Grow Report:
After 11 days since chop I can now say that I’m stoked about the results. Although I had my doubts in weeks 4-> 6, my hempy-brother Wattsaver, knowing my rep for putting up the “big dongs”, caught me bitching about the cola fill-in during weeks 5-6. He pretty much told me “if you like the smoke, you’ll be growing it again”. He was so fucking right-on…this strain is a killer smoke for me and I’ll expound more about that after the grow report. To start, the mother seed blasted out of paper towels within 2 days without pre-soak. From weeks 1-2 in a cup and weeks 3-4 in a small 5qt bucket, the mother matched my most aggressive strains to date with vigor/robustness in larger 2gal buckets. Cloning saw 100% success on 12 clones from this 30day mother. The 2 chosen clones that went into the final 2gal buckets developed fan leaves in veg the size of dinner plates and fatter than most Indica’s. You will automatically “let your guard down” about plant height, only to be surprised after flip, just how stretchy it is. I FIM’ed once in veg and wound up with a couple of 3’s but with this variety, lower branches during stretch grow just as tall as the upper branches with healthy stem diameters. Thinning was required during early weeks of flower and based on height constraints, daily super-cropping during weeks 1-3 helped slow the rampant “leggy” growth. After that it was a waiting game week 4-6 as till cola fill-in which remained somewhat “segmented” till the end. My PK13/14 additions were much delayed from other strains and came in week 6 instead of late wk4-early wk5. Fattening happened more in the final week of flush. Once chopped, this strain dried extremely fast with colas hung and intact. Once buds were singulated they went straight into jars. As far as nutrients, these girls took the entire Canna lineup at “normal” strengths. I wound up with some minor leaf-tip burns but I do that all the time. Temperatures were not a problem to SW OG with upper tent temps running in the upper 80’s and canopy temps in the 82°-85°. The new pair of Area-51 SGS-160’s performed just like my Digilux HPS bulb….with better spread but much less heat and still a great 9+oz yield. My exhaust fan worked less too, sucking less air-conditioning out of the room as a result. The nugs turned out rock hard and dense…1oz only takes up 2/3 to ¾ of a Mason jar. Lots of glitter on the bud for bag appeal. Oh yeah, odor…could have gone without a filter in veg and the first 2 weeks of flower, then it kicked up. I wouldn’t mind so much but it was “earthy-skunky” and maintenance with tent doors open saw lots of odor spread in the house. The CAN2600 filter did the job however all other times. I recommend this strain only to experienced growers simply because it is not an automatic 3 foot tall, 8-week no-brainer. Reading the plant it is required.
