Everyone needs a little *Old School Hashplant* in their lives
A shot of Purple Kush from the Oakland area
I bring that up now and then, when I do I wonder if anyone else gets it. In the 90s there was quite a bit of that stuff. Where I am in Washington state a lot of good seeds came from Canada. Especially the Gulf islands. Great work done in those days. The stuff that turned up in the seed banks, the sweet skunks and the like, was only the tip of the iceberg. I'm not talking about the 'BC bud' commercial indoor stuff, I mean the outdoor hashplant stuff. There was a '90 day wonder' semi Auto hashplant. Plant it in late May and finish before the end of August. A lot of the stuff was like you're talking about, semi-dense 6 foot tall bushy Indicas, and also a 'bud on a stick' type strain with one main cola.When I think of a hashplant I think indica stature with medium density airy buds. Ones that give up the trich’s without overworking. Haven’t seen many hashplants of this type in a while. Some friends have an outdoor hashplant that finishes between the end of august and early September depending on which of the two phenos. Wonderful semi-auto plant of Eastern Canadian pedigree. Always wondered what happened to the older non-Kush hashplant strains.
A shot of Purple Kush from the Oakland area
Very distinctive hashplant type. She has a mutation, she produces small leaves within the bigger leaf. Check it out.
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It's a strange one. Looking forward to sampling the flowers. I'm curious what the narrow leaved pheno is like, I'll have to start more seeds next year.
awesome looks greatIt's a week or two before the plants switch to flowering. I love this time of year, besides having big ganja plants to look at every day the weather is great. Most of the year it's cool and wet, rarely above 20 degrees C/70 degrees F and it's cloudy more often then not. The exception is July, August, and most of September when it's sunny and 75-85 degrees F/23-30 degrees C. Real tomatoes, zucchini and peppers every day. For three months it's paradise, I guess the rest of the year makes you appreciate it.
The plants are reaching their maximum size, it's interesting to see which ones have reached their limit and which ones would get even bigger if they had more sun. My hashplant dominate 88G13HP seems to have reached it's limit. Not a big plant, just over six feet tall and quite bushy. It has an open bushy structure with long branching which I prefer. Much less pruning and mold problems. Light reaches past the outer leaves deep into the plant which means a bigger yield. Here's what she looks like.
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You can see how one sided she is in the last picture. That is natural, not pruning. You can see the south side of the plant, I faced north when I took the picture. The first picture I was facing west, all the growth is towards the south east. The plant to the left of her blocks some of the light from the west along with tall trees. She gets direct sun from 8AM-3PM. A lot of my plants are like that, two dimensional because of shade.
There's other strains that would ignore the plant to the left, keep throwing branches at it. It's a 'sativa' trait. We've all seen pictures of the crowded fields of hashplants in Afghanistan, all of them the same height and shape. This particular 88G13HP expresses those genetics perfectly.
When I rub the stem I get a wonderful hashy aroma, one of the best smelling hashplants I've grown. I like her shape and smell much more then her sister I grew last year. Very true to the 80's Sensi Hashplant line. Last year's plant was much more of a mix.
My other 88G13HP is very different. G13 dominate or expressing as a hybrid. She's big and hasn't hit a wall in her growth. Keeps getting bigger and bushier. She's well over 7 feet, 2.2 meters, much taller then me. Here's the pictures.
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She's grown a lot since I last posted pictures. She has a strong sweet hashy smell like her sister, maybe a bit spicier. When the weather was cool and wet she had a boytritis infection on her stalk. I killed the fungus with rubbing alcohol and smeared antibiotic ointment on the wound. It's dried out and healed but it left a nasty looking scar. When the autumn rain starts up it'll be a battle to make it to harvest. She's so full of vitality I'm betting on her making it. Good thing I was on it, caught the infection early and killed it. I've lost plants to stem rot, finding it and treating it early is critical.
I made dry sift hashish with last year's flowers. It's great stuff, some of the best I've made. Pressed it with a stainless steel mold.
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I've got more pictures, I always hit my limit of 5 too quickly. I'll try to get some more up soon.
this is really an early finish
is this blueberry hashplant your creation? I don't think it correlates with Bodhi's BlueB Hashplant
I made dry sift hashish with last year's flowers. It's great stuff, some of the best I've made. Pressed it with a stainless mold.
I wanted to get back to this thread sooner, I was waiting to get pictures of my friend's Pot of Gold Hashplant. I visited him but smoked so much I spaced off the picture, along with everything else I planned to do that day.Apologies if I've asked before but why do you press your dry sift?
I usually just store mine in powdered form in an air tight container and smoke it neat over stainless steel mesh.
Have you found any benefit from pressing it?