Sherbert x Irene Kush got the chop last week and is curing in jars. What a beautiful plant to grow. Not much of a bush maker and seems to really just want to grow straight upwards. She might benefit from a bit of scrogging. A bit of susceptibility to PM outdoors near the end of her life cycle on the lower branches, at least in my area she did. I would recommend a good defoliation from time to time on this one, at least for this particular pheno. Clip all those lower popcorn buds… pain in the ass. Although I have a good stash for edibles now!!
I did get a slightly seeded crop from both photoperiods. I was not able to locate any intersex traits on either plants so I’m assuming this is just some pollen that some asshole loss track of outside somewhere. Either way I’ll stash these seeds in the vault for a phenohunt at another time… might be some fire. The SxI seeds were especially large too when compared to the PP seeds. A small handful from each plant… could be something fun in there.
That about wraps it up for the photoperiods! The auto’s are outside freezing their tits off… time to give up on those I think unfortunately. They aren’t showing much growth at all. Will update on those and wrap up my thoughts about Bokashi composting in a future post.
Definitely! I have more than enough to play with as I experiment with some of the extractions/topicals that I’m learning about from your tincture thread. Spread some around to family and friends! And a lucky OGer will get a nice gift basket from the Secret Santa gift exchange!
Here’s an update on the Night Owl Auto’s, Electric Qoolaide & Mango Sunrise, that finished up this Fall.
The were taken down on October 30th. Definitely could have used some warmer weather and stronger sunlight hours. When I decided to run these strains as my second crop I did not take into account these factors. Keeping that in mind when you look at the pictures, these plants are actually really frosty, beautiful and they smelled amazing! Very tropical, pleasant and fruity with a hazy, peppery spice on the back end. I have never really grown out more sativa leaning phenos but they were a pleasure to have around. I will do these justice and either grow them again indoors or at the beginning of the season outside next summer.
The Mango Sunrise started to darken up on me and just looked killer at chop:
I chopped the plants and hung them whole for one week. I decided not to do a full trim on these and allowed them to dry with their fan leaves intact and will trim prior to consumption. The smells coming out of the jars are incredible. The Electric Qoolaide smells straight up like stale cheese puffs. Just a really delicious, rich, musky, cheesy smell smacks you in the face when you open the jars. Totally unexpected! The Mango Sunrise is straight mango and spice! Like if you dried a mango and put pepper or cayenne on it or something… really nice. I have not tried either as of yet!
I would say this has been a good learning experience for me. I’ve learned how to turn food scraps into food for my soil and that is great, however, I don’t think I’ll be growing directly in the Bokashi amended soil moving forward. I believe that this soil would be better utilized as a compost to incorporate into a soil mix or used as a top dressing or however you would use earth worm castings. In the future I will use it to make teas and to generally feed the microbes in the soil when I see fit. I think this is a really great way for organic growers to add organic material into their soils and a way to reduce food waste going into landfills or otherwise and would encourage everyone to get on board with it. At the very least learn how to make your own Bokashi Bran and use it to inoculate your soils by top dressing or otherwise.
I’ll be back to wrap this thread up with some smoke reports!
