Correct me if I'm wrong but cannabis plants not only grow towards the light they use gravity to know which way is up so that could be why when you had the light on everything seemed fine but then when the lights are off the plant wants to grow upwards.
Thats why I said it would probably not be good to use human shit, I was just trying to make the point that just because a plant is fertilized with shit doesn't mean that you are smoking/eating shit.
Everyone makes it sounds like growing plants in shit is disgusting, I don't think human shit would be good to use but cow manure would be good to use probably not by itself but mixed in with the soil, a lot of plants that you eat have been grown with shit as fertilizer and its not like you're...
You can break it up or you can leave the bud whole and put it into the pipe, I find that if you don't break it up it will burn longer but I find breaking it up gets me more high.
I have no idea on what strain it could be, I think it would be pretty hard to tell just from a description, but it sounds like you got lucky on that bag seed.
Every time I hear about cheese it just keeps sounding better and better. Has anyone grown the seeds from big buddha, if so how did it come out and is it close to the clone only cheese.
Going by the color of the pistils is a pretty bad way of knowing when the plant is done. Get a 60x pocket microscope and look at the trichomes, if you want more of an up high you should harvest when most of the trichomes are cloudy and if you want more of a couch lock high then wait until they...
I can't say for sure but I don't think they will all turn hermi, you may be lucky and none of them will turn. My first grow the plants were interrupted so many times while flowering and none of them turned hermi.
Thats what I was going to say as well. I always wanted to make my own strain, sounds like it would be a pain, but I think if it was done right in the end it would be well worth it.