Hello Everyone,
It's been a couple of weeks since my last update, and since then the Crack Mack cannabis plant has filled out nicely.
Let's jump right into it and check this girl out.
 Strain: | Crack Mack |
|---|---|
 Dominance: | Sativa |
 Nutrients used: | |
 Phenotype traits: | Intense Fruity Aroma |
 Lineage: | Green Crack/Big Mack Superstar/Miracle Mack. |
 Current growing stage: | Flowering. |
 Current plant age: | 125-TOTAL/55 Days-FLOWER |
 Sex: | Photoperiod/Auto recessive |
 Location: | Syracuse New York |
The buds have swollen up nicely. I remember @anewyorkminute79 predicting that these buds would swell up nicely. I had my doubts but he turned out to be right!
My doubts mostly stemmed from the high sativa dominance that this particular strain exhibits.
Sativa's tend to have more elongated and thinner bud profiles.
These buds are not super huge, but they average one inch in width pretty much across the board for the main colas.
They're obviously not Coke can size and will shrink during the drying, but they are dense, oily, sticky buds and the overall quality is pretty impressive.
The Crack Mack grows large due to the Sativa dominance, and does not appreciate being forced to maintain a low profile. Her stretch is massive and this learned insight will help me grow clones that should surpass the mother in some ways.
I cannot fit the entire plant in a photo because my grow room is small and I can't get the distance necessary for a full top to bottom shot, but I do have a wide angle lens that will help.
The wide angle clip on phone lens doesn't produce very great quality photos ,but this photo is merely to express the magnitude of her size, which for a set up like this is pretty impressive. I almost ran out of vertical space.
Currently this is as macro as I can get because I seemed to have misplaced my macro lens :/
but that's ok because I'm going to purchase a new one before the next harvest.
Luckily I'm able to look at cannabis and deduce how close she is until optimal harvest time with the naked eye alone. (and of course I'm keeping track of the days now..) This is probably from the experience I've gained in the past couple of years growing this plant.
The trichomes are now starting to turn milky and pistil coverage is about 50% brown coverage.
This is absolutely perfect for my sixty day harvest projection.
Currently at day fifty five, there are five days to go.
I had a great conversation recently with @agcoeficiente10 about harvest time in a recent post of his, and we discovered that we both share the same unpopular opinion regarding harvest time.
Myself and @agcoeficiente10 both prefer an earlier harvest, due to the enhanced psychoactive effects and less narcotic effects.
Most growers opt to push their plants a little further before harvesting, due to the notion that this will provide a more balanced medicinal effect because of the breakdown of THC to CBD/CBN.
While true in some cases, more often than not the narcotic effect will be too strong for day time consumption, causing pot naps on the regular.
The extra seven to ten days that most growers opt to push their grows will usually always result in a heavier yield, and this aspect may dictate the decision more than the idea of a balanced medicinal high, because cannabis is a cash crop, and sometimes we may delude ourselves for a heavier weight believing this is the right choice because we all cosign the notion with one another :)
I'm ok with sacrificing a little weight for a higher quality smoke.
There are still improvements to be had with my grow. Since I am running clones of this cultivar, I should be able to zero in what is causing certain ailments.
I get brown tips on the foliage, and I am not sure what is causing this. It may have been caused by early pH troubles, but the small clone is also showing some brown tips, but the new growth doesn't have the brown tips. So I'll just have to experiment around and try to get her where she needs to be. It could be a little bit of nutrient toxicity from high nitrogen, or issues with the water itself. I'll still be happy if I can continue to produce nice bud like this, even if it takes a while to figure out the issue.
Overall I'm super happy with the Crack Mack, and I'm looking forward to the harvest in five days.
That will do it for this update.
How is this cannabis plant looking to all of you?
I'd love to read your thoughts in the comment section!
Thank you for stopping by!
Have a good day! -@futuremind
Damn that girl is looking fire.. I wish I had the discipline to wait to harvest but I always want that extra weight..
