gonna be sending in my review of the testers probably today, gotta take some pics of the clone run once the lights are on. I tested the dragons blood f4 x old mother ghani. I have been calling it mother of dragons
flower time: I let these flower 11 weeks but were initially put in before showing sex, the clone run looks like 9-10 weeks max.
stretch: this was very pheno dependent, there were some plants that did not grow many branches at all and these stretched at least 2x in flower, a couple of them stayed very short and branch in veg and these did minimal stretching.
issues (stress): plenty of issues with my first run which is why pics will be from the second run, the soil I had wasn't very good, living in Maine we managed to get a heat wave when these got flipped to flower and my AC tripped the breaker so they had a couple days of very hot during flower and by the end of flower we had a cold snap that dropped the temps into the mid 50s lights out. A couple plants got burned at the top by the heat and that had to be chopped and tossed, but despite all the issues I never saw a banana and haven't found a seed in the smoke so seems to be pretty stable that way.
plant size: these plants got stunted for various reasons listed above so they didn't get huge and didn't make a nice canopy. These plants however on clone run are very impressive in veg growing fast and making absolutely huge thick stems, I have plans to run one or two in the ground next summer I think they could get huge.
yield: the yield potential on these appears to be pretty high, definitely a plant that makes spears not golf balls, nugs are very very heavy and solid when dried.
aroma: as I mentioned earlier there was variation among the plants same with aroma. Out of the 5 my least favorite plant smelled like generic Dutch weed I'm sure you know what I'm talking about. A couple of the others had this earthy dank smells with undertones of lime and maybe a little lemon, and my favorite is straight lemon lime smells fantastic.
flavor: I only smoked my favorite three plants, two I'd describe as earthy and just a really strong dank weed taste these two had the strongest smelling smoke I've smelled in a while could smell the potency in it second hand. My favorite I can only describe as tasting like sprite, if Coca Cola tried to make a sprite flavored vape pack they couldn't beat the taste of this.
effect:
HEAVY, obviously while trying to get a good feel for these I would take one and smoke it all day, wow that was tough with these I was ready to sleep by like 5. I have since made this my post 7pm bud and it is great after dinner bud, taste great and smoke a bowl or two and you are sleeping on the couch.
bag appeal: I'm not really even sure what this means, but this makes large sparkling buds with a hashplant kinda look with fantastic smell, certainly no one that I've given it to has complained.
overall impression (be honest): love it, definitely some variation and I'm sure even more gems to be found. Among the good plants there's not many bad things to be said, grows well in veg, makes huge stems that can hold weight, yields well, shows no hermie traits, smells great, taste great, and smoke that will put you right down.
Not sure if you are a game of thrones fan but I have been calling the strain mother of dragons. Not sure if you have a name in mind or not but people have loved that name.
keeper?: oh for sure a keeper, the lemon lime one that is absolutely a keeper, within a week my partner and I had put that on the level of our top keepers which are neroli 91, sunshine 4, and karmas headbanger.
We have a second one that is a different pheno that might hang around for a bit as well, yield and frost monster but slightly less interesting terps