***DIVINE SEEDS *****
*****OPIUM*****
Week 22
For my outside ladies, Opium, Fractal, and Lemon Cake
These gals are weathered. Opium is taller than I can see (over 6.5 feet) but from my dining room window, I see the top 3 inches of her main cola is dead. Many dead leaves packed in the buds. Her colas on all stems are massive, sticky and resinous. My plan was to wash and make bubble hash from her. Cake is riddled with bud rot or wilt and this week I’ve cut off more stalks. Temperatures should be dropping into the 70 with nights in the 60’s but have returned to the upper 80-90 with high humidity. This week rain is expected every day following another hurricane. That was the determining factor to chop all outside girls down.
All the plants were chopped on Sept 12. Opium hung in the dark for 2 days and when Hubby started trimming up Opium he found dark areas deep in the buds and much of the bud mass just fell off. So both Lemon Cake and Opium have been tossed into the trash. I don’t even want to compost the plants in the event spores over winter. I hate losing any plant after I spent so much time growing them out but I won’t risk health over questionable harvests. I did an initial spot check on Fractal and she looked clean, but is being trimmed for a thorough inspection for any disease.
These ladies had a long vegetative phase. Probably too long since I started them in April so they would be hardened off before I went on vacay in May. Three months of veg caused massive vegetative growth, especially on Opium deep in the buds and Lemon Cake which looked more like a shrub. The various breeder notes on photos indicate late September or October harvest. So that was in the back of my mind during this grow.
All of them were in flower by early July. Light hours were over 14.5 and won’t be at 12/12 until September 26 (2 more weeks). I’m sure the plants were confused by the long veg and just said "Hell, I'm going for it" and started early flowering. I grew them too long waiting for the trichomes to develop.
👉Note for next year start seeds later in spring.
👉Plan start date based on counting back from the vernal equinox.
👉Based on such a long growing season, Autos may be preferable to finish quickly and not have extended vegetation phase before flower.
Thank you @DivineSeeds for the opportunity to grow your exotic strains. I wish I could have completed the grow with a smoke report. I was looking forward to being daydreamy psychedelically stoned, not to mention killing my chronic pain and insomnia. I do have more seeds and will try again in a controlled environment and trying topping or mainlining to keep her shorter and more manageable.
Thank you friends for the visits, likes and comments, I appreciate all of you💚.
Sending love, light, and healing 💫
💫Natrona 💫
@Natrona, the Auto Moon Rock turned out to be a mutant, I'm gonna give her to my next door neighbor for his grow closet just to see how she ends up turning out. I'll start something else since it's still early on in my grow. 😉
@StarLorr, when I applied @DivineSeeds, I asked for Overdose auto but got Opium photo. Hope opium is heavy hitter as they say. The picture with trichomes is over the top. I hope I can replicate it
Hi,
the long christmas tree like shaped plant looks a lttle stretchy. 😊 Is it the phenotype or lack of sun? Second option sounds like bs because they look fat and vital. 🤗 Very nice colours.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks and best wishes from GER.
edit: now i see what probably happenend. The same as what i have recognised with some of my girls: when you put them from inside to outside they stretch more or less. It stops after some sunny . Interesting.
I thought I might be because of the little change in day lenght. But it could also be the spectrum of the lamps or so.
Greets.
@Kommissar_aD, Hi @Kommissar_aD, this is my first time growing Divine Seeds Opium so I don't have reference for growth habits. Imma say it the genetics. I had them in a 4x4x6.5" with the lights 24 inches or more above them prior to putting outside. Our daylight is about 14.5 hours gradually increasing until July-August then the plants will flip to flower 🌼