Strain
Well, this one was my first purple/black strain , came out great if I'm honest ! Much stronger than I expected it to, just as strong if not stronger than what I tasted at the rec shop lol. Cant believe you can rival rec shops with autos and folks arent doing this more. Maybe it's convenience sake ?
Great grow from the start, got some great vibes from St. Thomas himself at first i had no hopes these would sprout but they did and they overtook all the other sprouts in the propagator, planted them in amended soil that I amended with Mr. B's Bloom and the veg one at 5gs an L. Rippened in 64 days from sprout ! Tall, straight up with a rudiralis structure but with a few more flower nodes. Pushed out these thick indica leaves, then these amazing "strawberry" -strain like flowers that I loved. Had to support the side cola as they were almost as long as the main .The plant sort of "shivered" and bled purnurples from the tip of the flower down to the leaves starting from week 3/4. Even the most recent sugar leaves show the royal purple-colored blood searing across its veins ! The root ball was pretty small actually, i'm fairly certain you can get identical results as i did in a 2 or 3 gallon pot, and you can fit 12 to 15 of those in a 4x4 which would be 400-450gs/M2 in SOG! Covered in trichs, jarred it in miron glass, came out nice and sticky two weeks later. Smells like lemon peel and strawberries in the jar, in the grinder smells like lemons and the smoke is smooth, really tastes like grape skittles actually or (sweet) sour grapes maybe? Came out incredible. Strong, like I said, really smooth smoke, snow white ash, and it litterally tastes like grapes. Can't believe it how much it tastes distinctive, i'm guessing the rudiralis cross really supports the grapey taste. when you're pulling the smoke is sweet and a grapes, and it's not other berries, it's really grapes. For sure one of the better smokes I've ever had, and I smoked some GSCxGrape cross recently, these reminded me of that smoke but better on the grapes-side of things, still earthy though maybe a hint of coffee... sweet on the inhale and earthy on the exhale. The smoke is puffy, a sedative strong immediate head buzz, then it numbs you out a bit after an hour or so. It's an all up weed for me, but not exactly a day time smoke , this is gonna be my night time and day time companion ! It the kind of weed you want for watching a movie, video games, chilling with friends. The buds themselves were all purple covered in those oily white trichs, i loved the bud structure on them but when they dried it seemed like they suffered a bit from the heat the last two weeks of its life. Bag appeal is incredible, with the frost covered royal purple buds with the orange hairs, i mean it's gilded af !