the time, though I was very high so most things seemed cosmic, but nevertheless here was this sign and so I stuck the seed in and even though it was a full week behind all the others, in the end it was by far the biggest and best!
Her massive colas are a wonder to behold, every inch sparkling with resin...
Over a dozen colas which when trimmed up weighed a staggering 2 pounds wet. I'm so blown away by this accidental creation...my original quest was to grow the rarer Sativas and less than 3 years later through the machinations of nature and fate here we are with literally a beautiful monster that is everything I have ever dreamed. Just wow. I know anyone who has ever grown weed understands my emotions at being randomly selected by the cosmos to be able to share such a gorgeous example of everything Cannabis can be.
So in the end it was several final painstaking hours to carefully trim these colas, and when I finally hung them I felt I may have reached the pinnacle of anything I will ever do growing cannabis. The only way it could get better would be to grow them outdoors and sadly, that isn't on the near horizon though I am pretty sure they could reach 10-12 feet or more. I'm totally happy with my one sweet Blue Hyena. She will fill many jars with her awesomely fragrant branch-size buds, and fill my head a thousand times with soaring blue dreams of canna glory.
What just one trimmed cola looks like. I think I hurt my shoulder holding it up.
Now, as I turn from the straining rack of drying colas to look at the grow room, I face the usual depressing war zone. The usually tidy-to-pristine grow environment looks like that farm the day after Woodstock. I couldn't even look at it, electing to take it the next day which is today. So this morning when my wife goes out for a hair appointment I will go up there and get cleaning like the Cat in the Hat.
This time it will be a closing-down instead of a transition...I will be shutting the lab down for the summer for the first time in 3 years...just can't deal with the heat up there, even with the addition of A/C last summer it wasn't feasible and that's okay...I have so much pot right now I could conceivably never stop smoking for the rest of my life and still leave some to the kids so I plan to enjoy the less-stressful life for awhile. It will be nice to be able to walk around without the constant concern about security and all the work and time that goes into a grow. I don't know what I will do with the extra time...good thing porn is free.
So PROJECT 27 is down and drying. I will be going out of town for the long weekend coming up so everything will dry until just before I leave when I will pull it down for intermediate curing. I get it bone dry, then put heaps into large sealed storage containers where it re-hydrates to some degree, then I final trim and jar it, placing 62% RH Boveda packs in for longer curing. My grow room also dries and cures very well, ironically once it gets out and down into the house the humidity is a lot higher and it gets softer again and somewhat harder to burn so I actually have to jar it to keep it dry enough, go figure. I don't know how commercial growers get their nugs so hard they are impervious to atmospheric humidity fluctuations...there are so very many things I don't know but I know this...PROJECT 27 was a success.
I will next post a comprehensive weight and smoke report on all the five varieties. I plan to continue this journal even though I will have a brief break from active growing...I plan to drop the beans for PROJECT 28 in mid-to-late August with the goal of a Christmas harvest. I haven't yet decided what it will be, maybe I will try the seed grow again while I still have some original Blue Hyena beans. I truly feel I should share it with the world, just got to figure out how, you know? No matter what it will be more fun and excitement for sure. And until then I'll strive to post interesting and relevant stuff that will make it fun to stay tuned. All of you who read my ramblings I want you to know it means a lot to me, thanks for being there my friends.
My inner feelings are perhaps best expressed by this...
It's good to be the weed man.
Peace, Hyena
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those are some super colas !!! Can't wait for some smoke reports. I'm grateful the universe dropped that bean at your feet, what a beauty plant. Enjoy your summer without the stress of the lab.
