Hi, grower brother. I've passing by on your diaries and unfortunately, your entries have stopped and my particular interest on your grow of La Diva from the spaniards of Delicious Seeds keeps me wondering how was the flowering and harvest from La Diva. I know that was three years ago your grow and probably you won't remember great deal of it, but let me share my experience about growing Delicious Seeds stuff. Normally they have wonderful photoperiodic strains and their Sugar Black Rose or the "daughter" Eleven Roses are amazing cultivars with great yeld and smoke quality above average...but...yes, but...the automatic stuff of Delicious Seeds and so far I have already done three auto strains, ...a Northern Lights Auto, a Critical Jack Herer Auto and an Auto Dark Purple and none of it, was even average. Mostly, the genetics, yelds and overall quality on automatics on Delicious is below average. All the automatic strains of Delicious that I have grown were close to failure. Mostly the genetics was on some cases a complete mess. The Northern Lights, I remember that the buds were awful with very raw amount of pistils, and after dried the buds were a true shame. The veg phase was promising but after flowering the buds were mostly incomplete and it was very visible that on the sugar leafs there were a great number of trifolium ( three pointed leafs that revealed the strong ruderalis genetics presence that reveal the incomplete development on the generations used to obtain the automatic character. The Critical Jack Herer Auto was supposed to be a clear Sativa, had raised a full Indica hybrid with low density of buds and the buds were very airy and no compact at all. Beside, the cultivar even with fimming and some apical cuts over the process raised more than 150 cms and for an auto from seed to harvest the 70 days maximum announced by Delicious Seeds, turn on a cycle of nearly 100 days (so a month more)...finally the Auto Dark Purple was the lesser "bad" but miles away of being a genetics "state of art", with some problems on the veg phase and mostly the undersized pheno, the cultivar doesn't exceed more than 75 cms, so a "shorty" one and acceptable central cola size bud but the side branches with not a very convincing size and density on the side buds.
So and I wonder three years ago what was the final "score" of the La Diva cultivar.
The only diary that ended on the La Diva grow, showed a plant very elongated (almost etiolated and huge space between nodes) with scarce "snowflake" buds and a very ugly pheno (almost no secundary leafs or side branching).
The main characteristic that I noticed on the photos is that despite of a Indica pheno that is expected the grows shown that very pronounced space between leaf sets, mostly like the most savage of sativa plants.
So i have all the doubts on growing the three auto strains that I have from Delicious such as La Diva, Il Diavolo or even the F1 hybryd Lord Kush Fast Flowering.
Unfortunately, Delicious has gave me the right to think that growing their automatic strains is a waste of time and resources.
I will like that ask you if you still have some photos of the flowering stage and the harvest of your La Diva grow.
Thanks a lot. Green greets
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