You know my environment is very sketchily controlled , or more like the controller is sketchy, but low temps, like 50°F, are common for weeks at a time in my hole. It never has seemed to negatively effect the plants… Eskimo genes? 
I don’t miss hurricanes, either, they always seem to hit us!
The #5 Pura Vida f2 had basically quit drinking water the last week or so, pot was heavy as shit every time I took her out to “water,” so I chopped her last night, flower day 72. There really wasn’t too much of a difference in appearance from the last round of pics that I took, but it felt weird not taking any on Chop Day, so I snapped a bunch. Got a lot of good ones this time, too, so bear with me haha.
She smells sooooooo good, I can’t wait to blaze her. Perfume, floral, pretty noticeable “sweetness,” too. I even caught a whiff of burning rubber/asphalt and a little bit of lemon/citrus when I was chopping and hanging her last night. Pretty excited about this one, thanks again for those seeds, @nube. I’ve got a ton of them left, too, probably gonna do a larger hunt at some point in the next year or two.
So now we’re down to three plants. I think I’m gonna chop the Santa Cruz Pure Haze hybrid tomorrow night. In fact, I know I am haha. I’ll probably wait and see how the Sour Diesel x DE and the other Pura Vida f2 look in the next five days or so. The PV actually looks like she’s gonna take even longer to finish than the Sour D cross, still lots of white pistils on her. And I keep getting paranoid that I’m seeing developing seeds in the flowers of that SD cross, too, keep digging into the flowers to pull what I’m seeing out, but they’re not seeds haha, they’re just weird-looking calyxes and shit. Probably gonna chop her on day 77 or 78.
I dunno. We’ll see.
Chopped the Santa Cruz Pure Haze x A5Thai last night. Technically, it was flower day 74, but, like I mentioned before, I think she was closer to day 84 due to the lengthy 14/10 and the autoflowering and shit.
When I took her out into the living room to take pics and chop, my girl was like,“Why is that plant so dark?” haha.
For a while, I was thinking the color was because of a Mg deficiency that I just didn’t bother trying to deal with, but I’m starting to think that the purple/black color may be genetic after all. And the only reason I say that is because she for sure has very noticeable “Purple Weed” smells going on, very grape-y and a little floral. When I first noticed those smells, about a week ago, I thought it was all in my head, like a preconditioned response to seeing lots of purple nugs or something. But that grape/floral smell is definitely there, no doubt about it. It’s not all in my head haha.
I also picked up on the faintest whiff of incense when I was moving her around last night, along with that sorta “salty/sweaty” smell like the Bandaid Hazes had, which I’m assuming is coming from the A5Thai dad. The “salty” thing was much more prevalent a few weeks back; now the grape thing has taken over. I’m pretty excited about it haha.
Good lord that plant is stacked!!!
She was topped twice, I keep forgetting to mention that. Or maybe I mentioned it a few months ago haha, I dunno, can’t remember. I really didn’t want to top her twice, but I was afraid she was gonna dwarf everything else if I didn’t.
She does have a lot of fat flowers all over the place, though. Decent density for a Haze cross, too. I would love to see her untopped, I bet she’d grow a HUGE main cola. Maybe even as massive as that one Bandaid Haze that advanced grew a while back haha.
I think there potential for color coming from the a5 Thai not sure if chocolate trip is influencing it but this was posted on docs insta of a chocolate blitz
you knocked it out the park on that one can’t wait for the smoke report
Hm. That’s interesting. I don’t think I’ve heard about that (but I also don’t pay too much attention haha). Maybe I’ll log on to IG and check that out. I was thinking about posting pics of the SCPH cross there and tagging Doc, but I haven’t decided yet if I actually will.
Just as an aside, that Chocolate Blitz looks waaayyyyy different than the pics that one dude posted on the Doc D thread a couple years ago. And I don’t mean the purple color, but just the flower formation and stuff. Did Doc happen to mention how quickly that plant finished? I only ask because the dude who posted on the Doc thread said his finished in like 55 days. I was thinking for the next grow, I’m gonna plant stuff that supposedly takes nine weeks or less (Chocolate Blitz, Royal Kush, Wolfpack f2’s, maybe one or two more) so I can avoid the insane heat here in August and early/mid-September.
Or, fuck it, never mind, I’ll just go check out Doc’s IG now haha.
All the NL5Haze related stuff can color up pretty good. You saw my mostly purple NorthStar #4 girl(C5Haze/SensiStar x A5Haze/NL5) I just pulled down. That SCPHxA5Thai looks glorious though! Almost makes me wish I bought a pack 
lol. Looking forward to the smoke report ^^
Good point. I wonder if that means that SCPH cross is gonna smoke more like the A5 dad than the Santa Cruz mom. I mean, I won’t be mad if it does haha, I love NL5Haze, but still… I’ve blazed that before, many times, never blazed SCPH.
All of your flowers stacked real hard this round, it looks like from the photos at least. Those PVs look pretty mouth watering, and the SCPH x A5Thai looks like a weed monster. Did you do anything different with your soil or anything else this go round? Or just the same old recycled stuff?
I’m not sure haha. I can’t remember what exactly I did with my soil. I think it’s a mix of new soil and old soil, but I can’t remember for certain. There was that fucked-up soil with the biochar that I mixed up last March or April. At some point after I realized it was fucked-up, I mixed up some new soil, sans biochar. I’m pretty sure I kind of combined the two mixes, but I don’t know if I did that before I grew the plants that’re in the title of this thread or if I did that before I started the Pura Vidas, SCPH et al.
