Chop Chop! After nearly 24 weeks (11 weeks into flower), the deed is done.
All things considered, I think this run will turn out fine. As expected, I did do a lot of wet trimming to eliminate brown leaf ends. Both plants put out a decent amount of buds. I don’t weigh them, but I’d guess there will be enough to fill ~maybe~ five or six quart jars.
They’re both plenty resinous. The whole house now smells like freshly harvested cannabis.
Plant B started off as the runt, but eventually caught up and got a promotion; it was moved into a full-sized pot after reaching its stride. If the fragrance of the buds is an accurate indication, this one may be closer to the phenotype for Strawberry Cough that Kyle Cushman developed and has been keeping as a clone. (Both of these plants were grown from seed.) During the wet trim, the scent of the buds on Plant B ranged from sweet – sometimes something like butterscotch, sometimes grape candy, sometimes licorice – to pepper or cloves. Maybe the sweetness becomes more strawberry-like with age…
Plant A turned out more skunky. Its buds smelled like burned rubber, garlic, and skunk. Both were pretty loud compared to the ZKittles I harvested last year. The buds are not as big, but they smell like they’re packing more of a punch. Time will tell.
Here’s the goods:
Twenty six branches are now hanging to dry, after my grow room was converted to a drying room. That shelf folds up against the wall when it’s a grow room, and down into place for drying – sort of like a murphy bed.
The exhaust fan is on full time, and I’ve added a small humdifier. I tried the humidifier at the “low” setting, which got the room up to abut 45% humidity. So I’ve got it running on “medium” now.
The soil will go into the composter to be reinvigorated. A post-mortem look at the roots shows that Plant B’s roots were better developed than those from plant A. (Either that, or I was just more meticulous when shaking the soil out of B’s roots. I may have left some of A’s roots in the planter.) The stems were both generally the same size.
Plant A’s roots:
Plant B’s roots:
I will provide a smoke report on these …eventually… My wife will be the guinea pig, since I’m still abstaining.