Fine quality ganja is a thing of beauty. Occasionally, fine quality can be very potent also. Average potency is higher these days, but at the expense of very high potency quality smoke, it seems to me. It is still out there. I come across it occasionally. I'm still searching to replenish my genetic collection with it.
Bowlbreath - Thanks for calling that to my attention. It put a smile on my face.
Speaking of smiling, the weather has been phenomenal lately. It has been near or slightly above 80 degrees during the afternoons the last few weeks. The fall colors have been peaking, and the sky is clear and bright. It has been making toiling in the garden much more pleasant than it could have been.
I finally completed the harvest of my garden. Even the last plant today was fully ripe. Each plant seemed to have ripened up just as I needed it to, almost never giving me a break, but never making me feel like I was getting behind. Based on structure, reputation, or aroma, I definitely have three favorites.
Bangi Haze x Wicked Weed - I had two of these. Both were the most pungent plants, by a longshot. One was early. It was the third, out of sixteen, to ripen. It had small but fairly dense nugs, and lots of them. The other one was not quite as pungent, and the second to the last plant that ripened. It also had nice looking flowers, but not as dense. The aroma of both took on a lot from each parent. They got the fruity funky aroma from Wicked Weed. Wicked weed cures to a menthol aroma, since I added Train Wreck to the mix. Bangi Haze has a menthol aroma when fresh. Menthol is a major pungent blast from this cross. The cross also has the sweet perfume aroma that I have noticed in my favorite Bangi Haze selections. Now that I have grown Miss Universe, I think I recognize this part a bit more. I smell Jasmine, banana, and vanilla. They both also had major resinous stalks. My hands got caked with hash just from holding the stems. I didn't see stalked glandular trichomes on the stems, so it must have plump and densely populated sessile glands. This cross brought out all the aromatic and structural traits that I like the most of both parents. These trait combinations and exaggerations were consistent in each test child. Crosses never have worked out this way for me. It is truly remarkable. I'm very excited about this cross.
Nanan Bouclou - This plant surprised the heck out of me. It was one of the 3 biggest plants. The surprise was how early it ripened, especially since it is supposed to have a significant amount of Cape Tribulation Australian weed in it. Cape Trib, a natural smuggling route due to it's proximity to Papua New Guinea, is likely influenced by genetics from Papua New Guinea. Very tropical. The other parent is described as Haitian indica. Haiti is a tropical island in the Caribbean. I would think it has some genetic influence from Jamiaca, Colombia or Mexico. It was the fourth plant to get harvested. The buds are small and airy. They didn't look airy on the plant, but they are shrinking up considerably and looking like old school ganja. The aroma is sweet, but with a earthy savory aroma, like basil. It is plastered with resin.
Miss Universe - The leaf shapes and serrations look very much like pure S.E. Asian plants I have seen or grown. Now that the buds have fully ripened, they also look S.E. Asian. The buds started out being almost leaf free, but at the very end, small unserrated, short, resin covered, single bladed leaflets are poking out slightly. The Thai plants I have grown did not have this, but I have seen others grow ones that look just like these. The buds are very light in color and in weight. I expect them to shrink considerably. The color is a very light, yellow, and vibrant green. I almost would expect them to glow in the dark. The aroma finished off with what reminds me of ripe bananas. It also has that perfume combination described about the Bangi Haze cross. Along the way while it was growing, it seemed to vacillate between lemon, banana, and vanilla, though always with the flowery perfume notes. The aroma from the resin of this plant on my hands have been haunting me, in a good way, all day.
ThaiBliss
