Sour 60 was my 2nd grow and more of an experiment project than anything else to better understand seed production of the plant than anything else. The growth characteristics are that like the name suggests, it's a very fast growing plant, no issues with mold or pests. Plant stature for this plant was short, about 12" and had characteristics of the purple phenotype but since I cannot compare to the donkey dong phenotype, I'd conjecture that I may have had a good cross between the two as the main cola has many seed pods with 4 branches with very few. So if I won the genetic lottery and got a good cross, I may have to keep growing this and stabilize it out so goals for breeding if I choose to continue.
As for advice on this strain, using a good, well draining soil is key for the fast grow, if using poor draining soil it will grow slowly as a seedling as I've been experimenting with another soil on another grow. Definitely easy to take care of, if soil has good nutrients, very little needs to be added as its life span isn't that long. For figuring out sex, the plant will show the males very early on, I think it was late in week 2 or week 3. Since I had more males and one female, the males are extremely tall and have a very tall and wavy growth pattern and produce lots of pollen, would definitely recommend the males if you were to play around with making auto strains. Watering habits were pretty heavy on the water at first and kept pretty dry during late flower and the female plant coped well, plant prefers dry soil conditions and humidity on the drier end didn't affect plant much. Would guess that this would be a good plant to grow indoors during the winter as Temps around 68-80dF didn't bother the female or the males earlier on.
Smell has matured to a sweet and sour tangy diesel with a hint of lemon. Trichomes don't appear to frost as prolific like other varieties but sufficiently for consumption but the resin amount produced is higher than I've seen than my first grow, a C99 which was more sativa. As for effects, that will be more of a "too be continued" as the trimmings will be made into a tincture and I'm hoping for good effects, mainly relaxation to help with sleep. As for weight, I didn't get a chance to weight the out branches but the main cola weighed in at 14 grams wet and that is all seed bearing plant matter, it would be interesting to see the growth characteristics with the same female plant that wasn't pollinated but we'll see with the next batch.
As for seed production, I believe I harvested maybe a touch early, as most pods on the top of the plant's outer branches weren't viable as they were easily crushed between my fingers. However the reason I decided to harvest was that I saw a ripe seed on an aluminum foil catch I made. One seed and impulsiveness kind of made me think today was the day. Which l learned a quite a lot, namely let it dry out a bit more before handling and handle with gloves. The outer branches produced about 40 usable seeds with maybe the same amount at below seed maturity. What I call "mature" are seeds that are tiger stripped, with a good half of the "immature" in various shades of light tan to light brown. Looking at seeds I have for other strains, my guess is that most of the immature ones could still be used and would more than likely produce plants. I've yet to harvest the main cola's seeds as I've going to dry it out more so that seed extraction is a little easier, with the hopes of getting 3-4x as many seeds. If producing for maximum amount of seeds, I'd let it grow for 2 more weeks but I'm happy with the amount as it has been a good experience for me.
Next level of seed production goals is to produce feminized seeds as I think it's a worthy goal to better show not skill but rather experience gained and willingness to try something different. Most grows I see are all about producing the most yield, which is definitely a great outcome however most of the time I see overly trained plants where yields from that I see are negatively affected. Though a yield is produced, it's colas are great and easy to process. I think a plant worked with it's genetics would produce more than an overly trained plant. The only upside to an overly trained plant is easier to process colas. The downside is less peripheral yield and dangers of over stressing plants. Sour 60 on the other hand, the purple dong that I have produced would great as with autoflower plants, train-ability is limited and a plant with a single fat main cola would be great, especially if it's easy to grow and bonus if its purple as it's a cool visual to produce.
Recommending this plant, it's difficult to say since outcome is for seeds with effects and yields aren't yet known to me. Should I grown it and tested the bud? Probably but in life sometimes it's just better to try somethings out on a whim. So I guess I can put it this way, I would highly recommend this plant if yield doesn't matter but time does for yielding bud, I would also highly recommend this plant's genetics if autoflower genetics are important to your hybrid. As for my rating I'm giving it 8/10, if bud production and effects are average it might make it an 8.5 or 9 for me as I'm pretty happy with the end results and this strain.
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