Awesome review newty, your review blows mine away.
I'm so glad you enjoyed it, especially the Tuna Kush. I am indeed pretty proud of how it turned out. I'm with you, there is 0 anxiety whatsoever regardless of how much of it you consume. It's a strong high but not overwhelming, lots of body high that I look for, and such a positive head high. I love the smell and taste, it has those smells and tastes of the purer indicas I've tried. I read before that Tuna Kush was believed to be a Hindu Kush phenotype and it wouldn't surprise me to find out the two are related.
The Green Crack is strong... that long morning buzz you mentioned didn't surprise me at all. I've gotten a good 3 hours off of a j - that's a lot for me. I expected it to be more sativa for me, but I give it a little more of an indica side than I expected - it definitely has the head effects you mentioned but I give it more body effects than the average sativa too. My tolerance is really high, and I can get blasted on this. I really like the spicy / sweet mix of flavour you mentioned too.
I vape mostly, but burn js of all my stuff to try it, and I was really happy with how these burned and glad you noticed that, and also I thank you for noticing the care I took to cure it to the consistency I like. The cure is such an important part of making sure the experience ends up where it should.
My criticisms of it? For the Tuna, there's not much. But I stressed the Chemdawg I had in the tent too much with heat and it hermied, and had a burst pollen sac. I think maybe the stress pushed the Tuna to be even better, like the old grower's myth. But, it did mean immature seeds in some spots. Not sure if you found any, hopefully not, but it's there in some of the buds. I've actually found 8 mature seeds among the bud from those plants, and I'm really tempted to grow them out and see what happens. Chem Tuna sounds like it would be really nice!
As for the Green Crack, I don't know, as strong as the high is, I guess the laid back nature of the Tuna appeals to me more. The GC is still something I'll have fun with, but the Tuna is old reliable, giving me exactly what I'm looking for when I reach for it.
My other criticism is that I used coconut oil to oil and clean my trimmer blades while I trimmed and maybe overdid it, as it left tiny bits of residue that re-hardened during drying into tiny white spots here and there on the buds. Coconut oil avoids rancidification pretty well, and these buds should be good for a few more months stored at room temperature before that becomes a possibility, but it's a live and learn thing - I'll likely just take the pain in the ass of having stickier trimmer blades next time. I'll say my excuse is that I was hurting big time and trimming was a major chore, so I wanted to make it as easy on myself as possible!
I wasn't doing well at the end of flower for this, so the last shot I have of the tent, and this was a week or two before things started coming down. I think a week before the Tuna was chopped and 2 before the GC and Chem were. That's the Tuna Kush in front, which had a little foxtailing from the high heat; the Chemdawg back left, in retrospect not filling in as I'd hoped because it had hermied; and the Green Crack back right, a little behind the Tuna in maturity but way ahead in size.
I really got nothing from that point on, but I snapped a pic of a Green Crack stem while trimming to show one of my friends... used the PS4 controller for scale! The GC was pretty nice to trim in retrospect - or maybe less awful, since I hate trimming.
Thanks again for all the kind words newty! It means more coming from a fellow grower!