Not Worthy of The Grail

Great stuff @Kryppler! I'll be interested in your perspective once you have sufficient cure. I've been smoking the Holy Smoke daily for the past week and though I've said it before, the AC has moved the Afghan Haze into another dimension. She is stellar in my book!


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At about this time stuff started going horizontally from weight and that was the plan. Laughing buddha became weeping grapes and started smelling like heavenly vanilla cream. The huge buds drooped until the floor stopped them and then i staked them up as good as i could. The Holy Smokes took on a pure Hawaiian punch smell. You could drink a cup of the smell and it would turn your lips red it was so fruity. The sativa type was more bushy and hairy and bigger and had a strong orange cut to the Hawaiian punch. The indica Smoke type had a vanilla cut to the delicious fruit punch smell. The alien look of the plant had me drooling before the smell. Both had something in the background that resembled weed, but just barely. Like a mouse got in the punchbowl and died, but someone got it out quickly. The gums got all sticky and the three sisters thickened voluptuously. The clones were a couple weeks behind and into a seeding thing when i realized a mistake i must have made labeling my clones. Not my first mistake not my last as youll see but foolish either wayā€¦ oh well third grow. Day 42 for the first pics day 46 on the next two. 86029610-CA0F-4BA6-B423-1E9F1D7F0F8E.jpegE77F21B1-C6AE-42B0-B6FE-F8223923669D.jpeg1A0759A5-7C09-4491-B430-DC180990ED79.jpegCE179063-C325-419C-9847-AC54BA0E6272.jpeg
 
You guys are awesome for checking out the journey, thanks alot! Hopefully we get to roast some Holy Smoke together somehow someway someday! Seven weeks on the vine. On day 55. Well i would say everything was going just fine but im sure this is where i was not worthy of the grail was beginning to show. My second grow ran a little hot but thats the way its going to be. The third grow was around 76-78 perhaps hotter near the bulbs. And then not really below 69 at night until way later. Water is 65- or below. Any cover crop missed the sun and died but the dirt continued on. Mushrooms grew. I blast my plants with uvc b a at small doses and the leafs can only take so much. It seems like it helps the buds get potentā€¦ and kills bugs. Too much will kill cellsā€¦ dont go into the lightā€¦ dont be in the room with the light. Some plants cant take it too well while others tolerate it. I can tell you it damages the shit out of the leafs and possibly makes it hard to identify maturing trichomes. I dont know what im doing alot of the time, but its not a fashion show. Id grow it alot different if it was for pictures. Okā€¦ heres the three sisters. 27346A25-5E2A-4AE0-A18E-FFA113AF83EB.jpeg597BF37C-B2A5-4FF2-9D15-B3A3CE078B5D.jpegAA83B06D-F164-4C87-BDD0-E7C7113C859B.jpegB33F8648-360A-4731-BD6C-7FE7AA2B57D1.jpeg1D0F01D3-E693-41BF-9822-9246A138B255.jpeg
 
Marcus those last pics were NL5/Afghans. They looked almost done i thought too!, so i looked at them closely with my glass and they had a long time to go. The uvb uvc and uva i use them all. 15 min per plant per day i try to hit up 4 plants by strategically placing the light to hit the most buds moving it around to a few stations. Does it speed up budding? Not too sure about that but it will mature trichomes to amber if you overdose them. I put the uvc on the floor with a fan and the bugs fry in rad and ozone. I used a timerā€¦ it malfunctionedā€¦ 5-10 min overdose will savage your plants as I learned. Big mistakeā€¦ Anyhow, third grow, lesson learned. A bubblegum a g13 haze clone and blueberry skunk got decimated. One of my prize Holy Smokes got toked pretty bad as well she lost alot of leafs but still powered on a little scarred from the whole ordeal. My other Holy Smoke took it a little better but still suffered. The uv lights turned clear trichomes past amber to orange and dark red and it killed the surface of any leafs in the direct light on top and bottom. The buds did ok but they really need the leafs to get big. I think dosing the plants makes them think they need to produce suntan oil, thc oil, to keep from sunburning, it looked like it worked on the buds. 5 min too long on timer. Sad day. Week 8.

