So my Excalibur (Og18 x Stardawg) x (Monster Cookies x Alien Stardawg) seems to have turned out well. Good quality smoke, kinda floral/fruity flavours. Picked out some banana notes but haven't been able to put my finger on other flavours. Seems to finish between 50-65 days. Only been in jars for just over a week.
The bubble made from it gummed the hell out of my bags...that and my shitty cheapo amazon bags A) Leaked dye into my ISO while cleaning B) I spent about 2 hours picking threads out of my hash.... Super fucking disappointed about that. I'll be going back to QWISO and Coffee filters. Fuck bubble it's a mess, it's way harder to make, and every single time i've made it I haven't got anywhere close to full melt. I'm glad I didn't buy the $300 bags. Protip buy undyed bags if you're into bubble.
A couple pheno's were low yielders the rest seem to be alright, average/medium. lots of variation between plants. Everything is purpling up. I've never grown any of the parents, but I think I got some stretchy 'sativa" esque stardawg phenos. One with Acorn nugs very GSC/og esque super dense, seems to be the softest smelling. Had another with rounded indica-esque nugs, it got seeded due to a timer fuck up.. Seems to be the plant that took all the pollen, not more than 5-10 seeds in the lowers of the other plants. One of the taller more Sativa looking plants is 100% pine. I moved it around the other night and smelled like a cab for hours.
Going to grow a bunch more for sure. Going to find a good male from them and cross it back into this GSC looking Ok Yielding pheno if it's good smoke. I'll take some pictures and post em Wednesday/Friday. It's a gorgeous plant.
I think my soil mix was a little light, they are fading more than I would like. So I'm mixing new soil today, getting my scrog net out and get ready for another go.
I'd love to send some out to all the kind folks that have sent/offered me things but I feel like more work needs to be done to make sure they are safe, with the small scale of my grow that's going to take a while. I'm definitely impressed by the results of taking a random male and cross it into a random female. It makes things easy when others do most the hard work