[Doc D]

Nice thread!

I've been super curious about those Swazi x Aruba's...

[ValleyKush]

Hey guys, welcome to the show.

So I smoked a quick dry sample of the black boxed swazi aruba and it was very complex, to say the least. Definitly up, slightly edgy, kinda introspective, foggyer then a thai but clearer then your average sativa dom hybrid and a electric body high. It still has a chill feel to it that you can easily sit around with but it certainly won't glue you to the couch. Not the most social or outgoing either though. As far a sativas go it seems to be in the middle of the road. Pretty well rounded smoke.

As far as quick dry, uncured goes- pretty strong and if it gets clearer with a cure it should be a treat!

[ValleyKush]

Hey guys, chopped the jahruba and a pink lotus before a big storm got here a week ago and both girls smelling amazing! Suprisingly a pretty similar fruity perfume smell to them; the jah being more tropicaly with a sweeter banana undertone and a odd cat pissy sharp smell somewhere in there and the pink lotus is more floral perfume- more strait forward of a smell vs the depth of the jah. Both yeilded slightly above average with the jah being much denser and the pink lotus having giant, fluffy, pink hued nugs. (To clarify these were black boxed)

Jah


Pink lotus

[ValleyKush]

Went to the swamp yesterday to check for bud rot after the week of rain we have had and almost none to speak of other then a tiny bit on some hfh gear thats almost ready to come down.

The faster jah is absolutly killing it! The frost is out of this world. Frostyest plant hands down.


Right to left- hp2, jahruba, bangi haze hiding in the back, pink lotus leaning hard from 50 mph gusts.

The jahs top cluster is so dense with branches it kindof scares me. A top of the tower mold palace waiting to happen. Lol
The swazi x aruba is stalling hard on flowering. Thought she was starting like the others but no pistil clusters yet- her, a panama and a malawi leaning voileta are the last to start.

[ValleyKush]

Been smoking on the black boxed Jah and I must say, shes is quite irie. Smoking a bowl almost puts you in a time vacuum of I don't give a fuck. A solid hour had went by after smoking the first bowl and I was sure only 20 min had gone by. My partner tends to get pretty paranoid with your average strain and he hasn't had any hint of paranoia for the past 4 or 5 days of smoking Jah. Definitely puts you in a agreeable mood, ready for what ever, not super motivating but certainly better then the first cut of Swazi for getting stuff done. And that's with basically zero cure.

Out of a 7 gal she pulled just over 6 oz while the pink lotus (which was right next to her) pulled 7 oz. Considering they were only receiving 9 hours of direct sun light by the end of it, I would consider her commercially viable.

I'd say that as of smoking one pheno each, the Jah fits my fancy better. The Swazi is a little too all over the place for me; I have yet to actually put my finger on a more narrow description of the high.

The swamp Swazi has started to throw pistils fast and has caught up with almost all of the quicker flowerers. If she keeps putting on weight as fast as she has in the past week she is going to be huge!

Oh and one last thing, I have a Jah male that is a BOSS. So smelly that you don't even have to rub his stem to smell the sweet and sour stink coming off of him. Has second most flowers, only topped by a less smelly Jah and has an awesome branchy structure. He was used liberally on some of my favorite girls.

[ValleyKush]

The Jah has had avout a two week cure so we have started to break into it and it is quite enjoyable! She is very heady in a light sort of way. Almost floaty if my back wasn't achy. On that note- not much pain relief other then the I dont give a fuck attitude. I wouldn't call ber motivating, as I have no desire to leave the house other then go for a hike with some friends. But she is great for chores around the house, very enjoyable to do things with your hands. There is a playfulness to the way she makes you think, almost poetic. My girlfriend said it makes her feel mischievious, which I assume is what I called playful. I think this might be a favorite for skiing this year.

She lasts 2-3 hours, which is well above average for me. The only down side is that with the long, strong high comes a sleepy, spacey come down.

[Doc D]

How did you like the Swazi x Aruba?

[ValleyKush]

The light dep swazi has only been curing for a week so she tastes of grass. But her smell has gone from mostly floral minty (think bee balm and echinacea) tea to having a bitter chocolatey top note with floral mint tea somewhere in the background.

The high is similar to Jah but with more of a cold, cleanness to her- no playfulness here. She is alot less floaty and more buzzy; in the front of my face vs the top of my skull. Not super awake but not particularly sleepy, wakes me up for a hour or so duration and then my eyes start to get heavy. Seems like my mood impacts how this one gets me high more then the Jah.

I like the jah alot more, so far the swazi hasnt fit my fancy. Early impression and only one pheno each so take it with a grain of salt.

[ValleyKush]

She was black boxed from about june 15 - july 15 (started to hermi) and started showing signs of reveg around august 20. Just out of curiosity we let her keep going and chopped her 9/10. A week or so before we realized she was starting to reveg we estimated she had 3-4 weeks left. That would put her at 12 weeks of flower to finish.

We ended up losing 30% to rot, which isnt half bad consisering how much rain we have been getting and that all her energy was obviously going to new growth. She was pretty cool how seperate her new growth was to the old nugs. The rot was generously trimmed out so we knew it wouldnt come back while hanging so we could probly call it another 10% loss.

Total dry weight is 160g in a 7 gal. I would guess that she would have been hovering around atleast 12 oz if we would of blackboxed her perfectly. (I think a light leak caused her to hermi, although nobody else did) Most likely the only reason we got such a good yeild was because we pulled her top down and she spread out really nicely on her own, but either way she certainly yeilds as well if not better then jah.

[ValleyKush]

One of the swazi boys is very interesting. He has really dense flower clusters that don't spread out when they open and really big sacs. The only other boy to have this big of sacs is a purple nl x bms and I was super suprised at how big they were when he started dropping. Both are hands down biggest I've seen. Pickles and diesel on the stem rub.