I cant wait to give you my perspective Musashi! All the stars had to alignā€¦ The wait for the seeds the wait for the flower the wait for the harvestā€¦ oh man, the wait for the cure! How can i wait to savor the Hawaiian Punch flavor?! No no no Musashi, we must wait for a 6 weeks to 3 months cure to get the true perspective according to the MNS description! What do you think i should do? I guess i have to smoke half when its done and wait 3+ months to try the other half or else how will i know how much it increases the satisfying effect? The waiting is the hardest part! Haha. Luckily the curse of stufidity became a blessing, as a few small damaged buds of the Holy Smoke sativa picked themselves off the vine for me, offering a few buds as a nicely cured sacrifical sampling in the coming weeks. Theres a way to look at it. Poor Holy Smokes thoughā€¦ that is why i am not worthy of the grailā€¦ also my og bubblegum plant drooped all the way to the floor and that was the only thing stopping it, breaking some of the huge prize buds nearly in half. Also sad. I staked her back up and everything was going to be fine. Those are some flexible fing stems.

Heres the Holy Smoke on day 55, and then some after the burning bush incident we will call it. And the other Smoke day 55.EB7824CC-F0B4-4784-8DFD-562B83844BA5.jpeg951AAC8D-9155-41E1-B89A-B9F71048E4BC.jpegF61B577B-904B-4284-820E-22549BA1A8C4.jpeg40E7A6DC-9F40-4752-9C95-D43083961556.jpeg
 
Well continuing onā€¦ Here is Holy Smoke day 59. D4DFC1AC-0FD9-4C0A-B7FD-AFBB7EFA9514.jpeg
Here is og bubblegum day 595BC019A7-A5D6-4F8D-8AE7-ACE21CF622A8.jpeg
Here is the jokerbud cross? on day 59DB4F644A-75D3-4980-908E-BEB07559DEA2.jpeg
Here are some of the NL5Afghans on day 59 one of them started to get some male flowers i think because it was fairly hot in there for afghans but i have sativas and indicas going in one room so i just kept an eye on it. Also some mites reared their ugly heads about this time despite thousands of predatorsā€¦ at this point i wasnt spraying anything on the buds ever is how i roll. Luckily the bugs really only liked a certain Dr Grinspoon plant over any others, and it seemed like the other plants resisted and coexisted with the predators successfully until harvest.FB6A1966-01E8-431E-8084-B405DE0F472C.jpeg42B6DD97-4037-491B-942C-0711EB6D59D6.jpeg
Ok here is the other Holy Smoke day 72ā€¦76F9E73B-8362-41D9-BB68-FC21FD729917.jpeg
And here that other holy smoke on day 72 a little closerā€¦5A5D8F82-8126-4625-A5EB-F2DF78D7F903.jpeg
 
I did a bit of reading up on supplemental uv and came to the conclusion that
in seedling/early veg it helps develop the pores(?) to which the glandular trichomes come out of, leading to a more girthy trich, and that specifically the 10k during last 1-2 weeks helps increase actual resin production.
 
In the tenth week. Busy time. You need a machete to get through the bush. I dont know why my plants take so long to finish but i think it is a hot room. I had been looking closely at trichomes to see what was going on and everything was turning cloudy with a little yellow sprinkled in. You gotta check things closely. I always check every leaf and every bud using all my senses testing for mold bugs mildew and male parts. When a bud feels colder than normal i check it real good. There is mold in the cold. Then i use my noseā€¦ then eyes. If i find some i cut it out once- and that plant is being scrutinized on a timerā€¦ when i see it again then it is a going goner. Bugs -it depends how the plant fares and how much you want to risk. I grew my plants so they buffed themselves up with their own natural defenses, and the huge healthy buds were the way i could tell it worked. I had 2 dr grinspoons, one -no bugs ever touched that i could see. The other dr grinzo- its leafs got absolutely treated on by mites and the plant did not even seem to care about it and produced dreadlocks. The bugs were happy on that plant, the plant seemed fine, the other plants were fine with their buddy getting eaten. The 2 bubblegum plants were first done. Maybe could have used another week to bulk up even more, but i found a spot of mold in the huge buds, and the trichs were yellowing up so now was the time. No sense in pushing anything closer to ruin when success was so close. I like to let some leafs yellow up a little more but that plant seemed to stay green. Then og bubblegum, and one of the three sisters decided it was time in week 11. NL5afghan got a few male flowers in the warm environment and i didnā€™t want to pick all over on it too much when it was going all awesome. I had some long sativas and i didnt want to pull down a bunch of seed. I pick test buds before and after to compare taste and potency, and I believe i picked it at a time where the trichomes were about a quarter amber. Shantibabas weed always leaves me with a more higher feeling than stoned for the most part, leaving it longer didnt really seem to increase potency much after this point in my opinion. Testing in progressā€¦ Everything else needed to continue on.

