you’ve been wondering where i’m at, i’ve been wondering where i’m at. well, i’ve been around… just busy with work and life and these plants, but finally i have a minute to get some updates posted.
all in all, things have been going very well if somewhat slower than i was anticipating. i ran into some small issues, but it was nothing major and we kept on trucking.
after harvesting the main cola, i’ve been keeping the bottom half of tropical 1 (the blueberry skunk) in flower and have noticed increased trichs on some of her older buds which haven’t been harvested yet. she’s still hanging in there, drinking a lot less water than she used to.
she might be the only plant i want to reveg, with the exception of durban 3 as well. but to make room in my tent, i’ll likely let go of cindy 2 and tropical 3 once they’re harvested.
while tending to the plants last week, i noticed a little seedling poking up. what’s going on little guy! lil tp1! it must have randomly dropped and germinated. i wasn’t planning on it and i wasn’t sure how i would juggle my space, but if life finds a way who am i not to support it? so i transplanted it into its own container.
i thought i had done a decent enough job with the transplant, but sadly after a few days i noticed the seedling was not doing well. it looked like it was slowly wilting. i wasn’t sure what was going on and unfortunately a day or two later it had wilted away like some wicked witch. in hindsight, maybe i should have put it under a humidity dome? such is life… i was sorta looking forward to seeing how that seedling would grow up.
after all this time growing these plants, i suppose the most important part of this whole thing is the smoke report. it’s only been 11 days since i officially harvested and started curing tropical 1, so it’s still a little early in the cure. and i think i dried the buds hotter and quicker than is recommended. but you know, it was my first cure, i was bound to make mistakes.
after a few days, the buds were smelling very grassy and hay-like, as well as being pretty dry and brittle. i suppose it didn’t help that i had placed it to dry above my active light panel. it was probably 90degrees and 50% humidity. i thought the heat and the small fan blowing across the panel would help for some reason.
anyways, after storing it for about a week in a glass jar with two boveda packs, the smells are starting to return with that sweet fruitiness, although not very strong or too distinct. i really have to get up on those buds to get that scent, shoving it halfway up my nose. i feel like i’m trying to snort those terpenes. maybe the aromas and terps will return with a longer cure, or maybe my next cure will be better.
breaking apart the nugs gives that skunky scent again and a very slight blueberry. but again, all quite faint and light.
as for the smoke, i threw it into my arizer extreme q and puffed on three bags of it. the first bag i vaped at 420, while the next two bags i vaped at 380. again, light on that blueberry flavor with the most dominant taste being that sort of standard vaped weed flavor, slightly green and brown and popcorn-y. i do like the smoke as it feels fairly upbeat while being chill and relaxed. it’s good, very decent. i hope i’m able to tease more flavor out of it.
we’ll revisit the bud again in a few weeks to see how it continues to cure. i’ve certainly had much stronger and more potent weed before. but i’m really happy to say i’ve finally smoked my own homegrown!
as a final cool note, i noticed that my flower mill grinder’s mesh is big enough so that the seeds i hadn’t thought about being in my bud safely passed through unscathed. nice!
for real. Growing any plant is boring with my attention focused on what’s it doing today, sometimes go 3 days without checking then water and keep doing other stuff.
