Strain
I've had weak autos with more potency. Two plants, very small fairly tight buds covered in orange hairs, and it's a pretty "reveal" when you peel off the leaves. Gassy stinky and although it isn't cured, I'm just talking about the effects. If a strain has some nice smells, tastes, colors - that's just a bonus. Truly the only things I care about are potency and (a distant 2nd is) yield. Weak for a regular smoker. I could've let them go a week or two longer, to be completely fair, but the grow was almost perfect otherwise. Prob won't run Ripper again with so many others to try out. The Planet of the Grapes that I'm running, along with Cali Connection LA Cookies and Mamiko Chem Cookies put both of these strains to shame already.
Looking back a month after harvest I think I chopped 2-3 weeks too early, and it's unfair to blame the genetics when I was trying for only my 2nd successful grow. They looked healthy but under-developed, smallish and I stunted them by flipping to flower too soon after topping them.