~20 weeks and done
Greeting MNS sativa fans! I took cuts and rooted these plants just as the pandemic was taking off, and here we are, at the end of a 20-week flower cycle, and the pandemic is still fucking us up. These long-flowering girls can aid, or hinder, one's sense of temporal perspective. It has been a pleasure to watch these beautiful, primal plants do their thing. Now the grow is complete and soon all of the herb will be in jars curing. I've been smoking this stuff and sharing with friends and the consensus is that I've succeeded in bringing back that '70s weed. More detailed smoke reports later, but let's recap flowering times for these girls:
PD10 - 12.5 weeks
PD6 - 16 weeks
PD2 - 17 weeks
PD9 - 20 weeks
PD1 - 20 weeks
At "only" 12.5 weeks, PD10 was remarkably fast for a Colombian sativa, and the smoke is more potent than any other landrace I've grown, with a motivating effect. It was the (now ex
) GF's favorite...she'd take a puff and run around her house doing chores for a couple hours. Remarkable quality for such a fast sativa. I unfortunately lost the PD10 clone but have a lot of seeds, and I'm going to share them and collaborate with a new friend on a "Cape Cod landrace" project, where we'll see if we can acclimatize them to our (his) climate and do a couple years of selection in an effort to breed an early, 100% sativa that can finish here at 42N. The F2s I made from PD10 will be a good place to start.
OK, more on effect, aromas and flavors after a bit of a cure, but let's talk about PD1 and PD9, which were harvested last week.
PD1 is a keeper. It has that primal, stacked calyx bud structure, and the aromas at harvest were mostly pine followed by a distinct ginger smell. Probably the best yielder of the bunch too. Based on sampling of early (12 week) flowers and a 20-week bud I snipped and smoked yesterday, the effect is outstanding. The kind of soaring, alert high that makes you wonder if you're actually high. But then you see or think something in a different way and you know, oh yeah, I'm high. Here she is at the chop...
PD9 most resembled the mother punto rojo, and showed red pistils in flower. I haven't fully explored her flavors and effects, but I think she'll finish as an also-ran. Good smoke and flavor, but no tthe best. That assessment could change after a proper cure.