Sour Diesel mainline

Harvested day 88 of flower. (weight is DRY) My opinion after 10 days of drying and 2 to 3 weeks of curing: Harvest: - Dried her over the course of 10 days exactly, which was what I was aiming for. No difficulties at all regarding rot or hay-like smells - The budstructure wasn’t very easy to trim but after a good few sessions I got her trimmed. Humidity was still quite high after trimming but after a few longer burp sessions humidity stabilised at 59-62% humidity, which is fine for now. Will slowly work that down to a more general 58/59% for easier grindability. Right now she’s a little hard to grind still. Yield was a very surprising 165 grams dry. I had expected around 90 so I’m very pleasantly surprised. It has to be said again, though, that this is with the bud being slightly more humid than I would store it at long-term. Bud characteristics: - Smell improved over the course of the cure. The smell is citrus, slightly floral and dank, maybe a little bit gassy No real rubber or fuel terms like I hoped. I wanted something crazy but sadly that didn’t happen. Still a pleasant smell however. The smell is slightly translated in the taste. Mostly masked by the classic earthy/dank weed taste however. Citrus does slightly come trought.
The effects are good. Good hybrid high that leaves you relaxed and hungry. She’s definitely strong enough to knock you on your ass when you want to be, but subtle enough to have a chill smaller sesh to just relax. - Bag appeal is definitely not up to the standards of modern hype strains. Still looks fire. The buds are a little leafy and airy, but no issue for me, the yield makes up for it ;) Plant characteristics: - The SD wasn’t a vigorous plant by any means, she grew at her own pace, not too fast and not too slow. At the end of the day veg took a little longer than I would’ve hoped but she ended up the size I wanted her to be. She recovered incredibly well from an injury sustained in week 7 (see last two pics of this entry). Flower took very long. I knew this in advance and was able to take it into account. Luckily the last few weeks of flower the temperatures were relatively low, which allowed the terms to stay in the plant instead of evaporate as happened slightly last year. - As visible throughout the latter half of flower, she did develop a nitrogen toxicity and slight deficiency here and there. I’m going to call that user error however. I do believe she loves herself some magnesium, as I’ve heard from others growing this strain. I havent noticed because I’m always set on magnesium, never had any issues with that. No herms, and held up good throughout hot and cold conditions. This makes her resilient and generally easy enough to grow. The long flowering time does come with its downsides however. - In terms of plant structure and leaf shape she very much resembled an indica dominant cross. The only thing that contradicts this is the long flowering time of a whopping 12 weeks and 4 days. Close internal spacing meant she benefited from a longer veg to spread her out more and train her to catch more light, as she would’ve had a lot of smaller buds that couldn’t get enough light (common issue I’ve seen in other diaries)
She responded well to training. I’ve been able to learn a lot from her about how a plant reacts to certain training strategies long term. Around week 7-8 of veg I expected the middle of the canopy would be quite empty, but this ended up the opposite in the latter half of flower. Genetics: - Humboldt Sour Diesel did - for me - not live up to what I expected of a classic Sour Diesel. That being said, she’s given me a lot of sticky, fresh, lemony (description of terms) nuts that have a (description of effects)
After previously trying Humboldt’s Blueberry Muffin, I can say they’ve got very solid gear. Great weed, no herms, no rot, and no seeds that did not germinate (I only had one ;))
 I give Humboldt Sour diesel a [7.5] sepperated into:
 - EASE OF GROWING: 7
 - TERPS: 7.5 - EFFECTS: 8 - SMOKE: 7 See you next year :)