Hobbes
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The Dope is a cross of Chumaluma (sativa) and Endless Sky (indica). It produces less than average size buds that are feathery, its a very light bud. I harvested the top 8" of the above bucket, 24" total, and got 192 grams trimmed but wet - I'm not sure what it will cure to but I'd say 25% of trimmed weight so perhaps 50 grams. Just under 2 ounces cured for 1/3rd the plant, 1/2 - 2/3 the yield. Very light. The bud was almost 2 liters at 200 grams, Skunkberry of the same volume would push 600 grams. I don't think that this is going to be a commercial bud like Endless Sky, more on the cannaseur side. Good volume but the weight isn't there because of bud density and the bud volume will collapse with curing. My first grow of the strain though, I've learned to never judge a strain until the 3rd grow - so much can change in growing environment, curing, or just the age of the clone chain may have something to do with potency.
I hope to double the yield of the bottom 2/3 rds of the plant by multi harvesting and leaving the lower buds under direct light for a week. I was expecting a larger swell in the last week, it's not a huge producer - but effect is everything for me. I'd rather have 2 litres of bud that I can't wait to get to than 4 litres of bud that I could care less about having. Because of the thick canopy of CCOB the lower buds received much less light with a tall 24" plant, luckily I can push the plant for at least another week before the remainder gets too far along it's harvest window - only clear trichomes left on the plant after the first harvest. The buds will swell and harden, when watering I have to go light or no nutes because the large root system is feeding a much smaller plant. Increased evaporation in the lower leaves of the lighter canopy will speed water transfer to an area of the plant that was less developed than the harvested top. The extra nutes could burn the leaves as they did when I revegged Jack The Ripper.
I'm bake curing the first 29.5 grams of the smallest bud, leaving the larger to air cure. There will be no taste and probably little potency for a week with a bake cure, there won't be much sense posting any type of review for at least a week or 4. I won't write a Spectrum of Effects report until after my 2nd or 3rd grow, when the strain becomes pedestrian to me. As they all do. I've got a video uploading with a lot of pics of The Dope, I'll post it here when it finishes. Just a rough slideshow that was easier to throw tother than uploading my pictures to tinypic.
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The Dope is a cross of Chumaluma (sativa) and Endless Sky (indica). It produces less than average size buds that are feathery, its a very light bud. I harvested the top 8" of the above bucket, 24" total, and got 192 grams trimmed but wet - I'm not sure what it will cure to but I'd say 25% of trimmed weight so perhaps 50 grams. Just under 2 ounces cured for 1/3rd the plant, 1/2 - 2/3 the yield. Very light. The bud was almost 2 liters at 200 grams, Skunkberry of the same volume would push 600 grams. I don't think that this is going to be a commercial bud like Endless Sky, more on the cannaseur side. Good volume but the weight isn't there because of bud density and the bud volume will collapse with curing. My first grow of the strain though, I've learned to never judge a strain until the 3rd grow - so much can change in growing environment, curing, or just the age of the clone chain may have something to do with potency.
I hope to double the yield of the bottom 2/3 rds of the plant by multi harvesting and leaving the lower buds under direct light for a week. I was expecting a larger swell in the last week, it's not a huge producer - but effect is everything for me. I'd rather have 2 litres of bud that I can't wait to get to than 4 litres of bud that I could care less about having. Because of the thick canopy of CCOB the lower buds received much less light with a tall 24" plant, luckily I can push the plant for at least another week before the remainder gets too far along it's harvest window - only clear trichomes left on the plant after the first harvest. The buds will swell and harden, when watering I have to go light or no nutes because the large root system is feeding a much smaller plant. Increased evaporation in the lower leaves of the lighter canopy will speed water transfer to an area of the plant that was less developed than the harvested top. The extra nutes could burn the leaves as they did when I revegged Jack The Ripper.
I'm bake curing the first 29.5 grams of the smallest bud, leaving the larger to air cure. There will be no taste and probably little potency for a week with a bake cure, there won't be much sense posting any type of review for at least a week or 4. I won't write a Spectrum of Effects report until after my 2nd or 3rd grow, when the strain becomes pedestrian to me. As they all do. I've got a video uploading with a lot of pics of The Dope, I'll post it here when it finishes. Just a rough slideshow that was easier to throw tother than uploading my pictures to tinypic.
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