Mutant GSC

Day 73: Sorry. I've really been slacking lately. I haven't had a chance to make an update or share any pictures in a few days, but a lot has changed. Sometime last week, I made a really dumb mistake. During some organizing, I plugged the lights for my two grow spaces back in. It wasn't until 3 days later that I realized that I plugged my photo bloom light into my autoflower timer, and my autoflower light into my photo bloom timer. Her neighbors, 3 custom strain plants of mine that were just starting to bloom after a long 14 week veg, hermaphrodited almost immediately, and there was no stopping them. They kept coming back and it was pretty bad in the flower. Out of the 3 plants in the autoflower tent, one wasn't actually an autoflower, but a clone that was growing for 3 weeks. It also hermaphodited very badly. The four hermaphrodites got cleaned up as best as they could and got placed outdoors. This plant, the immitation GSC, is doing quite well. 3 days ago, I was quite nervous, looking very closely for any signs of male preflowers like her neighbor had. I didn't find any at all, but to be absolutely sure, I pruned off her smallest branch, one with a cola that is enough for 2-3 pipes worth. I quick-dried it using my usual method just to get a glimpse of the taste, and to be able to open them up and inspect them under a loupe carefully. I recently had a plant that didn't seem like it hermaphrodited, but under magnification the start of very tiny seeds could be seen, and cannibinoid content decreased towards the convergent point of the bud where all the little tiny sticks meet up and connect with the branch node. Luckily, this plant did not show any signs of hermaphroditism, nor did it taste that way (the previous one was horrible, due to the almost microscopic seeds). Infact, it tasted actually kind of great, or well, green for sure, but it gave me an idea of what to expect. Before I say what it tasted like, I just want to say that this plant is STINKY. It fills my room up for hours every time I open the tent. The smell is unmistakably like fresh strawberries. Fruit. But... I can definitely taste hints of a garlicky diesel taste coming through in the sample test. It's way too early to tell, but I don't think this smoke report is going to have much to say about any strawberry flavor. I have been inspecting her trichomes daily. She sort of paused on growth for a bit, and started using some of her stored energy, due to me being sick and not taking care of her as much as I was, and she wasn't so used to that. That was a few days ago now, and she is looking much better now. That it for this week. Thanks for stopping by, and wishing you the best on creating the next wonderful flower that you will remember for the rest of your life!