Blue Ox

HARVEST DAY!! 10 Aug 2021 Today this little beauty gave up her bud in the easiest harvest I’ve had to date! Ok; so what if it’s only my third plant? It was still easier than the other two. If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’ve remarked on this little lady’s size on many occasions. She’s a small plant, but has some huge buds! She’s much different than the previous two plants I’ve grown. The main difference is that her branches never got hard! They are are super soft, and flexible which makes it look weird and break easy. I already have over 10 grams of her dried and ready to smoke from the branches that broke when I moved her after harvesting her tent mate. Her buds never stood up on their own, and always needed support. 🤷‍♂️ Another difference are her leaves. First off, she’s not a very leafy plant compared to my other plants. Many of her fan leaves started to dry up and die in the last few weeks. I noted that numerous times in my logs during those weeks. However, today, that made the harvest so much easier! It took me just 7 minutes to cut this little lady up to get ready to trim. I laid all the branches down neatly on a foil covered cookie sheet and gathered my pruning shears to get to trimming! First thing I did was start plucking what fan leaves she had left off. Surprisingly, pulling them off nearly trimmed the whole damn thing! I’m not kidding. After I pulled the leaves off she was nearly bare to her buds. All I had to do was clip off the super tiny sugar leaves, and boom. Done! I started harvesting her at around 5:00 pm, and was completely done and ready to get my wet weight by 10:00 pm. From first cut, to hanging up and trimmed in 5 hours! That’s a record for me. I’m usually trimming all night. Now let me talk about the smell for a minute. My wife was gone when I started the harvest, and I was already into trimming when she got home. She opened the door and walked in and just stopped. She looks at me and said, “That smells just like fruit! Not weed; but berries, fruit, fruity. It smells even better than the Blueberry Muffin.” I put it in quotes, because that’s what she said. I will admit, she does smell divine! She is a hybrid of Blueberry and The Ox. I have no idea what The Ox smells like, but my Blue Ox smells like blueberries galore!! As I mentioned earlier; I already have over 10 grams of her trimmed, dried and curing from broken branches a couple of weeks ago. Her buds smell sweet and fruity. I haven’t tried it yet, but I will for the smoke report once everything is done and she’s in jars curing. After I trimmed her, I got her wet weight and then hung her up to dry. I think she’s going to be drying for the next week at least. By looking at her, she looks like she has less volume than my previous plants. But, her wet weight is a little over half an ounce more than her tent mate I harvested on July 28th. We’ll just have to see how it turns out. I get my weight by weighing my trimmed, wet bud while still on the branches before I hang it up to dry. Then, I weigh it all again once it is dry. I do this to get a direct comparison from wet and dry bud. Then I separate the bud from the branches and weigh them alone to get the harvest’s TRUE weight. Right now she’s just starting to dry, so I will leave the harvest report here for now. I’ll let you in on the rest when it’s done! Fast forward 8 days! 18 Aug 2021 It has been 8 days and my buds are dry!! They took a little longer to dry, but not much. The buds are quite lovely to look at, and they are still nice and dense after drying. I’m interested in getting the final weights done, so I won’t keep blabbering on, and I’ll just get to it. My weights were/are as follows: Wet trimmed bud (on branches): 8.464 ounces, (239.95g) Dry trimmed bud (on branches): 2.251 ounces, (63.8g) Dry trimmed loose bud: 1.906 ounces (54.034g) I had 10 grams already dry and cured from broken branches on 7/28/2021, so after adding that 10 grams to the harvest weight, the final harvest weight of my Blue Ox was 2.257 ounces (64g) I was able to fill three pint sized jars up to 75% full, add small hygrometers and begin the curing process. The buds still smell absolutely amazing! It is really fruity and sweet smelling, not like other strains that I’ve smelled. It’s a lot like my Blueberry Muffin that I harvested a few weeks ago, but still different. My wife’s opinion is something that I value greatly. We’ve been together for over 29 years, so I’ve learned to listen to her opinion over the years. She says that my Blue Ox here is the best smelling marijuana she has also ever smelled. We just need to see how the smoke report goes! 19 Aug 2021 SMOKE REPORT I’m going to start by saying WOW! This lovely Lady smells amazing in bud form, but DAMN!! Ground up it just fills your nose with a fruity sweet smell that is hard to relate to marijuana. It is a mix of berries, tropical fruit, and earth. The taste is different to me than my wife in that I taste a hint of grapefruit at the end, but my wife only tastes the sweet berry, fruit flavors. She says it’s like raisins at the end, but I don’t taste it. It really doesn’t matter because it’s nice and smooth, and tastes lovely either way you look at it. The effects were different for my wife and I as well, but kind of the same. It’s just the degree of like ability that’s different. Let me start by stating a sort of disclaimer. The bud we smoked is from the broken branches from July 28th. The branches broke while I was moving the plant during the harvest of another plant, and they were just hung up to dry with the Blueberry Muffin I was harvesting at the time. The rest of the buds (which have just begun to cure) have not been tried yet, and kept growing and maturing for an additional 2 weeks. Now, after having said all that; Blue Ox is super chill! The effect is slow and gradual (but not too slow), but wholly complete. You feel it first in your perception of the world around you. What I mean is that you become super focused and calm. All of your pain slowly begins to disappear until it’s all gone. Neck, back, knees. Pain free! Your mood is relaxed to the point that you don’t want to do anything but just chill out and relax. It was like being in your normal mode, but knocked down to low gear. I didn’t note any euphoria, or other “high” kind of head effects at all, but I was so relaxed that I didn’t care. My wife is in LOVE with this strain. She says it is the best that she has tried to date, and likes it very much. Munchies!!! OMFG! Snacks are a must for this strain because you can’t seem to stop snacking, but that’s not all together a bad thing. Overall, I’m pleased with this strain, but I am hoping for more heady feelings from the main plant once it has been given time to cure properly. As it is now, if the effects hold true; Blue Ox is something that I would want to smoke after a particularly hard or stressful day. If you need to clear your head of worry or stress, or you’re feeling some pain anywhere and just want to relax, then Blue Ox is the strain for you. If you’re having any problems with nausea, or loss of appetite, or just need to eat, then Blue Ox may be for you as well. It’s said to be used by cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy, and I can see how that may be a benefit of this strain. I’m beginning to understand the many differences in the world of marijuana, and I can see how every strain can find it’s own niche in the world. Weed is wonderful, and I enjoy learning more and more about it, and improving my understanding of it all with each plant I grow. If the effects of smoking the Blue Ox change after smoking the other bud once it has cured for a couple of weeks I’ll update the smoke report accordingly. Until then; this concludes the grow diary for my Blue Ox by Rare Dankness Seeds Happy growing everyone!!