1st Grow of 2023: Skylab Lives!

Nothing left to do! The buds are super dense but not very big. I'm still new at "succeeding" at this so I don't know what I'm talking about most of the time, but what I'm noticing with 3 other girls who were just flipped to flower after 8 full weeks of veg is that- I was right when I suspected I topped these 4 a little too close to the day I flipped to flower, so those bud sites didn't have enough time to recover and stretch a little. I was forced to veg a week longer than I wanted with the 3 new girls, and they had days to recover from topping, now they're at least as tall as these girls at the start of flower and every top looks ready to explode! Lesson learned and also maybe a lesson about how to manage a crazy-stretchy strain- top and flip soon after and they stay a little shorter. They've bulked up, but tbh I didn't know what to expect from Ripper or HSC - didn't pay much for the seeds so it was worth it to start in the middle of winter, and get an early harvest but compared to my last harvest (3 Mamiko Chem Cookies gave me 17 oz) - I don't expect to get 1/2 of that (so maybe 8 oz off these 4, hopefully!). If not I've got some Ethos in Week 5 of flower and more Chem Cookies in Wk 1 of flower so - should be an amazing year! EDIT: Tester buds have not disappointed and first impression is that the Notorious THC has a bigger kick to it, which makes sense. They were sticky as hell. I didn't know what to expect from either strain, so I'm happy 1 has a big kick to it, and the Do-G was also strong with a gassy taste but probably just suffers from the comparison. Still a big head high. WE NEED MORE SMOKE REPORTS IN THESE DIARIES! I'VE SEEN ENOUGH "I'LL COME BACK AND LET YOU KNOW" COMMENTS THAT ARE THE LAST COMMENTS ON A DIARY. I'll do my part. I want to include a lab report on THC%'s with my smoke reports from now on. Everything's just about dry after only 5-6 days (but that happened in Oct so I think the conditions in my shed are just excellent and I wait until plants are pretty dried out before chopping). I'll start jarring and watching rh levels then get a final weight for the harvest report. Happy growing homies! Chopped at the end of Week 8 of flower. Thanks for visiting! 🙏😤