π Old School Mango Haze Auto #1 π
Age : 77 days
Life : Thriving under most conditions, several stress events caused cascade - early stress finish. Discovery of nanners at ~D76 confirmed final plant state.
Flower Development : Large deviance in structural density between flower sites, top nodes well formed but interrupted in bulking / ripening phase. Swollen but increasingly sparse bract population down the canopy with interrupted base formations; all amplified by unsuccessful cultivation strategy (reduced lollipopping)
Pistils : Almost fully brown prematurely as of Week 8+. Early browning likely prevented self-pollination from undetected early nanner-structures.
Trichomes : ~10% amber, fairly even. some outliers likely at 5-15%
Fully ripened | Freshly ripening Ratio : 1.27:1 or 103:81g
Smell undisturbed: Exhibits warm, loud, spicy wood profile with a minor fruit twist; some pepper on exhale; + minor stress based sulfur shift
Smell ruptured: Fruity, warm wood/root with oriental spices, ripe mango in the wind, faint herbal bitters, some umami
Terp Loss: Intense 'tropical fruit-cocktail' terpinolene quantities (cultivation target) observed during flowering could not be preserved due to cultivation issues. Monoterpene loss of roughly 50% against baseline likely. Sesqueterps + Sulfur dominate profile as stress response layers.
Taste (combusted with tobacco): herbal forward with warm mango / myrcene background-body, slightly spicy
Tactile density: 6.5/10 | dense, firm bracts against healthy, medium-loose structure that moves as a whole
Trimming: Hand-trimming, 16h total (11.5g/h) due to cultivation issue
Larf: 44% (trimmable into quality flower), ~2% unusable as flower product
Drying: Extended low VPD cool dry in custom chamber (12D with increased botrytis risk) β humidity stabilization (extended due to sickness) β TerpLoc bags nested inside RH stabilized container as final storage.
Pharmaceutical Profile: Pleasant ramp into array of 'sunshine-feelings': happyness, clarity, drive, relaxation. Very pleasant, clean sativa experience. Almost no sedation even after meaningful terp-loss and profile shift suggest baseline expression likely provides more intense, euphoric high with increased drive.
The Silver-Lining & Parting Gift:
As this story unfolds before my eyes, I have to consistently rub them: Sampling the products of this run after trimming, a total of 2 seeds have been found. One in Sour Jealousy, one in 505 Headbanger. Right now, both cultivars likely got pollinated during Week 7-9 by OSMH, when she likely started producing undetected nanners as a final survival response.
Turns out, she could have ended the entire grow right then and there. But my fan placement accidentially created a pollination-barrier against SJ & HB during the entire run!
This only changed mildly during Week 7-9, when some additional air was blasted deep into the canopy of OSMH to prevent moisture pockets. This must have caused just enough turbulence at the overlapping canopies in the center of the tent to cause rare, gentle but definitive cross-pollination events.
So this begged the question: How on earth is Mango's flower not full of seeds? Turns out her premature pistil browning largely stemming from light burn actually -prevented- her self-pollination attempt, the pistils must already have ceased to function. The pollen? It did NOTHIN.
Well, -almost- nothin.
If this turns out to be true, I will just have to grow out these beautiful ladies under special circumstances (increased nanner-chance):
OSMH x Sour Jealousy (Fem, Auto, Rodel) F1
OSMH x 505 Headbanger (Fem, Auto, Rodel) F1
How cool is that?!
I am actually asking.