Anybody tried Serious 6?

[two heads]

Way down at 44. The season here is safe till early October and can usually go later if need be. But the equinox would be an ideal harvest. These look like they might be ready then.

I had hoped for the pink flowers, like my own seed stock, especially since I only had it growing this year at the site that was discovered. It's just aesthetics I guess but they sure look good...

 

[gorilla ganja]

Your Baby's breath does looking lovely. To bad about your spot being discovered.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

They range from about 4-6 feet tall. I didn't top any of them but it looks like nature may have done the job for me on at least a couple of the plants. I can only assume an animal munched on them early on but they have recovered just fine. How's your S6 doing? Flowering yet?

sucks about the site getting found. i lost one just last year that got a good 8hrs of direct sun. i hate losing a spot like that! if none my spots get found this year its gonna make next year very easy on me. i dont be having to carrying everthing and breaking my back. i just just haul in a few bags of ocean forest,happy frog,dr earth pot of gold mix,perlite,and a few bags of quoddy mix from coast of maine and a few of their 4 pound bags of their lobster and kelp mix,ricu hulls and then just dump it in the holes around end of feb and let it sit tilll ready. i will be doing mostly 100% living soil plots since its alot easier for me.
mine are both dead. as soon as i sit them out they started flowering. i spoke with Simon about it and he explained everything to me that he could but since my S6 strains was a bust hes sending me a pack of Kali mist to make up for it,which is awesome in my book. i still have 3 seeds of the S6 that im gonna pop on may 1st next year like simon advised me to. everone that i have spoke to that has smoked it said its awesome smoke

 

[two heads]

So far, so good...

So far, so good...

Well, so far I'm impressed. September 12 and all five plants are in. All big yielders by the looks of it, other than one that suffered a broken stalk and even it did alright. They smell wonderful - juicy-fruity-cotton candy sweet without a trace of skunk.

So - maintenance-free, almost no mould, early, big yield and they even smell pretty. What more could you ask for? A nice high is the most important thing in my mind, and that is yet to be determined. Meanwhile, here's the harvest report.

I hadn't visited since the third week of July so I wasn't sure if I'd be harvesting or just throwing out slug bait and deciding how much longer they needed. But they were big and ready.

Plant #1:

Plant #2:

Plant #2 & 3 (the damaged one):

Plant #5 and a bit of #4:

In the end it took three trips to get it all out of the swamp and to my drying location by bike. I'll post some nice bud pics next.

 

[two heads]

I'd have to say Serious Six has proven itself as hardy swamp weed this year. Nice looking buds too.

Kygiacomo, I hope your smoke report is right. So far this plant is an outdoor winner in my book.

 

[Hold Your Fire]

Beautiful plants.

I guess Serious still has some mustard left in the jar!

Hoping all is well with Simon's health.

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

I'd have to say Serious Six has proven itself as hardy swamp weed this year. Nice looking buds too.
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Kygiacomo, I hope your smoke report is right. So far this plant is an outdoor winner in my book.

they look great man! sucks mine did not make it this year but i still have 3 seeds left of it that i will try next year and i have a pack of kali mist that Simon sent me as replacements for the S6 that did not go as planned. beautiful buds!!

 

[HipsterDoofus]

Your plants look very similar to the Mandala #1 that I grow in swamp tubes. I want to try the Serious Six and Biddy Early strains from Simon next year along with my M1 grow. I appreciate the topic and your images. Thank you for sharing.

 

[gorilla ganja]

Here are some pics of my S6 way up at 53 latitude. As you can see they look about the stage two heads were on July 26. So about 6 weeks behind for only 9 degrees difference in latitude. Beautiful harvest Two heads, nice to see. Mine will be lucky to finish. 6 weeks from now takes me well into possible frost. So they are fast but not fast enough for me.

September 10
Pink hair pheno

White hair pheno

 

[two heads]

Sorry to hear that gorilla ganja. I guess 9 degrees is enough to delay the critical night length that much for this strain. I'm not surprised you've had trouble finding non-auto strains that finish on time. This is one of the earliest I've ever grown. Those do look further on than mine did on July 26 I'd say. Maybe by the first week of October? Any chance you won't get frost before then?

 

[gorilla ganja]

Sorry to hear that gorilla ganja. I guess 9 degrees is enough to delay the critical night length that much for this strain. I'm not surprised you've had trouble finding non-auto strains that finish on time. This is one of the earliest I've ever grown. Those do look further on than mine did on July 26 I'd say. Maybe by the first week of October? Any chance you won't get frost before then?

Well officially third week of September for average first frost. Give or take a couple weeks depending on the year. El Nino this year is supposed to bring a warm fall and winter so we shall see. It's going to hit 2 C - 35 F this Tuesday night. brrrr
I checked my handy daylight site and on July 15 the approximate day yours triggered you had about 15 hrs of daylight At 44 lat. I had about 16.2 hrs. Really amazing that an hr or so of extra light can change the harvest time so much.
Well the season isn't over yet. The search for fast finishing sativa dominate strains continues.

