Update on the 2 Sativas
Greetings 420 enthusiasts! Now that the Mango Sherbert has gone, I can focus on the 2 remaining plants, both of which I am aiming to harvest in about 2-3 weeks time.
Now the Mango Sherbert is clear from the balcony, there is a lot more space to manoeuvre around the plants, and turn them around for maintenance. Next grow I intend to prune off all weak growth, and also not LST, but I think instead top, whether mainline, quad line or hexline, but LST I found a struggle for these 2, as their mainstems are a bit long to try and continually bend around.
Honduras/Panama x Purple Honduras
This plant more than the others has lost a fair bit of her buds to I guess caterpillar damage followed by bud rot. I have pruned off a bunch unfortunately. But she does have big thick bats that allow the damp humidity that mould spores like once caterpillars have done the initial damage.
But anyway, I am rapt to have this strain to try out and see how she goes. So far it is looking a tricky choice for my environment. However, I feel if she hadn't got insect damage then she wouldn't have any bud rot, because those buds of her's that have been undamaged by pests have not had any problems with rain or rot. It is just dealing with the pests, without them the weather conditions are ok.
It is shame to lose some of her buds, but she will still produce sufficient for me to have a very good evaluation and test of her delights. Already I have scissor chopped and quick dried some and found it to be a very nice high, cerebral and blissful.
I found several seeds on the balcony tiles that must have fell out of the chopped off pieces of rot affected buds. I couldn't be sure which plants they were from so I threw them on the lawn. There should be plenty of seeds for me to harvest where I can accurately place their parentage.
Malawi/Ethiopian x Mulanje
I feel she might be the 'bolter'. I haven't yet tried any early tester of her buds yet. But the reputation of Malawi is of high potency, and she is looking very nice and frosty.
The other observation is, that she doesn't appear to have any pest damage on her. I don't know if that means she is bloody fantastic for my environment, or just that the other 2 plants were favoured as being more tasty by the pests.
But if she proves to provide a wonderful high, then I feel that she may provide some great natural genetics for my location. If that is the case I will look to bred with her on a future grow.
Anyway, thanks for dropping by. Keep safe and well, and wishing you green dank sticky gardens!
