Busy times around here! Sold off a couple big 6-wheeler trucks full of palms, flowering trees, bromeliads and other stuff all the while clearing more for grow space, adding more drip systems. Still haven’t utilized 50% of the last grow’s amended mix yet! Weather is back to being fantastic, if a bit hot mid-day. All-in-all, Life’s a Ball!
Been a few weeks so I broke out a tester of the fermented Thai Stix to check on things. Forgot to take a photo of the wrapped stix with the cordage but it looked something like this;
The inner wrapping is corn husk and then it was bound very tightly, put in a glass jar in a darkened tent on the warm side and left alone. First thing noticeable was that the veins of the corn husk are imprinted on the licorice-like bud stick. The compression really did meld the whole thing into a single mass. Not really any noticeable smell other than perhaps from the small amount of mold on the corn husk. There wasn’t much smell until we started to break it up in a hand grinder. I bit ‘woodsy’, earthy, & musky. Nothing really special on the taste on the inhale but the exhale had people commenting. Not that anybody actually came up with a coherent description, but we all noticed ‘something’ about it My buddy went into a very emphatic story-telling mode about one-third of the way into the joint between 5 people and at the end of the story I was hit by hysterical laughter, not over the story but at the thought that he was going to say at any second, “I don’t think I got very high from that joint”! But as I said, we moved on far too quickly to testing a few other buds and then the best hash I’ve ever made! Will have to repeat the tests!
Gonna have to re-do the smoke test…things got botched up when we moved immediately on to testing 3-4 other strains and the hash!
On with the show, Grape Dragons are looking beautiful! I want to understand what it is that causes certain strains to get this type of edge-in curl as the dust up? I noticed it recently on Sugar Cane and today all three of the Grape Dragons are starting to show it as well. The trichomes on the bottom sides of the leaf, as they curl upwards, just sparkle in the sunlight. And this is just the first day!
The old Ebb & Flow table is ‘operational’ and I set in some testers bedded in a perlite/vermiculite mix. Hoping to reclaim my porch (and sunlight) from the tent, but doubt I’ll ever get it empty enough to take down before I’ll need it again for drying!
And @Budderton 's LA Affie S1 #11 x Afghani HP have confirmed a suspicion I’ve had for a week now. Looks like we’re gonna get pink pistils! Until today I wasn’t sure if it was my bloodshot eyes or them really having a pinkish glow!
The Dark Cherry Pie autos are astounding me…starting to understand why people grow these finally! Here’s a dark picture of one of the girls just starting to show sex at 31 days from planting. The day-to-day growth on these things is astounding! Gonna have to move them out over the next 2 days as they are on the short side of the greenhouse and about to hit the ceiling.
Okay, got loads of soakers to go deal with before bed, hope you all have a great weekend!