The Holy Smokes were smelling delicious. They did not even smell a bit like weed, but rather some intoxicating hawaiian fruit juice. One cut with vanilla the other oranges. Heavenly, dreamy, mouthwatering scent that delightfully stayed on my clothes and hands until hours later. The Holy Smokes on day 77ā€¦ they are a bit sunburned, thats not stopping their tropical vacation holiday!!!B0176F97-D830-46E8-A47A-C33B3C7AFFDA.jpeg085C9F03-2A81-4F66-B23E-2ACB83216663.jpegAnd here is bubblegum day 70. Sweet scent mixed with something i smelled before ā€¦ we call it commercial bc bud smell.1F425470-8671-4C29-8885-368413BA3D94.jpeg
And here is og bubblegum day 77. The smell always was a can of gas with some seetnesss somewhere in the gascan.B4420B2F-40C0-4DE4-8685-B3C0E4358389.jpegA93E3E4D-56F4-4CD2-A5B7-48FE949A509F.jpeg9374FE2B-03C7-4C73-B3A3-AF6AD56D5A54.jpeg
And here is a beast!!! NL5Afghan! Day 77. Finally done Marcus. Here i was looking for such a long time, just waiting, mouth watering. The smell is of grapes and sweetness with a heavy dose of cream or vanilla. Little bit of weed scent too but barely. 8D8C7628-93A5-49F1-BB85-7A601CF22A60.jpeg0B8B26B1-753D-44D8-9B4D-5DD4770E28B0.jpeg5C9902C9-84F0-4A14-B7FA-236DEDE8BD16.jpeg
I tried to give you some whole plant shotsā€¦ so you can see the size comparison there. This sister has gotta big ol bud.
And here is Dr Grinspoon day 70, getting absolutely treated on. We all gotta eat i guess Cheers to All!!F43EB658-4EFF-41DC-8218-27ABB64B5483.jpeg
 
I did a bit of reading up on supplemental uv and came to the conclusion that
in seedling/early veg it helps develop the pores(?) to which the glandular trichomes come out of, leading to a more girthy trich, and that specifically the 10k during last 1-2 weeks helps increase actual resin production.
Thanks man. I heard that it helps get me more messed up. That is secretly the only reason i try itā€¦ but i know that you guys are all scientific and I appreciate that deeply. I will keep it in mind. Do you find that is a successful way to use the uv to increase potency? I never had someone showing me things, mostly i just go off of my own thoughtsā€¦ and you guys at MNS! And try to see what gets me messed up. Im more simple minded, try to just think about sitting outside in a field and how messed up my skin would be in the sunā€¦ and try to recreate the moment. Haha.
 
The testing is the best partā€¦ lots of Grails to choose from, but nothing like the Holy Smoke! ā€˜Tis the seasonā€¦ as they say. Reports coming soon. Looking at the colas and trying to find a piece of these face melting buds to test is likeā€¦
 
The Holy Smoke Got bigger in the next few days during the eleventh week. Rubbing up against these plants will leave people at the store asking what kind of fruit juice factory i worked at, what type of spray, mmm ive never smelled that, or other such foolish things, smelling me through their masks. Lingering fruit juice. MmmmACFDAE0C-FC9A-4D12-8D19-BB574A68B158.jpegF38C2F0A-2AF0-4763-8CEE-F4A8CC1A897F.jpeg
Also, two of the three sisters, the NL5 afghans finished up around 12 weeks. I picked a few buds a little early in my hunts for mold. One plant had much bigger buds than the others, but places seemed to ripen up hard where some lightburn occurred. Mold and mildew hang around those dead leafs and such, scaring me. There were also a couple male flowers showing up in my warm room, but how could i blame them for their tendencies, making them rub all up against those sexy Holy Smokes all day and night. I wouldnt mind a few Holy Smoke x NL5 afghans running around. May have gone a bit longer if you like a more stone and need some more weight, but after the testing, I believe i chose the right time to pick it. This plant had an almost pure cream vanilla with just a hint of berry skunkiness in there. The other sister had a strange look to her buds but they smelled more of fruity grapes and a little cream. They all had different personalities even though they are all related. So three sisters, all nice, all sweet, all different, all mine. Reports coming.7FD61C2F-4D24-489A-8E5A-F6DDC95A6459.jpeg4B6FD0D4-41D2-4DAF-971C-19FA8342584D.jpeg9DB23A3A-9320-466A-9BCC-C8F8E05A5D5B.jpegEB920EC6-C455-47DE-A9AF-F679D86EB673.jpegC434DF16-C8A0-4380-A6F8-A84FBF0FE453.jpeg5D6E5D58-C97E-41F0-B59A-8F44C83C5309.jpeg
 
