Pineapple express Zambeza #1 outdoor

Pineapple express... just the name ecoes inside cannabis users heads. Maybe because of the movie or maybe just because of the pineapple smell and flavour. This plant is the first photoperiod strain I have ever grown and the ride was a turbulent one. From yellowing leaves, to wilting leaves, thirps, to breaking branches 🤦‍♂️ And when I thought that finally everything was going smoothly, right at the final 3 weeks of flowering appeared the damn spider mites! This was a hard fought battle by both sides, but my fingers proved to be fatal in a devastating fashion. By crushing these lil f****** everyday I managed to keep everything kind of in check until harvest without having them destroy my precious buds. I am too stuborn to let my 23 weeks of hard work go to waste. I am very happy with this plant overall, the plant started turning purple in some buds and I'm sure she would get even more purple if she didn't have mites sucking her out. So I left the remaining of the plant still in her pot to see how it goes next year and maybe cross this plant with a male to see what we can get out of here... 👨‍🔬 The smell coming out of this plant was very sweet and definetly fruity. I am eager to smoke this plant and do a nice review of it. I dont usually weigh the buds but I guess there will be around 70 grams of dry bud. The Harvest: This harvest was one of the most difficult I have ever done due to the mites still being in some little sugar leaves and because of the quantity of leaves that had to be removed. It took me around 3 hours! 🤯 I prefered to dry without the fan leaves in this case because I'm sure the mites would of made plenty of new homes for them and this way allows me to preserve more bud and trichomes But I'm still doing 2 inspections a day to make sure they disappear for good. I believe drying with fan leaves on preserves more trichomes but it is better to do it that way if you have very good drying conditions. Not for me on a cardboax 😅 This season is almost over due to the fact that I only grow outdoors and don't have any indoor equipment. Still I have 2 more autoflowers going strong and nearing their harvest so make sure to check them out if you haven't yet already! I am very thankfull to have a platform where I can share my grows to a community of other growers from all around the world and conect with them and share experiences and even get some seed sponsors along the way! and I am also very thankfull for each and every company that has sent me their seeds and I comit myself to bring the best of each and every seed that was given to me. Thank you all very much for visiting and liking over the course of these weeks! Happy growing!