Ok, first the bad news.
My wife and I have finally been priced out of our town. Yup, I'm a renter. We've been lucky for the past 15 years or so in that we've been under-paying for what we get. The landlord has been gradually increasing rent since 2012 and this year she finally put us out of the range we can afford. Which is actually still under the average for similar dwellings
The other bad news is electricity. There's more because we all know when it rains, it pours, but just trying to give some perspective of where I'm at rn.
I think I can sustain until July, then it's abandon ship time and on to the whatever. I knew this day was coming, just wasn't expecting it now.
Ok, now the good news.
It doesn't get any better than this:
Fast Purple F1 at 47 days
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and the cut I took, four weeks behind it at 26 days
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She's a bit sativa gangly but she's a nice producer. COPA says none have gone past 56 so we'll see. She's getting close, but the trichs are hinting 60-63.
The early nose was herby-mint but the last couple weeks has added a bit of skunk and what seems like orange without the bite. Like a pastel orange. But not orange. dig?
I pulled my Purple Caper Grand Fire at day 63 a couple weeks ago. It's probably one of the best finishes including dry and cure, that I've gotten from one of his strains... but
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It's just not the same pheno that I was running in '17. Not even close, which is unfortunate because it's returning nice reviews. I'll try again later. I've got two more behind it I will turn to hash. The nose on the '17 GF was a distinct sweet grape smell and taste while this one is more masculine with none of the sweetness and the grape is hidden behind some other stuff that isn't unpleasant but also isn't my first 10 choices.
The [1st]Flo got chopped a few weeks ago and I/we have been sampling here and there. The tops are prime. The high is bright and heady with no heaviness at all.. definitely not a before bed smoke.
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The nose is berries on the front end and and hash on the back end. The taste is berries all the way down. I've tried Flo two times, many years ago, and this is nothing like that. The terps on this aren't as strong and sweet as the Hella Jelly, but it's a true smell, an organic smell, to Hella Jelly's high fructose corn syrup sweetness.
Until I can run through the rest of the beans, this is the keeper and the most requested "can I have some more" right behind the Mountaintop Mint[I'll do a separate post on that].
I've got a HSC Collie Man Kush, Raspberry Ice Cream, Mountaintop Mint II, and Humboldt Pound Cake, as well as a CSI Durban, a Seven of Nine and Miner's Wife from Second Generation, and a small seeding project a few weeks into flower, which brings me to the even better...
The weedster bunny visited. In light of all the bad news, I'm really hoping I can get to the Space Pastry and my Dream Floats soon.
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Holy shit, guys! It's like Cracker Jacks for adults except the popcorn is seeds and the prize is seeds and it's just prizes as far as the eye can see.
This shit better hold up. The camera adds 10 lbs, they say.
If I can get a couple holes plugged in this sinking ship, I'll pop them and at least get a feel for where they're going to fit into my program. I want to get to the COPA ICC x GSD pretty soon too. Plus he just dropped the FP for real. I'm entering that existential crisis zone you've all already experienced probably.
There's never enough
time
space
money
love
light
peace
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