[Emeraldo]

Originally Posted by Female Seeds

Wow, impressive Emeraldo. Good pictures too!
Man, it "looks" super tasty! Those pictures represent quintessentially our beloved Sexbud

Thanks Bean! That is quite a compliment. Please feel free to use those photos for FS marketing, with of course due credit to Emeraldo!

[Satyros]

Originally Posted by Emeraldo

Any whiff of grapefruit or pineapple from her buds yet? Mine started having those scents maybe two weeks before they were fully ripe, just a faint odor at first, but by the time the trichs were showing 50% milky the bouquet was quite nice. I mean, the odor was never overwhelming, that being one of the features of Sexbud that makes it a great stealth strain, imo.

Personal confession here...I'm not that great at distinguishing scents. Like when I read detailed descriptions of coffee, wine, etc., I'm like, who are they talking to? I can't distinguish "subtle notes of chocolate and peppermint" or anything like that, and a lot of the cannabis descriptions are going that way.

There is a slight generic/hops odor right at the plants, however, as soon as you step away, you smell goats. Male goats particularly create a quite strong scent. Two of them might not mask a strong smelling skunk, cheese, etc., but they dominate the lighter scents.

That being said, a little bit of stem rubbing should do the trick. The Sexbud #1 is joining the older plants at going yellow...not the buds, but mostly all the fan leaves are yellow, which tells me they only have limited time in their life cycle. They can lose them all and keep going for a little while as just buds, but not too long. In other words, I probably can't sit here with bare buds and say, ah, well I'm going to grow these until first frost.

Today will probably be the last feeding, and then just water until either the trichomes look milky enough, or the plant threatens to totally fall apart. It still has a few new pistils, so it's in that kind of borderland of switching from new flowering to ripeness. I'll try to check its personal details later on; I wish I didn't have to surmount a barricade to do close inspections, but there isn't really a choice about that.

Edit: a stem rub has a slight odor; my nose is a bit congested, so I'm not very sensitive to it, but I suppose it could be considered grapefruit. However, with magnification, the trichomes are all across the board. In fact, it has a number of amber, mostly towards the tips of the sugar leaves. Not sure if this is telling me to cut it very soon, or quick dry a piece for testing?

[Emeraldo]

Originally Posted by Satyros

Personal confession here...I'm not that great at distinguishing scents. Like when I read detailed descriptions of coffee, wine, etc., I'm like, who are they talking to? I can't distinguish "subtle notes of chocolate and peppermint" or anything like that, and a lot of the cannabis descriptions are going that way.

There is a slight generic/hops odor right at the plants, however, as soon as you step away, you smell goats. Male goats particularly create a quite strong scent. Two of them might not mask a strong smelling skunk, cheese, etc., but they dominate the lighter scents.

That being said, a little bit of stem rubbing should do the trick. The Sexbud #1 is joining the older plants at going yellow...not the buds, but mostly all the fan leaves are yellow, which tells me they only have limited time in their life cycle. They can lose them all and keep going for a little while as just buds, but not too long. In other words, I probably can't sit here with bare buds and say, ah, well I'm going to grow these until first frost.

Today will probably be the last feeding, and then just water until either the trichomes look milky enough, or the plant threatens to totally fall apart. It still has a few new pistils, so it's in that kind of borderland of switching from new flowering to ripeness. I'll try to check its personal details later on; I wish I didn't have to surmount a barricade to do close inspections, but there isn't really a choice about that.

Edit: a stem rub has a slight odor; my nose is a bit congested, so I'm not very sensitive to it, but I suppose it could be considered grapefruit. However, with magnification, the trichomes are all across the board. In fact, it has a number of amber, mostly towards the tips of the sugar leaves. Not sure if this is telling me to cut it very soon, or quick dry a piece for testing?

I would err on the side of going another day... You can always take a bit and dry it while you continue to watch.

And a propos odor -- I had two plants and one was unmistakeably pineapple and the other was clearly grapefruit, no room for error.

[Satyros]

Originally Posted by Emeraldo

I would err on the side of going another day... You can always take a bit and dry it while you continue to watch.

Generally I would agree with that, but, the observation really perked my noobish-ness with sativas.

Edelweiss: pistils all receded, but don't see any amber. Definitely not touching it yet. Should come out with majority indica effect.

Sexbud: still getting new pistils, still has some clear trichomes, but it has a noticeable amount of amber established on it. Might be right at the beginning of the "harvest window"; I'm just a bit skittish about losing its special character and turning into a sedative.

