Sour Wreck
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In late Spring if all goes well Swami will have just 85RKS/ Guadalajara available.
gonna have to be on my seed buying game when those drop. it's gonna be like black thursday at walmart
In late Spring if all goes well Swami will have just 85RKS/ Guadalajara available.
I was all over this same thought a decade ago... and you're absolutely right, kristoffolese! It just so happens that I have managed a tanning salon where we actually had a UVB fluorescent stand-up booth. We had 17 beds of multiple varieties ranging from high pressure beds(just as it sounds), to VHO fluorescent, to hybrid beds with HPS over the face and VHO's for the body etc.Reptisun isnt enough uvb, neither is the 1 or 2 diodes included in narrow band chinese LEDs. You need to get an arcadia brand t-5 fixture, and be sure to use the 14% UVB bulbs. They have to be RIGHT over the plant you wanna boost thc & resin production in. Unfortunately, the uvb dissipates fast - the lower buds will show no apparent effect, but the tops are OBVIOUSLY blessed with increased resin & thc production. I prop mine at ~a 45degree angle, to avoid blocking light from above. Best use is with a light rail, imo. I have seen zero additional benefit using UVB during veg or even during the first half of flowering. Plants that received it for the duration of flowering, showed the same - but not more- resin & thc production as the girls who only received uvb during the last few weeks of flowering. To save $, I only use them for the last 3 weeks of flower myself. It IS real, though. I live in WA where weed is legal (I LOVE THE FUTURE!!! Lol) and am able to walk in and submit samples to 360-Analytics, for thca & thc, testing which happens to be down the road from me. Havent done a properly controlled uvb experiment in years, but when I had the $ for it (its $25+ to test each sample, depending whatvu want - terpine analysis, cbg, cbn, molds, fungi, etc), I was seeing 3-5% bump to thcs, & an obvious to the eyes, increase in resin production. No change in flowering times noticed. And when I say “3-5%”, I mean 21% thca, increasing to 24-26%... not just 3% of the total, if that makes sense. Generally, its about a 15-25% increase in potency, seen in the uvb treated tops. I also wanna mention- topping & ScrOGing short Indicas lends itself PERFECTLY to this method. When the plant is only 12”-18” tall, and is basically just a mass of 9” colas, every bud can be hit with uvb, and the entire yield is equally killer. With anything past 18” tall or so, the mid-bottom buds just arent getting enough uvb to matter as much. Best results with a light rail, using very short plants, topped and ScrOGed so that no one top is taller than another. I used to keep this shit secret at all costs, as it really does give you an edge over those who arent using it. But as Ive aged & matured, Ive evolved my thinking & believe that useful info should be shared freely. This is VERY useful info & I highly encourage those who havent tried it, to do a side by side & see for themselves. Its maybe $75-$85 for the T-5 fixture plus the 16%uvb bulb. Not sure of the current price, its been a while since I bought one. Bulbs are in the $30-$35 range.
The choco strains like chocolope, choc thai, etc, DO have chocolate notes in the scent & flavor. Its just highly dependent on the nutrition, drying & curing that the sample in question received, as well as the obvious genetic component. Deep, cocoa/chocolate notes can fade/disappear in a hydro setup, while being fully expressed in a good soil grow (coots mix, living soil). The dry/cure you give, will also make a huge difference in the chocolate smell/taste. Dry/cure at lower temps (upper 50’s, low 60’s) at moderate RH (~50%). Just my 2cents.But a clear chocolate scent? Lots of chocolate strains actually don't really smell chocolate. Like Choc Chunk and Choc Trip.
Bump. Anybody on the BO/RKS? Well, I’ll try to answer this in a few months, as my next run will be half 85’ BO/RKS Guad, some Yogi and Critical Mass for sheer yield & hash production. Happy growing everyone!How is the Blue Orca Haze x RKS/Guadalajara ?
