Winter Grow - Indica Mix

[Shovelhandle]

I've grown this strain of New England bubblegum for 10 years, off and on. No fruit smell or flavor. Very nice floral smell and sweet taste. One of the best.

[Shovelhandle]

As I closed in the grow area (I have movable Mylar reflector panels) the canopy temp went to 90º today.
As a preparation to harvest all the plants go into darkness for 48+ hours after 'dusk' this evening. Ambient temp will be 62º. :hippy:

[Shovelhandle]

A couple of days of drying. Shouldn't take long as the buds are pretty thin.

Mystery (afghani?)
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Afghani Dream x BOG Medley
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Bubblegum
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Ceril (Neville's Haze from Weed-seeds.net f2)
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[Cabighed]

MMmmmmmm. Tasty. Nice long Ceril cola. Sativa's get some length. What seeded the bubblegum? Better yet-any viable seeds?! BubbleCeril would be nice.

[IntrepidSavage]

hey Shovel, hopin i could bug u with a question - how come you put the plants in 48hrs dark before harvest? does it enhance yield, flavour, something else? thanks much

[Shovelhandle]

What seeded the BG? Bitch Afghani Dream hermie. It's too bad though because the AD x BOG looks like some killer bud this time. I wouldn't use any of those seed. I have some nice Bubblegum x Blueberry and some 2007 Bubblegum seeds, among the collection. I should grow some more BG seeds made as it's a great strain and the 2007 are getting lowered germination rates.

I put into darkness as a course of habit.
(1) I've read that the plants are best harvested before dawn.
(2) I've read that the dark period actually may increase resin production some little bit.

[Shovelhandle]

I trimmed the buds and put them into the jars. I screwed up and put the bubblegum plant in jars with the Ceril. Oops. Everything smells real nice already and was dry as hell. I put a fresh leaf in each jar to add some moisture for the cure. Lots of seed in some plants, others hardly have any. Total dry weight is 10 ounces. Not a very long bloom, less than eight weeks but the yield was greatly reduced due to the chilly soil temperature.

[Cabighed]

Nice grow, Shov. 10 zips of green is better than 10 zs of pond water. I'm sure the BG and Ceril will get along fine in a spliff. 'Bout time to get ready for our outdoor season here. I'm gonna go heavy indica heavy, some kush some aurora some hmmmmm, others. Guess I should log it on here.

[Shovelhandle]

It's early for Vt but if one wanted to get a bunch of plants started to pick from and then sex and clone, that would take a while. I can't start until after our vacation.