La Buena Hierba "La Buena Hierba Seeds" test by Balarama

[Balarama]

Copy/Paste from the outdoor thread:


Chop chop,
I made an unexpected visit in this chaotic weather and I found the two AF plants bent to the ground, too top-heavy apparently
One(the one I tested the early bud) was getting totally yellow, most fans were dead so I decided it's time to harvest her.
The other two are tied a bit harder now and are about to fade soon, I think end of this week or next week the second one will be done while the third is still a week behind.

Here's a picture of the finished one:

The other almost done:

The semi-autos are blooming at different rates, the two on the right are faster and will soon need some support, the two on the left are slower, seem to be pheno related.
Today I added a bit of high P guano top feed, expecting some heavy rains tomorrow to flush the P in the ground for even more flowers.

A flower from the other S-AF plant

The garden looks fantastic this year, even with the drought it all goes well and I must say it's my best grow so far.
I got 2 photoperiod plants, one fem and one reg, seems to me both are females
Trained them a bit with some supercropping, now there's more space available because of one harvested AF.

Cheers

 

[Darth Vapour]

Looking great dude, can't wait to see them ladies get nice n chunky

 

[La Buena Hierba]

great buddy keep those pictures coming of the plants

 

[Balarama]

Today - second harvest of an AF plant, the prettiest #12 tester is down.

As I feared the plant was too top-heavy and despite being tied it fell on the wet ground probably during one of the many storms in the last week. The cola got some minor mold, probably around 2-3 grams are lost, which is not much really. The molding was very localized, did not spread much and I think the main starter of rot/mold were insects. Found some flies and their poo sticked in the center of the moldy part
Otherwise the plant could still go on for a week but already developed a very nice all-around smell which tells me it was good enough to harvest. It smells of sweet lemony bubblegum, so lovely
There were around 5% white stigmas, others were dead for good and trich coverage is like glass dust on the buds.

Tester #12 bud at harvest

There is only one AF tester still blooming, the plan is to take her down in 10-20 days, weather depending. I want to try letting her ripe for good if there will be enough sunlight and no rains.
The forecast says at least 8 days of sunny weather with temps around 28°C which is perfect, also the semi-autos will benefit a lot from in this time.

They are looking very good, here's the favorite one flowering fast:

A budd from on plant #4

I won't add anything in the soil now, there is enough of everything for the plants to finish, even the water won't be needed anymore, the storms soaked it pretty well.
The photoperiods are doing great and will give me some extra variety of bud if all goes well

Cheers

 

[Vas Deferens]

very nice balarama

 

[Balarama]

:::Quoting myself:::


Last AF update!

Yesterday I had in plan to visit the girls, see how they do and drop some pollen on them. Instead the rain started before I woke up so all was very wet and the pollen had to remain unused.
So there was not much left to do but to cut the last tester #12, she was nicely faded and started to mold a bit in some spots.
Not much was lost but a careful inspection was of course needed to prevent the spread of mold during drying. The loss is pretty much the same as the af2 that was cut last week, around 2 grams, very little but still something.

The plant's last photo before harvest:

She was a fighter since her early days, mite damage was visible in leaf shapes and spots, she had lowered resistence so I expected some molding in the wet period.
Hard to talk about yields as I don't usually waigh the buds, but I think it's close to 50g off all three autos, so between 15-20g per plant. Not impressive but the product is very very good
The plant on the left started to overgrow the af, it's a photoperiod(strain Cognition) I put out for testing purposes. Lush growth and looks very healthy.

The semi-autos are colossal, getting fat at steady rate and I like it. They got just a bit of support they may want to lay down if hard rains hit them.
Here's a view on them:

My fav is killing me with the looks, what a nice plant she is- in the middle

On the left the late semi-auto behaving like a photo, still stretching and is now huge, around 2,5m tall and I doubt she will finish good. We'll see in two months.

Semi-auto bud:

Now all we need is another month of very sunny weather and all will be fine

To wishful thinking... Cheers!

 

[Balarama]

Surprisingly or not, the weather is truly amazing, sunny no clouds with slightly low night temperatures and constant wind.
The plants are thriving and buds are getting frosty and fat. They're in the last three weeks so obviously no more adding nutes and there's practically no yellow fans on the plants. The soil mix seems to be working great for the plants.
Some photos:

Big cola

Small cola

A fatty bud

Smells are developing nicely and slowly, no dank or heavy smells, more lemony cleaner light fragrances with mostly fruity tones.
The low yielder(small cola plant) has more spicyness along with agrume limey smells.
Gorgeous!

 

[Darth Vapour]

Awesome balarama. You know you've got them dialed in without having any early yellow fans.

I'll be watching this thread closely, love this time of year

 

[Balarama]

 

[Vas Deferens]

Perfect weather man ! Looking good, I hope that weather stays with you for the next 3 weeks....