GGxWW

Olfactory Review - I smell chocolate early on in drying process and while i trim. with this strain. I do not taste it, and it goes away later on. Otherwise, floral scents and a little spicy. It's a nice rich smell. Always makes amazing flavored bubble hash. Taste Review - GGxWW tasted a bit like it normally tastes… spicy and I don’t even know how to describe it.. I guess earthy. While it isn’t a bad tasting flower, it just isn’t my preference. Density is good. Other seeds have been more compact, but these are more than sufficiently tight. No ovules so the entirety of old GGxWW harvests are now in the hash bag, and good riddance to that nonsense. My ‘extra’ cough is going away by the day. Yield Review - Good Yielding plant. In a 30"x30" area I would expect to push 320-350g under my current 240w setup with 4 smaller plants. As this donor no longer exists in my garden, this is highly unlikely to occur. I have 1 seed left and it's getting old. Conclusion / thoughts Some healthy-sized top colas. I like the top cola proportion of total weight - not as good as DP, but much improved from previous runs of this strain. This reduced a lot of work trimming. These lights almost certainly reduced the leaf to bud ratio too -- specifically lower on plant, i.e. a deeper "good" bud zone resulted. Both plants look extra frosty compared to previous harvests. Even top bits of hash-bin portion were fairly tight. I'm happy with how this plant turned out. A little Mg deficiency exacerbated a genetic tendency for red stems and petioles. Usually the stems aren't quite as red with previous grows of GGxWW from seed, but it got plenty from Jul 15th on. Fade in canopy was perfect for harvest. I try to err on the side of some cushion. Learned a lot for this plant and look forward to applying that increased knowledge in the future. ---------------- Ramblings First crop powered from beginning of bloom until harvest by the new lights. After finding a nice sweet spot, things went smoothly. Nugs are fairly dense quite a ways down the stems. Yield is going to be more than acceptable from this plant. Two of these would clear 300g for sure in a 30x30 area. 1.5g/w is definitely attainable without CO2 added. If this isn't at least 150g I'll be shocked. ~120+g in top colas and 1+ oucnes of decent nugs, too. -- Early guesstiate, will update with a real dry weight. I lollipopped nearly all the larf. Nevertheless, more than an ounce added to the hash bin. Basically first 2-3 buds and anything that looked leafy and difficult to trim was added. As usual, I put a good amount of decent nugs into the hash bin. I threw out all trimmed leaves this time - just more likely to introduce chlorophyl to your bubble hash for a very low return for the hassle, imo. The hash bin, even good buds, are not included in the dry weight. If the scissor hash is anything to judge by, I'm looking forward to both of these strains. I was pretty clean with the scissors and only gave a thorough cleaning to the photographed buds. Gave my try at a 'nekkid' pre-harvest photo, so all the fan leaves were removed. This gave excellent angles without touching the plant - and some angles that were damn near impossible or required significant agitation of buds. It looks nice, but may only do it with certain plants in future. For example, the way I grew out Durban Poison made it impossible to trim the central. GGxWW was a little tough in the center area, but luckily the flush really decimated the canopy. Many simply pulled off with little effort and without slivers of material pulled down the stems. Updates on drying: Day 0 - Finally put a finger on the smell I couldn’t place.. diesel/gassy, duh Drying 1 Day - Drying is definitely slower this time (an intended goal). Think the plant had a higher water content at time of harvest, which is helping. Took 2 small nugs of each and got them dry enough to grind up - no ovules from what I can tell. I've thought that before early on before, though. Half-blunt tasted horrible, of course, but with enough hash on top that it didn’t bother me for long. While it was like smoking hay, I could think something harsh was missing due to unwanted familiarity lately. Drying 2 Days - Flipped the top colas after about 36 hours (last night). Checked a couple spots and definitely drying more slowly than last couple harvests. Hopefully, it is a good 7-10 day drying period before they are put into jars with 58% 2-way humidi-paks. The citrus smell is being replaced mostly by a gas/diesel smell on Durban Poison. GGxWW overpowers smell of DP in the room. Floral, fruity with some extra sweetness. Smell is based on touching a coated sugar leaf, as they both smell a bit like grassy-hay from a close distance on the third day. May have overestimated yield slightly? Either my memory is off or a bit more shrinkage than normal. Should still easily clear 8oz in total - nearly 3 entire levels could be filled if consolidated (36” Diameter). I’ll remove the lumber before weighing, too. End of day - nice and slow... Drying 3 Days - In the AM there is still softness/moisture to the top colas with an occasional dryer spot. Excellent! Smaller nugs are not much different. Drying is going well, so far. Much slower than previous 2-3 harvests. Drying 4 Days - 5th day ongoing and progressing well. Even the smaller bits have a ways. Those are bunched up more than the top colas to slow them down the last couple days. Well, so much for a slow dry. 14+ hours (ongoing) at 80F saw to that. Stems aren’t snapping. waiting until morning to jar. Humidity has dropped, but temp should fall into 70’s in that room. I’m not so worried. Long enough that it still breaks up like normal buds and the hay smell is 100% gone after 2 days drying. Drying 5 days - Can’t snap stems in morning… holding off longer. Currently can easily be broken up with scissors and smoked as a blunt without issue. Doubt a joint would stay lit. Should be cooler today, but due to some work being done in the house, it’s in the hottest room of house these last 2 days. Still bending in evening. May end up getting close to 7 days after all. Drying 6 days - After 6 full 24-hour cycles, buds snap off main stem, but larger stems don't snap. Tossed in jars with 58% two-way humidi-paks. They'll be burped each day, and I'll weigh the same top cola jar each morning until it remains the same weight. (for each strain, as they can dry differently) This should mostly ensure everything smaller is at equillibrium too. PM - Burped jars and inspected buds. Not much different on exterior. I don’t expect this to take long to reach final dry weight. Will only know in hindsight if it is currently curing. Drying days 7 - Burped again after 24 hours in the jars; not a significant change to exterior or weight of nugs. Minor sticking a little jiggle took care of. Placed horizontally for storage this time. I don’t expect weight to change tomorrow. 33/31g for DP and GgxWW, respectively (written to hundredths, but I don’t recall those digits). Those were top cola jars with that seemed to be the most likely not to be fully dry. Burped in evening. Spot check one of the jars... Drying 8 days - A GGxWW top cola jar weighed 31.62 grams and increased to 31.68 grams with 58% 2-way Boveda 8g pack after 24 hours. Being a negligible difference, I’m calling it “dry.” So, 157 grams overall, 122 of which are top colas. Total under 240w light fixture - 111+157 = 268 grams. Four of these plants in that same 30x30 space would perform better than the setup I used this time. Harvests starting in Oct and beyond will prove me correct or not.