Ok well here was week 12. The Holy Smokes were doing good besides earlier I burnt up half of them with the uv light. And a few mites crawled over from the dr grinspoon banquet they all loved. Smelling the total fruitā€¦ i couldnt blame them, there wasnā€™t any way i was going to spray any neem on them in week 12! The reason i grew was because i was sick of smoking bug spray and chemicals. I am growing in a certain soil i made, trying to use as simple ingredients as possible, and as close to just water as i can, the whole grow. Oj molasses aloe coconut water in minuscule amounts. It is all for the natural flavor. I am totally going to keep any water off any buds or leaves during the bud stage. I didnt know what to do there, it being my third grow. Well the bugs spread out a little. Now was the time i hoped i had stoked the natural resistances of the plants well enough to endure a treating. I also had alot of predator mites around but not enough to control the feasting that occurred on my dr grinspoon plant. The plant and buds did not seem to care that all its leaves were being eaten away. Both the Holy Smokes got a couple bugs but the bugs did not seem to thrive and seemed as if they wanted to move away to easier meals. I was still a little upset. That wasnt the big story of the grow, but certainly some adversity and learning opportunities occurred. Alot of the plants never got any mites that i saw but a few did. Good to have a challenge and learn some things. What a nice hobby you guys have going here! I thought ā€œDamn longball we will have to have our own personal cannabis cup with all our different varieties we grew ourselves!ā€ Im telling you man, MrNice Forum Cannabis Cup. Whos coming with me man? Whos coming?
Ok the Holy Smokes day 88. From here it is just a rainbow show so i will try to write less.18FBEA33-CA00-48AB-A9D7-684D03B23B4C.jpeg1D454E2C-E1E1-4F23-A6E2-2A685D233447.jpeg2CF22FCF-5BC8-4FAA-8E0B-8B0FA64A292A.jpeg
And here is ortega finally got to spread out a little after i made some room in there. Potent bitter acid, battery, going into coffee. The beast is huge. Day 88.243C68C9-4892-41CD-A667-D964395B43DA.jpeg7780A23A-B9AC-4C16-AF72-7DE1383DB452.jpeg9C57FD55-4323-4399-B138-C600774E7366.jpeg
And here is G13 haze and G13 skunk clones about 11weeks of flower. Box of shoes haze very vanilla smell and nearly no smell in the skunk, barely an herbal tarragon scent.10496B57-A4E4-400A-B929-1A7B9F2A6E4D.jpegDD1A190D-60ED-4ED3-B8F7-5DCF06C24898.jpeg
And here is laughing buddha day 88. Must have had some g13 haze in her the way it smells. It is pure vanilla heaven not much else.45C4215B-228E-45A9-BAC8-A750182DC080.jpeg
And here is this crazy jokerbud i made. In my opinion, it looked and smelled like theres some ortega in there, at times. This bud will turn your fingers purple. CA2CE78E-D46E-45BF-A6CC-904C6B270DF4.jpeg
 
Hey guys, very nice grow Kryppler!
They are looking great
As Shanti said great job on your 3rd grow
you definitely seem to have an affinity to the plant!

Enjoy the fruits of your harvest, looking forward to seeing your further grows
Thanks for taking us along for the ride
Sensient āœŒļø


 
Good job bud. Keep up the fine work.
I reckon that Ortega is a jewel in the crown for breeding...
You're right it's a great hobby and nearly on a par with beer brewing for me.
But if they both need time the plants always come first.
The other thing, they are both hobbies that require inordinate amounts of patience.
So in a way, it's like practicing mindfulness for those of us that tend to be a bit like a bull in a china shop at times.
 
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