Thanks amoril and Joe,
I don't know if that wins outdoor plant of the year, haha, I'm still keeping an eye on CosaNostra's plants, he's got some real beauties, but thanks for the nomination Joe!
I forgot to mention before that two of my outdoor plants got ripped. It was so strange, because they took the two smallest plants, both about 4', which were right next to some 8'+ beasts. They look they someone took a rock to try and cut them down, so it suggests that they found the plot on accident, and took the smallest plants because that's all they could handle. Going to have to find some new plots for next year.
Here's my grow report on this strain:
Early Haze Grow Report
First, I should say that this years run was definitely rushed, and involved almost no planning at all. The hole's dug for them were way to small, except for one hole which was huge, and it ended up growing my tallest plant. The fertilizers used for them were not well planned, either, and involved me guessing what they needed and what they were running out of. I also found out toward the end of the growing season that my water district has started to use Chloramine, which was causing all types of problems with the micro life of the soil around my plants. After all that, though, the plants did fine and ended up yielding about 6 pounds of dried flowers and about 120 grams of hash.
There were four main phenos that I could notice in this grow. The first, pheno A, was the fastest flowering plants, which had somewhat small and airy buds and typical xmas tree structure, moderate internode lengths. The second was pheno B, which was a mid-range flowering plant that had bigger denser buds, and shorter internode spacing. This pheno got mold the worst. The third, pheno C, was what the majority of the plants ended up like, and was probably the pheno that shanti was shooting for when he bred the strain. It was a nice mix of all the parents, and was a mid-range flowerer, with a thicker hazy like flower structure, and moderate internode length. The last, pheno D, was the longest flowering plants, and only 3 of the 14 ended up like this. This one had long internode spacing, and long, skinny haze type buds. I wish I could've let the pheno D plants go for about two more weeks, but the weather around here just got too bad, but they were close enough to finished that it was still harvestable and the high is still powerful.
I had topped a few of the plants and left most untopped. They definitely took the topping well, and ones that were topped ended up with ~4 tops, and yielded a little less than twice as much as those that weren't topped. All the plants were medium strength feeders, with one really hating nutes and one taking as much as I would give her. Every plant required some kind of support, for the main stem as well as most of their lower branches, because the stalks were just too long in the case of lower branches, or just too skinny in general to support a branch full of flowers which are pretty heavy when soaking wet.
The weather during the spring and summer was excellent, but the weather that counts, during the last month, was the worst that I can remember for this area. I harvested in three groups, for the shortest flowerers, the mid ranges, and then the later ones, and each time I harvested I wish I could've let them go for a week or two longer, but the weather was causing them to mold and we were having frost advisories almost every night.
If I were going to grow this strain again I would plan it out a little more. Dig much bigger holes, create a good mix that will last the whole season and haul it down there, and get a better method to support the plants from early on. I'd also let them go as long as the weather permits, because I'm pretty sure these plants could've used a week or two more time to really fully mature.
All in all, I was very impressed with how well this strain grew in my climate at 40N, and especially happy with it considering the weather we had during the last month. It is not the heaviest yielding strain I have ever grown, but the flowers were the funkiest looking of any plant I have every grown. Actually, I wouldn't say they were low yielding, really, because they grew into some huge plants, but the buds were smaller than usual, and not really that thick. This was a good thing, though, because if I grew a strain with huge thick buds, I probably would've either had to pull them 3 weeks early or lose half of the plant to mold. They were dark lime green with mixes of purple, orange, red, and white all over them. They had more pistils than usual, too. Of course, they were also covered in sticky icky resin.
Overall, this strain was great for an outdoor grow. Very vigorous growth, finishes on time, and not really that susceptible to mold because of the smaller/airy bud structure. The best part, though, is that there is a touch of haze to the smoke, which is just about impossible to get in an outdoor plant in my area. Also, because of the 4 way cross of it's parentage, you can really have a lot of fun growing and breeding with this strain because of the different phenos and genes that are latent in the seed. I will more than likely grow this strain again outdoors next year. It's like the strain that I have always wanted for an outdoor cannabis plant for my area. Shanti really did a great job with this strain, and I thank him again for giving me the opportunity to test grow it for him.
Will be back in about a month with a smoke report, early reports suggest much mind blowing, haha.
(edit)I forgot to say that these plants showed a pretty high calyx to leaf ratio, too, and were fairly easy to trim because of it. Not outrageously high, but damn good for outdoor plants. Also, it is a fairly low odor strain, and doesn't stink up the whole house when harvested. It definitely has a strong, unique smell to it, but nothing like Skunk where it smells up the whole block. This could be due to me harvesting just a tad too early, but I don't really think so.