White Widow Auto - First Real Grow

Update: Things have been curing for about 30 days now so I've been digging into the jars and sampling some of plant 2 and plant 3. I turned plant 1 into what I'm calling hash oil, but I made it with the RSO method only I decarbed everything in the oven first. I'm not really sure if I should have used more alcohol and gotten more out of it but I got about 11 milliliters of hash oil using 32 ounces of 190 proof ethanol. I mixed some of it with some cacao butter and when I make edibles really potent they actually do have an effect on me. The sativa effects are really apparent when I eat the oil. The first time I ate it I ended up staying up about three hours later than I normally do which is the first time that's happened to me in over five years. The oil from plant 1 tastes amazing. It's fruity, piney, and I swear there's even a hint of wintergreen. Plant 2 smells like what I assume White Widow traditionally smells like. I've never actually vaped or smoked White Widow before this, but I went through about a half pound of Blue Widow last winter and it smells exactly like that, minus the blueberry. It's extremely similar to plant 1 in smell. If you didn't know they were different plants it would have been hard to tell them apart. Very fruity with hints of pine and wintergreen. Vaping/smoking plant 2 is all I've done with it and all I plan to do with it. The taste after curing is pretty good but not where I want it. If I paid for it I'd want a little bit of a discount for flavor alone. I think things dried too fast when I got worried about mold. It's definitely a lot better than plant 3, but you can tell an amateur grew it. The potency however is out of this world. I thought I had a high tolerance but with this stuff I can actually get "too high" if I do too much. The stuff I was buying before I started growing tastes infinitely better but the more you use the more tired and sedated you get, no matter which strain. This stuff just gets you higher and higher and higher the more you do. I tried vaping about a gram without stopping and I had to tap out. Plant 3 smells a lot better than it did right after harvest, but it still doesn't smell good to me in any way. The most accurate description I can give it is something super sour mixed with some garlic and a single square inch of a dryer sheet. My wife who doesn't smoke describes it as sour milk and garlic. I think it dried even faster than plant 2 because it has this awful kelp/fish food taste when I vape it that I know is coming from the leaf material and not the terpenes. Plant 3 isn't as dense as plant 2 which is why it probably dried out too fast. However, it's even more potent than plant 2. The potency is so amazing I'm willing to overlook the terrible taste, which again, I think came from drying too fast, not from genetics. Just for frame of reference for what kind of weed I'm used to, my provider (this is all according to him so it could be complete BS) gets his clones from someone that won the Michigan Cannabis Cup and that same guy mentored him (they're family) and taught him everything about growing. He's spoiled me with what I'm used to when it comes to taste. --- Before I get into details of the harvest, I just wanted to note that the way I did this grow journal was intended to help the next person that was overwhelmed by all of the details of growing, but still wants to take a shot at it. Growing is something I've been passionately interested in for a long time, but it just seemed too overwhelming to me. Seeing the entire grow process broken down week by week and seeing the details that people look for in their journals helped me a lot, so I wanted to make this journal as helpful as I could for people like me. In the future my journals probably won't be as well-documented as this one. Losses to mold were minimal. I probably scrapped about 15-20% of plant 1 and no other mold showed up anywhere else. I'm thinking the humidity got up too high in the 24 hours of dark before chopping so I'm going to avoid dark period before chopping unless I can get the humidity stable at 30% during the dark period. I really don't know if the mold should have been better or worse so I'm just saying this strain has neutral resistance. I need more grows under my belt to know if it's actually resistant or easy to grow. Plants 1 and 2 are somewhat similar in smells, very fruity and if you leave your nose in the jar it turns into a lavender smell with a hint of camphor. Plant 2 had a grape smell going when it was growing but now that it's dry, that grape smell is completely gone. Plant 3 smells like straight up cheese in the worst possible way. It's the worst smelling weed I've ever smelled in my entire life, but it's every bit as potent as anything I've ever encountered. I have a severe dairy allergy so if I take a big whiff of anything that smells even a little bit like dairy, it makes me gag. Plant 3 literally makes me gag if my leave my nose in the jar. Plant 3 is so close to having a chemdawg smell profile but it's like it's just missing one really important terpene that makes the gas/mothball smell appealing. The taste is luckily a lot better than the smell, and the potency makes me just fine with how it smells. I'm some kind of weirdo that can't tell a difference between a sedating strain and energizing strain. I've yet to encounter a single strain that has ever given me energy, but I always have ~10mg of CBD in my system, so that might have something to do with it. I haven't experimented too much with any of the plants yet because I want them cured before I start digging in, so take these descriptions with a grain of salt. Plant 1 is just a standard "mild high" and I think I'm going to make an alcohol extraction like RSO out of it so I can have a odor-free method of consumption, plus that should kill any mold that remains. Plant 2 has more of what I assume to be a "sativa" high because I notice I can't sit at my computer for very long after vaping it. I just feel like there's stuff to do and I HAVE to get it done after vaping plant 2. Plant 3 has a full body melt kind of high where lifting your arms feels like something you should be getting paid to do. I might have just been really tired when I tried plant 3 though. I went really light on trimming since I only use a vaporizer and edibles do nothing for me so weights might be a tiny bit higher than normal. Plant 1 produced 67 grams. Plant 2 produced 93 grams. And plant 3 produced 107 grams.