Highlanders Perpetual. BB,Ice,Void,Qleaner and Some of Chimeras' Strains!

Theowl said:

Can't wait to see the nuggage up close n personal..

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It will have to be your nuggage these are file pics from a year ago, I haven't even grown out the bubbamaster, just it's mums lol.

Testing some DOG that was slow dried as a branch with the leaves still on and then cured verses manicured and dried in 3 days. No dif to me. The dog has loads of taste anyway you look at it lol

Highlanders cave said:

It will have to be your nuggage these are file pics from a year ago, I haven't even grown out the bubbamaster, just it's mums lol.

Testing some DOG that was slow dried as a branch with the leaves still on and then cured verses manicured and dried in 3 days. No dif to me. The dog has loads of taste anyway you look at it lol

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I have dried some buds both ways like you did and there was a difference. This was my Gurple (BC God Bud X GDP)that had a weak taste and smell anyway. She had all the other attributes except the strong smell/taste. Usually I dont notice much if any difference though.

I was thinking that too, it might help more with a strain that has a more subtle flavor

puff puff pass dog>>>>>>>>>

Highlanders cave said:

I was thinking that too, it might help more with a strain that has a more subtle flavor

puff puff pass dog>>>>>>>>>

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My Mango had a smell/taste that nothing could diminish. I trimmed her before the chop, and she smelled like over-due mango and random fruit and vomit. The smell was the most intense of any strain I have grown to date.

Grape Krush with Grape Ape keif Puff Puff Pass>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

You always seem to have real nice strains bassman. I'll take a rip but then I'm going to bed. Should be a nice relaxing day of trimming tomorrow, the two DBL GA in the 3.5 gal containers will be coming down. Very pretty spear shaped buds and lots of them! Very high flower to leaf ratio should be a breeze to trim

Later man

I have had several strains i didnt like trust me...like the Lavender...what a waste of time/space she was! Oh and the Purple dragon lots and lots of just shitty weed lol.

Try to have fun trimming bro! Id help ya if i was close...
Later

Timber!!!

Double Grape Apollo 3 (Void x Grape Apollo)

vedy niceeeeee!

Vedy vedy nice

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Highlanders cave again.

Those DGA 3s look amazing! kudos HC

I have noticed a similar thing on dry/cure taste, some varieties taste even better just after a slow dry like the "greenness" adds to the taste instead of masking it. I also have been messing with over watering the week before harvest which extends their "slow dry" by a couple days so it takes about a week (@20% relative humidity). This seems to give it that couple week cure taste as it goes into the jar. Leaving the foliage at first seems to slow the drying down which seems to help, I'm liking leaving it on until it starts to wilt. I think I am coming to the conclusion that only some light tasting strains benefit from extended jar time and I think I generally prefer green that is fresh. Conversely if let them dry up before the chop cutting the number of drying days the smoke comes out more harsh and raspy. Then you have to catch it at the right moisture content and make sure to cure to assure that goes away.
My .02, the cut, dry, and cure are nuanced and important but the leaving of the foliage seems to help the drying time which ultimately is the biggest factor during drying in my experimentation. I'm thinking this may be the reason the old timers swore by hanging the whole plant. Crap, I'm one of THEM now.......

so curing is overrated?

The only problem with hanging the whole plant is that once those leaves dry PHEW those plants get SMELLY and not in a good way

and its a bit harder to trim.

Not necessarily, many strains benefit from it but I find that it's far less of a factor if you slow down the initial drying time. I guess in some ways yes it is over rated. Some things that are curious; that my lemon candy (Qleaner x Caseyband) "peach pheno" starts to loose the intense peach taste changing to a slightly different taste after a month or two in the jar if kept at 50-60% humidity in the jar (curing). If I go ahead and let it dry out to about 10-20% at 30 days it preserves the peach taste. Similarly various og and diesels loose something after a month of cure, like the fuely taste starts to go away. I had read somewhere that the chemical changes that occur are most drastic at these times and that "drowning" your plants at harvest can pre-cure them. I don't think I am taking it that far but there are some subtle and not so subtle changes that occur when messing with the method.

**To be sure all of those things are true**

I don't really find trimming dry plants more difficult than wet... in some ways its easier since the buds dry it's easier to cut the leaves off close to the stalk and the smaller bud leaves you can just pull straight off don't even need to cut once dry.

That Double Grape Apollo is gonna be nice smoke for sure!

Cowboy I am drowning my Tahoes before chop as a last minute flush lol. They arent drying out nearly as fast now that the weather has cooled down. The soils will be soaked for sure when they come down. I took a stake and stabbed several holes throught he soil so they dont drown completely lol, and get air still.

Highlanders cave said:

Finally found the pics of the two bubba kush x master kush females.

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Wow this is impressive. Glad i started a few of these. Get any real heavy earthy phenos? Master kush has some bland flavors in gene set. Ive tasted peanut butter as well. So you got a bk x mk male and created an f2's of the bubba masters? Or are these pictures from what i sent you and you got a male and crossed to the blueberry?

im stoked about a grand master#2 x convict kush. Got a few convict kush crosses but an unaware of how well convict kush performs. Im sure i crossed convict kush for a reason...can anyone chine in on this?

someone needs to cross master kush to grand daddy purple. this is what im looking for...grand master #2. i fucked up by letting this one go.

aeviaanah said:

Wow this is impressive. Glad i started a few of these. Get any real heavy earthy phenos? Master kush has some bland flavors in gene set. Ive tasted peanut butter as well. So you got a bk x mk male and created an f2's of the bubba masters? Or are these pictures from what i sent you and you got a male and crossed to the blueberry?

im stoked about a grand master#2 x convict kush. Got a few convict kush crosses but an unaware of how well convict kush performs. Im sure i crossed convict kush for a reason...can anyone chine in on this?

someone needs to cross master kush to grand daddy purple. this is what im looking for...grand master #2. i fucked up by letting this one go.
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I have a clone from CL I got 6 mos ago that is Grand Master Kush, and she is outside wasting my time with all the other strains that got pollinated or stressed to the point of worthlessness.

She smells great though.
I went out and smelled her.
Musky spicy kush, with a floral grapey undertone...it thats the right one. The tags all blew off a long time ago.

bassman999 said:

I have a clone from CL I got 6 mos ago that is Grand Master Kush, and she is outside wasting my time with all the other strains that got pollinated or stressed to the point of worthlessness.

She smells great though.
I went out and smelled her.
Musky spicy kush, with a floral grapey undertone...it thats the right one. The tags all blew off a long time ago.

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Lol i hear ya on that one. The one i bred was a true gem, the best ive ever bred.

aeviaanah said:

Lol i hear ya on that one. The one i bred was a true gem, the best ive ever bred.

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I was excited when I got the clone, but then had to move never flowered her. She and others got sick and just got tossed outside in October sometime.
I wonder if I can take a cut from her still and clone it lol.

Can you recreate her??