So why other than the challenge are you trying so hard with the PC? Is the smoke that good or is it just a personal war with this gal?
I have to sit and scratch my head over whether I’m ‘trying hard’ with it. I guess I am. I think I’m just so stubborn that it hasn’t really occurred to me I could just walk away. Pretty sure this is the sort of refined thinking that’s behind most wars. What- walk away? But then I would lose the fight...
Yeah apparently it’s ‘by far the best smoke I grow’. I got another long sermon about it a couple weeks ago. And yet another just a few days ago. There have been many over the years. The certified nutcase/medical patient I trade with the most, who gobbles up as much of it as he can, keeps insisting that I ‘quit growing all those other silly strains and only grow Pineapple Chunk’. It makes me laugh. He has no concept what a pain in the ass it is.
It’s a pain in the ass because- it grows like it’s been topped about 100 times even if I never top it at all, with limp branches (if you can even call them branches) sprouting out at every possible spot, and branches shooting out of those branches. Sort of like some kind of mistletoe or invasive glue-vine. Floppy as hell, falling all over the place. And sticky as hell too, so it’s totally loathsome to touch- slathering any part of you with stinky goo. I have to constantly thin it and try to hold it up off the ground. Usually a scrog screen is the only way to go. Every time I turn around it’s grown a few more pounds of tangled leafy goo all over it and I have to chop this stinking crap out and remove it again. Usually I get tired by mid flowering and abandon trying to fix the mess. The smell clings horribly and it’s the one strain I have to wear special clothes for- straight into the laundry basket with them afterwards.
Add to that it’s by far the most mould prone of any strain I’ve grown. Hard to get it to even reach harvest without getting at least some mould on it, and many many PC plants have never made it that far. Most of my bubble hash is PC based. It always seems to be looking like shit, suffering from mysterious ailments. It’s really amazing that this crap can produce decent bud. The bud itself is mostly just a bunch of leafy goo. No real definition between sugar leaf and bud. It’s got the structure of iceberg lettuce, a bunch of leaves layered together. I just hack off the entire outside of the buds and save whatever seems densest enough to get away with. .
I’ve been re-cloning it for about four years now. So I can only hope that fresh seeds will grow a less troublesome and more vigorous version.