Harvest has long passed and wanted to share my HSH experience with you. I'm not sure how many of you let this plant finish, but it indefinitely needs a minimum full 16 weeks to finish. An extra week might even be better for the shorter, slower flowering pheno. I lost many of my pics and videos of the grow recently, but would like to share the few remaining ones I have. This thread has been the only real thing I can find about HSH on the net, so I thought I would contribute. Most pics in the thread don't get past the veg stage.
It's actually a very unique strain. The two phenos I flowered out were:
Type 1:
Tall sativa skunk haze. This one is the keeper, for sure. [You can figure out from a 10 pack which ones these are during veg - the plants that tower over everything else, yeah... keep those ones... ] Went to 9ft outdoors. The flowers were airy and wispy, not compact at all. The plant itself smelled very strong of chewable purple Flintstone vitamins, absolutely outstanding! The high was very speedy, very pure. Quick onset, all people who tried it instantly would remark about the "high energy" effects. It smokes great, very smooth, delicious. Typical skunk haze taste. The best part was the flowering from week 13-16. The plant that was the palest green of all my plants all year turned the deepest purple out of anything I grew. Was also very frosty in the finish.
These three pics are the only pics I can find at the time of this pheno, and they are not the best pics. The buds were much larger than this, these are very small, lower branch flowers. If you grow this strain, take this pheno outside. You won't be disappointed.
...and just saying, for free "discontinued" genetics. Outstanding! Anyone who got these seeds were blessed.
It literally is some "purple haze".
Type 2:
[All pics from this point on in the post are of the "Type 2" pheno]
This was a much shorter plant than the haze dominant pheno. It only got up to about 5 1/2 - 6ft tall outdoors, 3 feet smaller than it's sister. The plant also has very wispy, small hazish flowers. It smells very odd, like borderline spoiled milk from outer space. The smoke is thick, and tastes of cream made from said outer space milk. A more balanced high than the haze, less of an edge, more relaxed. Slightly less potent, but still great for an all day smoke. The yield from this plant was at least 1/3'rd higher than that of the haze. At the end of it's flowering when outdoors, the plant will begin to glow with a bright blue hue. Not purple, blue! Absolutely beautiful to look at.
Flowers much slower, as well. I mean, this thing takes sooooo long to flower, you eventually start to wonder if it's worth the nutes. This plant could easily see 18 weeks outdoors. The first picture shown is the plant somewhere around week 14-15. I told another grower friend of mine that this plant was 12 weeks into flower and wasn't even close to being harvested. He told me that there was no way a plant would take that long to flower. 2 weeks later, I show him this pic.
At the end of it all, patience, in combination with favorable late season weather conditions, reaped the rewards of two very unique, potent phenos. I would grow this strain again in a heartbeat. I don't think it would be a particularly commercially popular strain due to the long flowering time, which kinda makes it special. I've never had anything quite like it before and had to grow it myself to experience it. In fact, it has been my main stash since harvest and I've had a hard time trying to get high off of other strains my friends have shared with me since. If you're an outdoor grower and if you're in a place where it wont frost until the last week of Nov/First week of Dec, I would highly recommend growing at least one HSH plant in your garden (the easy to spot haze pheno, specifically).
Peace to all the outdoor growers. May our 2017 harvests be bountiful!
