Thank You!
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Is that de on top of the soil?
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Play sand, it’s been used a lot. It’s a mechanical barrier to stop pests and evaporation. It works well for me.
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How thick of a layer you put in there?
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When I had fungus gnats I put it at about 2 inches and that stopped them and broke their life cycle. For maintaining now they are gone I keep it at about an inch thick.
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I also had to put filters on all of the pot drains.
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Hell yeah I’m gonna give this a try sounds pretty good. Thanks dude!
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Made some bubble from the sour bubble. Started with about 500 grams of wet fresh frozen buds and small sugar leaves. These buds were very leafy. Kind of the style in 2000. Returned maybe 11 grams of live bubble hash. It’s delicious. About 4 grams of 90u, 7 of 70u. 2+% return isn’t great. Washed 30 min each wash. On the other hand the taste and effects are great. Did try for a third wash for edibles but it returned very little ugly looking hash not worth keeping.
Anecdotally, when I use a loupe to look at the trichs of this plant the bulbous heads seem much smaller than almost any other line I have worked with recently. This was a uniform trait on the five plants that were run. After using the same loupe and plants for a long time you can get a feel for the general size. Not very scientific but the results seem to support the idea that the smaller heads make less hash. Also, the final product isn’t as sticky as other recent strains I’ve worked with. I’m not sure what the sticky v non-sticky difference indicates, any ideas?
So where are we at with this plant? The terps are good but not incredible. The flower is very leafy, smokes well and very “old school” look. It grows extremely vigorous thick branchy plants that clone well. I’m not sure it’s worth it to grow out the clones I have with another 70 day flower cycle. With all the genetics out there I think I may keep looking for a plant to hold on to that fills my needs better. I’m looking for flowers that are not so leafy, denser and resinous. The more modern lines seem to have 3 - 4X better % hash return. I use bubble hash as meds. I will likely just toss the remaining clones outside and see how they do for the summer and put something new in the flower space. I love nostalgia as much as the next guy but sometimes the numbers matter. What do you guys think?
(update) after drying some in the poor man’s canatrol the flower is delightful. It has nice terps and great smooth smoke. I may keep one plant in the rotation for awhile because the flower is so nice and unique in flavor and scent.
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Also was my impression growing Sour Bubble and its crosses. Nice little blast from the past (high school for me) and definitely amazing for that era, but doesn’t stand out quite as much among modern “elites”. Doesn’t necessarily pale in comparison high-wise, but also doesn’t seem quite as mind blowing as it probably used to. Would never turn down smoking it, but with my limited space, I made the tough decision not to keep clones.
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Some of the dried bud. 62% flavors are still developing . Sour lemony so far mostly. Vegging the clones extra long for root development and trimming lowers to see if I can massage some bigger denser bud development.
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So I ran a couple more of the best version of this plant. I’ve been able to grow nice compact colas by topping and chopping most of the bottom branches. It smells good and looks so frosty. Finishes in under 60 days, But, under the scope the trichs are all jacked up. Some of the trichomes have really thick stems and tiny heads, no heads or long stalks, its very chaotic and this trait was present in every pheno. This means it doesn’t wash well. Every good washer has a nice carpet of bulbous trichome heads. It still gets me baked and that’s interesting because most of the THC is supposedly contained in the bulbous head of the mature trichome. Will use for a bunch of brownies 
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