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With continuous rain, Golosa with polyploid treatment was in a bad shape. Cola’s were flopping and leaves looks damaged. I thought that leaving the flowers would only invite problems. And I harvested the plant only after 44 days flowering time. This could be an “early” phenotypes. I soaked the harvest in weak hydrogen peroxide solution overnight. Rinse with tap water and then hung the flowers to dry out side for the first two days. This is my first phase of fast drying. And I then move the drying flower into a spare bathroom to dry for the next three days. Then I put it in a glass container with burping hole. Dried, Golosa flower smell nice and delicious. The stink developed into tea, marmalade, and a bit of coffee. Overall, it made my mouth watered. In my mind, the score of Golosa already went up as smell turned from fresh animal dung into bitter/sweet medicinal herb. While buds are fat and juicy, the weight was not impressive. I got only 70 grams out of a good size plant. Even factor in potency, the yield is on the low side. And I was not able to cram in fertilizer on Golosa either. The way to increase yield is to increase vegging time. Normal Golosa is doing okay in her 6th flowering week. Buds are still developing but the size is not f as big as the one with polyploid treatment. I think she will spend one or two more weeks in flowering phase. I fed her lightly with bat guano phosphate, molasses, and amino seaweed. There was no treatment for bugs nor fungus. Also trim off some more fan leaves. This week the weather cool down a bit with no rain. Over all it was a good week for growing ganja. I pray for the weather to be like this for one more week. Then, I would get a decent harvest out of another Golosa plant. Recovered plants flowers are developing after four weeks. And I started to feed them with light guano tea. And I also start to trim off lower leaves and sucker branches. There were two plants. One was normal. And another was treated with colchicine for polyploid attempt. The treated plant showed better frost and stronger smell again. The two Golosa clones from untreated plant continues to develop. The one that was put in large 20-liters basket with depleted soil and a carpet of purslane is doing better. The in 7-liters pot with fresh mix earth worm casting and some sea purslane is doing well but not as good as the one with old soil. So I transplanted her to a basket with sea purslane. To me, this reenforce my thinking that Golosa feeds only very lightly. For Shooey my mate, I included pic of my beetle nut palm. It is a 30-meter stilt. Beetle nuts are on the ground around the plant. I have grown this plant to plug a hole underneath my fence. This worked well and stop soil erosion in that spot.