 

[NeDank]

Well officially third week of September for average first frost. Give or take a couple weeks depending on the year. El Nino this year is supposed to bring a warm fall and winter so we shall see. It's going to hit 2 C - 35 F this Tuesday night. brrrr
I checked my handy daylight site and on July 15 the approximate day yours triggered you had about 15 hrs of daylight At 44 lat. I had about 16.2 hrs. Really amazing that an hr or so of extra light can change the harvest time so much.
Well the season isn't over yet. The search for fast finishing sativa dominate strains continues.

@gorilla ganga maybe check out some of LBH's early non auto gear? They call em semi-auto haze but it doesn't autoflower just really early. If memory serves correctly LBH breeds outdoors around your lat in Amsterdam (52*).

This thread has a few great examples of both his auto and early haze hybrids. https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=306454&page=5

 

[Kygiacomo!!!]

Your plants look very similar to the Mandala #1 that I grow in swamp tubes. I want to try the Serious Six and Biddy Early strains from Simon next year along with my M1 grow. I appreciate the topic and your images. Thank you for sharing.

hey hipster the biddy is a great strain. its potent as hell to! I ended up just shy of 8oz off mine. I think I could have got even more but I had to dig it up mid flower and transplant it bc of rippers. I thought at first the buds was airy but since they been curing and dry out they have turned into rocks.the biddy finished sept 24th for me.. I'm gonna be trying the S6 again after seeing 2heads S6. I'm hoping for a 1st week in sept harvest of fully ripe plants since 2head had beautiful buds sept 12th at 44n and I'm at 37.5n.

 

[Bradley_Danks]

Killer bro! I'm gonna have to get some s6

 

[two heads]

OK, in addition to being an easy to grow guerrilla strain, it also looks like it is a big yielder. I just finished manicuring this plant, which is probably the largest of the lot, and it yielded 375 grams (about 13.4 oz):

That's the best yield of a single plant I've ever had and the other plants don't seems like they will be a lot less. So quantity is not an issue.

Quality... I'm still undecided. I'm not getting the trippiness I was hoping for but it's still pretty nice. Over the last year, I've switched to vaping full time so I should maybe try it in my trusty old water pipe, though I'm loath to go back to it. But there is a difference between the high you get from vaping and from smoking and I think some strains are better suited to one or the other.

All in all, I'm undecided as to whether I like it better than the Blue Velvet I grew last year. It also yielded well, though not as good as S6. It has better bud structure but it's a week or more later than the S6.

One final comment - As I manicured I noticed a lot of buds with internal mould and more that seemed perilously close to moulding. Might have had another oz on that 13.4 oz plant if it weren't for the mould. It makes me think I should have harvested a week earlier. I'll manicure the one plant that seemed a week behind the others next, looking to see if it shows less mould.

 

[hamstring]

hey two heads just found this thread with the help of Kyagiacomo. Glad the season wasnt a bust brother.

Hey I've rarely if ever been able to harvest with plants as mature as those. That is a shit load of brown leaves so I think you did well with the small amount of mold you had.

I didnt know you were a sativia lover? I like the flavors you can get from sativia but I dont dig that speedy high. I'm a speedy guy by nature and when I smoke that shit I totally go over the edge.

Glad you doing well its nice to see some of the growers with tenure still hanging around. Also nice to have some young blood like Kyagiacomo keeping this forum hopping.

I grew out some of the blue velvet and it was the best yielding and growing plant I had out there this year. Its description is 50/50 but for me it was more of a indica dominant strain.

It had a skunky smell and taste. Does that sound correct to you? I dont label my plants but I'm 80-90% sure thats what I was smoking.

 

[hamstring]

two heads
I wanted to edit my description of the blue velvet. There is a fruity component to the smell not just straight skunk. I had a couple of J's last night and when I first open the bag I got the fruity smell very pronounced along with the skunky smell.

 

[two heads]

Hi hamstring, I hope you're well. I've been out of the loop for a while but your description of Blue Velvet is right on. Definitely fruity but I always catch that skunk overtone.

Serious Six has no skunk smell at all. I like the aroma but not the high. Put simply, it is too weak, with a low ceiling. After a few weeks I went back to the Blue Velvet I have left from last year and I won't touch the Six till that runs out (except for baking, which is the best use for second-rate bud in my opinion). Next year, it's back to Blue Velvet and soon, if Trudeau keeps his word, I'll be out of the swamp and growing in the back yard! (With a fence of course, rippers will still target any garden, even if its legal).

My final word on Serious Six - good yield but not potent enough.