My Bonsai tribute grow update.
Good news: 10 days ago, everything was great: Both Tree of Life (TOL) were frosting & fattening up impressively & quickly. The Lemon Diesel & Big Bang were finally stacking well.
Bad news: 9 days ago it started raining & we’ve only had two sorta dry days since. I started cutting rot outta the biggest TOL’s fattest colas. Sadly typical (not because of any Murphy’s Law thing, but because thick buds are most hospitable to rot).
After a coupla days, it was obvious the best path was to take down most of the biggest frostiest TOL buds rather than deal with it incrementally with progressive losses.
So hacked ‘em the fatties about 2 weeks ahead of my planned harvest, which is about a week before 420 mag cult-of-amber-trichomes dates.
Lost about 16g wet weight to rot, but the big hit on yield was the timing. Got no doubts that those colas woulda doubled in weight. Glad I don’t care much about yield anymore.
Forced harvest, trimming & drying was damned inconvenient, though. At least a coupla hours daily for a week.
But I’m always just along for the ride in my garden. Nature & the plants are in charge.
Good news: First, the other 3 plants are rot free, so far (dunno how!). The partially harvested TOL is too, now. Gotta continue to monitor & the rain ain’t yet over, but we’ll see.
Second, the early TOL harvest (about 42g dry) is surprisingly excellent. Fantastic flavor: minty, hints of pine & menthol, citrus undertones. And strong. Smoked a bit y-day. Thought it was gonna be pretty mild, but it certainly wasn’t. Four tokes got me absolutely ripped for about 3.5 hours! I'll be dialing the dosage on that one down!
Total tripweed, too. Reminded me a little of the ol’ sativa landraces I’d get in the 80s!
