dirtybanger
In Bloom
Raspberry rally
Kropduster genetics
Female seeds
Recycled living organic media/soil
Sub irrigated planter
Sunshine#4 peat
Gorilla coir
Organic mechanic rice hulls
B.A.S. pumice
Hoffman's premium manure
True Organics worm castings
Wakefield bio-char
True organics worm casings
Dr earth flower girl 3-9-4
Pennington rejuvenate tomato & vegetable 4-5-4
True organics 5-4-5
Biomass/trim
Chana dal
Hair
Plant success mycos
Roebic k-37
Gaia green basalt
DTE azomite
Easy sand 90
Local clay
Local creek silt
Local swamp muck
Reservoir: tap water ≈140ppm ≈7.9ph ≈100ppm CaCO2
Top watering(microbe food): Tap water, alkalinity complexed(chelated?) with citric/acetic/ascorbic/humic blend(6.5ph). Soluble carbons supplied through a rotation of brown sugar, coconut water, hydrolyzed whey and vegetable protein, organic acids used in alkalinity complexing, and various root vegetable purees(beet, carrot, potatoes). Roebic k-37 @ 10ml/gal
Sun Master full Nova wx 315w cmh
Euro hood
Mylar walls
2" XPS floor
Day - 70⁰f/21⁰c 35%rh
Night - 62⁰/17⁰c 35%rh
Planted two, got two. Uneventful vegetative growth. No special needs. Both genotypes appear physically identical, and carried an identical stem rub through veg, a distinct magic marker odor, those big ones from the fruit market in the 70's you could refill. Structurally, the strong Ortega heritage shines through, with her signature vertically upright branching and upright 'praying' petioles. Eager to branch out, left to her own, she would become an inverted Christmas tree shape. Durable rigid branches, with healthy knots at the base, but easily split at forks.
Number one was quick to clone, whereas number two failed to root on me, so number one was chosen for flower. Minimal stretch. Started PUKING frost on day 6 to my amazement. She's carried a background of vitamin b throughout flower, but the front note changed as time went on. Had I harvested early at week 7, she would have been Hawaiian punch. From about week 8 until week ten she was a STRONG sweet ripe papaya, and closing week 11 now, it's acquiring a 'flexible' synthetic solventy smell, like zippo fluid and tennis balls or pool toys to ride along with the papaya. Golf ball style nugget kabob flower build, and an old school indica trim level that's very tolerable. She stayed green until about 56 days, when she exploded in black and fuchsia over just a few days. Between 9 and ten weeks she looked like she wanted to foxtail a tiny bit. I planned to take her at ten weeks, but life has other plans, and taking her to eleven weeks, I saw massive gains as the foxtails got chunky. I'm seeing rapid calyx swell in the past few days, so I'm taking her down at 78 days.
And I'm happy as fuck.
My last harvests looked great, smelled great, but when it came time to put flame to flower, even in a glass bowl, it tasted like it was a pinner wrapped with 3 tops double wide skins. Papery, thin, bland.
A week ago, I took a lower branch from her. Yesterday, it was dry enough to hold an ember, so I cut it up, and loaded a bowl.
Robust
Thick
Chewy
Umami
You felt it explore every passage in your lungs. It leaves an old school 'green' afghani taste on your tongue, something along the lines of artemisia, mugwort, or Russian heather. Like a refined version of irish spring, minus the soapiness.
And here's the kicker. I said earlier I couldn't get her sister to clone, and I really wanted to run them side by side, so while I kept raiding number two for cuts, number one grew to 6'/2m, where she was cut down to 3'/1m, and grew to 6'/2m again, before being cut to 3'/1m for flower, so I know she went into flower without much budget in the bank. If she did this amazing gliding in on thermals, imagine how she'd do with the afterburners lit.
@The Duster good work, brother!
adorable.
