Chopped
At 12.5 weeks I harvested GW3, the GW7 seed plant and half of the clone, and the biggest of 4 colas from NHM3. Yesterday, at 99 days, I chopped everything else. Here are some thoughts on these plants.
GW2 was chopped at 14 weeks and I haven't smoked any since a 10-week sample, which I found to be strong but muddled high, so the jury is out on the effect of GW2 for a few more weeks while it dries and cures. It threw a fair number of nanners from F60 onward but that may be my environment. It swelled up massively as I had hoped, and produced a couple 2-liter-bottle-sized colas. Very resinous...probably the frostiest plant of the bunch.
GW3 was the star of the show IME. She won me the Bud of the Month (thanks, guys!) with her beautiful stacked calyxes and sativa structure. Despite the airy sparse sativa bud structure GW3 yielded pretty well, as I got 93 g from the seed plant. The effect is off the charts good. One toke in the AM and I'm like a tweaker all day getting shit done. Give it 5 hours and it'll eventually wear off with a super easy come down. If you toke all day at a heavier dose it'll eventually catch up with you and drag you down like any weed will, but if you moderate your dose the effects are clear headed, social, euphoric and energizing. I'll be careful about letting inexperienced tokers share this stuff, because I've detected hints of anxiety. Here's an interesting example: I was in a car and had just taken two tokes for our long drive. It was a beautiful spring day with a crystal clear azure sky, and I put on my Maui Jim sunglasses. As you know, polarized sunglasses increase the chroma of the colors we see, and just as I put them on we were passed by a new red pickup truck. The brilliant red color of that truck in the bright sun against the blue sky and green grass actually startled me. I've never been startled by a color before, and it's a pretty fucking cool effect I think. At higher doses it could be shamanic. I haven't explored that yet. This sample I smoked was a 10-week sample; it'll be interesting to see the difference in the GW3 that I took at 12.5 weeks. It's all jarred up and curing right now and the buds were fairly easy to trim and are so beautiful and unique looking! Tiny trichs, super sticky, and little chains of frosty calzxes with very little leaf. Not much in the trim bin either, but what's there is extremely frosty and will make nice hash.
GW7 yielded really well...I got 180 g from the seed plant alone. It's definitely the most widow influenced, with a strong initial rush after a toke, a good strong high but not as long lasting as GW3. bit of a sour, acrid smell up front with an incensy back end that translates into smoke that tastes good even before a proper cure. Smells funky, tastes good, really potent and the high is social and a bit trippy.
NHM2 has not been sampled yet but I've already discarded the clone because the yields were so low (I expect less than an ounce) and there's so much leaf on the buds. They are quite frosty and the smell is great, sweet haze, lime, pine, mango, floral.
NHM3 has a nice smell like NHM1 and the effect is potent, euphoric and clear-headed. Very nice weed to smoke and I'm really looking forward to the flavor after a proper cure. I'd love to explore the more sativa leaning plants in this line, but I didn't get one this grow.
This post has been brought to you by GW3 (the 10-week sample).