#greedybastard
lol
For me it falls somewhere in-between addict who can't wait for his weed, and trying to play scientist to justify my early chops.
On a serious note though, I really think earlier chop makes for better weed overall.
Yes I agree the high is better.... I'm greedy 93⅙% of the time
How the hell did you come up with that number...
There's that one time I cut the plant early listening to a friend of mine.. idk if you remember Martin.. but that's him
I'd probably remember him if I saw him.
At this point in my life I've sustained so many serious unchecked TBI's that I seriously don't even want to have a head scan. Last year I was pistol whipped on my temple and was bleeding out of my ear. A year later my head still hurts sometimes, but... somehow this brain still works.
Very Nice Bro! You have out done yourself this time! Bravo! 👊
You called it! Your perceptiveness that some upper stem training and scrog adjustment would help truly made a big difference! Appreciate you bro, thank you!
your buds looks awesome :D
Thanks bro :D
Nice buds! 💪
Thank you @happyfrog420-new. This one felt like it took forever...
Pretty much perfect.
I'd say the leaf tips are brown from nutrient burn, but I have limited experience.
I just read a lot about it.
Thank you @felixxx.
I think this is an accurate assessment. I fertilize my soil with bone and blood meal after every grow, but opted not to fertilize the soil for the upcoming clone.
I'm hopeful backing off on the fertilizer will solve this issue.
Nutrient burn😳... Something else to watch out for. Thanks🤗
🤣
The cannabis is looking very good to me
You’re doing well with trying to grow them
Keep it up!
Thank you @rafzat.
I hope you will get to smoke my weed one day.
Sure!
Let me know when you're flying to New York and I'll meet you at the airport with a bag of Crack Mack.
Man I'm so jealous🤣🤣🤣🤪 she looks amazing and you're right, I'm sure that lense is not doing her justice at all!! I can't get over how the buds stack up like that. Can't wait until my girl looks more like that(if she will)
I'm looking forward to hearing what's next... And then if course how she smokes🤗🥰
Thank you for the encouraging words @rachaeldwatson!
I have a few good years under my belt now growing cannabis and it still amazes me seeing the stacking occur! Especially when the spacing between the nodes is so big like it was with this plant, the fact that she filled out the way she did is very impressive and awe inspiring.
I have no doubt you will be growing some buds like this too 😎
I already smoked some very early lower popcorn nugs and it was fire. I feel confident that this will be one hitter quitter status.
You can smoke without drying?? Or had you let them dry already? Yay🎉 on the one hit quit status 😎
I can hardly wait to see what our girl here does🤗
Well, not gonna downplay my weed addiction lol.. The first time I smoked it I was really needing some weed and seriously ripped a wet nug right off the plant and threw it into the bowl piece and started hitting it. It worked and get me pretty high. I did dry some and smoked it dry and could tell it's early weed but the effects were potent enough to bring down my cravings.
Does that plant have a fruity aroma or more piney?
I haven't ever smoked it that green. That's why I asked🤗
If I had to say.. I'd say piney. I made a video this morning but it wouldn't load.. So I deleted it. But I had a whole big reply for you in it. ... That's why so long for my reply. Was waiting on that dang thing 🤦🥴
That's unfortunate you keep having trouble with the video uploads. That would have been cool to hear your reply in the video though! 😅
That's awesome it has a piney terpene. It probably has the pinene terpene. (I'm trying to remember the name of all these terpenes, there's so many lol)
If you can avoid smoking wet weed I would say avoid it, because it just sucks like that.
Could probably make weed butter with wet weed but I bet it would have a more planty taste.
I'm glad you mentioned weed butter. I've not made any mainly due to I'd rather smoke bud vs boiling it down. I've been saving my stems tho(I hear there is still some THC in them too) anyways, I've got me a little bag and was thinking about boiling them 🤔 think that would work? Or no?
Looking great man! Plant is looking good too, :)
Thanks brother! Couldn't have asked for a more beautiful plant this round. More to come in the future :)
I love your plant friend💚
Thank you @difo92!