ILGM Big Bud Outdoors

This week was our first dry spell in quite awhile. I decided to just let the girls dry out, so I didn't provide any water all week...by yesterday evening, they were beginning to look a bit droopy and wilted. I'm ok with this - they're at the stage where a little bit of managed stress just keeps them pushing those flowers out. Runt, the almost 7 foot christmas tree, has such fat, dense buds. It's hard to capture her in photos, especially because to get her into the frame means you have to stand fairly far back because she's so big. But the little side buds underneath the main cola are very fat, and very dense. Squeezing them releases a pungent odor of skunk and citrus, and when you squeeze you really feel how dense and solid they are. I bet you each one of those buds gives me 7 - 10 g, and there ~15 of them. The main cola is also really developing, although it's not quite as fat as the lower buds...but it is thick and long. About 18" and about as wide around as a clenched fist, again very dense and pungent. I bet the main cola gives me 50g all by itself. The traditional manifold is also starting to fatten up nicely...nowhere near what Runt is doing, but she has 6 "main" colas due to the training that each are probably going to put out 20 - 30g, and smaller side buds that are fattening up nicely too. She really seems to like her home among the nettles; I'm going to grow this strain again, and when I do I will probably go deeper into the forest to find a bed of nettles, cut down some smaller trees to make sure they have enough light, and just let them grow. The nettles really keep the soil nute-packed. The other three plants, the quadrifolds, are still putting out new flowers, they haven't really begun the fattening process. They may end up being harvested later than Runt and the traditional manifold. Where runt is beginning to frost up and her pistils are beginning to curl and go orange, these plants still have stark white hairs and look like they may have another 8 - 10 weeks to go. I suspect Runt will be ready to harvest in the next 4 weeks, and the traditional manifold not too long after that. I'm really liking this strain - so much more enjoyable to grow than the Blueberry Autos. I'm just not into autos; too finicky, not enough time to really get them to do what you want them to do, not a lot of yield for the effort. Good things come to those who wait. Clean, Patient Country Living.