Yeah Ive had insane colors from ghanis over the years. I just mean to say I assume its gonna get dark cuz of the name. Here’s some fun colors from my old Berry White clone
The interesting thing I find doing lots of reading and research on ghanis, as well as having grown a good few. Is it seems that 9-12 week is pretty common. And a lot of folks in west take ghanis wayyy earlier than they would in Afghanistan. Out here they’re choppin em as soon as they start going amber, and out there they wait until its fully amber, and a lotta times the buds are already brown and half dead on the vine. I’ve been experimenting with letting them go that long(for hash making or course) and there for sure is some magic to just letting them go way longer than is standard out here. Just my observation at least!
The DLA16’s im growing are 9 weeks today and they have a min to go. “Two more weeks.” Those are all 80s afghans though. Havent worked with pre soviet 70s afghans before. Kosher Kush is supposed to be 1970s. I love that shit. Probably find some real gold in these.
Back when I was in the Santa Cruz scene, there was a veterans grower alliance deal that Kosher was their main strain, and theyd kill is on it. If I remember right it was always a good 10-11 weeker too. But even not that long ago, running 9-11 weeks wasn’t unusual at all in warehouse grows. Now it seems they’re all stuck in the rut of boring ass 7-8 weekers to fit a “timeline” or whatever the dingbat investors think they want.
It does get dark but really “black” is just the name. It references the hashplant mom used.
That said, the weed is not at all “black” It’s was bright tasting, some unobtanium fruit and some fuely funk mixed together. It’s awesome smoke!
A lot of folks are going to be quite happy with these.
From what i’ve seen, many of the plant’s buds turn dark purple and can fade during cure to almost black.
Here’s a re-post of the sumptuous pics by @yardgrazer and @willie that helped this Black Lotus F2 seed-run win Co-op approval.
@yardgrazer 's Black Lotus F2 plant (F2-ed by him):
Nice working together @BudWhisperer@yardgrazer@willie , Now thats truly a joint venture only OGers , sharing the best genes Black Lotus awesome beautiful prolific plants ,proud to grow such plants genes phenos…Peace
OverGrow The World beautiful green HeRbs…
The moment of truth has finally arrived! Last night I did a strip’n’flip on all the Black Lotus ladies, and dropped them into flower on the capillary mat in their 1 gallon pots. Even managed to snap a before/after pic. I know the day 1 flower strip down is controversial to some, but its a method Ive been doing 7 or 8 years now, and it always works wonders for me. I should have planned ahead, and made FPJ from all the excess leaves. But I likely will next time i do a big defol.
Im gonna keep a real close eye on em, and as soon as the females show, I’ll get them up to 5 gals right away. But I hope to keep the males small. So they will either stay in 1s, or possibly go up to 2s, if I can get the extra space for them. Usually I use half or 1 gals for dudes, but Id rather have too much pollen than not enough!
To be fair, I just stole the method from other growers lol. It was the big thing years back when the “3 a light” book came out. But I knew guys doing it before that too. I also dont do it in every situation, just if theyre bushed out. Normally I do a lot of single cola SOG, and in that case I dont touch em until the day 21 or so leaf strip. Heres a cool vid of how they look thru flower to help give an idea of the method. Should also mention in the 3 a light literature, they talk about needing synth nutes and certain mediums. But Ive done this method in everything from small pots like this, all the way up to 50 foot soil beds all organically, and as long as youre keeping them fed, they do great. I think they were just trying to push some nute brand, but I digress lol
I appreciate that info, and your honesty haha
I will definitely take a look at that vid.
And your probably right about them trying to push a nute brand. I see it all the time.
Companies like to say that there brand is the best for this or that, but it’s mainly the technique that’s the important thing. Tho some products cant be replicated on your own.
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