Strain

Sour Crack Growing it Normal Resistance Strong

Day 58 - Just cut her, will update with more details after drying and tasting. :-D



Day 63 - Just for kicks I lit up a dry, uncured bud. Surprisingly not harsh! (Cured will be better lol) Tasted like lemons and weed. Didn't seem too terribly potent at first. Kinda crept up on me. Then I went to stand up and get some coffee and the three minutes it took to get the coffee felt more like twenty minutes of slideshow. When I was standing in one place I was there, and when I'd walk to another spot there was kinda no transition between the first location (Coffee machine) and the second (Counter). The more I walked around, the more blitzed I became. SO, who this strain was experimentally grown for, had some. Every time she has used Cannabis, she has edged very near a panic attack. We really wanted to find a strain to keep her mellow rather than increase her anxiety. Her in media res review - "It Feels Like I'm Floaaaaaating away onna Clooooud." Her post-experience review - "It was intense but I didn't feel like I was going to lose it."



So yeah, high praise. Sour Crack is great, and will be SO's Daily Driver. (Actually let's say monthly or biweekly because we don't smoke much.) She is exactly as advertised, done in 55-65 days, small, potent buds, 1-2oz yield, calm high, lemony. Exactly what the household ordered. All of this said with mostly dried, uncured buds.

The Outcome

Week 9 HARVEST What's on the scales? oz g 45.36 Bud dry weight What's on the scales? oz g 1.6 Bud dry weight What's on the scales? oz g 275.56 Bud wet weight What's on the scales? oz g 9.72 Bud wet weight Harvested 1 plant Number of plants harvested Light 325 watt Total light power used Grow Room ft² m² 0.01 Grow Room size Grow Room ft² m² 0.07 Grow Room size

0 ounce /watt/plant 22.86 ounce/ft² 1.6 ounce /plant 4642.86 watt/ft² 14.29 plant/ft²

Photos & Videos

Tastes like

Citrus Pine Sour

Feels like

100% Sativa 0% Indica Positive effects Creative Euphoric Relaxed Negative effects Dry eyes

Nutrients

Day 58 - First Grow. First plant. 272.16 Grams I dinged her up pretty good around days 35-40 or so, which were pretty crucial days in a 55-60 day plant, but it seems like the damage was primarily cosmetic as she came through with what seems to me like a whole lot of bud, that looks pretty good up close. Most of the damage seemed to have been to her fan leaves*, and all of those were still supple and looked good on the bottoms, so there was still some good action happening inside her. Her wet weight (With stems) is 272.16 Grams. I don't know how much they weigh, but my hope is to get 1.5 ounces out of her. I'm fairly certain that I'll get more than 1oz. For a plant with a claimed harvest of 30-60 grams, I am a happy camper for a first timer. I'll do better next time! This gal is about a week older than her sisters in the grow, and most of the worst mistakes I have made have been with her, so onward and upward! She's drying now, with most of her sugar leaves attached and a tiny bit of fan leaves hanging off of her to slow her dry. Our RH is in the 20s and 30s right now and it's hard to keep up so slowing down her dry is critical. She's in an 18x18x24 inch moving box. Some holes poked into the sides, hanging from some paracord. (She was so heavy I wanted 550lb test line har har etc.) So now we wait and watch her dry out. Will read more about drying and make sure her conditions are as optimal as they can be.



So basically I'M IN. This is a thing I can do and not get bored. Every step is interesting and I'm constantly trying to figure ways out to make thing easier and better. I'm an obsessive tinkerer and optimizer and this is one more thing that has nearly endless putzing around potential. My goal, after this full grow is harvested, is to go through my whole process (Was well documented) and cut out every dead end and mistake, and creating as simple a grow plan as possible. Things like learning that nutrients are an endless rabbit hole for salespeople to send a newbie down, how not to panic and make big, drastic moves. How to wait a couple days and see before acting. It's a good general patience training exercise. I've come out of the first grow having learned about 30 things to never do again, and still managed to come out with what looks like a damned decent crop, so yay me, and yay people here on Growdiaries, /r/autoflowers /r/mephheads and /r/microgrowery who were instrumental getting me through this with some dignity. :-D



I'll update the harvest when she's dry and I've tasted a lil' sump'n.



After giving her the pre-cut haircut we were kind of amazed at how healthy she looked underneath her beat up top layer of foliage!



Day 61 - Due to a horrible unforseen humidity issue she ended up pretty damned dry in three days. Not super dry, just pretty dry. Dry enough to cure. Trimmed the buds (First time trimming, be easy on me.) and weighed them. 44.75 Grams! AKA 1.6oz!



My hope was to get 1.5 or better out of this girl. She yields between 30-60 grams and for a first grow, smak dab int the middle of an average yield means I didn't screw up too badly! Can only get better from here, right? So huzzah!00