Hello, so I had a terrible experience with my Stitch's Love Potion last night, and wanted to know what went wrong. I'm copy/pasting from growdiaries:
Total disappointment, one of the strangest grows I've had:
GERMINATION 1/10 - Out of 8 regular seeds only 1 germinated.
EASE OF GROWTH 4/10 - Plant was grown in the balcony, seed was sowed in late August. The plant was a slow grower and it took forever to flower being an auto (3 months) and trichomes just didn't seem to be ready no matter what. At the end of flowering, the plant went through roderalization, perhaps due to stress due to bug infestation, mainly whitefly, so it produced around 50 seeds only on the lowest third of the plant. I had never had such bug infestation, the plant was just a magnet for bugs, and many leaves quickly got covered in sooty mould (yet all of those were removed during manicuring leaving clean buds). I left many popcorn buds after cutting just to get seeds which I did, but the popcorn buds were a lost cause due to the seeds but also the sooty mould worsened on those. I had to cut early.
SMELL 8/10 -It smelled of mango and tropical fruits during flowering. The smell was very subtle though, you had to get close; at least it was stealthy in that sense. Once drying and cured, it smells of fruity pebbles, really nice actually.
TASTE 6/10 - Tried on the vaporizer and for some reason didn't get much taste and nothing lingered.
BUD APPEAL 6/10 - Trichomes were very tiny and covering only 1/4 of leaves, also took forever to mature. Buds are a bit airy.
EFFECTS 3/10 - This was a nightmare, after curing for 12 days, I vaporized this with my new girlfriend: I didn't feel anything good, except confusion which then turned into focusing on negative stuff which ended up in me and my girlfriend having a terrible time which has somehow damaged our relation, TALKING ABOUT LOVE POTION! Sure, it might be blamed on the setting, or emotions at the time, but actually, everything was just OK, I would say on the scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best state of mind and 5 totaly neutral, we were either on 5-6 before vaporizing this bud. Clearly, there was paranoia involved, and this morning, I feel sort of hangoverish as in my body is experiencing anxiety and a racy feeling. So sure, I had to cut early with less than 2% amber and most trichomes half cloudy (yet not milky) BUT I blame on the breeder many problems:
Poor germination rate, took forever to flower which might have to do to the hermaphroditism it went through (roderalization), but then I read in other forums that some people were experiencing the same with this and other strains. Others say Flash Seeds have lots of germination issues, and many strains don't really behave like autos, in other words, not good stabilization. The effects were also not strong at all but it went straight to paranoia. All in all just terrible. I have so many seeds and I feel tempted to grow them on hydro or organic and see the difference.
Is this why people didn't trust autos? besides all the negatives it also felt like some sort of "fake marijuana" sort of speaking. BUT, I was a BIG fan of autos since my first grow was Mexican Airlines by Fast Buds. When I grew it, it was 5 years ago and Fast Buds were new and making lots of noise in the marijuana world and now, 5 years later, it seems they are actually really good, won't you agree? Anyways, back then I grew Mexican Airlines and Pineapple Express, and they were both amazing, specially Mexican Airlines, like I said, and to this day, it remains on my top 3 ever smoked and it was my very first: I grew in a closet with coco coir that had nutriends and fed it organic fertilizers, all which I got for free in a weed expo in Prague, Czech Republic.
Anyways, what's your view on this? Next grow is going to be mostly Fast Buds on coco coir, vermicullite, perlite hempty buckets using organic fertilizers.
Total disappointment, one of the strangest grows I've had:
GERMINATION 1/10 - Out of 8 regular seeds only 1 germinated.
EASE OF GROWTH 4/10 - Plant was grown in the balcony, seed was sowed in late August. The plant was a slow grower and it took forever to flower being an auto (3 months) and trichomes just didn't seem to be ready no matter what. At the end of flowering, the plant went through roderalization, perhaps due to stress due to bug infestation, mainly whitefly, so it produced around 50 seeds only on the lowest third of the plant. I had never had such bug infestation, the plant was just a magnet for bugs, and many leaves quickly got covered in sooty mould (yet all of those were removed during manicuring leaving clean buds). I left many popcorn buds after cutting just to get seeds which I did, but the popcorn buds were a lost cause due to the seeds but also the sooty mould worsened on those. I had to cut early.
SMELL 8/10 -It smelled of mango and tropical fruits during flowering. The smell was very subtle though, you had to get close; at least it was stealthy in that sense. Once drying and cured, it smells of fruity pebbles, really nice actually.
TASTE 6/10 - Tried on the vaporizer and for some reason didn't get much taste and nothing lingered.
BUD APPEAL 6/10 - Trichomes were very tiny and covering only 1/4 of leaves, also took forever to mature. Buds are a bit airy.
EFFECTS 3/10 - This was a nightmare, after curing for 12 days, I vaporized this with my new girlfriend: I didn't feel anything good, except confusion which then turned into focusing on negative stuff which ended up in me and my girlfriend having a terrible time which has somehow damaged our relation, TALKING ABOUT LOVE POTION! Sure, it might be blamed on the setting, or emotions at the time, but actually, everything was just OK, I would say on the scale of 1 to 10 with 10 being the best state of mind and 5 totaly neutral, we were either on 5-6 before vaporizing this bud. Clearly, there was paranoia involved, and this morning, I feel sort of hangoverish as in my body is experiencing anxiety and a racy feeling. So sure, I had to cut early with less than 2% amber and most trichomes half cloudy (yet not milky) BUT I blame on the breeder many problems:
Poor germination rate, took forever to flower which might have to do to the hermaphroditism it went through (roderalization), but then I read in other forums that some people were experiencing the same with this and other strains. Others say Flash Seeds have lots of germination issues, and many strains don't really behave like autos, in other words, not good stabilization. The effects were also not strong at all but it went straight to paranoia. All in all just terrible. I have so many seeds and I feel tempted to grow them on hydro or organic and see the difference.
Is this why people didn't trust autos? besides all the negatives it also felt like some sort of "fake marijuana" sort of speaking. BUT, I was a BIG fan of autos since my first grow was Mexican Airlines by Fast Buds. When I grew it, it was 5 years ago and Fast Buds were new and making lots of noise in the marijuana world and now, 5 years later, it seems they are actually really good, won't you agree? Anyways, back then I grew Mexican Airlines and Pineapple Express, and they were both amazing, specially Mexican Airlines, like I said, and to this day, it remains on my top 3 ever smoked and it was my very first: I grew in a closet with coco coir that had nutriends and fed it organic fertilizers, all which I got for free in a weed expo in Prague, Czech Republic.
Anyways, what's your view on this? Next grow is going to be mostly Fast Buds on coco coir, vermicullite, perlite hempty buckets using organic fertilizers.
