UPDATE: Greenomatic #1 Completely Harvested.
I chopped the rest of GMatic #1 yesterday. In the first cutting at 60days from seed, I left all the lower small colas. In the intervening week, the remaining colas really increased their size. I had left about 1/3 of the total bud on the plant, when I cut it yesterday, what I harvested was equal to the first cut! Also the buds themselves swole up considerably. I haven't test smoked the second cutting. There's a lot more amber on it. The high from the first harvest is very very nice.
I prefer to wait till the weed has dried before manicuring but I wanted to show a family portrait with everyone together.
The picture is everything I got off GMatic #1 (Pony included for scale). The fresh cut bud is on the right.
Not an impressive yield for a 3 ga pot under 600W but a decent amount. What do you guys guess as the dry weight? I would say 1.5 - 2 oz but I am not dialed in for homegrown which is always bulkier than the stuff I get mail order. The dried stuff went into 1/2 pint mason jars for curing. If I were to put it all into jars, green & dry and pack it fairly tight, I would have about 1.5 pints of bud.
About an hour after this photo the damn horse puked and passed out on the couch. I told him "Just eat a little bit and wait 30 mins to see how stoned you get". Would he listen??
We smoked some of the trim from dry stuff. It was harsh but not terrible. Reminded me of smoking weed in the 60's. 'mmmmphmmm gonna.....hold...it... in.... koff...gotta hold it....Koff...Koff....KoffKoff...KOFFKOFFKOFF!"
But, the high was just as I remembered fro the early test smoke, wonderful. I think this is as nice a high as anything I can remember smoking. It's a classic Indica high. It just feels good to have a body. Breathing feels good. Moving feels good. Water tastes delicious.
One quality I really like is that it is very potent without a 'kick in the head'. Many potent strains give you initial kick which leaves you kind of stunned, the 'one hit quit' effect and then after that the high itself comes on. This bud is like floating on a rising tide. You don't notice you are being gently lifted by the swell but suddenly you realize you are pretty damn stoned! (you can tell from the florid prose that I am still a bit stoned.) There was no sleepiness or sluggishness at all. Doing stuff was fun. The high lasts for hours and does not deteriorate into sleepiness or couchlock.
I am very very impressed with this strain. It just popped out of the ground, grew for two months and yielded some really nice dope. Almost a no brainer. The only drawback is that this is strain is known to produce modest yields. But my main interest is quality of high. I am going to grow this again and fairly soon!
I haven't test smoked the 2nd cutting yet. That may be quite different. In a few days.
Normaly I would wait on final evaluation till the test smoke but this girl is already a winner!
Despite the limitations of her genetics, I think she could have yielded more with better cultivation. I'll talk about this in a later post.
All in all, this plant was a nice success. The high far surpassed my expectations. I went into this thinking that autos are mediocre weed. Something you grow because you are in a hurry. Not so!
