I had some medical issues in between and I couldn't really post anything on internets, but my girl was looked after and grew to maturity. It grew for really really long time... by the end the plant started to look wilted, turned all kinds of weird colors, even buds started to turn brown at the very top. It was a very old plant at the time of harvest.
Total grow time was about 20 weeks, flipped on day 63 (long veg period), so it was in flowering cycle for 11-12 weeks.
During the grow I tried defoliation (3 times actually), but I think I was a bit too aggressive on last defoliation (just when first white hair started to show), because final yield wasn't something to write home about. I got maybe 50g out of that plant.
The plant did look good after last defoliation, empty under the net, nice flowery stals above the net with some fan leaves still on, light penetration seemed excelent. But I guess plants do need those green surfaces to harvest energy to do their stuff, so next time I'll tone down on plucking fan leaves a bit.
Oh yeah, and this time I let the flowers reach about 20cm above the SCROG net :)
After harvesting it took about a week to dray to ~65%, then I put it in opened jar until it reached 62%, stuck some bovedas in there and let it cure for almost a month with frequent burpings.
Compared to my first grow, this one gets me even higher. Even though I'm vaping it with pax3 (which is a very slow vape), it packs quite a punch. After on half-chamber I'm usually glued to the couch, crazy munchies and very horny. Seems like this stuff just triggers any addictive behaviors I have :) The need for dopamine, endorphin and serotonin juts spikes :)
All-in-all I call this a good grow. Yield was bad, but the product is very good. I also learned a lot experimenting with with defoliation, benes, etc. I never got those brown spots I had on my first grow, and I didn't bother with adding Ca. I even eased off of pH, just letting the plant do what it can with whatever pH resulted from adding nutes to my tap water (aired over night). Maybe this also had impact on yield... can't really tell because I tried too many new stuff at once.
Sorry for lack of pictures... I wasn't really able to take nice photos, and guys that took care of my plants couldn't be bothered with it.
Thanks to HSO for this great strain, it's a pleasure to smoke it in the evenings or on very slow days.