Being a small plant, whatever I take to play with, would certainly gouge the final yield. The six bigger colas are of prime importance; one of the lowest two is almost that size, and one is smaller. That smaller one might have to volunteer for a quick dry, but I'm going to hem and haw about this until either doing it, or skipping it and maybe over-ripening the thing....tough decision.

[Emeraldo]

Originally Posted by Satyros

...Sexbud: still getting new pistils, still has some clear trichomes, but it has a noticeable amount of amber established on it. Might be right at the beginning of the "harvest window"; I'm just a bit skittish about losing its special character and turning into a sedative.

Being a small plant, whatever I take to play with, would certainly gouge the final yield. The six bigger colas are of prime importance; one of the lowest two is almost that size, and one is smaller. That smaller one might have to volunteer for a quick dry, but I'm going to hem and haw about this until either doing it, or skipping it and maybe over-ripening the thing....tough decision.

Sounds like the harvest window has arrived. And yes, I had the same thought at that point: Rather earlier than later, my objective was an uplifting sativa effect. I harvested when the trichomes were 50%+ milky, even though new white pistils were forming and not turning brown yet, there were also mostly brown pistils. With a microscope and with the digital camera I could also see some clear and some amber trichomes in there. Worked fine for me.

[Satyros]

I did wait a day to try it.

There was nothing sedative.

The impression I got was upper-body warmth and relaxation; not stoned and not floaty, but more of a calm anti-anxiety thing, maybe a little bit like taking vitamin B.

I would not cut the plant yet. I bet another week or two would put more thrust and apex into the effect, without crossing over into anesthesia.

[Emeraldo]

Originally Posted by Satyros

I did wait a day to try it.

There was nothing sedative.

The impression I got was upper-body warmth and relaxation; not stoned and not floaty, but more of a calm anti-anxiety thing, maybe a little bit like taking vitamin B.

I would not cut the plant yet. I bet another week or two would put more thrust and apex into the effect, without crossing over into anesthesia.

Sat, you have a knack for describing the effect. My impression also: Upper-body warmth, emanating from the head. Mental abilities are do not feel impaired, but the head is not completely clear either, there is a head intoxication of a mild sort. Body relaxation, but alertness and energy to be active. If Sexbud were a vitamin, it would be B.

For someone who says he has trouble identifying a pineapple from a grapefruit bouquet, you can very well describe the effect.

I think yours are about where mine was when I cut. I just made sure the trichs were over 50%. I don't want it to make me fall asleep like Paulie Waulie said some people experienced from his, but he said he let them go 9 weeks.

I am curious to know if letting yours go much longer will have more thrust into this effect you like, in other words will another week (or two?) put you where you want to be. Could be anaesthesia by that point.

I have two questions for you: How many weeks now since flowering started on your first? What is the milky/clear/amber trichome ratio today?

[Satyros]

That's interesting...I didn't review what anyone else said about the feeling of Sexbud. It was a straight, off the cuff, as if a "blind taste test" observation...so that's cool it sounds similar.

Although it didn't quite have mental properties--couldn't quite claim head intoxication of any sort. I just had two bowls of it. The first included baby popcorn, and didn't quite do enough to speak of, but the second one, only packed with bits from the top...yeah that one started to get rich.

Fwiw, I did the tupperware/damp paper towels/microwave technique, posted on IC as "A very,very quick dry method", I think, and no, it doesn't reduce the chlorophyll taste in any way, but it *does* get the herb to burn very closely to a cured one.

Intuitively, the buzz just sort of told me, I'm immature, I can get stronger. On this first plant, it showed pistils around 8/26, which is about 6 1/2 weeks of actual flower development. If you count the stretch, or internal hormone changes, it could be at 8 weeks of flowering. Because it has desirable effects, it could even be considered finished now, but I'd like to try pushing it a little further. I don't know if that can enhance the effect; to me, it's mostly about "getting to know the strain", with the high being a bonus incentive to guide future work.

My nose is clearer today. The stem rubbing is kind of faint, it's not pineapple at all, but I guess you could call it grapefruit. Whereas combusting the product is very obviously resin, even I could tell that.

The amber realistically is only about 10%. Majority--50 to 60%--is cloudy but not swollen. So probably, 1-2 weeks would allow more of the clear to get cloudy, and more of the cloudy to swell. Three weeks, or a total of nine weeks' flowering, seems like it would probably exceed the "harvest window". I'll let it keep going, briefly, unless the amber starts to take over.

Growing Sexbud at the end of season works fine to get a sample. In the future, mid-July seems optimal for the "pure" sativas in order to limit their height, but the Sexbud growth is almost the opposite. I would really like to try it earlier, because it had plenty of room to get taller and bushier. It demands either more plants, bigger ones, or both, since it seems to be a good "anytime" smoke. Pleasant effect with no droop, disorientation, or incapacitation, which there are plenty of other strains for that, and only limited times when I would smoke them by choice.