Sounds like youve been running the “cannalope haze” leaning phenos of chocolope. Never had or heard of chocolope that smelled/tasted intensely of chocolate- but Ive def had chocolope & chocolate thai with chocolate notes and undertones. The chocolate chunk Ive had that actually possesses the smell, smells more of cocoa than it does of sweet milk chocolate. Same goes for banana strains... every banana strain Ive ever tried has had either zero banana smell/taste, or just the slightest of undertones of it. Anyway, the chocolate is def a complex terp profile, and much like the girl scout, even if you have a momma who has the smell u desire, changes to nutrition & dry/curing can kill or change the smell. Chronic is another one- unique honey, sweet-flower smell is SO easy to kill with an improper cure or too quick of a dry.Any chocolope I've run doesn't smell like chocolate at all, it smells like melons. I grow in organic soil. Choc Trip from all grow journals I've read doesn't really smell like chocolate either. Most say vanilla nutty sandalwood. It's sorta chocolate, but not really. This is while plants are growing... nothing to do with drying/curing. Choc Thai IS supposed to smell like chocolate, or at least it used to back in the day, though some speculate it could have to do with how it was packed that caused that. I'm looking for a strain that ACTUALLY smells like chocolate. Not sorta chocolate if you stretch your imagination, but actual no doubt about it chocolate. Far as I know it doesn't exist.
My medical shop carried it regularly when medical still existed in WA... sigh. Had a rich, earthy, dried-cocoa smell & was a very medicating, indica dominant stone, for sure. Heavy on the body, and eyes I heavent really seen a cocoa smelling sample since medical went away, here. But I stopped really seeking it.Chocolate Chunk is one I've been looking at pretty hard lately. Never tried it, but cocoa terps are the right direction I'm looking towards. Only hesitation is I've heard Adam lost all his stock a while back so don't know if the newer stuff is any good. I saw on their website they just started offering it again but only in feminized. SHN has it in reg so maybe they have older stock, but I'm undecided which to go for. Did you grow out CC or just have sampled it?
Cool beans! Great news on the BO/RKS mex male! Got 3 keepers from your NL5 Haze that we ran Our favorite keeper reached 6 feet (topped and tied down!), went 14 weeks, fantastic yield, skunky with that hardwood/incensey haze profile blended in. I don’t recommend flowering it from seed... the crew member of ours that did, had problems finishing them & quality was just plainly reduced compared to the girls we pre-sexed before flowering. So I dont rec SOG, flowering from seed with it, but if u actually give em what they want, theyre very, very hardy, excellent yields, & for me- that EXACT effect that Ive been missing for SO fucking long! You know, the supercharged, heart pumping, mouth tightening, jaw clenching rush that just goes up, and up, and UP the more u smoke? Very, very high ceiling. Imho, this strain -Swami Seed Co’s version of it- is absolutely real deal. And while various individuals in the run may have been of lower quality, the keepers are blatantly, OBVIOUSLY superior to literally every other version of the strain Iv tried, including Shanti’s. Not trying to talk any smack, whatsoever. By comparison, I am an earth worm & Shanti is a mighty Dune Sand Worm lol Just trying to relate my experienceFYI....The One x Pakistan/Chocolate Thai are no longer available. Some peeps on the ball there.
The chocolate thai from the 80s smelled like and had a semi chocolate earthy like smoke.
Searching/sexing Blue Orca x 85rks/mex I have found a very skunky smelling male I'll be setting aside.
Cracking a grip of NL5 x NL5haze beans today in the search for winner's.
Hahaha Yaaah... happened to be watching “Dune” when I wrote that lmao"By comparison, I am an earth worm & Shanti is a mighty Dune Sand Worm lol"
Whoa... that was very v-e-r-y deep, man. That's like Jim Morrison-level poetry right there. I"m gonna go burn one and contemplate the meaning of Life now that Shanti is officially, a sand worm.
Doh! This was on my wishlist...Any idea when that nigerian sunshine will be back in stock? Big time PTSD struggles, looking to get some good medicine in the ground this year.