Photography Fruit Salad and Pinkbud Grow!

[gearbear]

That hash looks great! I just learned that different strains can give you completely different hash textures. Knowledge is power! Thanks for the pics bro!

 

[mitch_connor]

FD, yeh it's a horrible worry! never had any PM though.

Temps have warmer recently, this period of spring is the best for me, before it gets too hot in summer to have an indoor.

gearbear - yeh i was really glad i kept the trim seperate, else i would never have known the differences The resin on the plants at chop time was a good indication. FS was resinous but the resin wasn't as 'sticky' could trim much more FS plants without having to scrape my scissors off

 

[mitch_connor]

Dried and cured a little pics

 

[JM]

schweeet! damn it... so many strains so little time! llol

 

[mitch_connor]

Yep, i feel you there dude. I have seeds a few years old i made that i still need to test! soon though

 

[FullDuplex]

everything looks fantastic man including the hash, what method did you use to extract it?
im getting ready to start making some and im looking for the best way.

If i cant find anything else im going to make oil from the 1oz+ of trim i have

 

[mitch_connor]

Cheers bud, I used Ice, a wooden spoon in a drill to mix it, tights and a sieve to drain the water into a collection bucket. then a ladle and a nutrient syringe to remove the water from the collection bucket. Then when you have just the trichs in a little water settled at the bottom, I ran it through coffee filters.

PROPER budget method. I'm not convinced i was able to get all the trichs but got about 6-7 grams of nice quality for £4. I'm going to invest in some bubble bags for next time.

You should look into QWISO , It depends how much trim you have really

 

[bradley666]

"drools"
Thats some fine looking bud there! Love the colors...
Do u have a favorite? I like the pink bud,lol...but honestly there both amazing!

 

[mitch_connor]

I like them both to be honest! They're both special in their own ways

 

[mitch_connor]

Ok so finally i have had some time to do a little review/smoke report in one and get my thoughts down.

PINKBUD Mini Strain Guide by Mitch Connor.

I really enjoyed growing Pinkbud. They weren't demanding for anything, pretty much grew themselves. Just water and feed.

I was using organic nutrients, but they never showed any sign of being (over)sensitive to nutes

It seems to start quite slowly days 1-10

by day 15 you will be able to sex the vast majority of them.

They go through a small pre-flower sex, and then bud 'wildly' that's the only way to desribe them.

For the size of them, pistils and bud's form everywhere.

Warning! - Pinkbud Reeks. It pays to have good odour control with these. It might of just been me but there were a few poopy smelling phenos.

The buds are quite airy - which may not be a bad thing - in high plant density and high humidity (60%) there were Zero signs of mould for me.
And again although on the airy side, the mass of the buds is big. So when you weigh up the two they are still more than decent.

One tip: If you are growing PB in a SOG, where you might be tempted to lollypop them, I wouldn't, they aren't really branchy, but any branch they did put out, they REALLY made use of, either becoming a fat nug, or a secondary cola.

Also you will see this, but the Resin Production of PB is great, the Resin is ultra sticky, you won't be able to trim much more than a whole plant without scraping your scissors clean. Fantastic little hash plant in my opinion.

All in all, pretty accurate description by SGS, in my setup the max height of PB was 55cm - but that was only a couple of phenos.


PINKBUD SMOKE - BUD

Smoke reports are sometimes a little subjective, but i've confirmed with friends that have sampled PB and we mostly agree.

PB for me is great, cosey weed. Sunday afternoon, get on the sofa and watch a Documentary about animals or volcanoes smoke

Stock your fridge too.

It's not zombifying, can't move weed by any means. But too much and you will feel lazy.

I sometimes have difficulty sleeping but since this harvest, i've had a little doob in bed and been out like a light, but still felt fresh in the morning.

I would think that for someone with any ailments, this could be a great medicinal candidate to try.

The taste of PB was more of a Sour/Skunky mix, more of a 'classic' cannabis flavour in comparison to the FS.

Excellent bag appeal (for those who that concerns)

PINKBUD - Hash

PB hash was oily, sticky and easily shape-able by hand.

It may just be that I haven't smoked hash in a long time, but it was a very strong high in hash form.

Giggles, mad appreciation for tasty food and I wasn't leaving the house or going anywhere after smoking it!



Fruit Salad - Strain guide

I love fruit salad.

It shows really good vigour in the first few weeks,

Where it differs from PB is the bud structure - overall I would say fruit salad is medium density buds - not rock hard but not mad airy.

It builds it's flowers steadily and consistently over the short cycle.

Pretty resistant to over nuting - I only had to back off and give plain water for one feeding mid grow, but that was my fault for coming on a little strong too soon with food. Given it's blueberry heritage I think it faired well.

The smell is also less agressive - just a sweet and floral smell throughout the flowering, I don't think you would PIN it down as 'that's weed'

After drying and a cure it is relatively low odour - which is good for stealth in my opinion. But still fruity hints emerge if you give your nose a second

FS stood up to high humidity with just the smallest amount of budrot on one plant. But in my setup at that time of year I am thankful and lucky as it could have cost me alot if running something else.

If I grew these again in a high plant density environment, I would be tempted to take off the bottom sets of branches before full flower kicks in. I'd let them finish stretch to see which ones might be useful to leave. But the main focus are the colas of this strain. They are long and tight with buds.

All in all very nice strain, I'm sure when SGS gets it too 100% of how he wants it, it will go down very well.

Fruit Salad Smoke Report

This was on the different end of the scale to Pinkbud in terms of effect.

I found Fruit Salad is a euphoric/creative 'high' the kind that would brighten up a rainy day.

No parranoia,

Good, talkative 'party weed'

It also gave me the urge to build things or if i had to decorate or do something monotonous I think it would ease that burden and time would go by a lot quicker!

The taste of Fruit Salad, was as you might imagine fruity

Little sharp hints of citrus, a kind of mixed combo of summer fruits, and pheno dependant some almost floral flavour - but not over powering in the slightest.


FS Hash -

While the resin is different to Pinkbud, it does produce a nice amount of resin for hash making.

The hash is soft and crumbly but I couldn't get it to press together for shit! Tried warming it/pressing it, then freezing it and still no luck?

But again in a concentrated form it is excellent.

The hash still retained it's fruity odour which I really like.

If anyone saw my PB bud + FS hash pic, that was an amazing combination to smoke together. Really balanced high.

And just incase there are any naysayers lurking. I have been a long time smoker, several trips to amsterdam and able to get hold of some elite smoke, I really rate both of these strains.



Combined Summary of SGS

Germ rate - 100%

Female rate for me - 60-70%

100% Autoflowering

Fast - Sprout to harvest was under 70 days for me. If i had the space to dry in one go, I could have taken them all @ day 65 without any worries.

Issues - None to report

(other than the Budrot, which was my own fault)

I don't think I really need to mention the colouration as it's obvious from me photographing them to death that they are super colourful.
Excellent ratio of coloured plants, It was a role reversal in this run, with the green pheno's becoming the novelty ones

So all in all I had a good time with these plants, I think if people grow them wisely they will not be dissapointed, following a few simple steps even a novice could do very respectibly.

And just incase it wasn't mentioned, although I got to try the Fruit Salad for free, I paid for my Pinkbud, and don't regret that at all. I do regret not making seeds, but that wasn't what this run was about

Also my friends have said this has been the best AF run in terms of the smoke that I produced, and I have grown out quite a few strains in the past. It could have been the setup change, but i'm more inclined to think it was the strains.
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