I had 3 Black Jacks from sweet seeds again. All three germinated, but one died at that point. Another one died at three weeks when the hood fell down, it was right underneath. The survivor was something else. Its growth was epic, veg and flower. Best plant out of the first grow of Big Devil2, Little Cheese, and Black Jack.
Alot of things went wrong and had an effect on all the plants but Black Jack ignored it all, determined to produce some pukka sticky icky icky. Having said that the Little Cheese's all things considered did pretty good. They all grew over Barneys max height of 20 inches, the tallest reaching 24 inch.
Back to Black. As soon as her buds started forming the skunky sweet smell was so intense. I'd just sit at my tent entrance for ages, running my hands through her flowers and smelling them.
The buds fattened up quickly and just got coated with sugar. I was majorly worried about losing the smell and taste. Especially seeing as a mate cropped 15 or so ounces of cali haze and dried it in the standard manner hung up over a couple of weeks, then brown bagged, finally jarred.
It tasted okay, like there was a hint of flavour but nothing to write home about, yet it was as skunky as my black jack when it was living. I had a joint of his previous crop that had been cured for four months and one toke blow my head off. The flavour was insane, pure fresh zest of orange. So he can get the best out of a bud with his drying method but four months til its good?! I cant wait that long!!!
Anyway I cut it at nine weeks on the dot, cut all the main branches and hung up. Removed all fan leaves, and big shade leaves. Drying room is a dr60, with split five inch extraction, a four inch intake and three desk fans aiming at dishes of water. Temp 70/75 Humidity 40/50%.
After a couple of days hanging i manicured the bud then rehung for two more days. At that point the top of the branch would snap whilst further down it would bend. I cut the buds down and put them straight into kilner jars.
12 hrs later the buds were fairly moist so i put them out on a wooden tray for half an hr or so until they felt dry again then sealed them up again. i kept doing this until they stopped feeling moist and then just burped the jar.
Now i've smoked the buds right from the moment they were dry at three days til now a couple of weeks later and I can honestly say every single joint has tasted like the best one I've ever had, it just gets better and better.
I've been smoking for years and i've had plenty of premo s"@t, which is why im in complete disbelief that I've manged to sucessfully grow, and harvest on the first attempt some of the best pot known to mankind.
Begginers luck or divine intervention i dunno but praise be for it lol
I used
Bio Bizz All mix soil,
Bio Bizz Grow, Bloom, and Topmax.
