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Golosa normal dried by hanging in my garage. Dry weight was at 120 grams. Comparing to polyploid treated, I got more weight out of this plant. The gain was probable from extra four weeks in total growing time. I am happy with 120 grams yield from 12 hours natural sun light set up. Buds dried in an unfamiliar fashion. The fat juicy buds shriveled up but still sticky wet. I think Golosa has Sativa leaning bud structure but produce large amounts of wet sticky trichome. A good goal for Cannabis breeding. The wet buds are sticky but easily burned. Smoke was smooth right out of drying. Taste was sweet. And there was only a small bit of spiciness. The polyploid Golosa was full of peppery caugh. Warning, Golosa is to be smoke just before going to bed. Effect hit fast and hit hard. Whacking dizzying with THCV impact. After stumbling to bed there was not much time to enjoy the euphoria. Normal Golosa bud is more potent than polyploid Golosa. I went into deep slumber and woke up late on the next day. I have remaining two plants. They are doing fine in bad weather. Temperature went up to 38 degree Celsius (100 degree American). The week was wet with a tropical cyclone storm. After 7 weeks in flower, recovered plants developed respectable trichome. I think I am letting the treated plant go to 9 weeks of flowering. The untreated plant will go for 10 flowering weeks. This past week, the plants showed high sensitivity to fertilizing again. I gave them another dose of bat guano, molasses, and epsum salt, and amino-seaweed stuff. Epsum salt was for potassium. And it is additional to my normal fertilizer schedule. Then a couple of days later, Golosa show burn spots on leaves. This strain has high sensitivity to nutes. Remaining treated plants showed sign of mite attacked. I think it is more of phenotype issue than polyploid characteristic. Remaining untreated plant has darker green leaves. I think it is more of phenotype issue than polyploid characteristic. Summarizing my first dabbling into making polyploid: One out of four plant showed clear differences in characteristics. Polyploid plant is more peppery smell. Potency was strong but not as strong as normal Golosa. Polyploid roots was not strong. And cloning was difficult. Polyploid plants was shorter. I don’t like firs generation of polyploid plant. It could be a useful tool for breeding “triploid” plants to reduce hermaphrodite tendency and make shorter plants.