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~Pineapple Chunk~
The troubled relationship continues.
It's been ages since I had one of these PCs show a decent amount of colour. This one was just starting. I really would have loved to have seen this one go a couple more weeks, but it was starting to look like I would have been fighting the mysterious white death the whole time and I don't have time for that right now. The colours you see now would have gotten much more intense. I love the blue colour that comes out in these buds sometimes.
The buds on this strain grow like a bunch of crinkly sugar leaves that start out as a fluffy mass and slowly glom together and build density as the weeks go by. I'm not sure how to describe it. The buds can stay the same size for the last six weeks, without changing a huge amount in outward appearance to a casual glance. But in that time they can undergo a really big change in internal composition.
Starting with something that's about the consistency of a chunk of iceberg lettuce (only more sticky)- like crisp sugar leaves very loosely bundled together in the shape of a bud, with lots of air between them. Then ending with buds that have the texture of thick and heavy half melted cotton candy - like your scissors can't properly cut the stuff they just sink into the ooze and get stuck to it.
It's at that stage that there's the best colour.
I was still a couple weeks away from that cotton candy stage. It's a really hard stage to get to, because the P Chunk just loves to Freak Out along the way and usually causes so much trouble she gets chopped early. It's extremely rare that I grow one to the finish line in any state of health and perfection and I estimate at least 1/3 of all the PCs I've ever grown have been chopped early and tossed into the bubble hash scrap heap. The good thing is it's pretty good for making bubble hash.
Anyway- as nice as that cotton candy stuff is to smoke and look at- it's absolute hell to trim and totally disgusting to work with, in a masochistic fun sort of way.
This plant was still pretty crisp and the buds were relatively easy to to trim- other than the fact that it was an absolute tangled mess, which meant it actually took forever to trim.
This first pic shows the white death I'm talking about. On that bud in the centre. It will be totally dried up and crispy. Trichomes intact and sparkling. There was only this one spot on it at time of harvest but I had chopped quite a few other bits of it -damage control mode during the last couple weeks.
This is how the plant looked after I harvested all the main buds. I had done at least two cleanup sessions on this plant during flowering and removed large amounts of undergrowth as well as neatly arranged the branches on the scrog screen. Really it seems to need at least three beautifying sessions where I strip everything but the uppermost foliage and leave only a few branches. The stuff is just such a mess - and it's disgusting to work with which is why I need a moon suit.
The troubled relationship continues.
It's been ages since I had one of these PCs show a decent amount of colour. This one was just starting. I really would have loved to have seen this one go a couple more weeks, but it was starting to look like I would have been fighting the mysterious white death the whole time and I don't have time for that right now. The colours you see now would have gotten much more intense. I love the blue colour that comes out in these buds sometimes.
The buds on this strain grow like a bunch of crinkly sugar leaves that start out as a fluffy mass and slowly glom together and build density as the weeks go by. I'm not sure how to describe it. The buds can stay the same size for the last six weeks, without changing a huge amount in outward appearance to a casual glance. But in that time they can undergo a really big change in internal composition.
Starting with something that's about the consistency of a chunk of iceberg lettuce (only more sticky)- like crisp sugar leaves very loosely bundled together in the shape of a bud, with lots of air between them. Then ending with buds that have the texture of thick and heavy half melted cotton candy - like your scissors can't properly cut the stuff they just sink into the ooze and get stuck to it.
It's at that stage that there's the best colour.
I was still a couple weeks away from that cotton candy stage. It's a really hard stage to get to, because the P Chunk just loves to Freak Out along the way and usually causes so much trouble she gets chopped early. It's extremely rare that I grow one to the finish line in any state of health and perfection and I estimate at least 1/3 of all the PCs I've ever grown have been chopped early and tossed into the bubble hash scrap heap. The good thing is it's pretty good for making bubble hash.
Anyway- as nice as that cotton candy stuff is to smoke and look at- it's absolute hell to trim and totally disgusting to work with, in a masochistic fun sort of way.
This plant was still pretty crisp and the buds were relatively easy to to trim- other than the fact that it was an absolute tangled mess, which meant it actually took forever to trim.
This is how the plant looked after I harvested all the main buds. I had done at least two cleanup sessions on this plant during flowering and removed large amounts of undergrowth as well as neatly arranged the branches on the scrog screen. Really it seems to need at least three beautifying sessions where I strip everything but the uppermost foliage and leave only a few branches. The stuff is just such a mess - and it's disgusting to work with which is why I need a moon suit.
I do need something to fill that niche because the esteemed patients/trading partners don't like sativa as much.
* yeh not so sure about that.
I clearly remember struggling in quicksand but I had a helper near to me. Very calm and clear he was, where I was thrashing about making waves.. but the calm one was sinking just as quick