Spring has sprung round these parts, and I hope you fine fans, friends, and family are happy, healthy and hale.
These five phenos of bodhi's Triangle Kush x Iraqi are nearly done, so here's an update for all y'all who snatched packs. The pics are labeled with date, pheno # and day of flowering. I tried to include both a recent decent bud shot and lower cola/structure shot of each since I know that matters to some.
Resin rubs range from sweet orange, almost tangerine (no more rotten funk) on this
#1 pheno:
to lemony mothballs on
#2:
to sharp orange rind and oniony funk on
#4:
and a bitter grapefruit funk on
#6:
The most photogenic IMO is
#7 and she's developed a minty lemon dill deliciousness:
Today is day 66 from flip, harvesting at 70. No late nanners here. They started a colorful fade around day 55, despite nighttime temps at 60F the whole run. All those citrusy smells somehow combine into a skunky dark brown sugar dankness, but they're generally low-odor until you disturb them. I'll swing by with harvest pics after I take them down, and then a smoke report with dried pics after I submit my tester report in April.
None are very large producers, but yours should produce more than mine. I want to note this because, due to some LED driver issues, my plants only had about 215w total in the 4x4 the first 4wks of flower. Yes. 215w. Ugh. One of two drivers was replaced at day 28, bringing the total wattage in this tent to 310(ish) watts, with the back of the tent stuck with the defective driver. Normal is 430w and I hope to have that resolved next month if my warranty request is fulfilled.
A few other comments.
I sampled a few grams each of four phenos of Appalachian Super Skunk last year from a generous grower here and found them all relatively flavorful but with muted effects and low potency. That's abnormal for Appy crosses I've grown or smoked, and my top 2 criteria are enjoyable effects and high potency, so take it with a grain of salt.
Also, I'm not a doctor or expert, but I want to share a few tips I've found from medical research journals about staying healthy during flu season. The main killer of influenza patients is usually not the flu virus, but your body's overzealous immune system response, known as a "cytokine storm." Here are some ways to manage your immune response without eliminating it. (I want to reiterate these are medically-supported tips, not Nu-Be's home remedies. Still, check with your doc b4, yadda yadda yadda...)
Do:
- Take a D3 supplement every day, not just when you're coming down with something. 500-2000 IU per day is recommended. More is not better.
- D plays a huge role in your immune system and its response. Get 15-30min of direct sunlight per day, outside if possible, or just sit under your grow lights if they output any UV (HPS, CMH, newer LEDs with UV supplementation). Make sure to protect your eyes from the UV though.
- Take a vitamin C supplement up to 1000IU per day (more is not better), but also drink citrus juice and eat leafy greens.
- Take turmeric supplements or make tea from high curcumin-content (2% or higher) turmeric powder.
- Taking a curcumin extract with black pepper may also be beneficial, but it loses some of the turmeric powder's benefits.
- An easy recipe is 1tsp in 1cup of hot water, steeped for 5min before adding honey and lemon to taste. Drink it multiple times a day. Or eat turmeric & ginger in your food.
- Take a magnesium supplement.
- Get to bed early and get 8hrs of sleep each night.
- Try reading with a cup of decaf tea. Works for me!
- Take a fish oil supplement or eat nuts/hemp seeds for Omega-3. Omega-3 helps manage immune response.
- Take echinacea and mullein and astragalus supplements when you start to feel symptoms. Each help fight lung infections.
- Eat a variety of mostly fruits and vegetables, and cut down on your starch/carbs/meat.
- Vegetarian Indian food with ginger, turmeric, fenugreek seeds, and spicy peppers is possibly the perfect food to eat when you have the flu. On brown rice if possible.
- Drink green tea instead of coffee or soda or energy drinks. Green tea has some really good immune-system benefits not found elsewhere.
Don't:
- Smoke weed. I know this is crazy talk on a weed forum, but save your lungs since that's where the flu is most lethal.
- Instead, vape or, better yet, ingest tinctures and edibles.
- Eat corn, peanuts, or use sunflower, safflower, soybean, or canola oils.
- These often trigger inflammation and exacerbate immune system responses.
- Take Tylenol (acetominophen). It's been linked in clinical studies to overzealous immune responses.
- Try to reduce the fever unless it's over 104F. At that point, go to the doctor.
- Drink much alcohol. Besides cigs, booze might be the single worst thing you can do when you're sick or getting sick.
- Take steroids or allergy meds to reduce symptoms (unless prescribed), as you want to manage immune response, not eliminate it.
OK, until next time, smiles, good vibes, and big blessings to all of you.
