yeah i'm not quite ready to SCROG IBLs just yet, my experience fighting with sativa seeds' full moon highland thai cured me of that mostly for a minute, but stretchy sweet haze & malawi gold are much more co-operative. i couldn't get my tiny mekong beans to pop as everything was cold stunted in my room in winter and viability was sucking across the board, but i always use my heating mat now. big difference there.
i'm leaning away from IBLs too because undiluted... well... you know about those "make it stop! make it stop!" spinning rooms. hybrids with enough CBD to mellow a buzz without overpowering it are fine with me. i just would like to start my own hazes using undiluted IBLs (unlike generations of neville's knockoffs) and superior indoor strains like jack herer for even better results than old school afghani hybrids.
besides mekong haze & malawi, i'm interested in old timer's haze, columbians and giving highland thai the the 5 gallons it wants to even reveal it's sex and all the fuss it demands because those that have finished it say it is trippy and that authentic tutti fruity flavor beats the crap out of *yawn* blueberry any day.
i want to pull off at least ONE IBL grow just for some street cred. LOL holy smokes malawi tested promising before i accidentally fried it and then there's always ace's version too.
mekong is supposed to be about as trippy as you can get so it would make sense to at least sample it and use it to knock up a bunch of hybrids and see what happens. enough head stash to pull it off first is priority #1 though
highland thai did piss me off after 16oz to 1 gallon to 2 gallon STILL crying she's hungry for 3-4 months until flowering and pulling IBL "surprise! balls!!!" that was the last straw.
someone would have to be really jaded to turn their nose up at HQS haze skunk though. not as trippy as gold maybe, but more potent and resinous easily and without the stony build up after a month.
this is why i plan to SCROG stretching's nothing with a screen. maybe i'll just do one IBL per grow weaved in with the 10 week stuff.
i doubt you would wait 16 weeks through some stanky lemon flowers just to smoke a 8-10% thc plant.
potency isn't all that to me really. i'll take a decent mexcom brick over ANY "dank bud" you could throw down every time. i just don't like getting stoned. a light high is fine by me. that's one of the things i love about 8 miles high actually, a couple hits and you're happy. full strength trippy to racy IBLs aren't something you want to do 24/7, especially in places you don't really want to be to begin with.
if a buzz is at least euphoric, even if it's clear headed with no psychoactivity, but that doesn't have a stone that makes it hard to function, i'm more than happy. a mellow but trippy buzz that makes music happen like gold could would be nice. jack's cleaner 2, sweet haze, 8 miles high & even haze skunk all do that better than afghanis or even kali mist & C99.