I know that one of my bins has about 20 gallons of that shitty biochar soil in it, but there was way more than that at one point. And then I have two 65-gallon bins that’re full, pretty sure that’s where some of the biochar mix went. I know I didn’t throw any of that out. At least, I think I didn’t… haha.
This is the problem with being drunk 24/7, is that you forget things all the time. It’s why I write down everything as soon as I do it, like whether or not I watered with coconut or whatever, when I did a foliar etc etc. There’s no way I’d remember that without the benefit of my notebook. But I never write down soil stuff, probably oughta start doing that.
It’s also why I’m pretty excited about not drinking, just because I know my grows will probably be better moving forward. I’ve noticed in the last few weeks, I’ve really been ON IT. Not that there’s been too much to do haha, but still… I’ve definitely been more “in tune” or whatever with everything that’s going on in the grow room.
haha no doubt! Even being stoned all the time will leave ya disorganized. I made up a spreadsheet for my next run, in order to try to keep better track of when I do things, because I forget stuff almost the instant I do it sometimes.
Whatever it was, it was something good, haha. Sometimes just going by feel will give you good results too.
That’s a great feeling. I love feeling motivated and on top of everything, like a well oiled machine. I hope it continues for you… I’m two months through the year not drinking so far, and feeling the same.
I had my girl make a spreadsheet for me a few years ago, but I never used it haha. I have to get on the desktop and find it and fill it out and shit, it’s a total hassle haha. I much prefer the old notebook and pen. Although there’s been a few times where I’ve been so drunk that I forget to consult it and add something to my water twice in, like, five days. I’ll go to make a note of it and look at the last entry and be like,”Fuuuuuuck, maaaaan…” haha.
Really? Two months? That’s pretty admirable haha. I actually got drunk this past Saturday, definitely shouldn’t have. All day yesterday, I had to resist the urge to keep drinking, it was a legit struggle. I don’t think I’m gonna fuck around and test myself like that again. If I’d have kept drinking yesterday, I’d be drunk today, too. And tomorrow. And the next day… And the next… It’d suck haha.
isnt it the best, waking up hungover and solving that problem with a cold one? haha i did it so much i have holes in my liver, bro that haze thai plant is so bulky, looks nice
I don’t get hangovers haha. Seriously, though I really do not get hangovers, never had one in my life. It’s a curse, honestly. I’d love to wake up feeling like shit and all like,”Uggghhh, I’m never gonna drink again…” Instead, I wake up with my body and brain telling me,”More… More… More…” It’s fucked up.
Yeah, I’m looking forward to blazing her.
In five or six weeks haha.
Those chunky Pure Vidas look so good. Great pics.
Yeah, they turned out okay. I guess…
Just kidding, I love them, they’re definitely my two favorite plants from this grow. I’m gonna chop the other PV and the Sour Diesel cross tomorrow night, flower day 79. I was thinking I’d let them go 84 days, just based on the way they look, still a decent amount of white pistils, but they’re not doing anything, not really drinking any water, flowers have looked the same for a while now, so… It’s time. Plus, this grow’s felt like it’s taken forever, I guess on account of the 83-day veg for some of the plants. It really hasn’t been much longer than all of my grows, but it feels like it has haha. I’m over it.
Decided to just chop the last two plants this afternoon. Why wait until tonight, right? I was hoping to get some good no-flash pics, too, since it’s day time and all, but it’s fucking pouring down rain again, only managed to get a couple.
Pura Vida f2 #2, flower day 78.5:
She REEKS of Lysol, even my girlfriend said,“It smells like some kind of cleaning product,” and I asked,“Lysol, maybe?” and she was like,“Yeah, it smells exactly like Lysol.” I agree. Also got very noticeable whiffs of coffee when I was moving her around and taking pics, which is pretty surprising. Notes of fresh cut grass, too, and just, uh… I dunno haha. Like a “fresh” sensation in my nose, almost like spearmint or or peppermint or something, but not quite.
She smells fucking awesome, is my point haha, super-stoked about her.
And here’s the Sour Diesel x Dragon Energy, flower day 78.5:
Here she is post-stake removal:
I don’t think her branches are flimsy so much as it’s probably just that those flowers are pretty dense. I dunno.
Anyway, check out the freaky flowers on her:
It’s really only the top third or maybe half of the plant that the flowers got all “knobby-looking” and shit; the bottom two-thirds or half just look like super-chunky nugs. And I don’t have a problem with the way they look or anything, I’m not complaining, just observing haha. They’re definitely kind of freaky-looking, though. Pretty cool.
The only thing is, she really just does not smell like much at all. I have to give her flowers a good squeeze if I want to get an idea of what she might smell like, and even then, it’s not much. There definitely weren’t all kinds of different scents and smells wafting around the living room, a la the Pura Vida #5, when I was moving her around and taking pics and shit. Having said that, the Malibu Pure Kush x Lemon Thai’s smells really improved after she’d hung for a couple weeks, so hopefully the same thing’ll happen with that SD x DE.
Anyway, yeah, that’s it. Everything’s chopped now and I didn’t get aphids or thrips this round, so… Good enough for me haha!
Forgot to mention, I weighed the Malibu Pure/Lemon Thai and Nikah yesterday, before I sealed them up for the next few weeks. The MPK weighed 75 grams on the nose (not including larf), which is acceptable to me. There was a decent amount of larf on her, though, which, considering how tall she was, didn’t surprise me. The light she was under was almost head-high, so probably a good foot or so of her didn’t get sufficient light.
The Nikah weighed 95.5 grams, which, yeah, I’ll take that haha. Barely any larf on her, either, but she was pretty short, so that makes sense.
i don’t think there is a better look than that sd x de, with the black leaves and all, doc is gonna save those pictures!