As for the second plant, being a bit of an anomaly...its growth was so different, I thought it was something else, but the flowers match Sexbud. If unmolested, it might have produced a higher yield, but I'm guessing it's an uncommon variation, not the standard to go by. It's not dead, but it hasn't progressed much since it was...pruned...

[Emeraldo]

Originally Posted by Satyros

That's interesting...I didn't review what anyone else said about the feeling of Sexbud. It was a straight, off the cuff, as if a "blind taste test" observation...so that's cool it sounds similar.

Although it didn't quite have mental properties--couldn't quite claim head intoxication of any sort. I just had two bowls of it. The first included baby popcorn, and didn't quite do enough to speak of, but the second one, only packed with bits from the top...yeah that one started to get rich.

Fwiw, I did the tupperware/damp paper towels/microwave technique, posted on IC as "A very,very quick dry method", I think, and no, it doesn't reduce the chlorophyll taste in any way, but it *does* get the herb to burn very closely to a cured one.

Intuitively, the buzz just sort of told me, I'm immature, I can get stronger. On this first plant, it showed pistils around 8/26, which is about 6 1/2 weeks of actual flower development. If you count the stretch, or internal hormone changes, it could be at 8 weeks of flowering. Because it has desirable effects, it could even be considered finished now, but I'd like to try pushing it a little further. I don't know if that can enhance the effect; to me, it's mostly about "getting to know the strain", with the high being a bonus incentive to guide future work.

My nose is clearer today. The stem rubbing is kind of faint, it's not pineapple at all, but I guess you could call it grapefruit. Whereas combusting the product is very obviously resin, even I could tell that.

The amber realistically is only about 10%. Majority--50 to 60%--is cloudy but not swollen. So probably, 1-2 weeks would allow more of the clear to get cloudy, and more of the cloudy to swell. Three weeks, or a total of nine weeks' flowering, seems like it would probably exceed the "harvest window". I'll let it keep going, briefly, unless the amber starts to take over.

Growing Sexbud at the end of season works fine to get a sample. In the future, mid-July seems optimal for the "pure" sativas in order to limit their height, but the Sexbud growth is almost the opposite. I would really like to try it earlier, because it had plenty of room to get taller and bushier. It demands either more plants, bigger ones, or both, since it seems to be a good "anytime" smoke. Pleasant effect with no droop, disorientation, or incapacitation, which there are plenty of other strains for that, and only limited times when I would smoke them by choice.

As for the second plant, being a bit of an anomaly...its growth was so different, I thought it was something else, but the flowers match Sexbud. If unmolested, it might have produced a higher yield, but I'm guessing it's an uncommon variation, not the standard to go by. It's not dead, but it hasn't progressed much since it was...pruned...

Thanks for the update, looking forward to hearing more. A good anytime smoke is right. Uplifting, stimulating, induces extroversion. If not pineapple, don't you get a scent of citrus? With both of mine, the bouquet got stronger right up to chop.

Edit: I didn't mention it earlier, but Purple Maroc is for me the perfect anytimer. SB has that kind of thing, too, but then it also has this little kick. Different people may like that, others not. It promotes a more extroverted character. I guess PM for me PM is anytimer and SB would serve well on any social occasion, if you want to interact...

[Satyros]

Part of what happens here, is that there is a ton of dust, ragweed pollen, etc., in the atmosphere. It tends to settle in the sinuses overnight, and I usually wake up congested for a few hours. Then during the day, I often sneeze six times in a row. So that has a lot to do with desensitizing my sniffer.

There was a faint (to me), grapefruitish-ness; there again, with 1-2 more weeks' ripening, I'm hoping for the scent to get more definite, as well as the resin.

Moving forward, with things like extroversion, it gets into subjective vs. objective. By objective, I mean that probably 80% of the people who try it, would tend to agree the buzz has about the same feeling as we seem to agree on. But subjectively...for someone like me, I'm just an old road horse dumped off in the middle of nowhere; there isn't a social occasion in which the virtues of any strain could be said to excel over another. So even though that aspect is probably true, I have no way to identify it.

Therefor, "anytime" to me, only means "not a couchlocker", in a fairly objective way. I believe it can be a little more "situationally specific", if you do a lot of different things, and can select strains accordingly. I do respect that level of detail, even though my approach is more along the lines of "Would I like to smoke this and carry around a watering can for an hour?", which is usually what it takes to water a few of the other things we have. Sexbud seems like it would be fine for that, although it may well have some superior application, it would be pretty rare for me to have such an opportunity.