Cream Caramel!

hey guys! sorry i'm very late to the party posting this diary. I would say this grow was the most difficult to date as a) I started it in too hot of soil which from the get go made a rollercoaster ride of ups and down's. I don't have small bean pictures but wanted to give a little blurb to set some context for this diary

This week was rough! I don't know what I was thinking when I put worm castings at the bottom of the pot - then filled up with my regular pro-mix. I pretty much locked her nutrients out from the start. I need to replant!

She has been replanted into a 3 gal pot and i've added some kelp meal into this grow. She is looking a lot healthier and has bounced back (thankfully) - this is a definitely a learning experience!

Slowly but surely, she is crawling a long. Short and bushy with this cultivar and hoping things pan out into flowering (fingers crossed)

Alright guys, she is looking a lot healthier to give you some actual pictures instead of a plant that I've been nursing since day 1 of putting into the ground. She is nice and bushy and chugging a long :)

Well what do you know, she is actually getting skunky already and this never happened with the last phenotype. This could also be attributed to the stress she's been put under which invoked a hormonal response. I'm really surprised with this happening and she is getting to be quite beastly😎✋

I've switched her to flowering officially as this is a short photoperiod cultivar. The plant grows for another 35 days until allocating all resources to tissue production! I'm seeing early signs of calcium / magnesium deficiency so I will be looking to supplement using fish bone meal

I never got to the deficiency in time so it's starting to progress faster than the bone meal can be absorbed. This is going to be a bit of a wild ride to say the least 😔

Now this is science boys and girls!!!!😀😜 The fish bone meal had a chain reaction to the mycorrhizal fungi in the soil (thinking I have mold growing ontop....nope..symbiosis!!) which caused a catalyst of nutrient delivery and bam! Flowers are developing quite early and growth has kicked back despite how much this plant has gone through...wow😵

This week has been delightful considering it's been an everyday thing of making sure this baby has been okay. The floral tissue has been developing nice and it looks like the plant isn't going to get any higher..nice dwarf structure. Things are going good! 👌

Steady week, I feel like I finally get a chance to breath and let the plant do it's thing. She isn't showing any sort of growth issues and floral development has been fantastic. I have no complaints! 😎

This baby is a beast and the smell is quite skunky with hints of caramel and rum. I'm excited for this plant as the mass that builds on is incredible! Between smell, the buds look incredibly frosty and are verrrrry sticky! 🙌

This week the buds have exploded with smell and the size just keeps to build by the day. Calyx's are swelled up and buds are showing red hairs with thick swelling by the day. The color of them is incredible and pictures don't do it justice...😭😚 I will take some pictures with the light off next week to show some bud frost porn ;)

This is the last week for this baby and she will be chopped down tomorrow. This is at day 56 of flowering, the full photoperiod flowering time for this cultivar. The smell is incredible in the tent with skunky goodness with hints of sweets, rum and caramel. I will slow dry (hang the entire plant up) for about a week or so and then do a trim and determine if ready for the jars although i'm suspecting it will take longer with the slow drying method. The trichomes are perfect...cloudy and opaque in the center with bulby heads. To think, I was going to abandon this plant early on as it got to a point it was almost dead - but she bounced back with some fish bone meal which started a reaction with the mycorrhizal fungi and boom - she went on autopilot with flowering.

Update!: So after 5 days of drying in the tent, nice and cool at around 45-55% humidity, 22-23 degree Celsius. The "snap" worked out perfect with no threading when pulling a nug off the branch - tried in a couple spots to make sure it wasn't just an area...all worked out well, was even able to snap a couple branches off just by bending. After trimming the nugs and separating into 2 jars - 1 with the large cola nugs, the others with small to medium nugs and off of a plant that was just 2 feet in height, I got a healthy 52 grams total! (28 grams of large nugs, 24 grams of small/medium nugs) The smoke: After being in the jars for a couple days with boveda packs, the terpe profile has really come out..dank sweet creamy caramel. (and only a couple days like this?!..can't wait to see what a month brings). This stuff is completely - narcotic. That's the word i'd use for this stuff. You get high in levels with each bowl. Bowl 1: immediate pressure behind eyes and fluttery feeling in face and throughout body, sort of a wake up. Bowl 2: pressure increase behind eyes and you feel the onset of the creep from the first bowl with immediate couch lock. Bowl 3: I went and sat on the couch after and thought to myself.."why did I smoke a third bowl of this shit..heck, 1 bowl and let it just creep man". Overall, i'm a happy camper off this grow..1 plant almost yielding 2 oz's under incredible odds?!..2 foot shrub and voila. Now for the cure!