Happy Sunday
Final Smoke Report
Gorilla Zkittlez Autoflower
Curing Since May 3
Hi guys. I don't know if this is a thing people do in their journals, but I'm gonna do a post like this one for each of my strains as they become ready. After they've cured at least three weeks and closer to a month.
The only one of my harvests that has hit that point so far is the Gorilla Zkittlez, my first auto ever harvested. As noted above she's been in the jar since May 3. I use Infinity Jars, which are smell/air/light/UV light/Infared light proof and for my money the best curing jars. I believe after 27 days of cure this girl is giving me as much as she's going to give me. The smell and taste and smoothness hasn't changed in a week or so. So she's close enough and I'm gonna call her done.
For the smoke reports I will post after beginning my day as the test bud as my first bong hit of the day after getting up in the morning. Purest test I know of. I do my morning routine, get a nice cup of coffee, get comfortable, find a great bud in the headstash jar, and trim myself off a sweet, big bong hit through freshly cleaned bong and cold water. There's the testing routine. Lol.
The Gorilla Zkittlez
Smell: Candy, fruity, citrusy, specific lemon and grapefruit notes. The smell would be maybe the finest quality of this bud. It's glorious.
Taste: Sweet, fruity, lemony, grapefruity, with sweet and undefined fruity as the lead notes, and then the lemon taste a lot, then on the end of the exhale, especially through my nose, I get the more subtle stuff. So far the only "subtle" flavor I've been able to put a name on is grapefruit.
Smoke: Medium density, medium creamy, smooth off white smoke. Does not make you cough no matter how big a hit you take. A small nod to my dry/cure but a big nod to the weed itself.
THC content: I'm guessing here based on 40 years of smoking weed and having many dispensary comparisons where I know the THC level. Sure I know it has a lot to do with terps too, blah blah blah I'm so sick of hearing that stupid speech at the dispensaries. But just straight THC level, in my opinion, is around 20%. Of course I wanted higher than that but that's about what my buzz tells me. Not less than 20, possibly a point or two higher. Relatively low for what I smoke, what I like, and what I grow in photos. But more than adequate to get the job done.
Density of buds: I would describe them as medium density. Definitely not the rocks I would like, as the Cinderella Jack buds are. But not bad. They squeeze like Magic Erasers if you have ever held one of those. Could be much worse.
Trichomes: Pretty high. Not amazingly high. Well stocked all the way through the bud. Visible with the naked eye on the finished buds.
Kief: I kief the buds individually and jar the kief in little labeled kief jars so I know what I'm smoking. The kief from the Gorilla Zkittlez is WAY sweet. Like powdered sweet lemony candy. Very light in color. I didn't get very much of it as I had left very little leaf on there by harvest, but what there is of it is very very good.
Cure difference: From May 3 to May 30, 27 days of curing, this weed got WAY better. They always do, obviously, or we wouldn't do it. But some more than others. The Gorilla went from a little harsh and lacking taste some to tasting fabulous and smelling like a dream. Didn't get any stronger, but got WAY more palatable. Good curing weed and picked up and blossomed for me in the jar very nicely. Impressive. It's a pleasure to smoke.
Buzz: For some the bottom line. What can I say? It's a 20% buzz. Lasts about 45 minutes to an hour. Not heavy, very up. Not surprising as I harvested her too soon when all the trichomes were white and maybe one or two amber trichs on the whole plant. Lol. It's a nice, lightish, giggly, semi-creative, medium up type buzz. Happy. Very pleasurable buzz but not strong enough for me to use before a gig or something when I really want up and I really want my creativity maxed. It is definitely not disappointing in the least however. Good buzz. Not great/amazing buzz. I will say I shared it with a few smoker/non-grower friends and they thought it was great. My standards are different, as I'm sure most of ours are.
Pain Use?: I include this cuz due to my accident I have daily back pain. As I refuse to take opiates, I smoke tons of weed. Lol. I did anyway. But I can at least gauge how a given weed affects a constant, low level type back pain. In this case it did okay. About like most of them do. I don't smoke a lot of CBD so the weed doesn't really tend to do tons for the back, although sometimes I am surprised and get instant relief. This was very average in that regard, for what it's worth to anyone.
I tried to be thorough here. Think I covered what anyone would want to know about this weed, at least as I grew it. I have no idea how representative my effort is compared to what the weed is "supposed" to be, but for my first ever harvested autoflower, the bottom line on the Gorilla Zkittlez is that I am quite happy with her.
Here's a few pics of the finished buds in various lighting as they look in the curing headstash jar today.
