šThe Goodš
Miss Monk has been a hell of a fun girl to grow, she has grown big fat colas with big fat buds. She if very pungent in smell with a very papaya tone to her while growing.
Now that she is dried and 1 month cured I can tell you she still has retained that tropical papaya smell to her with some backup notes for sweet and fruity.
Vaping her I find the taste to be on the Earthy and Pine side with just the lightest hint of a little skunk. Itās very pleasant and nice, but the fruity sweet tones werenāt there in the vape and thatās ok. Some of the other fruity and sweet weed out there get tiring and overbearing after a couple days. Having an earthy pine taste to her makes her a bit more āclassicā and itās a taste that is nice long term day in and day out.
Her effects have changed a lot in the last month. Smoking her right after she dried vs a month into cure is 2 very different experiences. Right after we she finished drying, she was peaky in the high, very energetic, and was very hard to sleep on. Now that we are a month in the cure she has mellowed out a lot. The high is more blunt, last longer, and very smooth. She still a sativa and sheās not going to couch lock you, but she makes you want to do more creative or interactive activates like reading a book, drawing, playing an instrument, or video games. Now that she is cured I can also sleep on her, she wonāt really put you to sleep but she will let you and will give you nice creative dreams.
Barneyās Farm lists her as an 80% Sativa, and Iām not use if itās just my pheno but I would have rated her more along the 60% Sativa scale. She is still talkative, engaging, and interactive, but itās more like a nice coffee house high with your friends, or itād be awesome to smoke during a night of billiards.
šThe Badš
I had some excess heat issues in the grow room, and my Funny Monk really didnāt like the excess heat. Now keep in mind this is 28-30C at the hottest points, the excess heat was just that, excess, it wasnāt extreme. Miss Monk had tacoāing leaves fairly badly, she also produced ~5 bananas across the entire plant that I found. I marked the colaās that I found bananaās on and kept them separate for me to smoke first. I can tell you that I have yet to find a seed and that makes me very happy.
šHarvest In Numbersš
450w LED above her (From the wall)
7.53 sq.ft (0.7 sq.m)
2,137 g (75.38 oz) Wet Total
452.5 g (15.96 oz) Dry Total
21.2% Net dry weight
23 weeks growing
1 week drying = 24 weeks total
452.5 g / 24 weeks = 18.85 g / week (0.67 oz /week)
452.5 g / 47 branches = 9.63 g / branch (0.34 oz / branch)
452.5 g / 450 watts = 1.01 g / watt
452.5 g / 0.7 sq.m = 646.4 g / sq.m
Miss Laughing Buddha was in her own ~2āx4ā measuring it out itās a little under that so I used 0.7 sq.m or 15.1 sq.ft as the actual size.
I used a max of 450w during flower, but with the heat issues I was having (due to the 30 C outside temps) she only had 450w for about ~2 weeks of flower. The rest of the time the LED light power was below 450w and Iād say the majority of the time she only got around ~300w of power. However Iām going to use the 450w for the calculation as that is the peak that she received.
Barneyās Farm quotes her as 600 g/sq.m and she outperformed that with 646.4 g/sq.m showing that their estimate is well within reason.
She produced 1 g/watt and I consider that a very conservative estimate since most of the time she was down around the 300w range. If I did the numbers with 300w sheād be up in the 1.5 g/watt area, I think the truth for this girl is somewhere between those two numbers.
21.2% net dry is prefect for this girl, itās right in the sweet spot that I usually see.
A very impressive (especially with the long flower time of her at 73 days) of 18.85 g/week growing.
šFinal Thoughtsš
I think one of the reasons why my girl has come out more on the ārelaxingā end and not as much on the āenergeticā side is because of her ripeness when harvesting. She ripened more then I think I was supposed to let her. She had tons of amber through her trichomes, just riddle with them, and I think that is why she more on the relaxing end. Not sure shy she ambered in so fast and dense, but I donāt regret it one bit. I have lots of energetic sativas and I really like her mellow side to her, itās still happy, active, and engaging but her mellow side makes her great for an engaging in evening with friends. A very very nice sativa that has the relaxing effects that I love after a long week of work.
Iām giving her a 9/10, I think she is near perfect but Iām deducting 1 point for the sensitivity to the heat that she showed.
I would definitely recommend anyone to give her a grow, she is very easy to grow and will make you feel like a superstar with the yields and quality that she produces. Iāll be growing her again in the future and Iāll be growing her during the winter so I can control the temps more easily.
Not sure if Iāll send her to a lab for testing or not. Iāll update with the results if I send her to the lab.
5 years ago