After calm convo that went something like: “Is that hemp?” to which I replied,
“Yes, a new kind, it helps me sleep. I got the seeds for free from kind people in America.”
And what do you do with it?
“I heat the flowers at 100 degrees celsius for 3 hours and then eat half a teaspoon.”
Oh? Like tea then, ok.
So far, so good…
Also I believe I may have spotted a couple of so called “nanners”, which in fact are welcome in my situation. If you can only grow one plant at a time it’s ideal. You get both seeds and flower. That’s a win-win for me.
She got stressed a fair bit though, severe light deprivation, total darkness of 36 hours, then LED that hang too high for a couple of days. Now it’s in ideal circumstances again.
It’s very clear now, there’s no nanners, but I can’t get a decent photo.
What I thought it was is now covered in trichromes. Learning as I go.
Mixed up the Aurora Borealis with the first and second harvest (a week later) of the NL5xAfghan and decarbed for 3 hours at 100 degrees Celsius. The result is a good painkiller and daytime mix. Thoroughly relaxes the mind as well as the body, while remaining very clearheaded and able to focus, just like I wanted. I can feel my heart beating in my chest, handsfree, and it feels amazing.
Thank you to everyone involved with these two strains. Fantastic stuff.
No yellowing of the leaves at all. Occasionally a lower leaf wilts and drops while still green, probably because less light reaches there, she doesn’t need those I guess and it’s likely she consiously drops it prematurely to feed the soil she is standing in while she is stil alive, she doesn’t even suck the nitrogen out of them. I guess she has all the nitrogen she’ll ever need! Sowing that vetch earlier for nitrogen was a good call.
It’s definitely easy cruising here. Happiest plant I’ve ever had. Judging from how far the trichromes are extending on the top leaves the harvest is gonna be very happy too! And I can let her live for as long as I want now. Wooo!!!
Flash made it all artsy. If she keeps going like this for another couple of months I’ll actually be able to give away some of my stash. Gonna need to buy some more pickled gherkins, I’m running out of jars.
12 weeks old from seed.
Less than 6 weeks since flipping to flower.
Only gets maybe a liter of water a week. Constant temperature of 20-24 degrees celsius.
It’s a growbag sitting inside a container of the same height, just a little bigger sideways, loose fit.
So there’s no air movement inside the container but plenty of room to breathe, helps slowing down evaporation, I might guess.
At 8 weeks since flip it’s ripe enough to harvest, but gonna let her grow for a couple more weeks, at least. 13 is a nice number.
Decided for the next grow to sow two more Secret Dragons, a male and female, to make seeds. The lack of smell is remarkable, I don’t wanna risk it with other strains until I have my own place again, the lack of smell is really saving my ass, so grateful for these!
Will harvest when the two other Secret Dragon seeds I just sowed in the same pot need more light. Going for a boy and girl, so they can do kissy face, making lots of seeds I can share, everyone happy!
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Cleared two little areas where I sowed, I was surprised how little I needed to clear, most of the horsemanure I added a couple of months ago has turned into pitch black soil already. Got a whole family of rolly pollies, adults and babies, roaming around doing their thing too, what a great job they do!
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Bell pepper sprouts from a seeded core I added from kitchenscraps, shall cull them when they get too big but will let them do their thing for now so any fungus gnat larvae can munch on their roots instead of the Secret Dragon seedlings.
Was considering to sow some vetch as covercrop again, but since the horsemanure decomposed so fast, and this grow showed an abundance of N and also some aphids (a sign of excess N) I’ll leave it be. Aphids definitely loved the bell pepper plant I had grown out a while back, about 40 cms high I guess, so they left the cannabis alone, which is much harder to penetrate I imagine.
So perhaps having tiny bits of all pests lurking just around the corner in their own clans is good, as it all keeps itself in check so long as you keep feeding everything with topdressing and provide habitat in the form of other plants. There’s a couple of small leaves that have a small handful of aphids, it’s ripe anyway and I don’t give a fuck about eating a few tiny insects in the teaspoon of ground buds I eat after it’s all been nuked for 3 hours at 100 degrees Celsius (decarboxylation).
Doesn’t smell unless you touch it and even then it’s faint.
Less fungus gnats get stuck in the trichromes, I just saw one run all over a frosty cola and fly away effortlessly, which means less chance of bud rot. The buds are harder than all my previously grown strains. Makes more sense that it doesn’t smell now. So they seem to be more dry and robust trichromes. (Which seems like a desirable trait to me.)
Broke a top cola during inspection, was hanging by the skin… let’s chalk it up as “stress test”.
Held together with a twisty now, for healing. I still have enough stash for another month at least, so I can keep it going for another 3 weeks.
It’s still throwing new pistils, more and more sideways and under the leaves now.
One of the seeds has sprouted and is standing as a white stem, something ate the head, but upon touching it felt very firm and strong, I intend for it to keep growing anyway, with such vigor and mighty genetics, it will be a magnificent plant. The other one is still on the way.
So I sowed a third seed, the last of the Secret Dragon seeds I have.
More chances of two surviving. Maybe even three, that’d be interesting!
