I strongly believe
Here is a small but poorly written article I did on the subject it gets the idea across
Organic Fade: The Key to Flavor
In 30 years of growing cannabis, I have noticed a few patterns emerging. Plants like this that are literally done growing at harvest always taste better but more importantly are simply more dank![pic]
Healthy plants at the end are easier to trim and definitely beefy, but why is it a plant such as this that almost looks dead has such perfect medicine on it? I saw a thread online the other day titled “Hydro VS Organics.” I did not reply since this argument is as old as Methuselah. We could debate this for eons. It’s pretty obvious that the water boys out-yield the mud boggers in the world, but my days of grams per watt are long gone. I run the same strains over and over, and my goal each run is to make slight changes in my soil makeup to determine when fading starts. If I do not use enough of my Super Soil in conjunction with a base soil the plant will fade to early and this will lower the overall yield of the plant. If I use to much then the plant will not fade at all finishing green with high yields but the quality will suffer. The perfect blend will allow fading early in Week Seven and continue to Week Eight and beyond.
I have a theory you can laugh at... It’s called Infinite Dankage. Let’s just say a plant has a determined amount of what we call ”Dank.” I don’t think I need to define this. It seems to me that a faded plant will produce less total mass, therefore creating more Dank per gram on the plant. Does this make any sense? Have you ever grown a plant that was just sickly as hell, all yellow and so on, but have the bud from this plant taste better than normal? I am curious if others experience this. If you haven’t guessed by now, this is the MotherShip Apollo taken at 60 days, the far end of her harvest window.[pic]
This entire plant is head stash so I decided to make it as good as I know how.
I am smoking some scissor hash from trimming these upper nugs this morning and I can tell you its as extreme as you’d want. The first small hunk took my breath and I pumped out three huge hits of almost perfume tasting hash. It’s a bit like smoking Chanel #5 but there is also a fruity essence. All I can say is that A-13 makes phenomenal Bubble. It cannot be compared to anything I have ever smoked. As good as Vortex is, I prefer the bud smoke more than the mother. Momma still is the tops as far as resin is concerned. It has a flavor and consistency like no other. It shards up on scissors like clay or plumbers putty and has a deep red color.
Her downside is trimming. Imagine trimming this girl. I spent a good four hours on just the upper portion last night. The buds are covered in swirling, curled, sticky leaves that take loads of concentration and small scissors to clean up. I focus hard to remove all the sugar leaf since my main goal here is Bubble! I have noticed that actual sugar leaf makes the best hash. When I use pure bud, I never get the same yields as with trim leaf. I think it’s almost a waste. So, my buds get cleaned well to make more A-Bubble.
