Contra D - Chem D x C4DD - Info and grow-along.

[VerdantGreen]

Looking great @Wotcha - you folks should check out the full thread over at OG - search up 'chem hunt'..

i just harvested my Contra D plant after taking some nice pics.. but there was no sim in the camera! - doh!
so i went back and took some pics of my poorly trimmed nugs instead - luckily there is minimal trimming anyway with contra D lol.
at nine weeks or a shade over, smells like a more piney chem..

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[VerdantGreen]

the next generation...

 

[VerdantGreen]

I was cheating a little, that pic above was taken 9 days ago.
23/25 germination (one cell had 2 seeds in it and i moved the extra seedling into a vacant cell)
looks to be about 6 'little D'/streaky twisted plants and the rest look 'big D' so far.... close to 75% which makes sense.....

 

[VerdantGreen]

UPdate, now 15 plants. of the 23 seedlings, 4 were proper runts and 3 were not stunted but streaky.. and one was slow.
here's a couple, just waiting to see what sex they are...

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[VerdantGreen]

hi again, ive done some light pollination of all the girls and have pretty much all of them cloned.
Nice looking plants i will try and get some proper pics in a week or so. Looking forward to sampling these!
here are a couple of them this morning under the lights, about 4 weeks.

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[VerdantGreen]

hi all, the 7 Contra D girls are at 6-7 weeks now and really starting to pong !

i'm going to pull 2-3 out each day and take pics... i think if i took them all out of the cab in one go then i might stink the area up to much. They all smell very Chem D like but there are subtle variations.
Plant 4, this has a Victory V / Piney edge to the chem funk

Plant 1 is very much at the sweaty/shitty end of Chem

more Pics tomorrow.
I still have the most potent of my original Contra D girls from the test grow and that will get flowered and pollinated too. I'm interested in how the new girls match up to it as it is a real favorite of mine but these original two are very similar and the only ones i have smoked to date.

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[VerdantGreen]

Here's 3 more.

Plant 7 was short and the only one not to be topped.. so it will win the biggest cola competition against all the other topped plants. This one is Fuel, leather and a bit of pine alongside the Chem Funk

Plant 5 , this is chem funk and not much else atm,

and Plant 3, this has a sharp fruity edge to the Chem.

2 more to show tomorrow,
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[VerdantGreen]

And the last two, these seem to have a more piney / leathery / musky edge that competes with the chem.
Plant 2 is one that i have my eye on as it seemed to frost up earlier and looks a good all rounder

Lastly plant 6

There is a lot of plants to get my head round here and they all smell quite a bit.. its easy to get overwhelmed after sniffing a few. perhaps one a day to evaluate the terps when they are nearly ready.
Ive kept one branch unpollinated as best i can on each plant to evaluate the smoke. Looking forward to that bit. Both of the Contra girls ive tried so far are a great tasty smoke, one is a bit more potent than the other so that one will also get seeded to add to this batch. If any of the new plants don't measure up smoke-wise then i'll not include that plant's seeds in the batch.
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[VerdantGreen]

Hi all, just a few bud pics from today in the cab, they pretty much ready at first glance.
9-10 weeks now, i'll get final pics of all the plants when i pluck up the courage to take the ponging things out of the cab!!

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[VerdantGreen]

Couple more Contra D nugs from different plants.

 

[VerdantGreen]

hi all, these will be the last pics of the Contra D seed mothers , taking them down early next week i think.
One of the Cab we are 10 weeks +

plant 7 (the untopped one)

plant 6

plant 2 ,

 

[VerdantGreen]

will get pics of the other 4 tomorrow, heres one of plant 2 with a seeded bud as well.

 

[VerdantGreen]

here's the other Contra D plants, they all came down today.
plant 3 , 2nd pic is with no flash

and plant 1, flash then natural light

 

[VerdantGreen]

plant 4

plant 5

 

[VerdantGreen]

Whilst the new Contra D plants wait to be sampled (i'm pleased they smell similar to the couple of female plants ive been running for a while)
I saved a little nug of Chem D and a nug of Contra D 1 (the original female from the test grow) to compare . These have been in the Jar a few months
Chem D on left, Contra D on right

The smell is actually a lot more similar than i imagined, but not exactly the same.. The Contra D has slightly more pine and spicy terps and a little less of the shitty/sweaty nasty chem smells. (pine is there in Chem D but it is a background smell and quite subtle)
Taste-wise i have to say that this Contra D nug tastes similar to Chem D but a lot stronger and better taste - quite noticeable (my friend who helps me evaluate buds said that his wife commented on the taste of Contra D and she 'never' usually comments on the taste of weed)
Potency, i would say the Contra D hits harder and is a bit more potent in its euphoric onset, but also the high is shorter lived than the Chem D and both i find quite sleepy at the end.
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