Well, that's it folk! Harvested all 4 plants at 11 weeks of flower. The only one that I wish I could have let go longer is the Lemon Bubble, but since I needed to harvest 4 and I wanted to dry inside my tent, I took that one too. Lemon bubble had almost all milky trichomes with very few amber-quick test smoke revealed it to be a very strong "up" high. The Hawaiian Snow looked a bit strange under the scope. Some buds had almost 100% amber trichomes, while others has only 5% or so. Most has 30-50% which is PERFECT in a close to pure sativa. Don't listen to the nonsense about amber trichomes make you sleepy...it's the strain that makes you sleepy. Grow a strong sativa with an "up" high and it will still have an UP high even with 50% amber. Purple Straw Bliss ended up just reeking of cheeseberry, and it finished with the densest and biggest buds of the group with 30% amber trichs. The Rainbow Cake was the best of the bunch in terms of appearance, nice dense buds and frosty as hell with a strong candy aroma. Plants are drying now-trying to keep my temps below 70 f with over 50% RH. Left plants mostly in tact to dry, but I did trim off the big fan leaves. I will post the final numbers once they are dry. So far, testing of immature larfy buds have the Hawaiian Snow as my favorite of the group-but this might change once I try the high end buds after a perfect dry. I tried a piece of one of the HS buds with 100% amber trichs and it was a beautiful positive, creative high with zero anxiety. I will experiment with greater numbers of amber trichomes in sativas more in the future. I'm looking forward to trimming these buds in the next few days and then will update with pics of each plus dry numbers. Overall I can say that Pheno Finders is a great source of affordable genetics for a new grower while the Hawaiian Snow is my favorite plant of the group. It's not a good beginner plant, but the sharp, citrusy-pine smell and extreme stickiness of the buds, and the warm, positive high, like you're being wrapped in a warm blanket, has made this the winner of this grow. I did not flush or lower my ppms below 600 ppm in the end.
@Paulb420, Thanks bud! I just got a couple more Rainbow Cake seeds-I ordered them when I thought my clone wouldn't take(but it did), so I think I'm just going to save them and use the clone as a mother plant. Very cool strain!
@Paulb420, She's been a good grower for me, took to training really well, very fast growing seedling. I try to clone everything I sprout until I know if it's a keeper or not. You can really see the Archive genetics coming through on this plant, so I'm thinking this will be the one keeper out of this group of plants for me. Getting excited to see it pack on the weight!
@Smokwiri, Thanks! I'm proud of the comeback they're making after I light burned them, keep checking back, I'll do my best to raise them up as proper young ladies!