Mephisto Pink Livers #1 (LST)

This is the end... beautiful friend. Welcome back to the finale of the Pink Livers grow! She came down bang on Day 70. The trichomes were only hinting at ambers, but judging the whole plant, she was done. >> HARVEST AND TRIM << Holy shiiiiiiiiii... These are the most dense, dankest nugs I've ever grown. Absolutely rock solid and full of fat calyxes. I was a bit disappointed with the wet weight, eyeing the size and weight of each bud I was expecting to break 300+ but in the end came up just shy. I expect she'll shed quite a lot of that weight, but I would hope she'll give me a good 2.5oz of dry at the end of it all. She is without a doubt the stickiest thing I've ever seen and absolutely stank during trim, even outdoing Lemon Pie which pretty much gave me a headache from the smell. I've trimmed the whole thing pretty tight from the outset. Normally I would leave a bit more leaf on the bud for the first 2-3 days of drying at least, but the buds were so fat in places and so utterly dense that I am a little more concerned about mould that I might usually be. She's all hanging to dry now in a rack, with 50% Relative Humidity and temps around 20-22C. >> DRY BUD REPORT << It took about 5 days to dry in my hanging rack, now I've put them into jars, but I'll keep the lid off for a full 24 hours, just to slow up that final part of the dry so they don't get crispy. After that they'll get the lids screwed on with 62% Boveda packs. Final weight all trimmed was 82g, ready for cure. Honestly, these buds look like straight fire. They're covered in crystals, practically crack under touch. Nice and dense and very little popcorn, probably in total only 5-10g. The rest is all in good size, stacked buds. The smell is very sour and earthy with a strong gasoline vibe, proper skunk-y. I froze the trim and ran it on a mesh screen and took 5.5g of dry sift from the discarded leaves before they hit the trash. >> EARLY SMOKE << Obviously it needs a good cure to get the best, but already this is a good night time smoke. One for pain relief or insomnia by the feel of it. I'm a casual smoker really but this hits fairly hard. Good vibes though. Worth a proper cure for sure to make sure she is nice and smooth. >> FINAL THOUGHTS << Overall this was a good plant to grow. Easy enough, had a few issues with Calcium in the middle and I had to do a full flush about mid-week 7, but after that was fine. Very hungry and VERY VERY smelly. If you grow this, seriously, heed the warning, this plant stank out my whole house for the last 3 weeks of life. LST was great, she took it like.a champ and grew out really nicely, overall very easy to train, since her structure was quite open anyway, so I didn't have to work too much on defoliation throughout the grow. I'll definitely grow it again, I have 4 seeds left and will definitely plant them all at some point. At teh start of the diary I mentioned that Mephisto gets a lot of hype. So do I now think they're worth the hype? Hmmm.. so-so. It was a great plant, but just from a growing perspective, nothing that unusual or special. The truth will be in the real smoke in a couple of weeks, but the buds are really good looking so I'd say they're worth growing for sure. Thanks so much for following along. I think I'll try a few other Mephisto next as well as some Fastbuds. I have some Fastbuds testers that I want to do first probably, but then I'll be doing a Sativa dominant strain next, just for some variation. Either Mephisto Bubblegum Smile, or Fastbuds Orange Sherbert. Cheers!