Ok, sorry I'm slacking on finishing up this thread with smoke reports & budshots. Tripod came the other day so I caaaaaan take pics, but I'm in a cluster headache cycle, so my days are full of real hot water & NSAID hangovers lately. Pics will happen.
Lanina #5 went 67-68 days & was fully ripe. Grown in position "8" on a computer keypad in the 9 plant grid. Nitrogen sensitive on flip, big nodes between flower sites filled in with big chunky buds. Bright green with pale hairs & hella chunky as they say
Best yielding Lanina @ 126g & took a good bit of samples as she was chunky early. Ripened a bit slowly so finished with her sisters. 40g trim.
Nug smell - 1. Lemon, 2. Melon (creamy tangerine??), 3. Hairspray/paint. Pretty loud, but the chemical nature is only present when you break up a bud, so the smell is contained by a jar. Cuts thru a baggie & creeps thru a turkey bag. Different & smells potent, but not super special.
7/10
Nug look - Big fat tubular buds with large light green bracts & paleish hairs. Mostly white resin. Nugs as big as the #3 if not bigger with "nice" density. Not rock solid, but breaking up takes care and/or a grinder.
8/10
Nug feel/burn - I really like the bud structure on this plant. Breaks up like a dream (Blue dream, actually, haha). Can be crumbled by hand but then I have to work the resin off of my fingers.
8/10
Smoke taste - Tastes like creamy melons & hairspray on unlut pull thru a joint. Lit it's creamy lemons & tastes great till the end. In the air it's 'good' pot on afterburn.
7/10 - again, bonus points for uniqueness & bag appeal, but not wildly resinous or inviting, IMO.
Smoke effect - I think it hits pretty hard, not like Cali clone hard, but not a weak smoke. I have a med patient who has a gut issue & smokes an oz every 4-5days. He called me up 30 min after getting some of this & hinted he wanted a refund or a trade. Not a good look for what I thought was very well grown & processed pot. Guy loved LaNina #1. I think they even got some of the weak ass #3, too. Anyway, I think it's buzzy & strong upfront & as it fades, it clarifies. Smoking a lot will make me high as hell, but I come down kinda quick, 30-45 min & I'm looking to smoke again if I've been smoking all day. Little to no burn out, & my girl likes it so I take jars of this & the offsite LN on the road.
6/10 & I banged her down a peg because of the rejection I felt when guy wanted his donation back lol.
LaNina Wrapup.
LN #1 - Very good smoke, viney plant would do great in a vert bush setup. Most sativa LN & after full cure is probably the best tasting pot I have, IMO. Only scraps left & it's headsmoke. I didn;t keep a cut because I'm stupid & misjudged her to be a very long flower & low yielding plant. Starfishisses don't have brains.
LN #2 - Best bag appeal of the bunch and the only thing leaning towards the berry/coffee family of smells. Only scraps left & I cut it out because reports came back that patients built a tolerance to it quickly.
LN #3 - Big yielding, lemony dud of a smoke. None left & I killed the clone.
LN #4 - Head knocking smoke, hopefully the clone produces better structured buds than did the seedplant. Still have a clone.
LN #5 - Commercial type plant for sure. Great bag appeal, big nuggets & probably could have been taken a week earlier with no loss in bag appeal. Decently stinky & funky & citrussy. Not anything special in the high department. Killed it.
So for clones, I have the LN #4 from my run & 3 plants from offsite labled LaNina. It's possible one of them could be an MK/SK. I didn't even get to sample the 2 that I didn't take, but one of them was on that hawaiian punch jolly rancher tip, the one I took is very complex with garlic & pine coming thru on cure & I forget the 3rd one
Gonna run them all from clone in a similar setup (1k parabolic scrog) very soon & choose a keeper maybe. the offsite plant tastes & smells great, it just is nothing special to smoke. I'm wondering if I can make it special
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