Blueberry by FastBuds in AutoPot

Ok so just like with the OG plants, one of the blueberry’s is waaay bigger than the other. In fact, one of them is an absolute monster and the biggest plant I have ever grown. To the point where if it was any bigger it would have been pretty unmanageable. Even at this size, iv not been able to get round the back pretty much since it started flowering. It does have a tall slim fan behind it zip tied in the corner and I have spun it once or twice but it’s hard in the AutoPot trays because obviously they are connected to the res. It all looks fine, no bud rot or anything catastrophic so that’s good news. It is taking longer to mature - the buds just keep swelling and swelling but hardly any pistols have turned yet and that’s usually a signal to me to start trich checking. Probably get the chop after New Years. Either that or just before but my experience tells me it ent gonna be done by then. Strangely the opposite thing that happened with the OG Kush happened with the blueberry in that the smallest plant finished first. Although it has basically been yellow since like 2-3 weeks into flower, it has also finished. Must have been a quicker finishing pheno. I mean, it certainly was a diff pheno and not just a smaller one of the same because the leaf to calyx ratio is totally different as well as the internodal space. Same with the OG plants actually. One of them had way less leaves around the edges of the buds. It looked less evil with less of the sugar leaves for some reason. Anyway, I also chopped the small blueberry as it was done. It smells Devine, really sweet! Definitely blueberry-ish but the other one REALLY smells of blueberry’s. Not sure if I have actually ever had straight blueberry. I’m in the UK so I went through a long time of blue cheese years back when I was actually buying buds but even the gangs that control that don’t grow it anymore. Mainly hazes - around this area anyway. Iv ALWAAYS failed to understand why. Firstly I’m not a fan of hazes at all (it seems to have a weird boxy, cardboards taste to it, odd I know but it does to me) but that isn’t why I’m confused. If all the gangs or people who organise big grows (please excuse my ignorance on how big quantities of bud is produced in the Uk)care about profit, which they obviously do, why are they growing a sativa dom strain that takes way longer to finish up…it just doesn’t fit. I suppose they may be doing auto hazes? I don’t notice a difference in strength or how high they get me compared to mine. I dunno l, just a random thought but yeh. I do wonder about the biiiiig commercial growers in this country. Particularly when I had started growing but I wasn’t actually good enough to be able to produce enough to be self sufficient so was also buying. If anyone knows how it works at all, please do enlighten me! I certainly don’t think they would have upgraded to LED! Why bother?! I mean from their perspective - it’s not like they pay for the energy anyway most of the time. I’m pretty confident it is primarily Thai gangs that setup the grows here but again that could easily be misinformation spread by police and the bbc. Who knows?! Anyway… I’ll add some more pictures later as well as update the actual harvest tabs and wet weights and stuff. It’s just I woke up super early today so am just chilling waking up. Oh yeh, just before Xmas I was running out of bud so I raised my freezer where all my trim was stored. I ended up making some bubble hash (I had a box of wet trim where I wet trimmed the strawberry banana) and that’s why I made bubble hash with it but the dry trim I decided to make a tincture with. The reason I’m saying this is I used the double boiler method of decarbonisation and my oh my what a difference. Obviously I only have a regular cooking oven and mine is super cheap so the temp regulation is really bad. I ground this lot up using a ‘whizzer’ then banged it in a jar and put that (with a lid on) into a pot of boiling water on the hob. As soon as it started boiling I turned the heat down to a low, rolling boil. I left it on for 1h but was picking it up and shaking it every 15 mins. I then used polish spirytus 95% ethyl alcohol and made my tincture as normal (I used the fast buds method, using their video). It is basically just making a diluted RSO. This is the same method I am going to use in order to process my CBG plant into medicine, although I will most likely evaporate it more than I did so I can simply use the pipette that comes with the 50ml dropper bottle instead of having to shake it up and pour it in. I also realise I didn’t evaporate off all the alcohol because when I added it to orange it tasted ever so slightly of alcohol and it also wasn’t thick and viscous like RSO. Oh I did add a small amount of water to one round of the wash process just to mean there was more liquid to be able to seperate it from the plant matter. Anyway, the point is it worked really well and I could def tell from the effects that a lot more of the terps were left in the tincture. It tastes worse than the strawberry nana tincture I made but I figure that’s because I used trim rather than buds so there would also be more lipids an just general leftovers in the mix. Next time I’ll be using a metal strainer first , like last time, but then I would use coffee filters. It was pretty gross having little bits floating in the drink I banged it in. UPDATE - it’s all looking good. This plant is an absolute whopper! Definitely on par, if not bigger than my biggest plant to date - the gorilla glue. I’m surprised as well. Obviously the blueberry is more ‘indica’. Or I should say more short, stocky with wide leaves because I’m not convinced the whole sativa/indica argument actually stands up today in the mutt gene pool that’s been created due to prohibition. Not that I’m complaining! I just don’t like throwing around terms that don’t really mean anything. Some ‘sativas’ I find to be more sedating than other ‘indica’ dom varieties. I dunno 🤷‍♂️. It still amazes me how each pheno will affect every person differently…just one more incredible aspect of this amazing plant I guess! Oh, also, the photos REALLY do not do this plant justice. When I harvest them, hopefully it will be at the same time and I can get a shot of the bigger one next to the small One.