Alright, @SkunkHunt101, here are those Bandaid Hazes and the Colombian Gold x Dragon Energies, day 74 of flower, three days before I chopped:
BAH #1:
BAH #3 (this was the one that looked like she needed at least another month):
The bottom two-thirds of her actually looked pretty finished; it was only the top third of her that looked like it was gonna take forever. Which is unfortunate, because that’s where those huge colas were haha.
BAH#4:
You can see in a couple of those closeups that the #4 had some pretty alien-looking flowers.
Here’s the BAH #6, which was my favorite of the four while growing:
So yeah, there weren’t too many white pistils or anything on them when I chopped, with the exception of that #3 plant. I would’ve liked to have let them go until day 84 or 85, but like I said, I don’t think the smoke will be too affected by a slightly early chop. I didn’t weigh all of them before I got them in jars, but I did weigh the #4 and the #6. #4 yielded 76.8 grams, not including larf and the three or four grams I always put in my tiny mason jars (I always put a few grams in these little mason jars I have so I can start sampling before the flowers have properly cured, that way I’m not cracking jars of the proper nugs before they’re ready). The #6 plant yielded 68.6 grams, minus the larf and the few grams I put in the tiny jar. Soooo, not the greatest of yields, but not the worst, either.
Anyway, here’s a side-by-side of the two Colombian Gold x DE on day 24 of flower, just so people have an idea of the range in sizes you can get from those seeds:
The #1 plant is on the left; that #2 plant kept stretching for a while after I took that pic, too, not positive when exactly she stopped stretching.
Here’s the #1 on day 74:
She turned out reeeealllyyyy frosty once she was ready to get trimmed and jarred, can’t really see it in those pics. Flowers look super-impressive. I’m pretty sure she took after the Dragon Energy dad, because she smelled extra-fuely both during and after the grow. Something about the way her nugs look reminded me of OG’s, too, while I was trimming her, although I’m not sure what exactly it was that made me think that. She doesn’t have the teardrop-shaped calyxes or anything, but there’s something “OG-ish” about her.
Here’s the C. Gold x DE #2, day 74:
And here she is on day 77 after I’d untied her from the stakes, right before I chopped her:
Haha, she was pretty big, for sure.
Closeups of the #2 on day 74:
She was easily the most annoying plant this grow, just because she got so huge and branched out all over the place, but I’m most excited to try her out. I think she’s gonna end up being pretty special. She also smelled really, really good while I was trimming her, but completely different from the #1. Very complex. I was getting hints of tropical fruit, tobacco, a lot of anise, too, which surprised me. I’m curious to see where she ends up after sitting in jars for a month or two.
I weighed both of the C. Gold crosses, #1 turned out 90.5 grams and the #2 turned out 92.1 grams, minus the larf and the weed I put in the tiny mason jars. Ended up being almost identical yields from two wildly different plants.
So, yeah, I’m probably gonna wait about a month before I start doing proper research haha, I wanna give them a decent cure before I really start checking them out. But I’ll definitely be getting into the tiny mason jars before that…
