Pakistan Valley

Hey everyone! I wanted to try another cultivar breeder and found this cultivar to be quite unique. It's an indica landrace from the country of Pakistan. If you've watched the strainhunters episode of India, you'll know where it's at :) There are literally millions of plants in the mountains growing naturally where cannabis is used as a primary way of survival through means of bartering by creating Chavas. I can go on all day about this but to get into the specifics: https://www.worldofseeds.com/wos_en/pakistan-valley.html

The bean has popped and stretching towards the light! Here we go ladies and gents! Nothing major to report this week, just keeping an eye on the soil moisture and watering accordingly every other day 😎

Hey everyone! I did the transplant into her final pots which are 3 gallon fabric pots using my new soil additions. Let me tell you..she took off like a rocket on the growth and has been praying to the light everyday. Full steam ahead on this veg cycle. The cultivar breeder recommends to not keep her long in veg as she can become quite big apparently, so I will be doing the switch after a full 4 weeks of veg which should give me a nice shrub that will double in size by the time I'm done 😁👌

Hey everyone! This week has been incredible with the amount of growth this plant has taken on. Everyday there is noticeable differences in size and the stock is getting really thick. I would say the soil additions are working considering all organic uptake, no additives or preservatives...all organic :). The leaves have a hint of skunky gas which is exciting as you can just imagine how the buds are going to smell when this baby starts to flower ;) 😍👌

Hey everyone! I did some defoiling before switching to flower this week as some of the fan leaves were massive - about the size of my hand - and were creating quite the canopy block for the terminal nodes. There are quite the flower endpoints on this plant that reminds me of a menorah in terms of structure. I'm excited to see how this cultivar turns out. I took some clippings and did my first attempt at cloning the other day - so far so good! 😎😁

Hey everyone! This week has been on auto-pilot and growing quite nicely 😃. We're up another 3 inches this week and I decided to introduce an Exhale C02 bag to the grow at the end of this week. First day it's been in there and the plants are - HAPPY. Considering a cannabis plant can uptake up to 5 times it's current capacity of C02, the more tissue growth (fatter buds) should be the outcome. This is the first time introducing C02, but from what i've read and studied, it's a crucial component to having higher yields. Everyday this plant grows rapid...i'm happy and i'm excited to see what the C02 supplement will bring to the final harvest buds😁😎👌

Hey guys! Apologies for the late update - life gets in the way sometimes. So I must say, after a week of having the C02 bag in the tent..i'm amazed at how large these pre-flowers are - more than double in size by the day if not more. The bag has only been in the tent for 8 days and i'm impressed at how much the plants have grown. (for example, go back to the last week and look at this week.....boom). There isn't much smell yet but the plants are incredibly healthy and on autopilot for the most part. Give it another week or so and she will be really strutting her odor as full reproduction kicks into overdrive after 35 days of when flower was initiated. I can't even imagine how large these buds are going to get with this environment. For ANYONE who hasn't tried the Exhale bags, I "highly" recommend for any controlled environment as the results are beyond incredible.

Hey everyone! This week has been fairly straight forward with just a little bit of defoiling to give the canopy better light distribution and to allow light to get at the lower buds. The plant isn't stretching anymore and tissue production is in full overdrive considering 2 inches of growth this past week and the sight of frosty buds...I feel like the smell is going to smack me in the face with this cultivar once she struts her maturity. You can smell a hint of pine with skunk and that distinctive dank smell of "kush"...it's coming 😛. Day 28 of flowering and frosty, by the day you see the buds "doc-pile" in size with pistils that are almost an inch long. I put the ScrOG net in for support as the weight will be coming shortly. This cultivar says full maturity should be between 6-7 weeks, so we're just over home stretch. Couple more weeks! 😀

Hey everyone! So today marks the full day of 100% reproduction since this is day 35 of flowering. The buds are very frosty and have been "doc-piling" the last couple days with new tissue mass by the day, creating these beautiful conical shaped buds. The smell is setting in nicely...sweet and skunky. When you brush a nug, you get a heavy undertone of skunk with a sweet smell all around...i'm excited for this cultivar to really chunk up :). Couple more weeks and she'll be cut down at the stock and hung up to "slow-dry" for a week. My last grow I had the buds trimmed and in jars 5 days into the dry as the "snap" test proved perfect. (Cream Caramel diary). Stay tuned over the next couple weeks for some real mass to come out...I think this grow may turn out some of the largest buds I've grown to date 😁👌😎

Hey everyone! This was the first full week of reproduction with the babies and you can tell all power is being pushed into creating floral tissue. From last week, bud size has almost tripled and the smell is a really sweet skunk smell. This is day 42 of flowering with 1 more week to go. The trichromes are standing at attention and bulby with hints of cloud and amber starting to fill. The main stem (apical meristem) has a bud about the size of my arm that seems to swell in size by the day. Looking forward to harvest with this cultivar. The buds are dense and I can just imagine what another week is going to push into the size as a "last ditch" effort before "flowering". 😎😝👌

Hey everyone! This week has been exciting seeing them grow in mass and we're looking right near the tail end of the cycle. I'm starting to see some of the leaves on the top middle cola start to turn orange which is pretty interesting 😏. The smell in the tent is splendid - sweet skunk. Each plant has a different phenotype though as a brush of some sugar leaves on plant "left", I get sweet grapes....very distinctive. Plant "right" smells super sweet with hints of lavender followed by skunk. Trichromes look almost all cloudy with amber starting to fill up a good ratio - I'm going to let them go another week, maybe less considering I've found a lot of mixed flowering time reviews about this cultivar. I'm aiming for a flowering time of around 53-55 days - we're at day 48 now. I'll stop watering in a couple days to trigger the plant to push a trichrome boost before the chop. 😎😁. Thanks for stopping by 😏

Hey everyone! So they're in the final days before being harvested and looking quite frosty and delightful. The smell is sweet in the tent with that nice skunk undertone, although way more sweet smelling than anything. Trichromes are on par - bulby and cloudy, amber's starting to fill more by the day👍. I stopped watering about 3 days ago now and noticed the top fan leaves droop a bit - so the stress to push all those nutrients into the buds before dying are in play - buds have swelled quiiiite nice 👌. She is in a 24 hour dark cycle and will be harvested tomorrow morning. They'll both be hung up for about a week or so before doing the "snap" test. Then we trim, jar and cure for a couple weeks before I take a sample to try then....patience! 😝😁. Thanks everyone

Hey everyone! So I've harvested the Pakistan Valley which I'm happy since I needed room for the other 2 (SFV diary) which got big quick! I cut and hung to dry for a week in the tent with temps at 75-78 degree's with 45-52% humidity. The snap test on the buds after a week was good enough for me to give them a trim and jar 😎. When I took them out of the tent, the little shrubs at just under 3 feet were quite frosty and smelt beautiful. I got a decent yield of a qp (4 ozs) off 2 plants in my little micro-grow - all organic. The buds are super sticky and frosty, smell really dank and I got a couple good little balls of scissor hash which was incredible to sample in the bong. I can just imagine the potency after a month cure considering the smell and potency is already there👌